Lava lamps, lottery balls and mouse cursors have long stood in for real-world randomness. Now JPMorgan Chase, with a 56-qubit machine and a theoretical physicist, has demonstrated a quantum leap: randomness, certified. It's a milestone for quantum computing-and possibly the first thing it's done that even a skeptic can't call useless.
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