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"The two-qubit superconducting chip ran elementary algorithms, such as a simple search, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state device for the first time" - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

"Some 1.6 billion hectares could be added to the current 1.4 billion hectares of crop land in the world, and over half of the additionally available land is found in Africa and Latin America," - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

"There is a simple way to produce a perfect model of our climate that will predict the weather with 100% accuracy. First, start with a universe that is exactly like ours; then wait 13 billion years." - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

Digital currency is the future of capitalism? this post makes you think... - Mark Harai

Another interesting monograph from The Rand Corporation. provides some detailed insight into one of the worlds biggest problems. - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

an in depth analysis pre dating the current situation in Iran - but still very illuminating. a full PDF is available - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

if you want to impress your friends U can drop these terms during happy hour - Dark flow, net motion of galaxy clusters, cosmic microwave background radiation, Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, no-longer-visible regions of the universe prior to inflation, particle horizon, past light cone. On the serious side - this is an intriguing phenomena. - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

Depends on what kind of friends you have. Mine would slowly walk away if I started talking like that :P - LANjackal

not really breaking news except HP's posture on Cloud. I can see a "we are not a printer company anymore" ads....similar to Amazon a while back. A noteworthy mention is HP's new Photosmart Pro web enabled printer. - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

Interesting. Everyone is getting into that game. - Roberto Bonini

"Everything as a service" is nonsense hype that ignores what happens when the service provider experiences a failure/outage/hiccup. Unlike local resources, you can't fix it yourself, you have to wait for the service operator to do so. Oh yeah, and if said cloud is going out of business, you're stuck with whatever data retrieval methods they give you. Just ask the folks who'd uploaded... more... - LANjackal

UCLA and McGill University researchers have, for the first time, "photographed" a memory in the making. This is the first study to directly visualize protein synthesis at individual synapses. The studies revealed an exquisite level of control over the specificity of regulation of new protein synthesis. "While this was not really surprising to us given the complexity of information processing in the brain," said Martin, "visualizing the process of protein synthesis at individual synapses, and beginning to discern the elegance of its regulation, leaves us, as biologists, with a wonderful sense of awe." - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet

Scarlet Knight - way to go !!!! ...a pioneer of the oceans - SnakeDoc via Bookmarklet