UK To Invest £1 Billion into Quantum Computing Research, Trials

The UK will spend more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) on quantum computing research over the next four years, as governments boost investment into a technology that’s increasingly considered critical to national security.
The government wants quantum computing firms to build prototype machines for evaluation, with an eye to delivering larger-scale computers for public sector, academic and commercial use over the next 10 years, the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology said in a statement on Tuesday.