A new Nature critique questions Microsoft’s quantum computing research, raising doubts about a key study behind its goal of ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are prioritizing collaboration over competition to advance quantum computer development ...

Quantum computers are often benchmarked by the number of quantum bits (qubits) they have, but a large collection of unreliable qubits is no more useful than a football team of unskilled players.

New research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked startup, says quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology theorize that a ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

The race to build the first truly useful quantum computer just got more exciting. A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms has now passed some of the most important milestones towards ...

While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, one of the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the ...

Two new executive orders set a 2028 finish line, and the fallout could reach your portfolio and your passwords.

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers. Shor’s ...

The boss of Europe’s largest quantum computing firm says it is determined to make the engineering breakthroughs that superconducting quantum computers need to become capable of running the ...