A computer scientist at Amherst College has performed the first ever head-to-head speed test between a conventional and quantum computer -- and, you'll be glad to hear that the quantum computer won.

Here, optical quantum computers really seemed to fall down. An optical quantum computer could be easy to set up and measure, or it could be programmable—but not both.

The results announced Wednesday herald the rise of quantum computers. Google claims it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world’s fastest ...

Google said its computer using the new Willow quantum chip beat the Frontier supercomputer in running a benchmark algorithm, doing in minutes what would take Frontier ...