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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Quantum computing promises a new generation of computers capable of solving problems hundreds of millions of times more quickly than today’s fastest supercomputers. This is done by harnessing spooky ...

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Chicago may be taking another quantum leap forward in its technology aspirations. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and IBM announced a renewed research partnership Thursday to advance ...

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The alleged dangers of AI have been shoved down people’s throats for years, led by doomerism about it eliminating human jobs ...

Quantum computing has long felt like a perpetual promise — a mysteriously powerful technology that’s always “about 10 years away.” If you tuned it out, you weren’t alone. But something has shifted ...