quantum error correction

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.

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.

A Robot Tow-Truck Launches Today to Save a Falling NASA Telescope

Plus: NVIDIA hands AI agents a real science lab, robots learn from video games, a world-first cell therapy cracks a solid tumour, a walk-away-safe reactor finds a grid partner, and an AI designs quantum codes humans couldn't.

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.

The Signal — The $20,000 home robot has arrived, with a human quietly on call

A walking humanoid you can buy for your living room is shipping this year — but the laundry-folding demo hides a remote helper. Plus six more signals from the frontier.