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A Company Will Pay You Rs 69,000 ($1000) to Binge Watch All MCU Movies Before Avengers Endgame Releases

Avengers: Endgame  is slated to release next month on 26th April. As the release date draws near Marvel fans are about to go on a binge-watching spree of every movie from the cinematic universe before the final movie hits the screens. But did you know that this regular-activity of a die-hard fan can actually pay? And not just pay, but pay well: $1000 or INR 69,170.   A website, called  CableTv.com   is offering  the money to fans for binge watching the movie. "Do you have the endurance of Iron Man? The tenacity of Captain America? The leisure time of Ant-Man? Then CableTV.com has a mission for you: watch all 20 previously released Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies back-to-back, leading up to the highly anticipated 2019 premiere of Avengers: Endgame," the offer reads.   And turns out, it's not just the monetary that will be handed over to the fan who wins. "Tons of MCU prizes for bingeing 40+ hours of superhero action," will als

IBM announces that its System Q One quantum computer has reached its 'highest quantum volume to date'

IBM has announced at this year's  American Physical Society meeting  that its System Q One quantum computer has reached its "highest quantum volume to date"—a measure that the computer has doubled in performance in each of the past two years, the company reports. Quantum computers are, as their name implies, computers based on quantum bits. Many physicists and computer scientists believe they will soon outperform traditional computers. Unfortunately, reaching that goal has proven to be a difficult challenge. Several big-name companies have built quantum computers, but none are ready to compete with traditional hardware just yet. These companies have, over time, come to use the number of qubits that a given quantum computer uses as a means of measuring its performance—but most in the field agree that such a number is not really a good way to compare two very different quantum computers. IBM is one of the big-name companies working to create a truly useful qua