Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the fundamental "no cloning" problem. The research, "Encrypted Qubits can be ...

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems. Imagine a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

D-Wave Quantum Inc., a commercial supplier of quantum computing hardware and software, today announced an agreement to acquire the leading developer of gate-model quantum computing systems Quantum ...

The potentially worldchanging (if successful) test of a quantum drive in orbit is being delayed by rare and infrequent communication to the cubesat. These are not problems with the drive but with the ...

Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor (pronounced my-or-ana) is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) Microsoft ...

The computing world stands at a historic inflection point. Compute demand for frontier AI is expected to grow 1,000 times over the next four to five years. Classical compute is hitting thermal, energy ...

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Quantum on Tuesday announced the general availability of its sixth-generation quantum computer, the Advantage2. The company said the Advantage2 offers ...