While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical ...

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on ...

Published in Nature, the study details the first large-scale demonstration of a photonic Ising machine operating without the ...

For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but ...

McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...

A gold superconducting quantum computer hangs against a black background. Quantum computers, like the one shown here, could someday allow chemists to solve problems that classical computers can’t.

D-Wave Quantum ( (QBTS)) has issued an update. On January 6, 2026, D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced it had achieved an industry-first breakthrough in gate-model quantum computing by successfully ...