Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Brian Lynn.

I'm Annameteo.

This program is made for English learners, so we speak a bit slower, and we use words and sentences,

especially written for people learning English.

Here are the stories on today's show.

First, Jill Robbins talks about technology with a story about Google scientists.

Next, Mario Ritter Jr. brings us a special words in their stories.

Then Katie Weaver tells us about a pet cemetery, a place where people bury their beloved animals.

Finally, we end our show with The Lesson of the Day.

Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins talk about future continuous.

But first, here is Jill Robbins.

Google recently said that it had solved a major problem in supercomputing

with a new generation of processor called Willow.

Along with other technology companies, such as Microsoft and International Business

Machines, IBM, Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, is working on quantum computing.

The new development promises to increase computing speeds while limiting mistakes or errors,

which are a problem with quantum computing systems. Scientists at the company's Santa Barbara

California Quantum Laboratory announced they had at least partly solved the error problem

on December 9th. On the same day, the scientific publication Nature published their paper on error correction.

Google said that the willow processor carried out a computation in under five minutes

that would have taken a fast supercomputer

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