The innovations in quantum computing are promising to herald a new era of mind bending advances in areas like climate change, drug design, and finance, but what actually is a quantum computer, how are ...

Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already ...

Part 1 of this series explained what quantum computers actually are. Not just faster versions of regular computers, but a fundamentally different kind of machine that exploits the weird rules of ...

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

In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a surface-code quantum error correction experiment that crossed below the ...

Quantum computing crypto fears are back in 2026 as Google’s new warning puts wallet security, Zcash, and privacy coins in ...

This week, Google published a paper describing how a quantum computer could theoretically derive a bitcoin private key in 9 minutes, with ramifications that stretch to Ethereum, other tokens, private ...

Google Quantum Computer - a chandelier-like structure of wires and components - Google Quantum AI / YouTube In October 2025, there was a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough that might have passed ...

Google's research reveals a radiation glitch threatening quantum computing, highlighting challenges in maintaining qubit ...

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI helping speed the way.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo is a Venezuelan covering Bitcoin news since 2017. 01 October 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Ehningen: A model of a ...