Quantum Computing
Hardware breakthroughs, error correction, and real-world progress toward practical quantum computing.
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D-Wave’s New Simulator Turns Quantum Errors Into Useful Data
What if you could test a quantum algorithm years before the computer that runs it actually exists? D-Wave just made that real for four organizations, including one of Europe’s largest banks.
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SQC’s Quantum Chip Just Made Energy Forecasts 41% Sharper
A quantum chip just cut a utility’s demand-forecasting error by up to 41 percent, and it did not need a brand-new data center to do it.
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Alice & Bob Trades Microwaves for a Microvolt to Tame Cat Qubits
What if the fix for one of quantum computing’s toughest engineering problems needed less electricity than a hearing aid battery? Alice & Bob thinks it just found one.
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Nighthawk r2 Quantum Advantage: 19 Seconds vs. 110 Years
Would you bet $30 on a quantum computer? That’s what it cost to beat a supercomputer at a task that would take it over a century.
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Harvard Just Made Atom Array Control 10,000 Times Faster
What does a laser device redrawing itself 84 million times a second have to do with your next EV battery? More than you’d guess.
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Creotech’s Quantum Key Distribution System Just Passed Its Biggest Test
A single healthcare data breach now averages $6.64 million, and quantum computers have not even arrived yet. Here is the encryption fix racing to get ahead of them.
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IonQ’s Quantum Radar Test Could Speed Up Disaster Response
What happens when the software reading disaster satellite images misses half the damage? IonQ just tested a quantum fix, and it could change how fast help arrives after the next flood or storm.
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Infleqtion Hits 30 Logical Qubits With Quantum’s Lowest Overhead Yet
Most error-corrected qubits need a thousand physical qubits for one reliable one. Infleqtion just needed eight, and it’s already running cancer research pilots.
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Chattanooga’s Power Grid Just Got Its Own Quantum Computer
A federal grant and a quantum computer now have the same assignment: keep Chattanooga’s lights on for less money. Here’s how a mid-size utility became a quantum computing testbed.
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IonQ’s New Decoder Fixes Quantum Errors on an Ordinary CPU
What if the biggest bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing could be solved by the same chip already inside your laptop? IonQ says it just was.