The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award
What started as a conversation on the beach between two scientists led to the “Nobel Prize in computing“ decades later. More on Charles Bennet, co-recipient of the 2025 Turing Award.
One strange property of quantum information is that it cannot be copied. Classical information can be duplicated perfectly and infinitely. Copy a file, and you have two identical files. At the quant… [+3555 chars]