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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin’s people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for…

A former top national security adviser to Donald Trump said the ex-president admired Russia's Vladimir Putin and wanted to "stay in power forever" like the strongman leader. "He saw Putin as the kind of epitome of the badass populist, frankly, you know, the kind of person that he wanted to…

Venture capital firms are pouring billions into quantum computing companies, hedging bets that the technology will pay off big time some day. Rigetti, which makes quantum hardware, announced a $1.5bn merger with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, a finance house focusing on strategic acquisitions. Rigetti, which was valued at $1.04bn…

Do more with less — This cannot be a comfortable position for a certain Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin. Eric Berger - Oct 8, 2021 4:02 pm UTC Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during a flight to the Vostochny cosmodrome, on September…

Two journalists whose work has angered the authorities in Russia and the Philippines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, honouring the right to free speech which the prize-giving committee described as under threat around the globe. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were given the award "for their courageous…

Maria Ressa, journalist and CEO of the Rappler news website. File picture: Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersBy Reuters Oct 8, 2021 By Nerijus Adomaitis and Victoria Klesty Oslo - Two journalists whose work has angered the authorities in Russia and the Philippines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, honouring the right…

A bipartisan push on Capitol Hill to force the White House to expel hundreds of Russian diplomats has backed President Biden into a corner, fueling doubts about his promise to get tough on the Kremlin and raising questions about whether the U.S. has squandered leverage to Russian President Vladimir Putin.…

Todd Pruzan, HBR Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd Pruzan, senior editor for research and special projects at Harvard Business Review. And today I’m joined by Emma McGuigan, global lead for intelligent platform services at Accenture and chair of the board of Avanade, the company’s joint venture…

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Roadmap with a fork in it — In addition to its standard roadmap, D-Wave will try building gate-based systems. John Timmer - Oct 5, 2021 10:45 pm UTC Enlarge / The current generation of hardware. Because quantum computing has been attempted via multiple approaches, those approaches can be a bit…