Comment Repressing competition (Score 1) 477
"duplicate functionality"
Otherwise known as competition? Surely that's going to be an easy law suit.
New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope 88
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet Aus reported on a new low-noise chip that could help in building the $1.6B Square Kilometer Array, the world's largest radio telescope. Wikipedia claims the telescope will be 50 times as sensitive as current instruments. It will have a resolution able to detect every active galactic nucleus out to a redshift of 6, when the universe was less than 1 billion years old and way crazy. It will have the sensitivity to detect Earth-like radio leakage at a distance of several hundred to a few thousand light years, which could help greatly with the search for extraterrestrial life. The chip's designer, Prof. Jack Singh, commented on the chip's ability to help with quantum computing research, due to its ability to operate at millikelvin temperatures, necessary to prevent quantum decoherence."
Submission + - Putin Threatens US Missile Bases in Europe (forbes.com)
Melugo writes: "Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe.
"If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe," Putin said, according to Corriere. "It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles."
It feels like the Cold War all over again.
See the rest of the article at: Forbes or a comment on it at alittlebitoffreedom.blogspot.com."
Slashdot Top Deals
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
