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    Scientists harness mobile gamers to build a quantum computer

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    04.14.2016

    If anyone tells you that playing computer games is a waste of time, you can now offer up a raised middle digit without any guilt. After all, mobile title Quantum Moves isn't just a way to kill an hour, but is actually helping a group of Danish scientists build a quantum computer. The team out of Aarhaus University studied how people played the game in order to crowdsource people's knowledge of how liquid behaves. It turns out that the human brain is far better at solving complicated problems about transporting water than a room full of supercomputers.