Global Quantum Forum 2026 opens in Chicago as Trump's post-quantum cryptography executive orders set 2030 and 2031 deadlines ...

It is 2050. The Chicago region is the beating pulse of Earth’s most prized commodity — information. We are still a trading center, having moved deftly in the 20th century from stockyards to steel to ...

This story is part of Quantum Crossroads, a series examining the impact of the quantum computing megadevelopment in South Chicago. Quantum computing uses quantum mechanics—mathematical laws that ...

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Quantum computing has long felt like a perpetual promise — a mysteriously powerful technology that’s always “about 10 years away.” If you tuned it out, you weren’t alone. But something has shifted ...