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"The University of Portsmouth has announced a unique degree for hi-tech gadget gurus and cyber sleuths of the future. The degree - BSc in Securities Technology - is based on the security needs of
"Dwave Systems has fixed the dates for the demo of their Orion quantum computing system. [...] This 16 qubit system is the beginning of commercially usable and useful quantum computers." Thi
"Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announces the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2006." Via Locus. Any SFWA members who read VCTB and value my opinion should vote for Mar
"Raph Koster, revered designer of massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies (as well as being handy with a guitar and a line of verse) has announced his long-aw
"The surviving portion of the Deep Impact space probe that watched as its other half smashed into a comet on July 4 is being sent on a mission to study another comet." NASA sets an example b
"Having championed Webster Cash’s New Worlds Imager in earlier posts, Centauri Dreams was nonplussed yesterday to see NASA’s list of concept study selections for Discovery-class missions...."
"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic se
"'The first nuclear test by any state today is about sending a political message,' says Michael Levi ... A weapon can’t be a credible threat if no one knows you have it."
"The scientists called the device "the first of its kind in operation in the world", but the report did not specify what tests it had passed." Progress or propaganda?
Solar Flare is starting up a SF/F blog carnival, which I've often thought would be a great idea, but (unsurprisingly) never got round to doing anything about. I shall be contributing something, methin