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  • That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

    Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn't necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

  • It shows that it's possible to send entangled photons over existing fiber infrastructure without building something totally new, which as I understand it has applications in cryptography, secure communications, and quantum computing.

  • TLDR: Researchers were able to send and receive entangled photons over a fiber optic cable that was simultaneously carrying a classical (non-quantum) signal typical of high speed telecommunications. They managed to accomplish this without the classical signal significantly interfering with the quantum measurements.

    This was all done in a laboratory using a combination of standard telecommunications equipment for the classical signal and specialized equipment for the quantum signal. It was NOT done on a fiber carrying real internet traffic as the article would suggest.

  • Yeah, my keyboard just straight up didn't work when I got my laptop; thankfully the issue was already fixed in a newer kernel so I just had to update (using a USB keyboard, lol).