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Amazon has indefinitely extended its ban on providing facial recognition technology to police, initially announced in June 2020, due to concerns about bias, particularly against people with dark skin. Meanwhile, Google is advancing its quantum computing efforts, aiming to build a useful quantum computer by the end of the decade. The company has announced a new data center and chip-making facility in Santa Barbara, California, to support this project. Google's quantum computing initiatives, along with those of IBM, focus on error-free operation and solving complex problems in physics, medicine, and climate modeling. Additionally, Newsy offers opinion-free headlines available for streaming.

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