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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.

The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements. Today, a typical chip might have six or eight cores, all communicating with each other over a single bundle of wires, called a bus. With a bus, however, only one pair of cores can talk at a time, which would be a serious limitation in chips with hundreds or even thousands of cores, which many electrical engineers envision as the future of computing.

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

IBM's pre-configured, pre-tested clusters take the uncertainty out of multi-system deployments. Regardless of how good the idea, IBM didn't think of this first. It is yet another legacy of Digital...

The UK's privacy regulator signals it will initially take a "soft" approach to sites that breach new cookie rules.

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.

I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. - CA Hoare, 1982

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. - Author Unknown