Physicists achieve longer distance quantum teleportation

Not teleportation. Should be called mimickization or something.

Sounds like if you destroy one, you destroy the other as well. You could destroy two storage media for the price of one? And the other could be on the other side of the globe?

When I read this article the one thing that really comes to mind for me is the Quantum Entanglement Communicators (QEC) in the EA/Bio-Ware game series Mass Effect which enabled people to talk to each other within different star systems in near real/real time without it being listened into by vastly superior AI constructs. Now all we need is an Alien species which threatens to enslave/destroy human kind in order to bring us to a common purpose coalition/federation regardless of religion or regional politics ....