Google signs up for quantum computer

Google has been investigating some software which its inventors claim is a quantum computer.

D-Wave demonstrated the beast in 2007 and still calls it a quantum computer without much in the way of proving what it does. This is especially as many scientific labs have been trying to build a working one for ages and D-Wave seems to have created one out of thin air.

But it seems that Google is taking the outfit seriously. The search outfit said that it had started working with D-Wave on quantum computer-based search.

According to New Scientist, Google researchers claim that quantum computation provides a speed-up in image recognition. D-Wave's computer was fed a series of images that contained cars. It used this information to recognize cars in a different series of images.

It other words it is less of a quantum computer and more of a neural network, but never mind, they appear to be on to something.

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