I got a cryptic message from automaker Slate Auto, the company behind the maybe-not-$20,000 barebones electric truck. I’m one of at least 100,000 people who have plopped down $50 as a reservation, to hold a spot,

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In a pair of papers submitted June 17 at arXiv.org, researchers generated conditions called “magic states,” crucial components of quantum computations. And those magic states were high-quality enough to allow the computers to resist errors, one of the biggest bugaboos of quantum computers.

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In the 1980s, the State Department sent hundreds of the Magic Slate pads to U.S. embassies around the world and told them to communicate sensitive information on the pads, rather than conveying it out loud or writing it down on a more durable medium.

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