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Scientists have conducted scientific research on the difficulty –- from a computational complexity theory perspective -- of addressing some of the challenges of physics.

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.

Facebook has acquired social gifting startup Karma for an undisclosed sum. This is the first acquisition Menlo Park has made as a public company: the first of many to come, I'm sure.

Companies are now crawling with Apple sales representatives -- not paid representatives, but end-users.

Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has learned.

MPs have had their fingers burned by texting and technology, and may have regretted the odd text or tweet.

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage

In God we trust, all others we virus scan. - Author Unknown