Forget AI. For a moment Silicon Valley was obsessed with floating rocks.

SAN FRANCISCO - Late last month, a group of unknown South Korean researchers claimed to have found one of science's holy grails - a material capable of conducting electricity without losing any energy that was stable at room temperature. Grainy videos of a small floating rock - one of the signature signs that a material may have superconducting properties - ricocheted around the internet. A hubbub immediately erupted in Silicon Valley, where investors, tech executives and entrepreneurs - still h

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