The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

A public-private partnership in the Mountain West announced new results today that mark steady progress toward the Department ...

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.

The alleged dangers of AI have been shoved down people’s throats for years, led by doomerism about it eliminating human jobs ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the acceleration of the nascent quantum computing industry, signing a pair of ...

Donald Trump has signed two quantum-focused executive orders to push US innovation in quantum computing and accelerate ...

The president also launched efforts to research the scientific benefits of quantum computers — and protect that research from ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they manipulate to function, which can stop calculations dead in their tracks. But ...

For years, the threat of quantum computing lived comfortably in the category of “interesting but distant,” but that comfort ...

One directs a "national effort" toward a useful quantum computer; the other sets deadlines for quantum-resistant encryption.

Atom Computing Inc., a California-headquartered quantum firm that hosts the lion’s share of its workforce and research and development efforts in Boulder, recently closed a $100 million Series C ...

A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrency called Quip, and it is able to do it faster and with better energy efficiency than conventional ma ...