Quantum computing has great potential , but its main unit, the qubit, is beset by inherent stability problems. However, this new study might change that.

In June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were entering the “utility” phase, in which high-tech experimental devices become useful. In September, Australia’s chief scientist Cathy ...

Computers love to read. And it isn’t just fiction before going to bed. They read greedily: all literature, all of the time—novels, encyclopedias, academic articles, private messages, advertisements, ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

Computers and outer space have been inextricably linked since Sputnik launched the space age in 1957. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that computers were advanced enough to facilitate humanity’s most ...

Researchers have proposed a theoretical approach to powering quantum computers using quantum batteries. It ...

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If you've ever looked over at one of the terminals a Costco employee is using, you may be wondering why it looks like ...

“You can see computers everywhere but in the productivity statistics,” wrote Nobel-Prize-winning economist Robert Solow in 1987. His dictum spawned several decades of economic research aimed at ...