Quantum hardware has finally crossed a psychological threshold: it is no longer a science project in search of a purpose, it is a working tool that large companies and governments are starting to use.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Quantum science, and especially its most popular offshoot, quantum computing, have come a long way in a fairly short period of time.

Editor’s note: Columnist Charlie Garcia shares select emails and online comments from his virtual mailbag each week. I see three investment lanes for quantum computing: pure plays like IonQ and ...

Quantum computing leverages qubits' unique properties to revolutionize computing power, driving transformative impacts across industries and shaping the future of technology. Pixabay, geralt Quantum ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for companies to build the hardware and software quantum computers need to communicate and work together. Most quantum computers are standalone ...

Traditional computers—be it an Apple Watch or the most powerful supercomputer—rely on tiny silicon transistors that work like on-off switches to encode bits of data. Each circuit can have one of two ...

Quantum computing may still be regarded by many IT leaders as a very niche technology, but broader business use cases may be just a few years away. While only a handful of companies have machines with ...

I see three investment lanes for quantum computing: pure plays like IonQ (IONQ) and Rigetti (RGTI); the "Magnificent Seven" giants with quantum divisions; and infrastructure picks-and-shovels. Which ...