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To live up to the hype, quantum computers must repair their error problems

 The devices will reach their potential only if they can fix their glitches

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Physicists try to construct ways to find and correct errors in quantum computers without wrecking the data.

Nicolle Rager Fuller

By Emily Conover

- More than 2 years ago

Astronaut John Glenn was wary about trusting a computer.

It was 1962, early in the computer age, and a room-sized machine had calculated the flight path for his upcoming orbit of Earth — the first for an American.