Google buys a quantum computer to make faster, smarter artificial intelligence

Quantum computing promises to vastly expand what technology companies can do with data -- and Google wants a part of it.

An inside look at the world’s newest quantum computing and nanotechnology center

“We are trying to be the first to build the quantum computer,” says Crow. "When we do it, and we will do it eventually, it’s going to be bigger than the moon landing.”

This white hat hacker cracks quantum encryption for fun and profit

In quantum hacking, messages are sent from Alice to Bob. But if the Institute for Quantum Computing's contract hacker is successful, Eve gets the information instead.

Quantum Wave Fund raising $100M for startups pushing boundaries of physics

Quantum Wave Fund will dedicate $100 million to startups making breakthroughs in quantum technology.

World first: Chinese scientists teleport data, laying the groundwork for quantum computing — or interplanetary Internet

If you understand this, you're a genius. Stop reading immediately and create a Star Trek-style matter teleporter, charge the world royalties, and retire as the richest human in the history of the world.

BlackBerry creator pays big to go small: donates $100M to quantum computing and nanotech center

Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis, who created the BlackBerry smartphone, has donated $100 million to a new center pursuing radically small computing innovations.

IBM takes big steps toward extremely fast quantum computing

IBM is announcing today that it has made major advances toward creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute problems faster than any supercomputer that exists today.

Scientists at …