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Q: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year’s presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
The decision by the central election commission was widely expected as election officials had repeatedly declared  Navalny  would be ineligible to run. Twelve members of the 13-member commission voted to bar  Navalny . One member abstained  citing a possible conflict of interest.
 Navalny   41  who polls show would struggle to beat incumbent Vladimir Putin in the March election  said he would appeal and called on his supporters to boycott the election and campaign against it being held.
“We knew this could happen  and so we have a straight-forward  clear plan ”  Navalny  said in a pre-recorded video released immediately after the decision.
 Navalny  said  he  would use  his  campaign headquarters across Russia to support the boycott and monitor turnout on voting day  March 18.
Polls show Putin  65  who has dominated Russia’s political landscape for the last 17 years  is on course to be comfortably re-elected  making  him  eligible to serve another six years until 2024  when  he  turns 72.
 Navalny  says Putin’s support is exaggerated and artificially maintained by a biased state media and an unfair system. He says he could defeat him in a fair election  an assertion Putin’s supporters have said is laughable.
‘DO  THE RIGHT THING’
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny  speaks to the media after submitting  his  documents to be registered as a presidential candidate at the Central Election Commission in Moscow  Russia December 24  2017. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
Before the commission voted   Navalny   dressed in a dark suit  had demanded  he  be allowed to take part in the election delivering a speech that angered election officials.
In one heated exchange   he  said Russian voters’ faith in the system hung in the balance.
“If you do not allow me to run  you are taking a decision against millions of people who are demanding that  Navalny  take part ”  he  said  referring to  himself  in the first person.
“You are not robots  you are living  breathing human beings you are an independent body ... for once in your lives  do the right thing ”  he  said.
 His  supporters clapped  him   but officials were unmoved.
Ebzeev said there could not be “the slightest doubt” that  Navalny  was ineligible to run  a reference to Russia’s constitution that bars him running because of his suspended sentence relating to an embezzlement case.
 Navalny  has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing  and says the case is politically motivated.

A: Alexei Navalny
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Q: âThe option of simply widening the road is a lot more difficult than it would be in Fairfax and in some other areas. We are not even sure that it is possible â said  Martin Nohe   chairman of the NVTA and a Prince William County supervisor whose district includes the corridor.
âIf it is possible  it absolutely requires a huge amount of condemnation of commercial property  and it is crazy expensive â  Nohe  said. So the NVTA is studying various options to add capacity along a larger segment of the corridor.
âNo one will actually get to work faster if we donât first improve the interchange â  Nohe  said. From a morning commuterâs perspective   he  said  âimprovements in Prince William mean nothing if you donât first have improvements in Fairfax County. And the improvements to the road in Fairfax donât mean anything unless you have the improvements at the interchange. . . . The interchange is the center of gravity for the entire corridor.â
The NVTA has approved $30 million for the $69 million widening project south of the interstate  in Fairfax bordering Prince William   Nohe  said. The entire Route 28 corridor from Fauquier to Loudoun is looking at up to $1 billion in investments   he  said. A big chunk of that money would go toward fixing the Prince William section  which has been neglected long enough   Nohe  said.
âThe problem has been building for 20 years. For the last 10 years  everyone has complained every day â  Nohe  said. âWhatâs clear is that Route 28 is now our top priority in the county.â
A recent study commissioned by the NVTA has narrowed to four the options to lessen traffic congestion in the area from Bull Run on the Fairfax County line through Manassas  Manassas Park and Prince William. And this year  the authority is starting the federal environmental review process that could lead to improvements within the next decade. That study is expected to be completed in 18 months  with recommendations implemented by 2026   Nohe  said.

A: Nohe
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Q: Intel CEI Brian Krzanich  announced Monday evening in a CES keynote presentation that  the company  is neck-in-neck with other competitors in the race to make universal quantum computers that can solve problems that are impossible on todayâs supercomputers.  The semiconductor giant  is competing against Google  IBM and other companies to reach âquantum supremacy â the marker at which universal quantum computers outpace traditional computers that represents an important Kitty Hawk moment for data processing.
 Krzanich  said  the company  has created a 49-qubit quantum computing chip and have shipped  it  to  their  partners for use testing  representing a big step in quantum computing for  the company .
âQuantum computing represents a completely different approach to computing. This technology will be able to solve problems that are insurmountable today â  Krzanich  said in  his  speech. âJust as we ushered in the era of our classical personal computing  weâre pushing the boundaries of the quantum computing revolution.â
What are those impossible problems? Simulating the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs  simulating catalysts that speed up chemical reactions (which can lead to more energy-efficient applications) and breaking cryptography  Mike Mayberry  corporate vice president and managing director of Intel Labs told Fox News.  Krzanich  said one potential use is for research into better-quality materials  such as more efficient superconductors.
 Krzanich  also discussed the development of a neuromorphic test chip  nicknamed âLoihi.â Neuromorphic chips are closer to traditional computer chips  but they are built to imitate neurons in a human brain  giving it the ability to learn as it runs.
Neuromorphic chip are expected to be able to identify objects from different angles while moving better than existing systems  he said. This ability opens the door to real-time analysis of complex data   Krzanich  said.
 It âs possible neuromorphic chips could be used in a product such as a smartphone in two to four years  Mayberry said.
âWeâre really optimistic about what this new kind of computing can achieve over time â  Krzanich  said in  his  presentation.

A:
Brian Krzanich
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