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Computing: The quantum company

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D-Wave is pioneering a novel way of making quantum computers — but it is also courting controversy.

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    This article omitted to note that researchers at the University of Southern California worked with Lockheed Martin on D-Wave’s debugging algorithm. The text has now been corrected.

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