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Researchers are edging toward the creation of new optical technologies using "nanostructured metamaterials" capable of ultra-efficient transmission of light, with potential applications including advanced solar cells and quantum computing.

For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the fault's seismic and aseismic behavior.

Can anyone turn around HP or is it all looking a bit like too little too late?

Quest Software could give Dell the software boost it needs to diversify away from PCs.

Farmers in India use mobile phone technology to help ease their workload

The government is considering introducing filters to block adult material as a default for internet customers to help parents stop their children seeing inappropriate material.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. - Nathan Myhrvold

I didn’t work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it’s not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. - Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka Matz, creator of Ruby