What could quantum computing mean for the business world?

量子计算对商业世界意味着什么?

World Business Report

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2025-02-20

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Microsoft has unveiled a new quantum chip called Majorana One, which it says will help the company create computers able to solve meaningful industrial-scale problems in years, not decades. The US president, Donald Trump, moves to revoke the approval of New York City’s congestion pricing programs. We hear from one of the architects of the congestion charge policy in the city. And Roger Hearing discusses how a local government in the Philippines has come up with an unusual way of combating dengue fever by announcing a payment for every five mosquitoes caught and brought in.
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Roger Hearing.

  • And on this edition, Microsoft announces a major leap forward in the race towards quantum computing.

  • New York could lose its congestion charge after just a month of operation.

  • After the Trump administration withdraws its backing,

  • Nigeria sues the crypto exchange binance for over $80 billion.

  • We'll have a look

  • at how Germany's faltering economy is affecting voters views ahead of this week's election.

  • And as authorities in the Philippines put a bounty

  • on mosquitoes heads to try to eradicate a lethal disease,

  • we asked the experts whether money will do the trick.

  • Given the vast numbers of mosquitoes,