US national lab running 'quantum internet' experiment for two-and-a-half years

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Los Alamos National Labs develops hub-and-spoke quantum communications architecture

Los Alamos National Labs, the famous US government laboratory founded in 1943 to develop the atomic bomb, has been operating a "quantum internet" for two-and-a-half years, the organisation has reve...

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