Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Thursday, February 20th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Microsoft is claiming a historical quantum breakthrough with its first quantum processor, the Majorana One. Google is going all in on the Gemini brand. The world's thinnest foldable phone, Rabbit releases a demo it probably should have led with,

and James Bond now works for Amazon. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As we were talking about the new iPhone yesterday, Microsoft made an announcement that might be orders of magnitude more important. They unveiled the Majorana 1, their first quantum processor

that uses majorina particles instead of electrons with the potential to fit in a million

qubits. It's complicated, quoting the verge. Microsoft believes it has made a key

breakthrough in quantum computing, unlocking the potential for quantum computers to solve

industrial-scale problems. The software giant has spent 17 years working on a research project

to create a new material and architecture for quantum computing, and it's unveiling the

majorana one processor, Microsoft's first quantum

processor, based on this new architecture. At the core of a quantum computer are qubits, a unit

of information in quantum computing much like the binary bits that computers use today.

Companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Google have all been trying to make qubits as reliable as binary

bits for years now because they're a lot more delicate and sensitive to noise that can create errors or lead to

loss of data. Majorana 1 can potentially fit a million qubits onto a single chip that's not

much bigger than the CPUs inside desktop PCs and servers. Microsoft isn't using electrons for

the compute in this new chip.

It's using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist,

Tori Majorana, described in 1937.

Microsoft has reached this milestone by creating what it calls the world's first

topoconductor, a new type of material that cannot only observe, but also control majoronoparticles

to create more reliable cubits. Microsoft has outlined its research in a peer-reviewed paper

published today in Nature explaining how its researchers were able to create the topological

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