Tag: technology
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Nowhere to hide...
Unapproved genetically engineered wheat has been found growing on a farm in Oregon. The Agriculture Department said the wheat was of the type developed by Monsanto to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, also known as glyphosate. Such wheat was field-tested in 16 states, including Oregon, from 1998 through 2005, but Monsanto dropped the project…
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Quantum computers, solutions, secrets...
D-Wave's supposed quantum computers have attracted plenty of skepticism alongside some serious interest from huge corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin. Now recent testing has shown that D-Wave's machine can indeed beat standard computers head-to-head in solving certain problems. The D-Wave computer performed up to 3600 times faster than a high-performance machine running IBM…
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Thinking outside the box? Impossible!? Pass me that sea horse...
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure…
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Elusive information, ReDigi, Universe...
Α US judge has ruled that ReDigi, a company which allowed customers to resell their digital music "second hand", breached copyright. ReDigi billed itself as the first legal way to resell music bought online - but soon provoked the ire of record labels. It was sued by Capitol Records in January 2012, and on Monday…
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Quantum Encrypting, Innevitable Decrypting...
Quantum cryptography has entered the friendly skies. A precise beam of photons sent from an airplane allowed researchers on the ground to create a nearly unbreakable encryption key to protect information. The experiment, which was reported on March 31 in Nature Photonics, is an important step toward creating a secure global communication network based on beaming photons…
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