Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

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Quantum computers promise unprecedented computing speed and power that will advance both business and science. These same ...

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

Quantum computing is a promising field with massive long-term potential, but it is still in its early commercialization phase ...

Fully functional quantum computers remain out of reach, but optimism across the field is rising. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, researchers and executives ...

The algorithms want you to listen to songs. And not even whole songs, but bits of songs that get chopped up and tumbled ...

Bitwise is predicting that bitcoin will break from its historic four-year cycle and reach new highs in 2026. Asset manager Bitwise released a new report that argues that bitcoin is poised to break ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...