In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for   
   the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems   
   thousands of times faster. The media coverage sent ripples of excitement   
   through the technology    
   community. A full-on quantum computer, if ever built, would revolutionize   
   large swaths of computer science, running many algorithms dramatically faster,   
   including one that could crack most encryption protocols in use today.   
      
   Over the following weeks, however, a vigorous controversy surfaced among   
   quantum computation researchers. Experts argued over whether the device,   
   created by D-Wave Systems, in Burnaby, British Columbia, really offers the   
   claimed speedups, whether it    
   works the way the company thinks it does, and even whether it is really   
   harnessing the counterintuitive weirdness of quantum physics, which governs   
   the world of elementary particles such as electrons and photons.   
      
   http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/08/quantum-cryptography-computing/   
      
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