Volgens de enige overlevende van de aanval zouden de vier mannen slachtoffer zijn van een malafide werkgever. De Italiaanse landbouw is berucht wegens de grootschalige uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten.
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Operation will use specially built container to protect fragile 11th-century embroidery
As the Bayeux tapestry wends its way across the Channel in a top secret operation there will be no jolts, no bumps, no shakes or vibrations – unlike the voyage of William the Conqueror whose 1066 victory at Hastings the artefact recounts.
“Nothing has been left to chance,” Catherine Pégard, the French minister of culture, told a gathering to mark the historic loan, which will be physically achieved with the tapestry, which is really an embroidery, transported in a specially constructed cradle within a container, the minister said.
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Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: "We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems," said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum. That would still require huge further advances as such a device would require millions of qubits - the current chip, Alam said, has 12. Assessing the firm's claims are difficult because it does not release the full details of what it has discovered publicly, citing commercial confidentiality.
Microsoft has spent 20 years pursuing an approach to quantum computing known as "topological." The firm's approach to this is based on exploiting the properties of a so-called quasi-particle, which had existed only in theory, since it was first predicted in the 1930s by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. To do this it had to exploit a novel state of matter - different from the three familiar states of liquid, solid or gas.
Paul Stevenson, a physics professor at the University of Surrey, said the tech giant's timeline sounded plausible - if its research lived up to its claims. "Microsoft appears to have made a leap in their attempt to produce viable topological qubits," he said. "If they succeed, they will leap from being a player with no production quantum computer, to being a serious player in the race to make the next generation of fault-tolerant machines."
Microsoft has spent 20 years pursuing an approach to quantum computing known as "topological." The firm's approach to this is based on exploiting the properties of a so-called quasi-particle, which had existed only in theory, since it was first predicted in the 1930s by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. To do this it had to exploit a novel state of matter - different from the three familiar states of liquid, solid or gas.
Paul Stevenson, a physics professor at the University of Surrey, said the tech giant's timeline sounded plausible - if its research lived up to its claims. "Microsoft appears to have made a leap in their attempt to produce viable topological qubits," he said. "If they succeed, they will leap from being a player with no production quantum computer, to being a serious player in the race to make the next generation of fault-tolerant machines."
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Ruim vijftig scholieren en hun begeleiders van Het Lyceum Vos uit Vlaardingen hebben vertraging opgelopen bij hun reis naar Engeland. De chauffeur die hun bus bestuurde, bleek niet over de juiste papieren te beschikken. Met een nieuwe chauffeur mochten ze 16 uur later bij Calais alsnog oversteken.
Vandaag mag misschien een ietwat regenachtige dag zijn, op 19 juli zal de zon schijnen en zal ONS ORANJE in New Jersey de wereldbeker omhoog houden. We hebben het geharrewar over de selectie achter de rug en nu kan het echt leuke deel beginnen: WINNEN. Voor we Poule F verslinden staan nu eerst nog twee oefenpotjes op het menu en wel tegen Algerije en Oezbekistan. Niet de minsten, maar dat zijn wij ook niet. Straks om 20:45 worden de Algerijnen zoekgetikt in de Kuip, dat moet lukken want al die Algerijnen kennen we niet. Op Anis Hadj Moussa (Feyenoord) en Ramiz Zerrouki (FC Twente) na dan, maar die kunnen we hebben! Na dit huzarenstukje vliegt Oranje naar New York om (in afwezigheid van het Oranjelegioen) de Oezbeken te breken. Het kán eigenlijk niet meer fout gaan. Je voelt in de lucht dat er iets staat te gebeuren. Haal je toeter uit de fokking la, want WE WINNEN HET WK.