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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

28 February 2018

Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve


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Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?

9 February 2018

Many of those involved in the race to unleash the power of quantum computing predict it will happen soon. Here's why, says Graeme Malcolm


We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

7 November 2017

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors


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Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

1 November 2017

After decades of hype, quantum computers are poised to prove their superiority over classical machines. Now the race is on to figure out what to do with them


Quantum computers could handle models that are too complex for us to run now

This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers

6 September 2017

Revamping the qubit to allow it to communicate across greater distances makes room for the electronics needed to power a quantum computer


Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

22 June 2017

The search giant is testing a 20-qubit processor, its most powerful quantum chip yet, and says it will be able to outperform ordinary computers by the end of the year


Centimeter-sized silicon chip, which has two parallel superconducting oscillators and the quantum-circuit refrigerators connected to them

Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate

8 May 2017

Quantum computers need to be kept cool, just like regular computers, but an ordinary fan won’t cut it. A nanofridge that sorts electrons by temperature just might


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