(WSJ.com) Congress has approved a bill aimed at speeding U.S. development of quantum computing. The House passed the bill Wednesday evening, 348-11, following approval in the Senate last week. It is expected to be signed by President Trump....

(Forbes) In 2019 the U.S. will make the moves needed to secure the lead in the race to build the first universal quantum computer,and also in the race to make our networks and information technologies quantum-ready and quantum safe, according to...

(Nature.com) Companies and countries are working steadily towards the goal of quantum computing. Venture capitalists have poured money into dozens of quantum-computing start-up companies. Excitement and anticipation are mounting. Theoretical...

(QuantaMagazine) Eleni Diamanti, an electrical engineer at Sorbonne University and Iordanis Kerenidis, a computer scientist at Paris Diderot University, and Niraj Kumar have conducted a new experiment out of Paris has demonstrated, for the first...

(Wired.UK) Quantum computing could break the blockchain. Quantum technology is estimated at being tens of thousands to millions of times faster than current computers – and more power means tasks such as breaking encryption becomes massively easier....

 (DigiTimes) Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is promoting the development of quantum computer technologies by subsidizing research by academics with assistance from industrial sectors. TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor...

(NextGov) Quantum computing promises to fast-forward federal problem-solving into new levels of efficiency and productivity. The federal government has expressed interest in the technology with a number of efforts underway.
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(TowardsDataScience) The future of quantum computing and artificial intelligence are hopelessly entangled thanks to quantum algorithms. This is because quantum annealing succeeds where classical algorithms often struggle or altogether fail: training...

(InformationAge) Dr. Andrew Shields, Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe, believes quantum computing will render much of today's encryption unsafe, but Quantum Cryptography could be the solution. Unlike other existing security...

(PhysicsWorld) The winner of the 2018 Physics World Book of the Year is "Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different" by Philip Ball. 'Beyond Weird' also contains a hefty helping of philosophy, as Ball...

(Gizmodo) EeroQ is a startup hoping to begin the conversation around ethics in the quantum computing field.  The founders of EeroQ recently launched the website QcEthics.org and released a paper to "start the conversation now." Quantum computing...