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Logitech's Squeezebox and rock band Queen will be blasting exclusive tunes from Queen's new album before it hits physical and digital store shelves.Logitech's Squeezebox and rock band Queen will be blasting exclusive tunes from... more
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In Act I of the modern-day GPU wars, AMD lit up the scene by releasing the ATI Radeon HD 5870, the fastest single-GPU videcoard money can buy. In Act II, AMD will hope to also claim the dual-GPU crown with its upcoming HD 5870 X2...In Act I of the modern-day GPU wars, AMD lit up the scene by releasing the ATI Radeon... more
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For those of you willing to sign up to a 2-year subscription plan through Verizon, $150 suddenly becomes enough to snag a Gateway LT2016u netbook...For those of you willing to sign up to a 2-year subscription plan through Verizon,... more
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With a two-year service agreement, you can already snag a Palm Pre for just $80 from Walmart, which we said was the price to beat. Well guess what? Someone beat it. With a coupon code and a cashback request, LetsTalk.com and PhoneCashBack.net have collaborated to offer the Pre for free, but you have to act fast...With a two-year service agreement, you can already snag a Palm Pre for just $80 from... more
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Wow, now how cool is that? My inner Geek is all happy!
Here's the article...
THERE is a simple rule of computing that holds true even in the weird quantum world: increase the number of units of information available and you boost computing power. Raising the number of quantum bits, or qubits, carries an even greater reward – every additional qubit doubles the computing power.
But raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out barrages of entangled photons with machine-gun regularity.
Existing methods of producing entangled photons tend to spew out photons more or less randomly, says Terry Rudolph at Imperial College London. "People have produced six entangled photons but they come out at times we cannot control," he says. "Ultimately that isn't going to help us build a proper quantum computer."
Rudolph and Netanel Lindner at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have designed the blueprint for a system that fires out large numbers of entangled photons on demand. They call it a "photonic machine gun" (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.113602).
At the heart of the gadget is a quantum dot - a nanoscale crystal within a semiconducting device - chilled to a low temperature. When a short, strong pulse of light hits the dot, one of the electrons inside is raised to an excited state. As it "relaxes" back to its resting energy state it throws out a photon.
"We can manipulate the electron in such a way that it is entangled with the photon," Rudolph says. Excite the same electron again and it spews out a second photon that is also entangled with the electron, and therefore with the first photon too. Repeat the process many times and a string of entangled photons emerges, ready to inject into a quantum computer.
They say that a practical version could be built within a few years. "It's only within the last year or so that the [nanofabrication] technology has made this feasible," Rudolph says.
The quantum machine-gun idea has generated a buzz among researchers. "It's a superb piece of work," says Andrew White at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. "I think this is one of the most exciting theoretical proposals I've read in five years - it will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing."
What do you think? happy to find quantum and computer in the same breath? Or not so much? lolWow, now how cool is that? My inner Geek is all happy!
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When did dating get so complicated? In the 'old' days, it was boy meets girl, boy meets girl's father, girl's father wields shotgun while interrogating boy, boy returns girl by agreed upon curfew. Simple, right?
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/new-iphone-app-lets-you-look-you-hook) see article for more details.When did dating get so complicated? In the 'old' days, it was boy meets... more
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Intel will launch its first 32nm processors later this year and, to break tradition, the first CPUs based on the new process won't be a new flagship chip in Extreme Edition guise. In the past, a new process has brought a combination of never-before-seen performance at a high asking price, but things are different with 32nm.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/intels-32nm-westmere-processor-performance) see article for more details.Intel will launch its first 32nm processors later this year and, to break tradition,... more
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There’s been loose talk of a Zune phone for some time now, and it looks like we’ve finally found out what it might be. According to some scoop from the folks over at Gizmodo, Microsoft’s reported Pink phone is the device at large, and it’ll come in two forms...There’s been loose talk of a Zune phone for some time now, and it looks like... more
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On the outside, the Averatec looks very much like an iMac wrapped in shiny black plastic. Inside you’ll find a mixture of desktop and notebook components that explain why the machine is priced $600 less than Apple’s cheapest 24-inch iMac and a cool grand less than Dell’s 24-inch XPS One...On the outside, the Averatec looks very much like an iMac wrapped in shiny black... more
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A-DATA is now shipping the industry's first ever waterproof and shock resistant portable HDD! I'm not sure how wise it is to be saying that you have a super strong hard disk drive that is designed specifically for students, road warriors, and sports enthusiastic in a shock resistant enclosure.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/data-sh93-waterproof-and-shock-resistant-portable-hdd) see article for more details.A-DATA is now shipping the industry's first ever waterproof and shock resistant... more
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Want to increase your website’s presence on Google? Don’t waste your time littering your site with “keywords” meta tags, because according to Google, that won’t do you a bit of good...Want to increase your website’s presence on Google? Don’t waste your time... more
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Peripheral manufacturer Razer was left with egg on its face this week by the revelation that it had been unwittingly distributing malware with its driver updates.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/razer-ships-malware-drivers) see article for more details.Peripheral manufacturer Razer was left with egg on its face this week by the... more
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The SATA International Organization (SATA-IO) is planning to introduce the latest SATA connector at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF). The new platform, named mini-SATA (mSATA), is roughly the size of business card and is similar in size to the PCI Express Controller.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/new-mini-sata-interface-designed-netbooks) see article for more details.The SATA International Organization (SATA-IO) is planning to introduce the latest SATA... more
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The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) today approved the first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 product. The product in question is a host controller from NEC Electronics. Having this certified host controller will be a boon to other manufacturers, as they will be able to easily test products using the USB 3.0 spec.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/first-certified-usb-30-product-available) see article for more details.The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) today approved the first SuperSpeed USB 3.0... more
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Microsoft’s Zune HD is available in stores today with two color variations: silver with black trim, or black with silver trim. Like its competition, Apple’s iPod Touch, the Zune HD uses...Microsoft’s Zune HD is available in stores today with two color variations:... more
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