No Starch Press Teams Up with Humble Bundle to Present the Humble “School’s Out!” Bundle Readers Pay What They Want for an Amazing Selection of Geeky eBooks for Kids San Francisco, CA (June 17, 2015) — Summer can be tough on kids, and cabin fever can be even worse for parents. But with the new ebook [… read more]
The Science Behind ‘Elysium’ (via slashdot) The new movie “Elysium” might be set nearly 150 years from now, but its plot is as old as money: the rich get richer, the have-nots continue to have not, and something in that dichotomy is going to give way—in this case, with several large explosions…
Beam me over, Scotty? A quantum leap in quantum teleportation. (via The Christian Science Monitor) This artist’s representation of the superconducting circuit used for quantum teleportation includes an ant’s head for scale. Researchers at ETH Zurich ‘beamed’ information from one corner of the circuit to another, a distance of about a quarter inch…