Quantum bits (qubits) are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. A novel qubit platform invented ...

As part of a larger collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, quantum computing company IonQ announced a major breakthrough this week. The College Park, Maryland-based company just ...

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Last week, cybersecurity researchers woke up to bad news. Research in new papers published by Google and a quantum computing startup, Oratomic, suggests that quantum computers capable of breaking the ...

The company has advanced its timeline for viable quantum computing, and thus the necessity of migrating to quantum-safe encryption, to 2029. Google isn’t just responsible for the encryption of a big ...

Quantum chemistry calculations that could advance drug development or agriculture have recently emerged as a promising “killer application” of quantum computers, but a new analysis suggests this is ...

The ability to send quantum information securely, known as quantum key distribution, is one of the most practical (if difficult) applications of quantum science. A new study demonstrates the ...

Amid enduring investor appetite for all things quantum, another European company in the space is graduating from the private markets. Just two weeks after Finnish quantum unicorn IQM said it was going ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo is a Venezuelan covering Bitcoin news since 2017. On February 11 the most concrete action Bitcoin developers have ...

In the event that quantum computers one day become capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography, roughly 1 million BTC attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin network, could become ...

Forward-looking: Researchers at Japan's RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing have developed a new amplifier capable of detecting the faint signals emitted by qubits with almost no added noise, marking a ...

John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised world of textbooks. But you couldn’t write the quantum computing history books without him: ...