Our world relies heavily on intractable encryption to protect everything from digital signatures, private emails and banking information. Yet these day-to-day transactions are vulnerable to ...

Rigetti Computing has announced the general availability of its most powerful quantum computer to date, rounding off months of uncertainty. Shares were getting a much-needed boost on Wednesday. The ...

It looks like a golden chandelier and contains the coldest place in the universe. What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but the key to financial security, Bitcoin, ...

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

IBM has launched its most powerful quantum computer to date. Dubbed the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine that has three times the number of qubits than its Eagle machine which landed last year. The number ...

The quantum threat is accelerating significantly. It's time to have a fresh look at the current state of affairs and what we're doing about it.

The quantum-computer maker boosted the price and number of shares it will issue on the Nasdaq ahead of its public debut on ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

Amid warnings UK science is "bleeding to death" – with ideas born here monetised overseas – the government has promised to spend up to £1bn buying quantum computers from UK companies. It is part of an ...

A new federal initiative to build a quantum supercomputer could transform everything from encryption to drug discovery, creating the next wave of winners and losers.