(BBC News) Scientists have come a step closer to making multi-tasking "quantum" computers far more powerful than today's most advanced supercomputers.
Quantum computers make use of the qualities of sub-atomic particles.
So-called quantum particles can be in two places at the same time and strangely connected even though they are millions of kilometres apart.
A Sussex University team has transferred quantum information between computer chips at record speeds and accuracy.
Computer scientists have been trying to make an...
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A rescue operation is under way across much of southern Turkey and northern Syria following a huge earthquake that has killed at least 3,500 people.
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck near Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday while people were asleep.
A 7.5-magnitude tremor then hit at around 13:30 local time (10:30 GMT), which officials said was "not an aftershock"
The country's disaster agency says more than 2,300 people were killed in...
(AFP) Jurors on Friday cleared Elon Musk of liability for investors’ losses in a fraud trial over his 2018 tweets claiming that he had funding in place to take Tesla private.
The tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride, and Musk was sued by shareholders who said the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet against the company.
Jurors deliberated for barely two hours before returning to the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned or allowed a reduction in jail sentences for “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including some arrested in recent anti-government protests.
The pardons approved today (Sunday) by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came with conditions, according to details announced in state media reports, which said the move would not apply to any of the numerous dual nationals held in Iran.
Those accused of “corruption on earth” – a capital charge...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been flying across the U.S. for several days.
“We successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it,” President Joe Biden said today (Saturday).
Fighter jets shot down the balloon shortly after the U.S. government ordered a halt to flights around the South Carolina coast due to what it said at the time was...
(BBC News) Wikipedia has been blocked in Pakistan for hosting "blasphemous content."
The move was announced today (Saturday) after the free online encyclopaedia was given a 48-hour deadline to remove some material.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said Wikipedia failed to comply with its ultimatum.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said the ban meant Pakistanis would be denied access "to the largest free knowledge repository."
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan. Details of the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Adani’s market losses swelled above $100 billion on Thursday, sparking worries about a potential systemic impact a day after the Indian group’s flagship firm abandoned its $2.5-billion stock offering.
The shock withdrawal of Adani Enterprises’s share sale marks a dramatic setback for founder Gautam Adani, the school dropout-turned-billionaire whose fortunes rose rapidly in recent years but have plunged in just a week after a critical research report by United States-based short-seller Hindenburg...
(BBC News) The U.S. has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines — a key bit of real estate that would offer a front seat to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.
With this deal, Washington has stitched the gap in the arc of U.S. alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north to Australia in the south.
The missing link had been the Philippines, which...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Peru’s Congress has rejected a proposal to move elections forward to December 2023, despite nearly two months of protests that have left dozens dead following the removal of former President Pedro Castillo.
Legislators will continue debating a different proposal to hold early elections, a key demand of the protesters. The first proposal – one of several motions – was rejected by 68 legislators and voted for by 54, with two abstentions.
Within the...
(BBC News) An Iranian couple in their 20s has been given jail sentences totalling 10 years after posting a video of themselves dancing in the street.
They were reportedly convicted for promoting corruption, prostitution, and propaganda.
The video showed them dancing by Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Tower.
Authorities are handing heavy sentences to people seen to be involved in protests after the death of a woman who was detained by morality police.
The couple did not link their dance...
