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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.
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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)

Senators from both parties tee off on the White House as evidence mounts indicating it suppressed evidence of climate change. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.


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