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IBM added three new entries to its quantum advantage tracker, each using a different method to handle errors and validate results classical computers can’t check.
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Samantha Paige Rosen’s anthology “Living, Together” covers communal living across group houses, nomadic life, and intergenerational neighborhoods — honest about hardship, specific in its details.
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Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine leads with 14 raves. Claire Vaye Watkins, Keith Ridgway, and two nonfiction titles round out a strong week.
Emily Eakin’s new book recovers the human lives behind French theory’s forbidding reputation, reviewed in The New Yorker August 2026.