Google, Microsoft and a host of labs and start-ups are racing to turn scientific curiosities into working machines.
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Castelvecchi, D. Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017. Nature 541, 9–10 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/541009a
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