The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its Federal Information Process Standards for post-quantum cryptography, a new set of standards that ...

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete ...

Quantum computing could lead to revolutions in cryptography, materials design and telecommunications. But fulfilling those ...

Now is the perfect time to develop skills, research new security protocols, and experiment with potential use cases.

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to prepare. For instance, in 2015, the U.S. Natio ...

Remember Nokia? Back before smartphones, many of us carried Nokia's nearly indestructible cell phones. They no longer make phones, but don't count Nokia out. Ever since the company was founded in 1865 ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

Over the past year, vendor after vendor has reached the critical quantum-computing milestone where adding more qubits no longer adds a disproportionately higher amount of errors. “For the first time, ...

Artificial intelligence has already transformed the technology agenda, but another shift is now moving from research labs to ...