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A retro-computing essay argues that the Nintendo Wii is best understood as a Power Mac, since the console's PowerPC processor descends directly from the IBM chips that powered Apple's Power Macintosh line. The piece traces how IBM's PowerPC architecture lived on in games hardware long after Apple moved to Intel chips, prompting nostalgia among former Power Mac users.
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A newly proposed network architecture reportedly reduces the number of circuit executions needed for quantum error mitigation, according to coverage in physics news. Error mitigation typically requires running many repeated circuits to suppress noise in near-term quantum computers, so any method that cuts that overhead could lower costs and runtime. Details on the team behind the work and its benchmarking remain limited.