Google LLC has achieved a major breakthrough in its efforts to build a quantum computer that can be used for practical applications. The company said today its discovery will help it to overcome the ...

Scientists have achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded — an important step in solving the fundamental challenges on the way to practical ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, easily beaten by traditional computers. One of the biggest challenges? The fact that quantum bits — qubits — are much more fragile than the bits in silicon ...

Mistakes happen — especially in quantum computers. The fragile quantum bits, or qubits, that make up the machines are notoriously error-prone, but now scientists have shown that they can fix the flubs ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...

Astronaut John Glenn was wary about trusting a computer. It was 1962, early in the computer age, and a room-sized machine had calculated the flight path for his upcoming orbit of Earth — the first for ...

In high-reliability aerospace, avionics, and military applications, single error correction (SEC) and double error detection (DED) may not provide adequate protection ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google has claimed a breakthrough in correcting for the errors that are inherent in today’s quantum computers, ...