Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there's a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies and major landmarks, which can obscure the fact that any big success will inevitably have been built on a lot of incremental progress. The past few weeks have seen a number of companies release progress reports on how they're trying to get the technologies closer to general use.