Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Battle of Gettysburg...

In a nicely done interactive infographic...

A New Discovery...

It's amazing just how big this world of ours is – big enough that archaeologists continue to make major discoveries in still-remote places.  Announced yesterday: the discovery of an untouched, intact pre-Inca tomb in Peru...

D-Wave Processor Validated...

Scientists at USC have validated that the D-Wave “Vesuvius” processor chip is in fact operating as a quantum computing device.

That's not the same as saying that they have fully functional quantum computer, ready to rock and roll (and solve all those pesky traveling salesman problems)...