It’s hard to believe today, but in the 1940s, the earliest computer technicians actually worked at the bit level. If a computer made a mistake and the technician determined it wasn’t from a burned-out ...

In February 2025, scientists successfully teleported quantum information between two quantum computers six feet apart.

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz. But ...

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Computing firm Quantinuum has provided the hardware for many outstanding feats in quantum computing over the past few years.