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A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in physics for work that enabled the creation of macroscopic quantum systems, a foundation of quantum computers and other technology. John Clarke, ...

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid the foundations for ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis will share the prize. “There is no advanced technology used today that does not rely on quantum mechanics and quantum physics. Examples are easy to ...