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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, speaks, standing with other House Democrats who walked out of the House Chamber as Republicans moved to debate resolution on teaching critical race theory in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

| May 20, 2021, 10:36 p.m.

| Updated: 10:44 p.m.

Utah lawmakers meet in a special session to allocate federal coronavirus relief funds but guns, masks and critical race theory end up on the agenda as well. Plus, with the best record in basketball, the Utah Jazz head to the NBA playoffs. How far can the team go?

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Google is aiming to build a useful, error-corrected quantum computer by the end of the decade, the company explained in a blog post. The search giant hopes the technology will help solve a range of big problems like feeding the world and climate change to developing better medicines. To develop the technology, Google has unveiled a new Quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara containing a quantum data center, hardware research labs, and quantum processor chip fabrication facilities. It will spend billions developing the technology over the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The target announced at Google I/O on Tuesday comes a year and a half after Google said it had achieved quantum supremacy, a milestone where a quantum computer has performed a calculation that would be impossible on a traditional classical computer. Google says its quantum computer was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken 10,000 years or more on a traditional supercomputer. But competitors racing to build quantum computers of their own cast doubt on Googles claimed progress. Rather than taking 10,000 years, IBM argued at the time that a traditional supercomputer could actually perform the task in 2.5 days or less.

This extra processing power could be useful to simulate molecules, and hence nature, accurately, Google says. This might help us design better batteries, creating more carbon-efficient fertilizer, or develop more targeted medicines, because a quantum computer could run simulations before a company invests in building real-world prototypes. Google also expects quantum computing to have big benefits for AI development.

Despite claiming to have hit the quantum supremacy milestone, Google says it has a long way to go before such computers are useful. While current quantum computers are made up of less than 100 qubits, Google is targeting machine built with 1,000,000. Getting there is a multistage process. Google says it first needs to cut down on the errors qubits make, before it can think about building 1,000 physical qubits together into a single logical qubit. This will lay the groundwork for the quantum transistor, a building block of future quantum computers.

Despite the challenges ahead, Google is optimistic about its chances. We are at this inflection point, the scientist in charge of Googles Quantum AI program, Hartmut Neven, told the Wall Street Journal, We now have the important components in hand that make us confident. We know how to execute the road map. Googles eventually plans to offer quantum computing services over the cloud.

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circa 1931: German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) standing beside a blackboard with ... [+] chalk-marked mathematical calculations written across it. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

40 years ago, Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman argued that nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical. This was later perceived as a rallying cry for developing a quantum computer, leading to todays rapid progress in the search for quantum supremacy. Heres a very short history of the evolution of quantum computing.

1905Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effectshining light on certain materials can function to release electrons from the materialand suggests that light itself consists of individual quantum particles or photons.

1924The term quantum mechanics is first used in a paper by Max Born

1925Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan formulate matrix mechanics, the first conceptually autonomous and logically consistent formulation of quantum mechanics

1925 to 1927Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg develop the Copenhagen interpretation, one of the earliest interpretations of quantum mechanics which remains one of the most commonly taught

1930Paul Dirac publishes The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, a textbook that has become a standard reference book that is still used today

1935Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen publish a paper highlighting the counterintuitive nature of quantum superpositions and arguing that the description of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics is incomplete

1935Erwin Schrdinger, discussing quantum superposition with Albert Einstein and critiquing the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, develops a thought experiment in which a cat (forever known as Schrdingers cat) is simultaneously dead and alive; Schrdinger also coins the term quantum entanglement

1947Albert Einstein refers for the first time to quantum entanglement as spooky action at a distance in a letter to Max Born

1976Roman Stanisaw Ingarden of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru, Poland, publishes one of the first attempts at creating a quantum information theory

1980Paul Benioff of the Argonne National Laboratory publishes a paper describing a quantum mechanical model of a Turing machine or a classical computer, the first to demonstrate the possibility of quantum computing

1981In a keynote speech titled Simulating Physics with Computers, Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology argues that a quantum computer had the potential to simulate physical phenomena that a classical computer could not simulate

1985David Deutsch of the University of Oxford formulates a description for a quantum Turing machine

1992The DeutschJozsa algorithm is one of the first examples of a quantum algorithm that is exponentially faster than any possible deterministic classical algorithm

1993The first paper describing the idea of quantum teleportation is published

1994Peter Shor of Bell Laboratories develops a quantum algorithm for factoring integers that has the potential to decrypt RSA-encrypted communications, a widely-used method for securing data transmissions

1994The National Institute of Standards and Technology organizes the first US government-sponsored conference on quantum computing

1996Lov Grover of Bell Laboratories invents the quantum database search algorithm

1998First demonstration of quantum error correction; first proof that a certain subclass of quantum computations can be efficiently emulated with classical computers

1999Yasunobu Nakamura of the University of Tokyo and Jaw-Shen Tsai of Tokyo University of Science demonstrate that a superconducting circuit can be used as a qubit

2002The first version of the Quantum Computation Roadmap, a living document involving key quantum computing researchers, is published

2004First five-photon entanglement demonstrated by Jian-Wei Pan's group at the University of Science and Technology in China

2011The first commercially available quantum computer is offered by D-Wave Systems

2012 1QB Information Technologies (1QBit), the first dedicated quantum computing software company, is founded

2014Physicists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, teleport information between two quantum bits separated by about 10 feet with zero percent error rate

2017 Chinese researchers report the first quantum teleportation of independent single-photon qubits from a ground observatory to a low Earth orbit satellite with a distance of up to 1400 km

2018The National Quantum Initiative Act is signed into law by President Donald Trump, establishing the goals and priorities for a 10-year plan to accelerate the development of quantum information science and technology applications in the United States

2019Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy by performing a series of operations in 200 seconds that would take a supercomputer about 10,000 years to complete; IBM responds by suggesting it could take 2.5 days instead of 10,000 years, highlighting techniques a supercomputer may use to maximize computing speed

The race for quantum supremacy is on, to being able to demonstrate a practical quantum device that can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in any feasible amount of time. Speedand sustainabilityhas always been the measure of the jump to the next stage of computing.

In 1944, Richard Feynman, then a junior staff member at Los Alamos, organized a contest between human computers and the Los Alamos IBM facility, with both performing a calculation for the plutonium bomb. For two days, the human computers kept up with the machines. But on the third day, recalled an observer, the punched-card machine operation began to move decisively ahead, as the people performing the hand computing could not sustain their initial fast pace, while the machines did not tire and continued at their steady pace (seeWhen Computers Were Human, by David Alan Greer).

Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman stands in front of a blackboard strewn with notation ... [+] in his lab in Los Angeles, Californina. (Photo by Kevin Fleming/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Qutech and Intel jointly designed a qubit-controlling chip destined to solve the quantum computers wiring bottleneck. Currently, each qubit in a quantum computer is addressed individually, by a single wire. This stands in the way of a scalable quantum computer since millions of qubits would require millions of wires, explains lead investigator Lieven Vandersypen of Qutech. The solution: taking the control unit inside the cryogenic vessel, where the qubits reside.

Researchers and engineers from Qutech and Intel, therefore, designed a control chip that can withstand the extreme cold. Named Horse Ridge after the coldest place in Oregon, the CMOS IC is based on Intels 22nm low-power FinFET technology. As electronic devices operate very differently at cryogenic temperatures, we used special techniques in the chip design both to ensure the right chip operation and to drive the qubits with high accuracy, says co-lead investigator Edoardo Charbon.

Ultimately, the controller chip and the qubits can be integrated on the same die (as theyre all fabricated in silicon) or package, thus further relieving the wiring bottleneck.

To assess the quality of the Horse Ridge chip, it was compared to a classical room-temperature controller. It turns out the gate fidelity of the system is very high (99.7 percent) and limited not by the controller but by the qubits themselves. Next, the controllers programmability was showcased using the Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm, which is one of the simplest algorithms thats much more efficient on a quantum computer than on a traditional computer. This demonstrated the ability to program the control chip with arbitrary sequences of operations and opens the way to on-chip implementation and a truly scalable quantum computer.

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In the fall of 2019, WeWork laid off thousands of employees as the business that would eventually spawn a juicy documentary crumbled.

Lia Zneimer, who served as WeWork's head of social media, wasn't laid off. But as she watched her former colleaguesmany of whom were women whod held marketing positions at the companylook for work, she wanted to help; she felt as though they were scrappy, resilient, talented people who honestly could turn hay into gold. That's how The MarketHer, a newsletter that curates marketing jobs for women, was born.

Through The MarketHer, Zneimer wanted to make it easier for her former colleagues to find opportunities. Plus, it was a side hustle that allowed her to flex skills outside social media.

Since then, the newsletter has expanded outside of the WeWork bubblenow, anyone who works in the marketing or creative industries can subscribe to the newsletter or submit a job opening. According to Zneimer, she hasn't monetized The MarketHer or its website yet, though she told Marketing Brew shes working on some possible revenue stream opportunities.

It really started from a place of wanting to do good and give back in some way. And so it's just me. It's a time-consuming process at the moment, all done by hand, Zneimer explained.

The MarketHer has evolved into a community where Zneimer and her peers find the best women for the jobs available. This involves introducing job seekers to employers and highlighting women on the hunt for employment via The MarketHers website.

Much of her role involves chatting with her network to find open marketing positions, meaning Zneimer has seen what jobs were popular pre-pandemic, what types of positions took a hit, and which ones are coming back...or being invented as we speak.

Marketing Brew sat down with Zneimer to learn more about hiring trends shes seen during the pandemic and how remote work has impacted marketing opportunities.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Marketing Brew: You started this newsletter before the pandemic began. What are some of the hiring trends youve seen throughout the past year, particularly as they pertain to women?

Lia Zneimer: I've seen an increased focus on hiring women specifically looking to get back into the workforce after sacrificing their careers in order to provide full-time childcare during the pandemic. Theres more generosity in terms of understanding gaps on resumes. I think employers have more empathy than they did in the past.

MB: Tell me what the newsletter's shown you about how marketing industry roles have changed throughout the pandemic.

LZ: As layoffs began more broadly over the course of the pandemic, available marketing roles definitely saw a decrease. But they bounced back more quickly than a lot of other industries. There was just this need for storytelling throughout the pandemic. So many marketing roles have the luxury of being remote jobs that can be done from anywhere, which is amazing. The remote work movement really enabled people to apply for positions that they might not have otherwise had a chance to.

I've seen a huge increase in the number of roles that offer remote flexibility, more flexibility than what I was seeing in 2019 when the newsletter first started. Back then I was super mindful of trying to include roles based in cities other than New York, LA, and San Francisco. At this point, it's a very even split when it comes to remote opportunities.

MB: You mentioned that companies are making a concerted effort to hire women who left the workforce because of the pandemic. Can you share an example?

LZ: One of the companies that Im featuring in an upcoming edition of The MarketHer is doing this amazing thing: They are purposely and intentionally hiring women who don't necessarily have traditional backgrounds in their industry. They'll provide the training and the resources needed in order to be successful in these roles, helping women get back on their feet post-pandemic, which I think is really cool. I do think we might see more of that as the world comes back from this past year. Overall, Im definitely seeing companies make more of an effort to be inclusive of women and of various lifestyle changes.

MB: Do you have any way of gauging how many women are looking for jobs right now, versus during the height of the pandemic?

LZ: I noticed a spike in subscriptions come November 2020 through March of 2021. It started out with a surge of subscriptions, then trickled off a bit, then boomed again in Q4.

I was actually kind of surprised by it because I feel like a lot of companies pre-Covid were hesitant to hire in Q4, given budget constraints and whatnot. But I feel as if it was folks trying to get ahead of the 2021 New Years resolution job search bandwagon.

MB: What was the most common complaint from women in the marketing industry trying to find jobs before the pandemic?

LZ: Pre-pandemic, I think a lot of general job search frustrations stemmed from not feeling like there was a hand crafted or curated process. It just felt like blindly applying to companies through LinkedIn. You hoped you knew someone who worked there that you could reach out to, but it didn't feel as personal.

MB: And how did those frustrations change during the pandemic? Were they ever addressed?

LZ: There are some really amazing marketing job hunting resources that have grown and come from this. The need for services or newsletters like The MarketHer or companies like Teal has increased. I hope there are more companies like these that come about. I'm going to be really curious to see how that unfolds, and honestly, how many people want to go back to the traditional nine to five in an office, now that they've had a taste of something different for a little bit.

MB: Did the pandemic affect the types of roles listed in The MarketHer in terms of seniority?

LZ: People started making career changes out of necessity, not choice. There was an interesting shift: Because so many folks were out of work, more senior applicants applied to things they were probably overqualified for. It caused a chain reaction in terms of making it harder for a younger set of people to get their foot in the door.

But a beautiful thing that came out of it is the fact that a lot of folks decided to go independent, or start freelancing, or start their own businesses in the wake of Covid-19. It led to a sort of rebirth.

MB: What types of jobs have you seen becoming increasingly available in the past year?

LZ: The two that come to mind are related to events and TikTok.

There had been quite a few event roles available in late 2019, early 2020. And then they fell off for several monthspeople were just not hiring for events. And then there was a little bit of a surge with virtual event planning. Those roles are definitely on the rise again with Covid-19 restrictions lifting and folks getting back to real life events.

Another one that's been interesting to see unfold over the course of the pandemic is the specific need for TikTok content creators. That was definitely not something I'd seen when the newsletter first started in 2019. Those TikTok roles are great for those in their early twenties looking for a foothold in the social media marketing space.

MB: Whats the biggest challenge for women in the marketing industry right now?

LZ: My hope is that companies will take salaries seriously for women and bring them up to par with what men have made for so long.

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What WeWorks former head of social media has learned from running a job board for women throughout the pandemic - Morning Brew