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

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

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Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It is post-quantum cryptography: new encryption algorithms designed to protect data against the quantum machines that do not yet exist but someday might. NIST finalized its first three post-quantum ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

Beyond advanced mathematics or theoretical computing breakthroughs, PQC is about protecting the systems enterprises already ...

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers. Shor’s ...