Shares of IonQ surged 20% on April 14 to $35.76 after the quantum computing company landed a U.S. defense research contract, ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Quantum circuits are supposed to gain power as they grow longer, but noise changes the picture. A new study finds that earlier steps in these circuits gradually lose their impact, with only the final ...

Duke researchers are spearheading an effort to build one of the largest quantum computers in academia that some say can be a game-changer in science and technology. "It's an entirely new way of ...

Quantum computing stocks rallied for the second straight day amid Nvidia's announcement of new AI programming tools.

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI ...

Google published a paper on March 31 that states that Bitcoin's cryptography could be impacted by quantum computing sooner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Computer scientist Gilles Brassard (left) and physicist Charles Bennett received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their ...

As US defence research agency DARPA starts a programme to upend the dominant quantum computing architecture it says will fail ...

Quantum hardware and software are advancing rapidly – and our online encryption systems need to change to stay ahead.

For the last 80 years, the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which describes all electromagnetic interactions, has ...

A failed film student-turned-physicist is now a billionaire after Nvidia's quantum push sent his stock soaring.