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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. I’m standing in front ...

Elon Musk follows a five-step framework to solve engineering and operational challenges at Tesla and SpaceX. The process, detailed in Walter Isaacson's biography Elon Musk, revolves around five ...

Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing pioneer Peter Shor so unconcerned? Karmela Padavic-Callaghan spoke to him to find out ...