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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.

Researchers have discovered and neutralized a serious vulnerability present in all versions of Android, the popular operating system developed by Google specifically for smartphones and tablet computers. The vulnerability could have been easily exploited by malicious software applications, with the effect of making devices based on Google's operating system currently on the market completely unusable.

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

Screenshot claims Reliance Communication's website filtering and blocking server has been hacked by Anonymous to block other websites.

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

India's ultra-modern plan to ID a billion people

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress. - Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems

Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It’s all fun and games until you forget about one of them. - anonymous Usenet user