quantum computing

materials characterisation

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Your Worst Qubit Decides What Your Computer Can Do

Oct 7, 2026

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7 min read

Your Worst Qubit Decides What Your Computer Can Do

A multi-laboratory study hid the performance data from the people examining the chips. The features that decided whether a qubit was any good are a few nanometres across.

Quobly

A Normal Chip Factory Just Made Working Qubits

Sep 23, 2026

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6 min read

A Normal Chip Factory Just Made Working Qubits

Quobly says a single chip made on STMicroelectronics' standard 300 mm production line performed qubit readout plus single- and two-qubit gates. The milestone is not the qubit count. It is the attempt to turn quantum hardware from craft production into semiconductor manufacturing.

Photonic Computing

A Quantum Computer Built for the Data Centre, and It Runs on Light

Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

A Quantum Computer Built for the Data Centre, and It Runs on Light

The quantum computers you have seen in photos hang inside a giant refrigerator chilled colder than deep space. A wave of photonic machines just skipped the fridge entirely, sliding into ordinary server racks and running on particles of light, and the shape of the machine may end up mattering more than the qubit count everyone quotes.

frontier technology

The Year Quantum Computers Learned to Fix Their Own Mistakes

Jul 31, 2026

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4 min read

The Year Quantum Computers Learned to Fix Their Own Mistakes

For decades, quantum machines have been too error-prone to trust. In 2026 the fix that finally counts, error correction, starts shipping to paying customers.

Riverlane

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Is a Quantum Computer Designing Your Next Jet Engine? Sort Of.

Jul 21, 2026

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5 min read

Is a Quantum Computer Designing Your Next Jet Engine? Sort Of.

Rolls-Royce, Quantinuum, Riverlane and Edinburgh's EPCC are running gas-turbine airflow simulations on the 98-qubit Helios quantum computer next to classical supercomputers, but no quantum advantage has been shown and the real payoff is years away.

BIP-360

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A Third of All Bitcoin Is a Sitting Duck for Quantum. Now Bitcoin Has to Choose.

Jul 11, 2026

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5 min read

A Third of All Bitcoin Is a Sitting Duck for Quantum. Now Bitcoin Has to Choose.

A future quantum computer could one day crack the addresses holding a third of all Bitcoin, including Satoshi's. Inside BIP-360, the bolder BIP-361 freeze plan, and the impossible choice between frozen and stolen coins.

Space

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The Signal — America's quantum moonshot, and the quiet race to lock your data first

Jun 26, 2026

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10 min read

The Signal — America's quantum moonshot, and the quiet race to lock your data first

A US executive order pours the government into quantum computing — and braces for the day it breaks today's encryption. Plus five more signals from the frontier.