A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from ...

This technology may or may not be a big deal. Simultaneously.

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and ...

A new Nature critique questions Microsoft’s quantum computing research, raising doubts about a key study behind its goal of ...

A new federal initiative to build a quantum supercomputer could transform everything from encryption to drug discovery, ...

The US government wants to get hold of a quantum computer good enough to contribute to scientific breakthroughs in just two ...

By Jacob Bogage and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a push to ...

President Trump signed two executive orders directing the U.S. to build a large-scale quantum computer and to defend federal ...

Canada has long been a hotbed for quantum computing, but even Canadian comedian Rick Mercer doesn’t know what it is despite promoting the country’s prowess in it.