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  • 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
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    News in-depth
    Hype around quantum computing recedes over lack of practical uses

    China claims to have made a major breakthrough but western experts say any commercial benefits are still years away

    Scientists in a quantum computing laboratory
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    Chinese researchers claim to find way to break encryption using quantum computers

    Experts assess whether method outlined in scientific paper could be a sooner-than-expected turning point in the technology

    A silicon wafer of quantum computer chips
  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    What quantum physics tells us about reality

    The new Nobel laureates proved Einstein was not always right

    Andy Carter illustration of a woman walking down a path that has lifted up in front of her and split into many different paths
  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    Nobel prizes
    Three physicists win Nobel prize for quantum technology discoveries

    Award shared for work to prove theory of entangled particles, an idea Einstein once dismissed as ‘spooky action’

    Austrian quantum mechanics physician Anton Zeilinger
  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from October 4: Musk re-proposes initial Twitter deal, Opec+ plans deep oil cuts
  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    Danish initiative aims to develop first quantum computer for life sciences

    Novo Nordisk Foundation to spend $200mn over seven years on superfast devices for biomedical research

    The quantum lab at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute
  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    Technology sector
    Separating quantum hype from quantum reality

    Are the sceptics too sceptical?

  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    Technology sector
    The quantum computing bubble

    The industry has yet to demonstrate any real utility, despite the fanfare, billions of VC dollars and three Spacs

  • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
    Karina Robinson
    Companies cannot afford to be left behind in the quantum revolution

    The technology may still be in its early stages, but it is already delivering value

    A technician at Q.ant holds a wafer with photonic chips for quantum computing
  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Encryptogeddon is coming for us all

    If quantum computing takes off, it will be able to break current encryption systems

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Quantum advantage is the next goal in the race for a new computer age

    Companies are jostling to be the first to find a practical application for quantum computers

    Electronics for use in a quantum computer
  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Lex
    Quantum computing: fear of super hackers will drive sales of specialists Premium content

    To some potential customers this might just sound like fighting fire with fire

    An inside look at an ion trap within Quantinuum’s quantum computer.
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