An ordinance to repeal a ban on gay sex bathhouses in Minneapolis has been signed by Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who did so to support "our LGBTQIA+ neighbors."
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Law enforcement officials ended a hostage situation at a jail in North Carolina hours after the inmates were able to overpower guards.
The inmate takeover began at about 5 a.m. at the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor.
'The perpetrators must be held accountable for this horrifying action.'
Three guards were accosted and two were taken hostage, while the third was able to escape, according to police.
Hours later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Charlotte announced that an FBI hostage team and a SWAT team helped clear the facility.
"All inmates and staff are safe and accounted for, and those who sustained injuries received treatment," the FBI statement reads. "Inmates were transferred to other facilities for housing, and the detention center will remain secured while personnel assess the extent of the damage."
There were 88 inmates at the detention center, which has about 90 beds. The facility houses pretrial detainees and short-term inmates for Bertie County and Martin County.
Bertie County Sheriff Tyrone Ruffin said the two released guards were being treated for injuries, but he did not elaborate on the nature of the injuries.
Ruffin did not answer questions about the cause of the takeover.
"Right now we have a lot going on that we're trying to get under control," he added. "I will release that information to the public as soon as I can."
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"The perpetrators must be held accountable for this horrifying action," Gov. Josh Stein (D-N.C.) said on social media.
"We also must do everything in our power to ensure this doesn't happen again — and that includes doing more to recruit, retain, and compensate the county and state officials who are charged with keeping our jails and prisons safe," he added.
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President Donald Trump on Monday took action to give Americans more freedom to fix their cars' emission systems.
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Seemingly out of nowhere, the United States is knee-deep in the quantum computing race.
President Trump signed the executive order Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation on Monday, but the effects of the impending research are rarely discussed.
'These are the problems where today we cannot run high enough fidelity simulations in a classic computer.'
Quantum computing is typically explained by comparing the calculations of a traditional computer that uses ones and zeros to a quantum computer that uses the numbers in between to make calculations much faster.
A flat coin versus a spinning coin is also used as an analogy, essentially meaning that a quantum computer holds data in a special state that allows it all to be analyzed at once, resulting in faster (more numerous) calculations.
"Quantum information science and technology (QIST) will provide transformational capabilities that will drive American innovation, power economic growth, generate high-paying jobs, and bolster national security," the executive order reads.
Simply put, the bizarre-looking machines will calculate a lot faster.
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"A quantum computer is going to solve a very particular type of problem that isn't solved well today with a classic computer, and it's going to solve it much better," Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis told CNBC.
The reluctance (or inability) to pin down the actual end result of quantum computing can be difficult to surmise, but DeSantis theorized "the problems that I would think are going to be tackled first are the ones that are quantum-based problems, so things like chemistry, material science."
He added, "These are the problems where today we cannot run high enough fidelity simulations in a classic computer, and once we have a quantum computer, we're going to find some real progress."
These computers will allegedly be more adept at code-cracking and designing batteries or superconductors because they are able to model atomic behavior precisely.
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White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios promised more jobs and an increase in the domestic supply chain for quantum infrastructure and materials.
These materials include superconducting circuits, semiconductors, and other supplies so unheard of they are hard to describe outside of their definitions.
For example, required materials include a photonic circuit, which is a chip that modulates and controls laser beams.
In addition, a trapped-ion system is a physical, trapped qubit (a quantum computer bit) that is suspended or trapped in an electromagnetic field.
According to ABC News, Kratsios said the United States should be ready to expand the quantum workforce through apprenticeships, credentials, and workforce development.
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Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum criticized Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico's campaign strategy, saying the Democrat appears more focused on winning over white and Latino voters than driving turnout among black voters.
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