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‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] baggins 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now they just need to shrink that into a phone and we're good.

It may be the size of a wardrobe now, but remember this?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

I think the problem is of keeping the rubidium atoms at near zero. I wonder what the future will look like once they can shrink it down to the size of a handheld device.

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[–] Gamers_mate 2 points 5 months ago

This is great if it replaces GPS there will be less space junk.