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  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Encryptogeddon is coming for us all

    If quantum computing takes off, it will be able to break current encryption systems

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Quantum advantage is the next goal in the race for a new computer age

    Companies are jostling to be the first to find a practical application for quantum computers

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Lex
    Quantum computing: fear of super hackers will drive sales of specialists Premium content

    To some potential customers this might just sound like fighting fire with fire

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    Inside BusinessMadhumita Murgia
    Quantum computing comes out of shadows into public markets

    A clutch of impending IPOs marks a turning point for the technology

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    Rigetti Computing
    Quantum start-up Rigetti to go public in $450m spac deal

    Proposed listing would value eight-year-old tech challenger at about $1.5bn

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Quantum computer company IonQ makes Wall Street debut

    First company of its type to be publicly listed raises $635m after Spac merger

  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    FT Alphaville
    Money’s quantum time bomb

    Efforts are under way to protect the world’s financial networks from a quantum attack. But some question if the threat to crypto assets is really as existential as feared.

  • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    US needs Japan and Korea to counter China tech, says Google ex-CEO

    Eric Schmidt urges co-operation in AI, chips, quantum computing and synthetic biology

  • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
    LexTechnology sector
    Quantum computing: a way to supercharge finance - or wreck it Premium content

    The promise of exponential rises in processing power is attracting steady investment

  • Saturday, 15 May, 2021
    On Wall StreetIzabella Kaminska
    How traders might exploit quantum computing

    If institutions could predict the future, if only for nanoseconds, it would be enough to sweep up

  • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
    Goldman predicts quantum computing 5 years away from use in markets

    US bank and QC Ware looked into use of technology to price complex derivatives

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    #techFT
    Data centres are the new offices

    UK readies Facebook probe, Stripe’s brothers in alms, Zygo’s underwater Solo

  • Saturday, 13 March, 2021
    PsiQuantum expects commercial quantum computer by 2025

    Confidence driven by manufacturing partnership with GlobalFoundries

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Cambridge quantum computing start-up targets global expansion

    Riverlane aiming to lead advances in cutting edge technology

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Gavyn Davies
    Bitcoin has ambitions for gold’s role

    After years of hostility to cryptocurrencies, central banks will permit them a limited role

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Chinese researchers claim to have achieved quantum supremacy

    Quantum computer is capable of performing calculations trillions of times faster than rivals, say scientists

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    John Thornhill
    Quantum computing: randomness as a service

    A new commercial launch promises to deliver progress in this fiendishly complex field

  • Saturday, 12 September, 2020
    LexTechnology sector
    Quantum computing: the need for speed Premium content

    Extracting practical value from performing previously impossible calculations remains a challenge

  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
    Rigetti to build UK’s first commercial quantum computer

    Start-up leads consortium including Standard Chartered and Edinburgh university

  • Monday, 31 August, 2020
    Quantum operating system trialled successfully

    Riverlane’s ‘universal’ Deltaflow.OS could establish UK’s standing in the technology

  • Friday, 13 March, 2020
    IBM to build Europe’s first quantum computer in Germany

    Researchers keen to use the technology without sending data to the US

  • Monday, 6 January, 2020
    Wall Street banks ramp up research into quantum finance 

    Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Citigroup eye potentially revolutionary technology

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    Special ReportCyber Security
    Race is on to build quantum-proof encryption

    Cyber experts fear data security will be exposed by quantum tornado

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