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Space Station Could Beam Secret
Quantum Codes by 2014
ScientificAmerican.com June 9, 2008
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University of Vienna researchers
hope to send an experiment to the
International Space Station (ISS) by
the middle of the next decade that
would pave the way for
transcontinental transmission of
secret messages encoded using
quantum entanglement. (European
Space Agency In addition to
potential use for secure
communications, the...
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
PhysOrg.com June 10, 2008
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NASA's Solar Probe+, a
heat-resistant spacecraft, will
plunge deep into the sun's outer
atmosphere, the corona, where it can
sample solar wind and magnetism
first hand, by 2015. Trajectory of
Solar Probe+ The two mysteries
prompting this mission are the high
temperature of the sun's corona and
the puzzling acceleration of the
solar wind....
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Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC
World Upside Down?
New York Times June 10, 2008
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To radically improve computing
performance, the next version of the
Mac OS X operating system ("Snow
Leopard") will focus on parallel
programming (in its "Grand Central"
project) and future Mac hardware
will tap the computing power
inherent in graphics processors,
according to Steve Jobs. See also:
Military Supercomputer Sets...
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A Self-Writing To-Do List
Technology Review June 11, 2008
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A new generation of free online
schedulers uses natural-language
processing to interpret spoken
commands and ordinary written
sentences to build calendars and
personal organizers. The organizers
are part of an emerging trend away
from graphical user interfaces
(which can disrupt the work flow) to
the ease and simplicity of
text-based computing...
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The Flight of Dragonfly Robots
Technology Review June 11, 2008
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Studies of wing motion and air
forces that reveal how dragonflies
achieve their agility may enable
roboticists to eventually build
capable, swift biomimetic micro air
vehicles that use four...
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Robot Asimo can understand three
voices at once
New Scientist Tech June 10, 2008
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Honda's Asimo robot can now process
three voices at once at 80 percent
accuuracy, using an array of eight
microphones to localize sounds. See
also: 'Party chat' brain filter...
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