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🌱 How Yorktown Heights’ IBM lab fits into America’s quantum computing race

Yorktown Heights, New York Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How Yorktown Heights’ IBM lab fits into America’s quantum computing race

Also on today's calendar: Yorktown Grange/Road Knights Annual Car Show and 2 more events.

Today's riddle: It takes longer to run from 2nd to 3rd base than between the other bases,why? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: A couple of showers; humid, with a high of 80 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Sunday: Partial sunshine, temps: high: 83, low: 62.
  • Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 85 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2028: DOE Quantum Genesis Sets Hard Deadline (techtimes.com) — Yorktown Heights gets a prominent nod as home to IBM’s Watson Research Center, featured in a photo illustrating the cutting edge of quantum computing. Federal energy officials have launched an aggressive push to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2028, aiming to open it to researchers nationwide and drive a broader shift to quantum-safe encryption that will eventually affect everyday digital security.
   

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    Sunday June 28
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    Hilltop Hanover Farm & Environmental Center, 1271 Hanover St, Yorktown Heights
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Somers

  • Bear Encounter In Somers Leads Police To Issue Reminder 'The Bears Were Here First' (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: There is a Short-Stop in the middle (Thank you Dave L. for sending it in!)
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