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STAMFORD Democrats will vote on their candidate for mayor Tuesday, choosing between the current head of the city, David Martin, and state Rep. Caroline Simmons.

After Simmons won the endorsement of the Democratic City Committee in a tight vote this summer, Martin submitted enough signatures from registered Democrats to force a primary election. Martin was first elected mayor in 2013.

The Stamford mayoral election, and elections for other municipal offices, will take place Nov. 2. After Republican candidate Joe Corsello dropped out on Sept. 8, the only other candidate in the mayoral race is former Major League Baseball manager Bobby Valentine, who is running as an unaffiliated candidate.

On Tuesday, Democrats in Districts 5 and 19 of the city will also vote on candidates for the Board of Representatives.

Bonnie Kim Campbell and Melinda Punkin Baxter are challenging incumbent Reps. Gloria DePina and Lila Wallace in District 5.

In District 19, Jennifer Matheny and Pina Basone are running against DCC-endorsed candidates Don Mays and John Pelliccia. The current representatives of the district, Bob Lion and Raven Matherne, decided not to seek reelection this year.

There are about 31,300 registered Democrats in Stamford, according to the Registrars of Voters. There are about 13,400 registered Republicans and 27,500 unaffiliated voters.

Only registered Democrats can vote in the primary. New voters who want to participate in the primary have until noon Monday to register in person as a Democrat. The deadline is the same for voters who are unaffiliated and want to change their registration to Democrat.

Ron Malloy, Stamfords Democratic registrar, stressed that unaffiliated voters can only switch their registration to Democrat if they have not belonged to any party in the last 90 days. For instance, if someone was a registered Democrat in July and then changed their registration to unaffiliated in August, the person cannot switch back to Democrat and vote on Tuesday, Malloy said.

Malloy also noted that nearly 1,400 people are registered with the Independent Party in Stamford. Some may think that they are unaffiliated voters, he said, but they are actually affiliated with the Independent Party, a minor party.

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. There are 20 polling locations across the city. Voters can find their polling place at http://www.stamfordct.gov.

Those who have applied for and received absentee ballots have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to drop them off at a ballot box in the parking garage of the Stamford Government Center, 888 Washington Blvd., or at a box outside the Harry Bennett library, 115 Vine Road. Voters were able to use COVID-19 as a reason for seeking an absentee ballot.

For those who have mailed in their absentee ballots, the town clerks office must receive them on Election Day at the latest or else they wont be counted.

brianna.gurciullo@hearstmediact.com

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House Freedom Caucus Chair Representative Andy Biggs at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 31, 2021.Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images)

House Republicans are furious that their Democratic colleagues investigating the failed, Donald Trump-incited insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are seeking data on people tied to the riot and now they have a response: No, u.

Late last month, a Democratic-led committee asked 35 tech and telecom companies to preserve records of certain individuals involved in or linked to the riot, including Trump, his family, and Republican members of Congress. As first reported by Fox Business, GOP Representative Andy Biggs has now led several House Republicans in writing a letter to 14 firms demanding that they, in turn, preserve phone records and other data from 16 Democrats so that future Congresses can investigate alleged infractions.

According to Business Insider, the list of Democrats includes Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Representative Eric Swalwell. Recipients of the letters included Amazon, AOL, Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Snap, Inc., T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, Signal, Telegram, and Twitter.

There has been vehement opposition to the commission from Republicans. They successfully blocked the Senate from holding its own investigation, and the top Republican in the House, Kevin McCarthy, threatened to strip GOP members of their committee assignments if they participated in the House inquiry. Just two Republican representatives have joined it.

Republicans have already lobbed vague threats of reprisal at companies that choose to comply with the Jan. 6 committees data requests. McCarthy claimed handing over the data would be a federal crime and vowed the firms could be subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States under a future GOP majority. McCarthy never specified what supposed law the companies would be breaking, or any kind of mechanism whatsoever by which the Republicans could make good on their threats of revenge.

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Experts interviewed by the Washington Post agreed that while there may be federal laws preventing the companies from handing over records voluntarily, no such law exists that would hinder them from preserving them in anticipation of a forthcoming subpoena. A former lawyer for the office of the House counsel, Mike Stern, told the paper the companies would have to comply with those subpoenas when theyre served: Even if there is arguably a competing legal obligation or privilege that might trump the subpoena, I know of no principle that requires any subpoena recipient to risk contempt to protect the interests of their customers.

In the letter, House Republicans doubled down on the claim that the preservation requests were illegal under the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, adding neither the Committee nor you have the legal authority to provide those records. The letter continued that having said that, they want the records of Democrats to be preserved. This all obviously makes perfect sense.

Republicans have good reason to be anxious about the data requests. Some 147 GOP members of the House and Senate voted to refuse to recognize the 2020 election results, effectively declaring their support for baseless conspiracy theories about voter fraud and installing Trump for a second term. Those votes happened alongside the Jan. 6 riot, when a swarm of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the results. Every single one of the Republicans named by CNN as part of the data-preservation requests voted against recognizing the election, and its clear the Democrats on the commission want to investigate their actions around the time of the attack:

... Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Paul Gosar also of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Jody Hice of Georgia and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

McCarthy has particular reason to be worried. CNN previously reported that he called Trump in the middle of the assault on the Capitol, urging him to call off the crowds, to which Trump responded Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. McCarthy reportedly shot back, Who the fuck do you think youre talking to? The House leader has since packed away his spine, never to be seen again.

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The spirit of two Southern governors from more than half a century ago - Arkansas's Orval Faubus and Alabama's George Wallace, who defied the Supreme Court regarding race - is infecting the nation today, with different objectives. The Faubus-Wallace spirit of anti-judicial insurrection produced the Biden administration's extension of the eviction moratorium after the court judged it illegal. And the same spirit produced the Texas abortion law that leaves enforcement to private citizens in order to shield the state from legal vulnerability for a law that is ostentatiously incompatible with the court's abortion precedents. Those precedents, although muddled, should be challenged frontally, not evaded by legislative trickery.

Nowhere, however, is the Faubus-Wallace stance of contempt for the court as flagrant as in Washington state. There, the government and a government employees union have collaborated in a cynically presented, but nonetheless obvious, attempt to nullify two court rulings. On Sept. 27, the court will likely decide whether to act in self-defense by agreeing to hear the challenge against Washington's two-pronged assault on 2014 and 2018 rulings.

In those, the court held that state-mandated public sector unions are constitutional only if members have a right to opt out of paying dues that subsidize unions' political speech. In 1977, while upholding government compelling nonunion government employees to pay fees to support public employee unions' activities, the court uneasily acknowledged the "truism" that such unions exist to influence government policies, so their activities are political - akin to a political party's.

In 2014, the court affirmed the "bedrock principle" that only rarely can people be compelled to subsidize a third party's speech that they oppose. In 2018, the court said this principle means that nonmembers can opt out of supporting unions, and nonmembers' fees cannot be automatically deducted from their wages.

The 2014 case concerned in-home care providers, of whom Washington state today has about 40,000. They, unlike workers in traditional workplaces, are dispersed, isolated and have a high turnover rate of up to 40% annually. This makes it difficult to notify them of their constitutional right to opt out of paying fees. On this right, the court says, the constitutionality of public sector unions depends.

Three years after the court's 2014 affirmation of opt-out rights, thousands of Washington's in-home care providers had chosen not to subsidize the government-designated collective bargaining agency, the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU responded not by attempting to persuade dissatisfied fee payers of the union's benefits, but by trying to prevent the dissatisfied from learning about their right to opt out.

Only Washington's state government, which reimburses these workers, has their contact information. So, the SEIU supported a ballot initiative to give only the SEIU - which has a financial incentive to keep the workers ignorant of their right to opt out of SEIU - access to this information.

The initiative was advertised as protection of the elderly from identify theft, but no one offered a shred of evidence connecting public records requests with identity thieves. Such thieves do not usually file public information requests concerning their victims.

The SEIU, in collaboration with the state's heavily Democratic government (the state's last Republican governor was elected in 1980), violated the First Amendment twice: by engaging in viewpoint discrimination (only one side of the argument would have access to the audience), and by nullifying the opt-out right on which, the court has said, the constitutionality of public sector unions depends. This case also concerns political speech in another way: Government employees unions are conveyor belts, moving money extracted from members into Democratic Party coffers.

The SEIU's audacity is commensurate with its ingenuity in creating for itself a monopoly on information about the identity and location of voters in union elections, thereby locking in these captive workers indefinitely. This speaks volumes about SEIU's confidence in its ability to persuade workers that it is beneficial.

Government employee unions nationwide, and their state legislative collaborators, are watching. If Washington state can effectively nullify constitutional rights the court has twice affirmed, other states will concoct similar measures to skew, to the point of suffocation, public debate. Within hours of the court's 2018 decision, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of fragrant memory, restricted access to information about members of government employee unions.

Somewhere the ghosts of Faubus and Wallace are experiencing admiration mingled with regret. Admiration for the oblique but effective tactic of burdening, to the point of extinction, constitutional rights. Regret that they, both Democrats, lived before defiance of the court became popular within their party.

George Will's email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

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The relationship between higher education and the tech companies I cover as an analyst is close and mutually beneficial. The private sector often provides technology resources, capital, expertise, and knowledge of industry needs and challenges to research institutions, the sandbox of tomorrows tech innovators and leaders.

Quantum technology is at an exciting crossroads now, where it is beginning to migrate out of the realm of research and academia to seek out early commercialization opportunities. Much quicker and more powerful than traditional computing, quantum technology promises to revolutionize everything from medicine to climate science. It could very well change the world as we know it within our lifetimes.

So naturally, I immediately perked up at this weeks news of the University of Maryland (UMD)s $20 million, 3-year investment in quantum computing, the majority of which will go to IonQ, to co-develop a groundbreaking quantum laboratory at the College Park campus of the University.

The National Quantum Lab at Maryland, or Q-Lab for short, looks to be an ambitious project that could pay significant dividends in the efforts to advance and commercialize quantum technology. While I had initially viewed the word investment as a balance sheet impact, versus revenue, IonQ announced today it has tripled its bookings forecast for 2021, suggesting the UMD deal is very much a revenue event. To be clear, the tripling of bookings isnt only UMD, but includes other customers, too.

Lets look at the players, the deal and what it includes.

Something is happening in College Park

Based in College Park, MD, IonQ was founded in 2015 by Christopher Monroe, a professor at the University of Maryland and Jungsang Kim, a professor at Duke University (a great example of higher eds interconnectivity with the private sector). Built on its founders 25 years of academic quantum research, IonQs bread and butter is a subcategory of quantum computing known as trapped ion quantum computing. While a full explanation of trapped ion computing is well beyond the scope of this blog and more in Moor Insights & Strategys Quantum principal analyst Paul Smith-Goodson, know that it is one of the more promising proposed approaches to achieving a large-scale quantum computer.

UMD College Park, for its part, is known as a leading public research universityparticularly in the field of quantum computing. Marylands flagship university has invested approximately $300 million into the field of quantum science over the last 30-plus years and currently hosts over 200 quantum researchers and seven quantum facilities. The campus is already home to the Quantum Startup Foundry and the Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance, two organizations committed to advancing the nascent quantum ecosystem.

Q-lab promises to be the worlds first on-campus, commercial-grade quantum user facility. The stated goal of the Q-lab is to significantly democratize access to IonQs state-of-the-art technology, giving students, faculty and researchers hands-on experience with technology such as the companys 32-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer (the most performant quantum computer in operation). Lab users also stand to benefit from the opportunity to collaborate with IonQs quantum scientists and engineering experts, who will co-locate within the lab (which will be located next door to IonQs College Park headquarters).

IonQs market momentum

The announcement of the Q-lab comes along with a flurry of other exciting activity at IonQ. Last month, the company demonstrated its 4X16 Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA), an industry first. IonQ says this breakthrough could enable it to boost its qubit count up to the triple digits on a single chip, also laying the groundwork for theoretical future Parallel Multicore Quantum Processing Units.

Another significant recent announcement from IonQ was that it will now offer its quantum systems on Google Cloud (the first quantum player to do so). For that matter, it is now the only quantum provider available via all three of the major cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS) and through direct API access. I see this as another crucial way in which IonQ is democratizing access to quantum computers.

Additionally, the company recently announced a strategic integration with IBM Qiskit. This quantum software development kit will make it easier for quantum programmers to get up and running with IonQs systems. Rounding out the new developments was the announcement of a partnership with SoftBank Investment Advisors to facilitate enterprise deployment of quantum solutions worldwide.

All of these developments, including the Q-lab, considered, its no wonder today IonQ recently tripled its expectations for its 2021 contract bookings, from an original goal of $5 million to an ambitious $15 million. To be clear, the tripling of bookings isnt only UMD, but includes other customers, too. All of this must look good to investors, who will soon get a crack at the Quantum company when it goes public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) later this month (a merger with dMY Technology Group, Inc) under $DMYI.

Wrapping up

With both a preeminent quantum research school and a private sector quantum leader located in College Park, the Maryland city could soon be a (if not the) veritable epicenter of quantum technology in the United States. The Q-lab has the potential to produce the next generation of quantum innovators, generate new quantum IP and draw even more quantum startups and scientific and engineering talent to College Park.

Were likely a bit away from recognizing quantum computings full potential as a paradigm shift. However, IonQs moves this summer demonstrate that the technology is entering a new, exciting phase of commercialization, which should only accelerate the process of innovation at research locations such as the new Q-lab. Ill be watching with interest.

From the business point of view, it is great to see IonQ drive orders and subsequently revenue. I hear from some of the uninformed that theres no money in quantum. I think the doubters are wrong and when we all get a closer look at IonQs financials, I believe there will be some surprises.

Moor Insights & Strategy, like all research and analyst firms, provides or has provided paid research, analysis, advising, or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry, including 8x8, Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon, Applied Micro, ARM, Aruba Networks, AT&T, AWS, A-10 Strategies,Bitfusion, Blaize, Box, Broadcom, Calix, Cisco Systems, Clear Software, Cloudera,Clumio, Cognitive Systems, CompuCom, Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies, Diablo Technologies, Digital Optics,Dreamchain, Echelon, Ericsson, Extreme Networks, Flex, Foxconn, Frame (now VMware), Fujitsu, Gen Z Consortium, Glue Networks, GlobalFoundries, Google (Nest-Revolve), Google Cloud, HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, Huawei Technologies, IBM, Ion VR,IonQ, Inseego, Infosys, Intel, Interdigital, Jabil Circuit, Konica Minolta, Lattice Semiconductor, Lenovo, Linux Foundation,MapBox, Marvell,Mavenir, Marseille Inc, Mayfair Equity, Meraki (Cisco),Mesophere, Microsoft, Mojo Networks, National Instruments, NetApp, Nightwatch, NOKIA (Alcatel-Lucent), Nortek,Novumind, NVIDIA, Nuvia, ON Semiconductor, ONUG, OpenStack Foundation, Oracle, Poly, Panasas,Peraso, Pexip, Pixelworks, Plume Design, Poly,Portworx, Pure Storage, Qualcomm, Rackspace, Rambus,RayvoltE-Bikes, Red Hat,Residio, Samsung Electronics, SAP, SAS, Scale Computing, Schneider Electric, Silver Peak, SONY,Springpath, Spirent, Splunk, Sprint, Stratus Technologies, Symantec, Synaptics, Syniverse, Synopsys, Tanium, TE Connectivity,TensTorrent,TobiiTechnology, T-Mobile, Twitter, Unity Technologies, UiPath, Verizon Communications,Vidyo, VMware, Wave Computing,Wellsmith, Xilinx, Zebra,Zededa, and Zoho which may be cited in blogs and research.

Patrick was ranked the #1 analyst out of 8,000 in the ARInsights Power 100 rankings and the #1 most cited analyst as ranked by Apollo Research. Patrick founded Moor

Patrick was ranked the #1 analyst out of 8,000 in the ARInsights Power 100 rankings and the #1 most cited analyst as ranked by Apollo Research. Patrick founded Moor Insights & Strategy based on in his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasnt getting from analysts and consultants. Moorhead is also a contributor for both Forbes, CIO, and the Next Platform. He runs MI&S but is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the software-defined datacenter and the Internet of Things (IoT), and Patrick is a deep expert in client computing and semiconductors. He has nearly 30 years of experience including 15 years as an executive at high tech companies leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.Before Patrick started the firm, he spent over 20 years as a high-tech strategy, product, and marketing executive who has addressed the personal computer, mobile, graphics, and server ecosystems. Unlike other analyst firms, Moorhead held executive positions leading strategy, marketing, and product groups. He is grounded in reality as he has led the planning and execution and had to live with the outcomes.Moorhead also has significant board experience. He served as an executive board member of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the American Electronics Association (AEA) and chaired the board of the St. Davids Medical Center for five years, designated by Thomson Reuters as one of the 100 Top Hospitals in America.

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The word quantum gained momentum in the late twentieth century as a descriptor i.e., something so huge that it defied the normal adjectives. For instance, a quantum leap is an emotional headway with lots of drama in it. Now, at the point when quantum is applied to computing, nonetheless, we are without a doubt entering a time of emotional progression with dramatic advancement.

Quantum computing is an innovation that is dependent on the standards and principles of quantum theory, which clarifies the idea of energy and matter on the atomic and subatomic levels. It depends on the presence of mind-bending quantum-mechanical phenomena, like superposition and entanglement.

Erwin Schrdingers popular 1930s psychological experiment including a cat that was both dead and alive simultaneously was expected to feature the evident idiocy of superposition, the rule that quantum frameworks can exist in various states at the same time until noticed or estimated. Today, quantum computers contain many qubits (quantum bits), which exploit that very rule. Each qubit exists in a superposition of zero and one (for example has non-zero probabilities to be a zero or a one) until estimated. The improvement of qubits has suggestions for managing gigantic measures of data and accomplishing already impossible degrees of computing efficiency that are the tempting capability of quantum computing.

Different parties are adopting various strategies to quantum computing, so a single clarification of how it functions would be subjective. In a qubit, the whole circle can hold countless different states, and relating those states between qubits empowers certain connections that make quantum processing appropriate for an assortment of explicit assignments that old-style figuring cant achieve. Making qubits and keeping up with their reality adequately long to achieve quantum registering undertakings is a continuous ongoing challenge.

These are only the beginnings of the strange universe of quantum mechanics. By and by, in any case, a qubit of clever obscurity on how quantum figuring functions should get the job done for the time being. Quantum computings purpose is to help and expand the capacities of classical computing. Quantum computers will play out specific tasks significantly more productively than classical computers, giving us another device for explicit applications. Quantum computers wont replace their classical partners. Indeed, quantum computers require classical computers to help their specific capacities, like system optimization.

Quantum computers will be valuable in advancing answers for challenges in different fields like energy, finance, medical care, aviation among others. Their abilities will assist us with relieving infections, work on worldwide monetary business sectors, detangle traffic, battle environmental change and the sky is the only limit from there for the wonders quantum computing can make. For example, it can possibly accelerate drug discovery and advancement, and to work on the accuracy of the atmospheric models that are used to follow up and clarify environmental change and its hazardous impacts.

Intels 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing has unique features for improved connectivity and better electrical and thermo-mechanical performance. (Credit: Intel Corporation).

Not only this, but quantum computing is also responsible for the investments of millions of USDs into various giant corporations like IBM, Intel, Microsoft, etc. expecting an inevitable future of quantum computing led by qubits.

Quantum computers could likewise deliver correspondence safer in the manner data is teleported. Theres one more term related to science fiction films. Notwithstanding, the marvel of entanglement lies behind quantum mechanics: two qubits are connected together so that a change to one makes a change its relating qubit. This happens without delays, over any distance, and obviously with no actual association like links or radio waves.

Utilizing this thought key codes for information transmission could be produced. The shrewd thing here is that the quantum condition of the qubit changes with each unapproved access for instance, an assault from a programmer. The correspondence accomplices would see this as an unsettling influence in their correspondence, would consequently be cautioned, and could utilize another key. This way, we could actually put an end to cyber-attacks.

This way, quantum computings future glows brightly with no turnbacks leading to a glorious leap into the most advanced digital era.

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