Money is now moving to help protect the coin from its biggest emerging threat.

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university ...

IBM and collaborators say their quantum computers outperform all known classical algorithms for three distinct tasks, but ...

The approach is known for high accuracy, but scaling it up while preserving that accuracy is technically difficult. Helios uses barium ions in what is called a quantum charge-coupled device, or QCCD, ...

The security and privacy of global commerce and communication depend on forms of encryption that would take classical ...

Picture a quantum computer. Are you imagining an ordinary computer, but somehow just better? If so, that would be a mistake, because quantum computers are fundamentally different. They rely on exotic ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy and requires massive, long-term investments — which means investing in quantum is ...

Mitigating a major risk could have positive consequences.

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity. Just as AI has its dreams of “AGI” and ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Accelerating quantum deadlines have pushed global organisations to ready their systems by the turn of the decade, but as ...

As quantum computing remains an early, loosely defined theme in 2026, investors must decide whether to target pure-play innovators via strategies like the WisdomTree Quantum Computing Fund or gain ...