To prepare a certain quantum state or execute an algorithm on a quantum computer, the appropriate sequence of quantum gates needs to be determines for the operations. While this is rather easy in ...

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

After decades spent gestating in labs, quantum computing has finally reached an inflection point between theoretical promise and practical implementation. From discoveries in pharmaceutical and ...

What if the most complex problems plaguing industries today—curing diseases, optimizing global supply chains, or even securing digital communication—could be solved in a fraction of the time it takes ...

Quantum computers should be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s security features—by instantly solving the mining mechanism or guessing wallet passwords by brute force—shortly after 2030, according to ...

Quantum computers should be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s security features—by instantly solving the mining mechanism or guessing wallet passwords by brute force—a few years after 2030, according ...

Fully functional quantum computers remain out of reach, but optimism across the field is rising. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, researchers and executives ...

Investors are throwing money at quantum startups. Maybe they should be looking at a more venerable player that has a lot of practice building things. Half a century ago, a factory in Poughkeepsie, New ...

IonQ recently achieved two quantum computing milestones. Rigetti Computing's stock has skyrocketed more than 38x over the last 12 months. D-Wave Quantum's systems are already addressing real-world ...