20 Feb 2025

Tech: Microsoft 's quantum computing leap, Kiwi science shakeup

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 20 February 2025
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Technology correspondent Peter Griffin looks at Microsoft's stated breakthrough in quantum computing - can it deliver a practical quantum computer in a decade as it claims?

Where will New Zealand's own scientists in this field be left in the government's planned shake up to crown research institutes and shut down of Callaghan Innovation?

And public submissions closed this week on the Gene Technology Bill, with debate about liberalising our biotechnology laws about to heat up.

Peter Griffin is a Wellington-based science and technology journalist.