Ars Technica

Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...
Scientific American

Microsoft’s new quantum computer chip has a fundamental problem

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...

'Youngest Korean Harvard professor' Ham Donhee says understanding the brain is key to future computing

By Park Hye-won, The Herald Business Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip capable of measuring electrical signals ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is awarding $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies in deals that include U.S. government equity stakes, the Commerce Department said. The move ...
CNN

US awards IBM and other firms $2 billion to give America the edge in quantum computing

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to American quantum-computing companies — half of which will go to IBM — to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the ...
Scientific American

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Caltech professor makes case for classical computing in chemistry at Brown lecture

Richard Feynman famously said that “if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” But Garnet Chan, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of ...
The Guardian

Sir Tony Hoare obituary

Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers Tony Hoare, who has died aged 92, did much to transform computer program ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
PBS

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...
Forbes

The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...