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

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

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

D-Wave Quantum Inc., a commercial supplier of quantum computing hardware and software, today announced an agreement to ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...

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