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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.

We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: The smart home. Scientists say it won't be long before our homes act as "intelligent agents" that use sensors and software to anticipate our needs and tend to tasks that improve our health, energy efficiency, even social media.

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

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

Microsoft has asked Google to remove more than 500,000 links from its search index in the last month, figures show.

Two Asian Android-based micro-PCs offer users an alternative to the British-designed project.

Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. - Charles M. Strauss

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. - David Dixon, 1998