At Microsoft Quantum we are racing to build the first utility-scale quantum computer based on topological qubits (darpa.mil/news/2025/quan…). We are also working very closely with our partners to bring their quantum computer technology to life sooner in the Microsoft Quantum

Charlie is hiring 👇🏼

Beautiful Firetail taken recently at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island. It took some effort to find them but was rewarded with their calm nature as they came in for a drink and bath. 📷: @darrenstephens_photography (IG) ©️ #australia #birds #nature

We weren’t going to comment on Elon and Ashley St. Clair, but we figured we should. Here are our thoughts on it: There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal

🧪⚛️ Can we generalize particles beyond bosons and fermions? What would it mean and what would their thermodynamics be like? Highlighting a recent paper that looks at this: nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/what-a…

Show me the qubit

At this point a corporate quantum effort publishing in Nature is a counter signal for me

the story of the Microsoft claim of topological qubits so far

photos from the moon landing: flickr.com/photos/firefly…

I’m only ~100 messages in, but this is surprisingly good. Seren is kind of pushy but in a useful way, so far.

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing the booster catch

3.5 yo’s preschool teacher has been telling the class an age-appropriate version of Lord of the Rings. Today I learned that she thinks all volcanoes have goblins and orcs hanging out around them.

My daughter’s most beloved toy? That she NEEDS before going to sleep? Why ‘brown bunny”, of course! How big? Oh about 1.5” tall What color brown? The shade of brown that is not too far off from the color of our floors, our couch, our tables. Where is it? You go too far, sir.

Me when the Dutch grad students at the conference refuse to chip in for beers

“You can just do things,” I whisper as I watch my daughter drink tzatziki sauce straight from the container.

I don't think people realize how insane it is that Stoke Space manged to make a Full-flow staged combustion cycle engine in less than 18 months with a team of less than 10 people, crazy speed and efficiency.

Scenes from Europa