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Xanadu has officially revealed Aurora, a machine that’s being hailed as the first of its kind – a universal photonic quantum computer. This system is built using light, which is a pretty clever ...

Being a consumer has been challenging over the past few years. Between a global pandemic and sweeping tariffs, wallets have taken repeated hits — but for PC hobbyists right now, it might actually be ...

If you feel like Windows 11 has been trending less and less stable over the last few months, you're not imagining things. Microsoft has confirmed a nasty bug in Windows 11 version 24H2 (stemming from ...

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