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Dec 2024
32m 34s

Google’s Quantum Chip

The Motley Fool
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The new Willow chip performed a computation in under five minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years. That’s longer than the universe has been around.

(00:14) Nick Sciple and Ricky Mulvey discuss:

- The potential futures and lingering questions for quantum computers.

- A restructuring at Warner Bros. Discovery that’s pleasing its investors.

- Why the media conglomerate may be a falling knife.

Then, (18:42) Motley Fool Contributor Lou Whiteman joins Mary Long for a look at FedEx, and holiday shipping season.


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Companies discussed: GOOG, GOOGL, WBD, PARA, TKO, FDX

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Mary Long, Lou Whiteman

Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Chace Przylepa

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