The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

In 1947, when Bell Labs created the transistor, we could never have imagined this invention would underpin the microprocessor, the internet, and the digital world as we know it. The same potential for ...

John M. Martinis, one of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for breakthroughs in quantum computing, on Monday ...

Teleportation may seem like the preserve of science fiction, but scientists have proven that it can work in reality - at ...

The machine-learning programs that underpin their ability to “see” still have blind spots—but not for much longer ...

A Swedish quantum computer is to become more widely available. A copy of the quantum computer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden will be built using additional funding from the Knut and ...

In the future, a new type of computer may be able to learn much like you do—by experience rather than endless repetition or ...