Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

Researchers from the group of theoretical physicist Hans Briegel have collaborated with NVIDIA to develop an AI method that ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

The quantum computing future is rapidly reshaping how scientists think about computation, with machines moving toward fault-tolerant systems capable of solving problems beyond classical limits. From ...

While post-quantum security standards and technical solutions are rapidly advancing, Quantus’ Chris Smith argues that Bitcoin ...

In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a ...

Somewhere on a blockchain right now, a Bitcoin address that last moved coins in 2015 is sitting with its public key fully exposed, waiting for its owner to return. That owner may have years to act, or ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on the collaboration that led them to the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award.