This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all.

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TechNext Inc., a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) startup and leader in AI‑driven technology forecasting, today announced an early‑access program for its ...

Can quantum become even bigger than AI? And will it help soften the AI bubble as it seems set to burst? Experts share their views. If the AI revolution is beginning to slow—or slowly deflate—then ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

Experts are calling for the cryptographic systems on which the entire network depends to be made ready now for the imminent ...

Cracking quantum computing isn’t a matter of upgrading existing computers. It’s an entirely separate approach to computing that relies on the principles of quantum physics. “A fighter jet is not a ...