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Quantum computers may someday revolutionize the information world. But in order for quantum computers at distant locations to communicate with one another, they have to be linked together in a network. While several building blocks for a quantum computer have already been successfully tested in the laboratory, a network requires one additonal component: A reliable interface between computers and information channels. Austrian physicists now report the construction of an efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks.

Two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space with robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity. They used the BrainGate neural interface system, an investigational device currently being studied under an IDE. One participant used the system to serve herself coffee for the first time since becoming paralyzed nearly 15 years ago.

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

Microsoft has come a long way in its acceptance of open source. And its motto doesn't seem to be (this time) to embrace and extinguish.

Scores of people believed to have run a large-scale operation selling personal data are arrested in Beijing.

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

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. - Eric Porterfield