Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers

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Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’
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Hamas says it has handed body of Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross
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