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Liora is a writer and editor covering tech and the future of work. Her articles blend sharp analysis with a conversational style that makes complex ideas feel human. She's written extensively about emerging tech and how innovation shapes everyday life. When she’s not online, you’ll find her reading science fiction or playing video games.
MIT Designs Arm Qubit to Improve Coherence and Speed
Think of a qubit tasked with conflicting objectives: it must store information immaculately, yet constantly interact with its neighbors and...
Researchers Find New Way to Test QAOA at Massive Scale
What if you needed to assess a quantum optimization algorithm’s performance on a massive problem, but faced an impossible challenge:...
IBM Nighthawk r2 Boosts Quantum Circuit Speed 25x
The most impactful feature of IBM’s new Nighthawk r2 processor isn’t its qubit count. It possesses 120 qubits, identical to...
Quantum Galileo Experiment Tests Einstein’s Gravity With One Atom
What if there was a single rubidium atom, cooled to just above absolute zero, splitting into two versions of itself?...
QuPepFold Tests Hybrid Quantum Protein Folding on Short Peptides
Indian researchers have released QuPepFold, an open-source Python package designed to distribute protein-folding calculations between quantum processors and classical computers....
A MacBook Pro Kept Pace With a Million-Operation Quantum Computer That Doesn’t Exist Yet
Here’s a sentence I did not expect to write this year: A team of IonQ researchers ran the error-correction brains...
Quantum Method Packs Molecular Docking Into Fewer Qubits
Think of a qubit as a globe. Most quantum optimization methods focus on a single point on that globe, treating...
QKD Survives 18-Kilometer Air-to-Fiber Quantum Link
Here’s the seemingly impossible feat: a single photon carrying an encryption key traveled 18 kilometers through the turbulent, temperature-varying air...
Quantum Voting Study Tests When Noise Changes the Winner
What if there was an election where ballots were not static? Each voter’s preference would exist as a spectrum of...
Quantum Microscope Images Magnetism Inside a Working Transistor
What if there was a minuscule magnetic camera, fashioned from a single defect in a diamond, suspended above a chip...