🖥️💨 Stat of the Day: If the internet is an information superhighway, then Google is poised to rack up some unprecedented speeding tickets. The tech giant yesterday unveiled a new quantum computing chip called Willow, which Google says soundly beat the Frontier supercomputer – the second-fastest in the world – in running a benchmark algorithm. Per Google, Willow solved a computing problem in 5 minutes that would take Frontier 10 septillion years (~724 trillion times longer than the age of the known universe).

However – the quantum computing chip currently has zero known useful applications. Google says its next task is coming up with a real-world use case for Willow by next year that would be impossible for classical computers to solve.

🤔 Did You Know? Passengers have traveled a collective 2.3 light-years on US airlines since the last crash in February 2009. For reference: 1 light-year is 5.9 trillion miles.

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