What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, ...

Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

Quantum computers promise unprecedented computing speed and power that will advance both business and science. These same ...

Researchers at USTC in China turned to microwave-based error correction to achieve a distance-7 logical qubit, much like ...

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From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...

Using a powerful machine made up of 56 trapped-ion quantum bits, or qubits, researchers have achieved something once thought impossible. They have proven, for the first time, that a quantum computer ...

Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Classical computers store zeros and ones separately in binary digits, also known as bits. Quantum computers store them ...

Quantum computing has long promised to revolutionize everything from drug discovery to climate modeling--but until now, even the most advanced quantum machines could only run one program at a time.