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 ...

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

Quantum computing aims for error correction by 2026, with Microsoft, Atom Computing, and QuEra leading efforts to deliver small, error-corrected machines. Neutral ...

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