May 31, 2011

Lockheed-Martin Purchases D-Wave's First Quantum Computer

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D-Wave out of Canada has just sold the first of its commercial quantum computers and they sold it to Lockheed-Martin. However, it wasn't as easy as your average sale. Despite the fact that D-Wave managed to make the sale, the company had to do it despite a debate over whether it truly was a quantum...
May 30, 2011

PayPal's Peter Thiel Pays Students to Skip College

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Senior year is stressful for a lot of students. Most are concentrated on getting good grades and academic honors so they can get into a good college and have a better life some day. A lot of students do a lot of hard work in order to earn money to go to college. However, two dozen students from around...
May 18, 2011

Cutting Costs Sees an Increase in Profits for Dell

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Good news recently came out of Dell as the computer company reported that its net income for the last quarter nearly tripled as Dell benefited from lower computer component costs and growth in certain areas of its more profitable product lines.Dell's shares rose 5% in extended trading, beating analysts'...
May 16, 2011

Pirated Software Value is On the Rise

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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) stated in their annual report that the revenue from software piracy in 2010 has reached record highs. The alliance stated that piracy worldwide is now costing the industry $59 billion. They also said that it seems as though the piracy is primarily occurring in emerging...
May 09, 2011

PQI Debuts World's Smallest USB 3.0 Flash Drive

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I love USB flash drives. I think these little suckers are one of the best things to hit computers since sliced bread. I used a flash drive almost every day this past semester of school and boy was it a nifty thing to keep around. Almost every piece of school work I had to do this past semester is on...
May 07, 2011

Scientists Try to Make a Schizophrenic Computer

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So, in my time as a blogger I have written about some pretty interesting things. I have also written about some pretty strange things and even some downright absurd things. However, this story may just be in a league of its own.A recent study by researchers at the University of Texas in Austin along...
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