{"id":82293,"date":"2019-03-01T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/01\/premium-bond-ernie-takes-quantum-leap-into-fifth-generation\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:01:07","slug":"premium-bond-ernie-takes-quantum-leap-into-fifth-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=82293","title":{"rendered":"Premium bond Ernie takes quantum leap into fifth generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK government-backed savings and prize draw brand was introduced in 1956Ernie, the premium bond number generator, takes a quantum leap on Friday as the fifth incarnation of the machine is launched, running at speeds 21,000 times faster than the original 1956 model developed by Bletchley Park codebreakers.Ernie 5 \u2013 the name stands for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment \u2013 will for the first time use quantum technology to produce random numbers through light, replacing the previous \u201cthermal noise\u201d method. It will sift through the 79bn premium bonds in existence to produce 3m winners in just 12 minutes each month. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2019\/mar\/01\/premium-bond-ernie-takes-quantum-leap-into-fifth-generation\" target=\"_blank\">Premium bond Ernie takes quantum leap into fifth generation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK government-backed savings and prize draw brand was introduced in 1956Ernie, the premium bond number generator, takes a quantum leap on Friday as the fifth incarnation of the machine is launched, running at speeds 21,000 times faster than the original 1956 model developed by Bletchley Park codebreakers.Ernie 5 \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}