A team of physicists set out to test some of the most exciting claims in quantum computing—and found a very different story. Instead of confirming breakthroughs, their careful replication studies ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Two analyses suggest that quantum computers could crack ubiquitous security keys and cryptocurrencies before the decade is ...

A newly developed encryption framework aims to protect video data from future quantum attacks, all while running on today's ...

There is a number buried in a Google research paper from late 2024 that raised the ceiling on what computers can do. A ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

While artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage in the tech investing realm right now, quantum computing is the next ...

Quantum computing promises to transform our world in rapid, radical and revolutionary ways: solving in seconds problems that would take classical computers years, accelerating the discovery of new ...

Quantum computing holds a lot of promise, but investors might have jumped the gun.

"I genuinely believe that quantum computing talent should be used for good," says Dr Carmen Palacios-Berraquero. The tech ...