This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all.

Developers are already working to address quantum risks, and investors shouldn’t mistake a long-term challenge for an ...

China will likely develop national standards for post-quantum cryptography in the next ‌three years as it pours funds into ...

Vanderbilt's undergraduate, graduate and professional schools are taking on the challenges of an ever-evolving world with dozens of new courses and ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

Thinking about a career in quantum computing? It’s a field that’s really starting to take off, and understanding what you ...

Quantum AI may become the most consequential technology in human history. Yet it feels like someone else's problem to us.

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the properties of the perovskite family of materials can be used to create so-called quantum bits. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...