Google’s Quantum Echo algorithm shows world’s first practical application of Quantum Computing — Willow 105-qubit chip runs algorithm 13,000x faster than a supercomputer

Quantum computing doesn’t show up often in the news. After all, it has gigantic potential, but the technology has been promising practical real-world uses in “just a few years” for decades now. The science world may have finally reached a tipping point for practicality, though. Google‘s engineers demonstrated a world-first of running a verifiable algorithm on its Willow quantum chip — 13,000 times faster than a supercomputer.

The algorithm in question is called Quantum Echo and models a physics…