A jumble of strange sounds foreign to millions of Anastasia Prytkova’s Russian compatriots slip off her tongue as effortlessly as if she had been uttering them since she was a baby. Throw in a delightful melody, and suddenly the Chinese language does not seem as intimidating and as difficult as it is usually cracked up to be. What she speaks means “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, my gift is here.” And what a gift this is, one that has put ninth-grader Anastasia from Novosibirsk, Russia, on a path…
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Chinese scientists have developed a programmable quantum computing prototype called “Jiuzhang 4.0” that has set a new world record for optical quantum information technology, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Led by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the team used the prototype to solve the Gaussian boson sampling problem at a speed more than 10 to the 54th times that of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the study said. The researchers said they manipulated and detected quantum states of up to…