Quantum computing remains something of a holy grail in the world of technology: it promises a huge leap in computing power, but only if someone can figure out how to square away the fault rates that ...

Alice & Bob believes its first “useful” quantum computer will be available by 2030. “From the get go, Alice & Bob had a very clear vision of how quantum computers should be made [and] it ...

New technology from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is helping the EU establish its own competitive computer manufacturing industry. Researchers have ...

A fault-tolerant quantum computer could be here by 2030, thanks to an invention called the "cat qubit," named after the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, in which a cat locked in a box ...

Ray Kurzweil, the speech recognition pioneer and now director of engineering at Google, has suggested that it will take just 12 years for computers to become as intelligent as human beings.