More than 300 companies worldwide are now actively working with quantum technology vendors on a machine that fits in a lab and runs colder than outer space , and the dollar figure analysts just put on what it could produce by 2035 landed far higher t...

There is a machine sitting in a handful of laboratories right now that most Americans have never seen in person, will likely never touch, and have probably scrolled past a dozen headlines about without stopping. It hangs inside a metal cylinder. It has to be kept colder than outer space to work. And analysts just put a number on what it could eventually be worth that is genuinely hard to sit with. There are now more…