Feed VeriSign Moves to Address an Internet Security Problem (nytimes.com)
VeriSign is undertaking a $100 million expansion of a crucial part of the system that speeds Web users to their destinations.
Feed State Of The Art: Breaking the Myth of Megapixels (nytimes.com)
“The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures,” is a big fat lie.
Feed If Leonardo Had Made Toys (nytimes.com)
The use of advance technologies are giving a new generation of toys extraordinary capabilities to fly, float, walk and roll — almost always inexpensively — in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.
Feed Q & A: Sending Giant Files (nytimes.com)
How can I send a 50-megabyte file to a friend since it’s way too big for an e-mail attachment?
Submission + - Quantum Computer to launch next week
judgecorp writes: "D-Wave Systems of British Columbia is all set to demonstrate a quantum computer. Simple devices have been built in the lab before, and this is still a prototype, but it is a commercial project which aims to get quantum devices into computer rooms, solving tricky problems — and cracking all our codes. Most quantum computers have to be isolated from the outside world (look at them and they stop working). This one is an "adiabatic" quantum computer — which means (in theory, says D-Wave) it can live with thermal noise and give results without having to be isolated. There's a description of it here — and pretty pictures too."
Feed Bush Ripped on Global Warming (wired.com)
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