Google is close to a breakthrough in quantum computing

The world's most powerful quantum computer processor could be created by Google, if research underway at the firm pays off. The company is currently testing a quantum processor more than twice as powerful as its previously announced chip, and claims it will be ready by the end of 2017. If successful, the processor could lead to computers capable of solving scientific mysteries that would take ordinary computers billions of years to compute. Google claims it will have a working quantum chip, powerful enough to out perform conventional computers, by the end of 2017. The heart of modern computing is binary code, which has served computers for decades.