I always find these headlines interesting. Last I checked "Quantum" computers don't exist, and the only way they could work in theory is at... absolute zero, just like cold fusion. Not even the issue I have really. Here is quantum computing fundamentals, in theory, at absolute zero.

A regular computer runs on switches, on or off, 2 positions. Originaly thats why they took up whole rooms, each one or zero was a literal glass tube. Well a quantum computer, fundamentally isn't a single position switch and if you were to think of it in terms of glass tubes, they could be accurately represented with fluid filled flasks, and the amount of fluid is it's position or state, so one flask could have ALOT of positions. So you could get alot more information per unit space than just binary (relating the position of one, to another) so they could be ALOT faster.

That's more or less the fundamentals of it. Here is my big problem with "using" them. What programming language did you use, poly position programming (non binary if you will) doesn't exist, and we don't even have a functional chip to develop one. Yet somehow, a car company, is cross referencing molecular interchanges of elements to research better ways of making batteries... on the side, with their quantum computer (that doesn't work) and a programming language nobody has even thought about building. Seems a bit sus, but it is popular science, they mix in sci-fi more than randomly and it does add entertainment value, I'm prolly just taking quantum computing wayy too seriously, lol.