https://whatcom-news.com/all-departments-of-whatcom-county-government-hit-by-phone-outage_204079/
No estimate for restoring inbound calling has been provided.
The ability for County staff to make outbound calls has not been impacted and What-Comm 911, a City of Bellingham department, does not use Lumen for phone service and, as such, has reportedly not been impacted.
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https://www.rawstory.com/maria-bartiromo-kevin-mccarthy-speaker/
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Maria Bartiromo urges Kevin McCarthy to free 'honest' Jan. 6 rioters if he becomes Speaker
David Edwards
June 05, 2022
Maria Bartiromo urges Kevin McCarthy to free 'honest' Jan. 6 rioters if he becomes Speaker
Fox News/screen grab
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo urged House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to do something to help the people who rioted on Jan. 6, 2021 if he becomes Speaker of the House.
"I know that we're 156 days away from the midterm elections," Bartiromo said as McCarthy smiled. "What are you going to do to that committee, the Jan. 6 Committee, should you become the majority because right now as we speak, there are honest – and people sitting in jail because they were at the Capitol on Jan. 6. They are still in jail a year later."
McCarthy answered without saying what he would do about the Jan. 6 Committee or the detained rioters if he becomes Speaker.
"We live in America," McCarthy said. "People have a right to have a say and to go to court. They shouldn't be held for this long inside. You watch what is happening to political opponents with this one-party rule. In 156 days, we're going to become energy independent, we're going to secure our border, we're going to make our streets safe again but we need you to help us."
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-ash-towns-philippines-volcano-eruption.html
The blast from Bulusan volcano in the rural Sorsogon province lasted about 17 minutes, sending a grey plume shooting up at least one kilometre (0.6 miles), according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs).
No casualties were reported, but authorities raised the alert level to one on the five-level system, indicating "low-level unrest".
"There was a phreatic eruption of the Bulusan volcano, meaning the explosion was caused by the boiling water under the crater," PhiVolcs head Renato Solidum told local radio DZBB.
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https://www.labonline.com.au/content/life-scientist/news/damaged-liver-repaired-transplanted-after-3-days-outside-body-201656047
A cancer patient on the Swisstransplant waiting list, who was in urgent need of a new liver due to a rapidly progressing tumour, was given the choice of using the treated human liver. The organ was transplanted in May 2021, with the patient leaving hospital a few days after the procedure. The transplant was documented in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
The next step in the Liver4Life project is to review the procedure on other patients and to demonstrate its efficacy and safety in the form of a multicentre study. Its success would mean that in the future, a liver transplantation, which usually constitutes an emergency procedure, would be transformed into a plannable elective procedure. At the same time, a next generation of machines is being developed.
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#BenefitHumanity
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/researchers-created-the-first-quantum-network
Quantum information was teleported over a network for the first time
JUNE 5, 2022, 10:00 AM ET
QUANTUM INFORMATION WAS TELEPORTED OVER A NETWORK FOR THE FIRST TIME
If you think the internet is weird today, hold onto your hat.
When Heroes (now streaming on Peacock!) hit the airwaves in September of 2006, few characters were as immediately beloved as the appropriately named Hiro Nakamura. Granted the ability to manipulate space-time, Hiro could not only slow down, speed up, and stop time, he could also teleport from one place to another. That’s a useful skill if you need to get to a specific point in time and space to fight an evil brain surgeon or prevent the end of the world. It’s also useful if you want to build the quantum internet.
Researchers at QuTech — a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research — recently took a big step toward making that a reality. For the first time, they succeeded in sending quantum information between non-adjacent qubits on a rudimentary network. Their findings were published in the journal Nature.
While modern computers use bits, zeroes, and ones, to encode information, quantum computers us quantum bits or qubits. A qubit works in much the same way as a bit, except it’s able to hold both a 0 and a 1 at the same time, allowing for faster and more powerful computation. The trouble begins when you want to transmit that information to another location. Quantum computing has a communications problem.
Today, if you want to send information to another computer on a network, that’s largely accomplished using light through fiber optic cables. The information from qubits can be transmitted the same way but only reliably over short distances. Fiber optic networks have a relatively high rate of loss and rely on cloning bits and boosting their signal in order to transmit over significant distances. Qubits, however, can’t be copied or boosted. That means that when and if information is lost, it’s lost for good, and the longer the journey the more likely that is to happen.
That’s where Hiro Nakamura comes in, or at least his quantum counterpart. In order to reliably transmit quantum data, scientists use quantum teleportation, a phenomenon that relies on entanglement or what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."
As with all things quantum, understanding entanglement isn’t the easiest endeavor but, for our purposes, we’ll simplify. When two particles are entangled, they share a connection, regardless of the physical distance between them. By knowing the state of one entangled particle, you can instantly know the state of the other even if its out of view. It’s sort of like making two people share a single pair of shoes. If you know the first person is in possession of the right shoe, then you know the second person has the left.
Using that spooky connection, scientists can transmit information between the two particles and that information appears at one particle and vanishes at the other instantly. That’s where the analogy to teleportation comes in. First, it’s here, then it’s there, without the need for a journey along cables. Importantly, only information is transferred, not any physical matter. Our teleportation technologies aren’t at BrundleFly levels just yet.
This has some important implications for the future of communication. First, using quantum teleportation networks avoids the threat of packet loss over fiber optic cables. Second, it effectively encrypts the information at Alice’s end. In order to decode the information, you need to know the result of the calculation Charlie performed. The third thing builds upon the first; despite the immediate transfer of quantum information, we are still bound by the speed of light. As you know, the cosmic speed limit isn’t just a suggestion, it’s the law. Sending the calculation information to Alice in order to decode the information relies on more traditional communications bound by light speed. No getting around it.