I read the University of Osaka’s “Cobalt honeycombs open a new path to quantum computing” and somehow realized that IBM’s old heavy hex topology resembled honeycombs. With its bird-named quantum computers, bee branding, and honeycomb-like topology, we should’ve been telling dad jokes about the bi...
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