The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a new way to instantly detect elusive quantum “W states,” a major milestone for quantum technology. The breakthrough could help unlock faster quantum communication, ...

I see three investment lanes for quantum computing: pure plays like IonQ (IONQ) and Rigetti (RGTI); the "Magnificent Seven" giants with quantum divisions; and infrastructure picks-and-shovels. Which ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to arXiv.org. Another prevalent form of encryption, RSA–2048, would require 100 ...

D-Wave Quantum's products are already being used by some companies in specific tasks.

Britain is placing two enormous, long-horizon wagers on technologies that do not yet work at commercial scale. In March 2026, ...

Computer scientist Gilles Brassard (left) and physicist Charles Bennett received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography. - Getty Images/AP Years ...

So the thing with car simulations is that they're made on an ordinary classical computer. But for experiments—especially ...

The agency is celebrating 2025 being designated as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with an educational campaign. Quantum science, and especially its most popular offshoot, ...

Part 1 of this series explained what quantum computers actually are. Not just faster versions of regular computers, but a fundamentally different kind of machine that exploits the weird rules of ...