{"id":96508,"date":"2019-09-21T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/ghost-post-google-creates-worlds-most-powerful-computer-nasa-accidentally-reveals-and-then-publication-vanishes"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T19:42:25","slug":"ghost-post-google-creates-worlds-most-powerful-computer-nasa-accidentally-reveals-and-then-publication-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/ghost-post-google-creates-worlds-most-powerful-computer-nasa-accidentally-reveals-and-then-publication-vanishes","title":{"rendered":"Ghost post! Google creates world\u2019s most powerful computer, NASA \u2018accidentally reveals\u2019 \u2026and then publication vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ghost-post-google-creates-worlds-most-powerful-computer-nasa-accidentally-reveals-and-then-publication-vanishes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world\u2019s top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA \u201caccidentally\u201d shared the firm\u2019s research.<\/p>\n<p>The software engineers at Google have built the world\u2019s most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2019\/09\/20\/google-claims-quantum-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> on Friday, citing the company\u2019s now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Google, but later quietly taken down, without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Google and NASA have refused to comment on the matter. A source within the IT giant, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2019\/09\/20\/what-is-quantum-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Fortune that NASA had <em>\u201caccidentally\u201d<\/em> published the paper before its team could verify its findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world\u2019s top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA \u201caccidentally\u201d shared the firm\u2019s research. The software engineers at Google have built the world\u2019s most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}