The city is betting on a promising—but commercially unproven—technology.

It is 2050. The Chicago region is the beating pulse of Earth’s most prized commodity — information. We are still a trading center, having moved deftly in the 20th century from stockyards to steel to ...

Jeanne Whalen, economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explains why Chicago is betting on quantum computing as the ...

The quantum computing future is rapidly reshaping how scientists think about computation, with machines moving toward fault-tolerant systems capable of solving problems beyond classical limits. From ...

This story is part of Quantum Crossroads, a series examining the impact of the quantum computing megadevelopment in South Chicago. Quantum computing uses quantum mechanics—mathematical laws that ...

Photo illustration by Miguel Limón. Photos courtesy Southeast Chicago Historical Society (center) and Library of Congress (background). This story is part of Quantum Crossroads, a series examining the ...

Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances. Previously, the maximum distance two quantum computers could connect through a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You've probably heard the term "quantum computing" at some point and wondered what it meant. It's not a term that's easy to understand, and ...

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Quantum computers, devices that store and process information leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, have been found ...