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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.

The computer industry is nearing a crisis: microchips  get smaller and faster but they struggle to transfer data at sufficient speeds.  Electrons flowing through standard chip connections are just too slow. Now researchers have shown how chips with built-in lasers which use multiple wavelengths of light could in the future transmit data at terabit speeds.

Be it a matter of perspective or different terminology, the Federal Government's IT reform plan is not meeting its expectations.

In this week's Q&A, I chat with Mikko Hypponen, the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure on the current state of the cybercrime ecosystem.

Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature film, The Pleasure Garden, has been restored by the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of its celebration of the film-maker.

The chip designer's co-founder Tudor Brown on its past successes and future plans

Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards. - Alan Bennett

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it! - Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK