If a quantum computer can solve a problem that a classical computer cannot, that doesn’t automatically mean the solution will be hard to check. Take, for example, the problem of factoring large ...

Amateurs Solve a Famous Computer Science Problem On Discord A team of amateurs recently came together in an online collaboration called the Busy Beaver Challenge to pin down the value of BB (5), the ...

D-Wave Quantum Inc., a California-based startup working in the realm of quantum computing for commercial applications, has ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a panel at CES in January expressed his view as to when quantum computing might become a practical reality: “If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that ...

Alphabet Inc.’s quantum computer needs just five minutes to solve a problem that would take supercomputers around 10 septillion years. Google’s next task: coming up with an actual use for all that ...