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 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 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."
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Comment Re:Yes, Electric Model Failed Major Experimental T (Score 1) 189
Looks like the Electric Universe folks were a bit off -- off on what exactly? I mean, it is NASA's folks who might be not just off but OFF on comets and their composition, because they have to tweak their dirt-ball nonsense to fit observable facts. Really, if you take it just on common sense level, how is it possible for a lose pile of dust to hold together in space while traveling with some tremendous speed bombarded by the high powered solar wind of energetic particles? By what kind of force does that happen and why it came together to be held like that in the first place? One can calculate, the mass of some comet and the rate of comet's particle discharge, so after rather some short time of several hundred years that comet would be gone. Is that what happens? So, we would never see Halley again then?
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