I disagree. Bytes from a source who is demonstrated to be willing to lie to you for ratings isn't information, it's just noise, which is not useful. I can't objectively say it's not interesting, but I can say is that I'm not interested.
http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/breakthrough-o...
So it's not CE magazine that's lying (if they're lying), it's the University of New South Wales. And if you're going to accuse UNSW of lying you need a stronger argument.
We aren't close to affordable quantum computing because we don't have quantum computing at any price point, let alone at an affordable one. Even a single multibillion dollar quantum computer would have huge implications, most notably that RSA, the basis for most of modern security, would be broken.
This is like claiming we're close to affordable human Mars travel. We haven't even put one human on Mars; it would be ridiculous to claim we are close to making it affordable.