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Quantum technologies

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Cyber Security
    UK cyber security watchdog warns on future risk of quantum computer hacking

    National Cyber Security Centre urges businesses to migrate to stronger encryption methods by 2035

    The National Cyber Security Centre in London
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Moral Money
    What can quantum computers do for humanity? Premium content

    PsiQuantum chief executive argues technology could yield breakthroughs against climate change and disease

    A close-up image of computing circuits on a silicon wafer
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    D-Wave claims to have reached ‘quantum supremacy’ after costly 25-year pursuit

    The development could lead to the first practical uses of the technology and a potential pay-off for the company

    Montage of Alan Baratz with D-Wave annealing quantum computing chip
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Quantum computing is struggling to reach its silicon moment

    Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, the industry is still a long way from building practical machines

    Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a Topological Core based on a revolutionary new class of materials developed by Microsoft
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    John Thornhill
    Patience pays off in quantum computing

    Microsoft’s qubit breakthrough is a welcome shot of adrenaline for the industry

    Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing chip
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle

    US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine

    Montage of Microsoft logo, chief executive Satya Nadella and Majorana 1 processor
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Quantum computing is overshadowed by rapid advances in AI

    Potentially transformative, the idea has yet to show practical value, as the boundaries between the two fields shift

    Google’s Sycamore quantum computer
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The mysterious promise of the quantum future

    Breakthrough could open the way to a new form of computing within years

    Google’s ‘Willow’ quantum chip
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers

    Research from Google on ‘error correction’ could help create a working full-scale system this decade

  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    News in-depthCyber Security
    US nears milestone in race to prevent quantum hacking

    Global authorities speed up focus on growing threat to traditional cryptography

    An inauguration event for the IBM Quantum System One computer at the company’s facility in Bromont, Quebec, Canada
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    Quantum computing breakthroughs draw investment back to sector

    Australia’s $620mn deal with US start-up signals new hope for building commercially viable quantum computer

    IBM chief Arvind Krishna shows US President Joe Biden a quantum computer at the company’s factory in New York in October 2022
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Lex
    Quantum computing: IBM timeline could power up funding Premium content

    The tech group may be a leader in the sector, but progress is slow-moving

    IBM’s quantum system two, the foundation of the company’s next generation quantum computing system architecture
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    IBM claims quantum computing research milestone

    Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation

    Dario Gil, IBM’s head of research
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    John Thornhill
    Time to get serious about the dangers of quantum computing

    ‘Q-day’, when the world’s data encryption codes fail, is already on its way

    Gold and copper wires intertwine in glass tubes to form the workings of a quantum computer
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Visual story
    Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how

    We don’t know when. We don’t know who will get there first. But Q-day will happen — and it will change the world as we know it

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Technology
    Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

    Our new podcast series asks what a future powered by quantum computing could look like

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
    The quantum revolution: First port of call

    The Port of Los Angeles uses a quantum application. Does it work?

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
    The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’

    The weird physics of quantum computers

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    The 2023 Budget: as it happened
  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Tech Tonic podcast21 min listen
    The quantum revolution: The race to build a quantum computer

    Is hype outpacing reality?

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    UK to invest £2.5bn in quantum computing drive

    Decade-long scheme intended to boost government pledge to make Britain ‘next Silicon Valley’

    A cryostat from a quantum computer
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast2 min listen
    Introducing Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

    In this new season, Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill talks about quantum computing

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction

    Company’s latest research could signal a step towards overcoming one hurdle to the technology

    A photo from 2019 shows Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai, left, and Daniel Sank examining one of Google’s quantum computers
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The dawning of the quantum age

    It is time to consider the opportunities, and risks, of a new form of computing

    Graduate students with equipment in a quantum computing lab at the University of Chicago
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    John Thornhill
    Quantum computing is harder than herding kittens

    Whether the industry will rewrite the future of cryptography and computation is still up for fierce debate

    People gather in a lab with lots of high-tech equipment
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