Planet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell
Google Quantum AI's quantum computer chip, called Willow, 'lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes'. Photograph: Google Leo Varadkar could be right when he says “a lot of people in the media system and the political system” don’t understand numbers. The good news for the share price of parent company Alphabet is that there are loads of people at Google who do.
Neven’s post also attracted attention for noting that because 10 septillion years is a “mind-boggling” number that “exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe”, it “lends credence” to the notion that quantum computation “occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse”. Well, that’s just maths.
That very fine hour of television prompted Devereux, as Elisabeth Murdoch’s representative to the trust, to write a memo intended to prevent life from imitating art – art that was, of course, inspired by life. Not sure it’s worked. The Nevada commissioner has now ruled against Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch in favour of Elisabeth and James Murdoch and their half-sister Prudence MacLeod, setting the scene for a tense Christmas in the mogul’s house.
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