Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. on Thursday introduced its first quantum computer and is ready to make it available to third-party users. Thus, the company joined the global race to apply quantum technologies to solve practical problems. The quantum computer, dubbed Qianshi, has a 10-qubit processor, the company said in a statement. Baidu has also developed a 36-qubit quantum chip. By modern standards, this is not so much – there are systems with a large number of qubits. But you have to start somewhere. For several years now, governments and companies around the world have paid great attention to...