Google has taken a decisive step towards practical quantum computers. A research team from Google Quantum AI has reported the first “verifiable quantum advantage”—in other words, a measurable ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Google’s Latest Quantum Experiment Moves from Hype to Proof Your email has been sent Using a technique called Quantum Echoes, Google says its latest chip has delivered results that outperform ...

The Willow processor runs the first verifiable algorithm with real-world applications, marking shift from theory to practical quantum computing. Google Quantum AI has demonstrated what it describes as ...

Unifying gravity and quantum theory remains a significant goal in modern physics. Despite the success in unifying all other fundamental interactions (electromagnetism, strong force and weak force) ...

Shares of IonQ, Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantum Computing Inc. have respectively catapulted between 347% and 3,500% over the trailing year. Historical precedent and valuations are two ...

Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds rather than decades. Remarkably, quantum technology first appeared in the early 1900s. It originated ...

They’ve been some of the year’s most speculative plays. Now the U.S. government might be getting in on the action. Emily Bary is MarketWatch's assistant managing editor, tech. She is based in New York ...

Nic Carter says quantum computing is the biggest long-term risk to bitcoin’s core cryptography and urges developers to treat it with urgency, not as science fiction. In an essay published Monday, the ...

Quantum key distribution (QKD) harnesses the power of quantum mechanics to securely transmit confidential information. When an outside source eavesdrops on a QKD transmission, the quantum states are ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...