Conservative influencer plans to flip vital blue state in future elections after helping Trump
A conservative influencer who helped President-elect Donald Trump claim victory in Pennsylvania is now focusing on New Jersey—a state that he suggests could flip red in upcoming elections.
In November, Vice President Kamala Harris secured victory in New Jersey with 52% of the vote, defeating President-elect Donald Trump by just under six points in a state that was never considered a battleground. The gap between the two candidates was much tighter than in 2020, when President Biden carried the state by almost 16 points.
Some analysts now suggest New Jersey has transitioned from a blue state to a swing state.
Scott Presler, the founder of Early Vote Action, a Political Action Committee (PAC), appeared to agree with the sentiment during a conversation with Fox News Digital.
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“We are going to use the Pennsylvania model of voter registration and not reinvent the wheel, but just take all of those things we learned and apply them to New Jersey. And we’re going to play it smarter, not harder,” he said.
Presler said his work in Pennsylvania for the 2024 election was an attempt to build up infrastructure for Republicans that was “lacking” in past election cycles. He revealed that his work in the state focused on three main elements: education, ground game and voter registration.
“One of the biggest hurdles that we had going into the 2024 presidential is kind of getting conservatives to get on board with mail-in voting, with early voting, understanding our all of the above approach to ultimately trying to get Pennsylvania to swing in Donald Trump’s favor,” he added.
Presler said that Republicans over the last four years have had difficulties overcoming the Democrat’s advantage in voter registration. In 2020, Democrats had a 650,000-person registration advantage. Today, that margin has shrunk by 300,000.
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“I’m a numbers guy. I always look at things from a mathematical perspective,” Presler said, noting that he focused on significant demographics that may be willing to support Trump.
“We went to the truck stops to talk about mail-in voting with that community. They may not show up on Election Day. There are 90,000 Amish, and I know that Fox News Digital even had a team follow us with our work going to farmers markets and Lancaster,” he said. “There are 800,000 veterans. So, we went to the VFW and the American Legion. There are 930,000 hunters. So, we went to the gun stores and the gun ranges.”
Above all, Presler said the “secret sauce” to winning Pennsylvania in 2024 was stopping the “proverbial bleeding” in the big cities and bumping up the rural turnout.
Next week, Presler is heading to the Sussex County Christmas Party in New Jersey. The area borders Pike County, a red rural Pennsylvania county. His organization aims to forge relationships on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border.
Presler has also hired staff to do voter registration on the Wildwood boardwalk all throughout the spring and summer—not only registering New Jersey voters but also “double dipping” and tapping into the Pennsylvania vote.
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“Our staff are going to help New Jersey, and after we help New Jersey in 2025, we’re going to ask New Jersey and say, ‘Hey, will you come across the border legally and help Pennsylvania with our gubernatorial election in 2026?’” he said.
President-elect Donald Trump held a rally in Wildwood during his 2024 campaign. Presler noted that while a lot of people made fun of Trump for holding a rally there, they didn’t understand that the area has a certain political significance.
“Wildwood is where Philly goes to the beach,” he said.
New Jersey last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1988, when Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. The state had voted for Republican candidates from 1968 until 1992 when the state kicked off its ongoing blue voting trends.
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Hegseth reveals what happened during pivotal confirmation meeting with GOP holdout
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, celebrated that he had a “great meeting” with Sen. Joni Ernst after the Iowa Republican slow-walked an endorsement of the Cabinet nominee.
“It was a great meeting. People don’t really know this. I’ve known Sen. Ernst for over 10 years. I knew her when she was a state senator running to be the first female combat veteran,” Hegseth told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview Monday evening. “And we supported her in that effort, and have continued to.”
“You get into these meetings and you to listen to senators – it’s an amazing advise and consent process — and you hear how thoughtful, serious, substantive they are on these key issues that pertain to our Defense Department,” he continued. “And Joni Ernst is front and center on that. So to able to have phone calls and meetings time and time again to talk over the issues is really, really important. The fact that she’s willing to support me through this process means a lot.”
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Hegseth has been spending his days on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican senators to rally support as he battles allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive drinking and mismanaging a veterans nonprofit organization. Hegseth has denied the allegations and vowed that he won’t drink “a drop of alcohol” if confirmed to Trump’s cabinet.
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Among Hegseth’s meetings on Monday, he again met with Ernst, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, after meeting with her last week.
Last week, Ernst withheld committing to voting in favor of Hegseth, but hinted Monday that she is beginning to support the Trump nominee.
Ernst wrote in a statement Monday that “as I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources.”
She added in her statement that “following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and value of our servicemen and women – based on quality and standards, not quotas – and who will prioritize and strengthen my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks.”
Trump nominated Hegseth, a former National Guard officer, as secretary of defense last month, saying “with Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice — Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down.” Hegseth was a host on “Fox & Friends Weekend” before Trump’s nomination.
Fox News Digital reported Sunday, following Ernst’s initial hesitation to support Hegseth, that Trump’s allies were expected to ramp up criticisms against her as she stalls on offering support to Trump’s secretary of defense pick.
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“It’s really this simple: If you oppose President Trump’s nominees, you oppose the Trump agenda and there will be a political price to pay for that. We are well aware that there are certain establishment Senators trying to tank the President’s nominees to make him look weak and damage him politically, and we’re just not going to allow that to happen,” a top Trump ally told Fox News Digital.
Hegseth continued in his interview with Hannity that he will also meet with Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, who Hannity identified as a pair of more liberal Republican senators compared to their colleagues.
“We will be meeting with Sen. Collins on Wednesday and Sen. Murkowski on Tuesday. And let me tell you, Sean, the founders got this right. This is not a trivial process. This is a real thing: advise and consent of a nominee who the president has chosen. And I’m so grateful that President Trump would have the faith in me to lead the Defense Department, to choose me to do that. But this advise and consent process, meeting with all the members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and they all have great questions, and my answers are for them,” Hegseth said.
The SecDef nominee also pushed back on claims of impropriety during the interview, arguing “the left is trying to turn this into a trial in the media – show trial – and we’re not going to let that happen.”
“I’m going to walk into the door of every one of these senators with just, as an open book, willing to answer their questions, because they deserve answers. … I’ve heard great things about all of these senators and the questions they want to ask, and we look forward to earning these votes. That’s what it’s about, ultimately earning the votes through the committee and through the entire U.S. Senate,” he said.
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Reports surfaced last week alleging Trump had lost faith in his nominee as Democrats slammed the choice and some Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, remarked the allegations against Hegseth were “disturbing.” Trump bucked the claims when he doubled down on his support of Hegseth in a Truth Social post on Friday, while Vice President-elect JD Vance also said the Trump team is “not abandoning this nomination.”
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”Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a WINNER, and there is nothing that can be done to change that!!!”
Former TV news anchor makes bombshell claims about Dan Rather in new memoir
Former TV news anchor Connie Chung makes some bombshell claims in her memoir, including the alleged dismissive treatment she received from her colleague Dan Rather when the two worked together in the 1990s.
Chung was just the second woman after Barbara Walters and the first Asian American to be a network anchor when she started co-anchoring “CBS Evening News” with Rather in 1993 as an attempt to help the show’s flagging ratings.
“This wasn’t just a personal milestone but one for women and minorities, as I would be the first of both groups to coanchor the CBS News flagship broadcast,” Chung writes in “Connie.” “I felt incredibly lucky to be the one riding the crest.”
While her tenure broke some glass ceilings and she even referred to it as her “dream job,” Chung claimed her position didn’t protect her from some sexist comments from colleagues.
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“While Rather publicly welcomed Chung, he privately put her in her place, telling her: ‘Now you are going to have to start reading the newspaper,’” The Boston Globe reported of Chung’s new book, “Connie.”
“I swallowed hard,” she writes of the incident. “Was this his idea of how to start a partnership? I was forty-seven and had spent half my life in the news business – did he think I had been reading the comics? We were just out of the gate in what I hoped would be a long run. My response: Silence.”
Chung also wrote that Rather told her, “I’ll cover the stories out there in the field, and you read the teleprompter.” Her co-anchor, she added, was “wound tight and had no sense of humor” and held “an inherent bias regarding women.”
She went further to allege that Rather tried to undercut her and question her journalistic abilities among their colleagues.
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Rather would later step down from his role as CBS’ evening news anchor in 2005 and eventually leave the network the following year after reporting a discredited story about then-President George W. Bush’s Vietnam-era service in the National Guard. Rather, who at 92 still maintains a sharply left-wing presence on social media, was interviewed by CBS earlier this year about his time at the network and his career in journalism.
Chung had additional revelations about the behavior of male anchors in TV news, including Bryant Gumbel.
“In her book, Chung writes about how so many men in TV news, especially the anchormen, suffer from a disease she calls ‘big shot-itis,’” the Globe reported. “For example, Bryant Gumbel had in his NBC contract that ‘Today Show’ co-anchor Jane Pauley could never say ‘Good morning’ first nor say ‘Have a good day’ at the end of the show.”
Chung described her firing from CBS in 2005 as “devastating,” but she never wanted any sympathy.
“That was not my attitude when I was working,” she said. “I never ran to the ladies room and cried, because I always believed that there was no crying in baseball.”
Rather denied having anything to do with her exit and reportedly told The Washington Post at the time, “Nobody has heard a critical comment from me about Connie” and her removal “came as a surprise to us.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Chung, Rather and Gumbel for further comment.
Chung would later join ABC News as co-anchor and correspondent of the popular show “20/20,” joining Walters and Diane Sawyer.
Now, she says that several women have thanked her for breaking some glass ceilings and that some Asian-American parents had even named their daughters Connie after her.
Chung scored some major interviews during her career, including NBA star Magic Johnson after his HIV-positive diagnosis in 1991.
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Now and again, justice is vindicated and right triumphs over wrong.
With its “not guilty” verdict on Monday, a Manhattan jury unanimously sent a resounding message to District Attorney Alvin Bragg that he wrongfully prosecuted a good Samaritan. A man who courageously came to the aid of subway passengers who were threatened with imminent death. Not that Bragg will pay any heed.
The case against Marine veteran Daniel Penny should never have been brought. It was a gross injustice. By law, he was justified in using reasonable force —even lethal force— to subdue a maniac who vowed to murder riders the moment he entered a subway car. That man, Jordan Neely, initiated the confrontation and died as a result of his own menacing and illegal actions.
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Instead of being commended, Penny was pilloried as a bigoted vigilante by the usual crowd of racial justice warriors who yearned to turn Neely’s death into another George Floyd outrage. Bragg, who sees everything through the prism of race and politics, was more than happy to do their bidding. At trial, his lead prosecutor referred to Penny as “the white man.” It was reprehensible.
But in the end, 12 diverse jurors refused to abide the blatant race-baiting. They were well acquainted with the perils of New York’s treacherous subway system, which has experienced a 60% increase in murders this year, according to police statistics. Stabbings, shootings, beatings, and robberies now seem commonplace as criminals roam freely in the underground transit system searching out their next victims.
Jurors accepted as true the testimony of passengers —some of whom are Black— that they were grateful when Penny came to their rescue. Neely terrorized them. They were panicked and stricken with fear that their lives were about to end. Far from a rogue criminal, the former marine was perceived by those in danger as their beneficent and heroic figure.
Bragg didn’t care about the innocent sufferers who were threatened with death. His idea of “restorative justice” has always been centered on protecting criminals. During trial, his prosecutors contemptuously dismissed passenger accounts of what happened that terrible day while manipulating evidence to transform Neely from villain to victim.
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Errant rulings from the bench made Penny’s defense all the more difficult. When jurors were deadlocked on the most serious count of manslaughter after almost 30 hours of deliberations, Judge Maxwell Wiley went along with the D.A.’s request to withdraw the charge even though prosecutors spent weeks telling the jury that the accused was guilty of it.
The judge’s ruling was improper. He contradicted his own earlier ruling that the jury could consider the lesser count of criminally negligent homicide if they found Penny “not guilty” of the top count. That didn’t happen. The judge appeared to acknowledge that a dismissal was impermissible, but then did it anyway.
Indeed, the rules that govern criminal procedure require a mistrial in the event of a hung jury unless the defense agrees to a dismissal. Penny’s lawyers did not.
It may seem anomalous or inconsistent that a jury could be deadlocked on the more serious crime but acquit the defendant on the lesser charge. But jurors are allowed to change their minds during deliberations as they reconsider the evidence and absorb counterarguments behind closed doors.
Although he may be foolish enough to try, Bragg can not re-charge Penny on the manslaughter charge that he voluntarily dismissed amid deliberations. Jeopardy attaches when a trial jury is empaneled and sworn in. Hence, a second prosecution would be prohibited under the constitutional doctrine of double-jeopardy in the Fifth Amendment.
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Inevitably, social justice activists promptly decried Penny’s acquittal and ramped up their protests. Demonstrators outside the New York courthouse took up chants of “no justice, no peace,” the implicit threat of violent unrest that became a raucous symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement. The mob is, if nothing else, unrelenting.
Within minutes of the verdict, BLM-connected provocateurs unleashed incendiary threats by calling for “black vigilantes” and “retaliation.” Their goal is to gin up racial hatred under the guise of egalitarian justice. They condemned the trial outcome as a victory for white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan.
It is a sad measure of our times that such despicable demagoguery has a dedicated audience of witless disciples.
For Daniel Penny, the jury’s correct decision offers immediate relief to the criminal ordeal that he has endured with dignity for the last 18 months. He is absolved, but unfairly stained. He still faces a civil lawsuit filed late last week by Neely’s absentee father.
I would not handicap the plaintiff’s case as having a prosperous future. It is true that the standard of proof is lower in a civil action, but any recoverable damages would be speculative and minimal.
Typically, a parent will sue for loss of companionship or future financial support. Here, there is none. An indigent and estranged son with little or no contact with his father would not net a meaningful windfall.
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Unfortunately, the larger societal damage that Bragg’s unwarranted case has wrought may be borne by future crime victims in New York and perhaps elsewhere. Knowing that an elected district attorney is eager to prosecute well-meaning Samaritans will likely deter them from defending others who are preyed upon. The weak and the vulnerable among us may become easier targets.
That is the tragic epitaph of the Daniel Penny trial.
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4 Heisman Trophy finalists named for 2024 college football season
The 2024 Heisman Trophy finalists were announced on Monday, and two frontrunners are officially in the mix.
Colorado’s two-way star Travis Hunter and Boise State’s bruising running back Ashton Jeanty are considered the two favorites to win the award, while quarterback Dillon Gabriel of Oregon and Cam Ward of Miami round out the quartet.
This has been a thrilling college football season in the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff. But while his Buffaloes won’t be playing for a national title, Hunter’s efforts alongside the potential first overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Shedeur Sanders, has led to a successful Colorado season.
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Hunter is the heavy favorite to win the Heisman, as he’s simply doing something that no one in college football has: play on both sides of the ball.
Hunter played full-time on offense and defense, and he finished in the top five in receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns and passes defended. Pro Football Focus also gave him the top coverage grade this season as well.
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On offense, Hunter had 92 receptions for 1,152 yards and 14 receiving touchdowns over 12 games, averaging 96.0 yards through the air per game. And on defense, he defended 11 passes while collecting four interceptions and 32 combined tackles over the same set of games.
Despite Hunter being the overwhelming favorite, it’s simply been a blast to watch Jeanty lead the Broncos all the way to a Mountain West Conference title while earning a bye in the College Football Playoff as the No. 3 seed.
Jeanty led college football in rushing yards (2,497), rushing touchdowns (29), total touchdowns (30) and rush attempts (344) as the Broncos’ offense truly ran through the junior, who is also projected to be a first-rounder come April.
His argument for winning the award over Hunter is the fact that he took a Group of Five school to a CFP bye in his historic season. If he breaks Barry Sanders’ all-time rushing record (2,628), who knows how the voting should shake out.
But there’s only a single No. 1 seed this year in the CFP, and Gabriel’s Ducks are it as his sixth collegiate season has led to more elite production.
Gabriel had 3,558 passing yards and 28 passing touchdowns over his 297 attempts through the air to help the Ducks to an undefeated regular season at 13-0.
The Hawaii native’s best game came against No. 2 Ohio State, where he had 341 yards passing and three total touchdowns, proving Oregon was the team to beat in the Big Ten in its inaugural season in the conference. Oregon went on to beat Penn State to win the Big Ten, and now they’re looking for an undefeated season with a national title attached to it.
Ward, another potential first overall selection in 2025, is about as cool and collected as a quarterback can be in the pocket, which has led to numerous come-from-behind victories for the Hurricanes this season.
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He’s also a fantastic college football story, starting at Incarnate Word out of high school, his only offer, and ultimately leading college football with 36 passing touchdowns and finishing second with 4,123 passing yards this year.
Miami wasn’t able to make the CFP this year, but an argument can be made that Ward was the best quarterback in the game this season, which earned him a trip to New York.
Former ‘Real Housewives’ star shares stripped down photo as she claims her ‘looks are ruined’
Brandi Glanville is not holding back.
The former model turned reality star took to social media over the weekend to discuss her health problems, explaining what she’s been dealing with after sharing a photo of her current appearance.
Last week, Glanville shared a video to Instagram of a Cameo that she had filmed for a fan. In the caption, she wrote, “It’s been over a year since I’ve been dealing with my health issues & haven’t been able to keep up with the videos, but I’m BACK on @cameo.”
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Based on her appearance in the video, some of her followers suggested that her health issues may be attributed to Botox or fillers – she’s been open about getting both over the years – but in a post on X, formerly Twitter, she shut down that theory.
“Guys this is an old cameo!” the former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star wrote. “I used it to promote that I’m back on after a year plus hiatus. Let me share what I look like & why I had to take a pause… check next post & f—ing suck it haters.”
She then shared an unfiltered photo of her face.
Hundreds of people commented on the picture, with many sending their condolences about the issues she’s been facing. Many asked her what happened to cause the changes to her appearance.
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“What happened?” she wrote Sunday. “I wish I knew I’ve been in &out of the hospital this passed year 1/2 spent almost every dollar I have trying to figure it out. Some Dr.’s say I have a parasite that jumps around my face. Some say it’s stress induced edema. I personally say it’s Bravo.”
In January, Glanville was named in a lawsuit filed by fellow “Real Housewives” star Caroline Manzo, who has appeared on the New Jersey series of the show. Manzo accused Glanville of sexual assault, though she didn’t name her as a defendant – instead, Manzo sued Bravo, alleging the network hired Glanville despite knowledge of questionable behavior on her part.
Glanville and Manzo filmed a season of “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” in Morocco together, along with other women from the show, nearly two years ago, which was where the alleged assault took place. The season has never aired, but as Glanville shared Sunday, her behavior on that trip was no worse than anything else she did on the show.
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“This is 100 times worse than anything that happened in Morocco,” she wrote with a clip of footage of her giving another cast member a lap dance, “and my life has been ruined for no reason I’ve spent all of my money on Dr.!My health is ruined. My looks are ruined AND I was rehired because of this behavior for The Morocco girls trip.”
In addition to being named in Manzo’s suit against Bravo, Glanville has been discussing taking legal action of her own against the network. She accused “Real Housewives” host and executive producer Andy Cohen of sexual harassment and claimed she was going to sue Bravo, writing on X in July, “This stress has ruined my health.I have uncontrollable stress induced angio-edema I havent worked for a year &half.” Then, in October, she claimed her lawyers “dumped me.”
A Bravo spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that the network did an “outside investigation” into the allegations and found Glanville’s claims to be “unsubstantiated.” For his part, Cohen has said the comments made to Glanville were made “in jest,” but that “it was totally inappropriate and I apologize.”
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About her health, Glanville told Entertainment Tonight earlier this year that her problems began last August.
“I’ve had some health issues that have affected my ability to talk,” she explained then. “My ability to taste food, my face basically would swell up, like I would have anaphylactic shock, go into anaphylactic shock constantly and I saw 7 doctors and their answer to it was stress-induced angioedema.”
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Glanville did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, though she has repeatedly denied Manzo’s allegations against her.
Tech giant impresses Elon Musk with new ‘breakthrough’ in chipmaking
Google says its latest microchip has solved a key quantum computing challenge, and the news even earned a nod from Elon Musk.
“Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on X on Monday.
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“In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).”
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Pichai added, “We see Willow as an important step in our journey to build a useful quantum computer with practical applications in areas like drug discovery, fusion energy, battery design + more.”
“Wow,” Musk responded, sparking an exchange between the SpaceX founder and the Google chief, who wrote back, “We should do a quantum cluster in space with Starship one day,” with a smiley face.
“That will probably happen,” Musk replied. “Any self-respecting civilization should at least reach Kardashev Type II. In my opinion, we are currently only at <5% of Type I. To get to ~30%, we would need to place solar panels in all desert or highly arid regions.”
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Like other tech giants such as Microsoft and IBM, Google is chasing quantum computing because it promises computing speeds far faster than today’s fastest systems.
Willow has 105 “qubits,” which are the building blocks of quantum computers. Qubits are fast but error-prone because they can be jostled by something as small as a subatomic particle from events in outer space.
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As more qubits are packed onto a chip, those errors can add up to make the chip no better than a conventional computer chip. So, since the 1990s, scientists have been working on quantum error-correction.