IBM's quantum processors delivered 34% better bond trading predictions for HSBC using over a million real trades from European markets. Quantum computers are actually slower than classical systems, ...

Ever since the first quantum computers were dreamt up in the early 1980s, researchers have looked forward to the day the devices could solve problems that are too difficult for classical computers. In ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...

It seems a long time ago (1997), that IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov — then world champion — in chess, and we started talking about artificial intelligence seriously. However, we all ...

LSU physicist Jonathan Dowling (right), shown with alumnus Todd Moulder, has pushed the growth rate in quantum computing.Credit: LSU In his 2013 book, Schrödinger’s Killer App, Louisiana State ...

Twice a year, the TOP500 project publishes a ranking of the world’s most powerful computers. The list is eagerly awaited and hugely influential. Global superpowers compete to dominate the rankings, ...