An Absolute Legend.

News Items by John Ellis.

1. Researchers in UC Santa Barbara/Google scientist John Martinis' group have made good on their claim to "quantum supremacy." Using 53 entangled quantum bits ("qubits"), their Sycamore computer has taken on -- and solved -- a problem considered intractable for classical computers. "A computation that would take 10,000 years on a classical supercomputer…