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Google, copyright, and our future.

MIT neuroscientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons

Now, finally, groups at Harvard and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, have designed and built a computer that hews closely to these specs. It is a quantum computer, as Feynman forecast. And it is the first quantum computer to simulate and calculate the behavior of a molecular, quantum system.

PHOBOS is a name you are going to hear a lot in the coming years. It may be little more than an asteroid – just two-billionths of the mass of our planet, with no atmosphere and hardly any gravity – yet the largest of Mars's two moons is poised to become our next outpost in space, our second home.

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Auf den ersten Blick sind die Seiten www.weforum.org (Original) und www.we-forum.org (Fake) nicht zu unterscheiden. Selbst beim Quellcode unterscheiden sich die Seiten erst sehr weit unten. Einzig der Server von we-forum.org verrät, dass da ein Kollektiv dahinter steckt, das auch schon mit den Yes Men zusammengearbeitet hat.

In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100 millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.

Using new mathematical tools, a group of researchers created a fascinating chart that shows how neuroscience went from a hodgepodge of unconnected scientific disciplines, to a unified science that's one of the most important today. In just under 10 years.

Micro-blogging site Twitter is developing technology that will prevent government censorship after Iran and China moved to censor its users.