Sometimes we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. A third option would be nice, even if it is both at the same time...

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HP cites progress on quantum computer

SAN FRANCISCO--Scientists at Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that they had developed a new strategy for designing a quantum computer composed of switches of light beams that could be vastly more powerful than today's digital electronic computers, which are constructed from transistors.

Quantum computers are machines based on the principles of quantum mechanics, a branch of physics that describes the quirky world of subatomic particles where both yes and no can simultaneously be true.