In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...
Quantum-software firm BlueQubit has launched its Quantum Advantage Challenge, offering a 0.25 BTC wallet prize to the winner. The overall goal of the competition is to prove that a ‘Quantum Advantage’ ...
It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...