Microsoft opens its Azure quantum computing cloud service to the public

Microsoft’s Azure Quantum service opened to the public on Monday, bringing radically different computing technology to the world’s second largest cloud computing service.

Azure Quantum includes Quantum computer manufactured by Honeywell and IonQ. These machines employ a design called an ion trap, which uses electrically charged atoms as qubits, the basic element used by quantum computers to store and process information. Microsoft plans to add …