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Two lamps are brighter than one. This simple truism does not necessarily apply to lasers, as a team of scientists found out. When one laser is shining and next to it another laser is turned on gradually, complex interactions between the two lasers can lead to a total shutdown and no light is emitted anymore. For technologies connecting the fields of electronics and photonics, this result may be very important.

Physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates the process of developing even smaller and more powerful computer chips. They have found a previously unknown phenomenon in quantum plasmas. A negatively charged potential makes it possible to combine positively charged particles (ions) in atom-like structures within the plasma. In this way, current can be conducted much more quickly and efficiently than before, opening new perspectives for nanotechnology.

Facebook's IPO filing with the SEC warns potential investors of the chance that the value of their investment may go down as well as up. This post looks at growth and why you might think twice...

Facebook options trading is set to begin on May 29, less than two weeks after the company is expected to go public, according to the ISE. Other U.S.-based exchanges will likely join up later.

Blizzard say they are working to fix a 'game breaking' bug in Diablo III as the eagerly anticipated release is hit by more problems.

An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. - Donald Knuth

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe