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New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to send

I was trying out Cuil today, the new search engine, and I was going to add it to my list of search engines available in Firefox. However, they didn’t have a pre-made add-on ready so I was going to contact them and advise it.

That’s when it happened… the Cuil couldn’t find it’s own Contact Page. Oh, the terrible irony.

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Blizzard is asking a judge to prevent a user from releasing code for the Glider Bot as open source.

A milestone for Firefox. IE down below 70%!

Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle last November, we’ve been wondering about just how successful it’s been. The electronic book initially sold out and supplies have been tight. The Kindle is such a small part of Amazon’s overall business that the company does not break out how many it’s sold. But we found out anyway: 240,000 Kindles.

A way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.

Not that anyone could really dance around the facts of the matter at this point, but in an email to Apple employees sent today, apparently Steve said, "It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

Yahoo conducted an update to their search engine over the weekend. And since Google tends to be the barometer of what is "relevant" and what is not, maybe Yahoo's search results are becoming more "relevant."

Washington, DC - Sue Ellerbusch, President of BP Biofuels North America, describes a new partnership with Verenium Corporation to advance development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol.

The Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Copy (SCP) make remotely performing system administration and copying files across secure links a painless operation. SSH and SCP use the same SSH protocol to protect network communications, but they rely on users knowing if they want a shell or to copy a file beforehand.

I wrote about Levelhead and it's stunning concept not long ago. Now you can play with

it's code and try it for youself:

Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it. No matter how long the outage du jour, Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service.

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