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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.

Your tablet and smartphone can be invaluable tools to help you stay out of harm's way during hurricane season.

Small investors snubbed the Facebook IPO. It's the 'smart money' that's crying.

Diablo 3's publisher says it has become the fastest-selling PC-based videogame despite launch glitches.

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

Pessimists, we’re told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Bob Lewis

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F. Kennedy