Quantum computing is advancing fast, and nations are racing to field the first machines powerful enough to break modern encryption. This race has direct consequences for the commercial space industry, ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Sean Hackett, BTQ Head of Silicon Product, discusses the critical threat quantum computing poses to current encryption ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

Quantum computers don't need to be nearly as powerful as we thought to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms, scientists warn. New research claims that quantum computers can make widely ...

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic ...

There is a slow-moving security crisis building beneath the surface of the digital world, and most people have ...

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

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

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

The quantum threat is accelerating significantly. It's time to have a fresh look at the current state of affairs and what ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...