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Re:Quantum hard drive breakthrough by gradi3nt on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:27PM (#8858337)
This is a misleading headline! This 'hard drive' needs to be in a superconducting magnet and held at 2K. I'm not aware of any desktop chassis that comes with a a cryostat...
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Re:Quantum hard drive breakthrough by hyperbovine on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:35PM (#8858389)
You were expecting to pop down to Best Buy and pick up a couple? All scientific breakthroughs are like this.
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Re:Quantum hard drive breakthrough by higherpurpose on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:44PM (#8858890)
Isn't that true of pretty much all quantum-machines right now? It will be a while before we can fit one into our phones.
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