In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in midair, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.

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 ...

Since the development of the electronic calculator in the 1960s, the field of computing has seen tremendous breakthroughs. In the field of information processing, the last several years have been ...

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There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

Microsoft started 2025 with the introduction of its Majorana quantum chip, nearly eight years after its quantum language breakthrough. The computing giant's chip advancement kicked off a fiery ...

Quantum computers can compare molecules that are much larger than the ones classical computers can compute, Accenture said on its website. “The big hope is that a quantum computer can simulate any ...

The Energy Department aims to bring a fault-tolerant quantum computer to life via the new Quantum Genesis mission, with a ...

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity ...