Quantum Is the New Silicon

Quantum Is the New Silicon

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Take Control of Your Cash Flow, and Energy Stocks on Fire

Certified Financial Planner Stephanie Marini joins Robert Brokamp for this month’s installment of the 2026 Financial Planning Challenge. Stephanie and Bro (Robert’s nickname at The Motley Fool) explain how to calculate and automate the amounts you need to pay off your debts, buil ...  Show more

Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

What’s a few hundred billion dollars in capex spending among friends? When it comes to big tech, the numbers have gotten astronomical and there’s both enthusiasm and fear about this much spending, so we try to make sense of what’s going on. Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jon Qua ...  Show more

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Making Quantum Computers a Commercial Reality
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

IonQ is the first company solely focused on quantum computing to go public, with its quantum computers accessible via the cloud today. The company’s co-founder/chief scientist Chris Monroe and president/CEO Peter Chapman join Azeem Azhar to explore how they turned cutting-edge ...

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1 - Dawn of a Quantum Era
Forwards & Backwards: A History of Quantum Computing

On May 6th, 1981, at the MIT Endicott House, a group of computer scientists gathered together with elite physicists to make the case that quantum phenomena could be used for computation. Here, ideas that would influence the next four decades of quantum computing research and deve ...  Show more

Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven
TED Tech

Quantum computers obtain superpowers by tapping into parallel universes, says Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI. He explains how this emerging tech can far surpass traditional computers by relying on quantum physics rather than binary logic, and shares a ro ...  Show more

Quantum computers aren’t what you think — they’re cooler | Hartmut Neven
TED Talks Daily

Quantum computers obtain superpowers by tapping into parallel universes, says Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI. He explains how this emerging tech can far surpass traditional computers by relying on quantum physics rather than binary logic, and shares a ro ...  Show more