A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

Rigetti Computing is pursuing a more universal gate-based quantum system that theoretically should be able to solve more complex computational problems. The company uses a modular chip architecture ...

Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. If that sounds complicated, it is. Physicists often rely on ...

Quantum computers, the next-age machines that one day will make current laptops feel like outdated abacuses, are still ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...

Quick: what’s 4 + 5? Nine right? Slightly less quick: what’s five plus four? Still nine, right? Okay, let’s wait a few seconds. Bear with me. Feel free to have a quick stretch. You’ve just performed a ...

Encryption—the process of sending a scrambled message that only the intended recipient’s device can decode—allows private and public sectors alike to safeguard information. Traditional encryption uses ...

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