knightly the Sneptaur

To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.

Cloning the card isn’t enough, you’d also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.

Apply anyway, the worst they can say is no.

I’m taking that gig as soon as I get an offer.

I already fled Texas to start hormone therapy, and I’ll flee Colorado for foreign shores in a heartbeat.

Short version, they made a new kind of digital quantum qubit where the previous state of the art required a lot of analog sensors and controls. This means the equipment needed to hook up the qubits is simpler, and they’re hoping to build on this design to make scalable quantum computers that can support many more qubits than current techniques.

Not a huge breakthrough on its own outside of a very niche academic field, but a necessary step towards really expanding on the capabilities of the tech.