Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it had created a new kind of matter and used it to make a quantum computer architecture that could lead to machines “capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades”.

LOS ANGELES - Microsoft says it has created a revolutionary computer chip that harnesses a new state of matter to pave the way for the most powerful quantum computers ever built. The company unveiled the Majorana 1 chip on Wednesday, calling it a major ...

Since grade school, people have been told these classical states of matter define the universe. Microsoft’s latest breakthrough challenges that idea, harnessing a unique topological state of matter to reshape the future of computers. University of Iowa ...

It’s called “Majorana 1,” and Microsoft says it is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) powered by what’s known as a topological core, which is designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. And the chip in question—what ...

Microsoft has announced the addition of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) capabilities to Windows Insiders on the Canary Channel (Build 27852 and higher) and to Linux through SymCrypt-OpenSSL version 1.9.0. This update is meant to help organizations prepare ...

Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered feature called "Computer Use" for its Copilot Studio platform that allows agents to directly interact with websites and desktop applications using simulated mouse clicks, menu selections, and text inputs. According ...