Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?

ALL QUIET on the western waterfront. And the eastern one, too. Across littoral America, stevedores are twiddling their thumbs. They have President Donald Trump to thank for this unexpected breather. It is the foreseeable consequence of his unprovoked trade world war. Eastbound shipments from China, his biggest target and source of 40% of America’s seaborne…

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Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers

Could we fight quantum with quantum? Bartlomiej Wroblewski / Alamy A “useless” algorithm that serves as a benchmark for demonstrating the power of quantum computers over ordinary devices could potentially be repurposed as a way to keep data secure from, ironically, quantum computers. Quantum computers have long threatened to crack existing encryption algorithms, which rely…

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