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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.

Scientists take an important step in developing a material using nano-sized magnets that could lead to new electronic devices. Researchers have demonstrated that large arrays of nano-magnets can be used to store computable information.

Vinnie Mirchandani has been giving enterprise vendors a tough time the last year. It has had me scratching my head to provide a cogent response. Here's my first effort.

The lack of women in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math will continue to plague our country until all students, regardless of sex, have adequate opportunities to explore math and science.

Will Facebook keep innovating post-IPO?

Can Facebook crack the Chinese market?

Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. - Alan Kay

DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. - Author Unknown