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A brave new world may have quantum computers in it! (apologies to William Shakespeare) This little video is a short explanation of quantum computing.

As far back as I can remember the nations that I've lived in have been waging a warn on drugs and drug abuse together with addiction has increased and increased over my entire life time. Is it time to change the way drugs are dealt with. Has the war on drugs failed?

Fracking can cause some serious environmental damage. This short video explains a little bit about the technology.

Folks have passionate likes and dislikes about how to supply energy for people living in cities and for industry. This short video explains how nuclear reactors work.

Here's a sci fi story about the concept of alternate universes in which alternate laws of nature exist.

Do any of you lovely people use IRC (Internet Relay Chat)?

Forget the telescope, Mars will be bright and visible to the naked eye tonight See http://www.techly.com.au/2016/05/27/forget-the-telescope-mars-will-be-bright-and-visible-to-the-naked-eye-tonight/

The Strategic Automated Command and Control System transmits orders and coordinates information across the US nuclear missile system. It does so using technology that became obsolete during the Reagan administration. The US Department of Defense system runs on IBM Series/1 computers introduced...

I recently discovered Lua. It was created by the members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group (Tecgraf) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Being a Catholic I feel almost duty bound to give it a go. :smirk:

I watched parts of some videos about building a one half meter BB 8 with all sorts of mechanisms inside and a fairly clever bit of computer programming to control the mechanisms. What struck me is how clever a 3D printer can be. So for those of you interested in what people do with technologies...

I quite like listening to the holy scriptures being read as I type or think ... https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/laughlin/esv/Col.2

This is an interesting video about electric powered plasma rockets

Which operating system do you use most often? iOS OSX Windows 10 Windows XP or Vista or 7 or 8 or 8.1 Windows Phone Android Linux Unix of some sort Other

I bought an i7 quad core desktop PC with 8 GB RAM and various other things back in 2011 and since then I have added another 8 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD and a 1 TB external drive that I use for backups but I have not bought a new CPU or a new PC because none of the new CPUs seem any faster or...

I wish there was a vaccine for the common cold and for flu that would give immunity to those unwanted and inconvenient viral infections for life! What do you wish?

Pocket watches, more for men than women but some would be attractive to women too. I ordered one ... I wonder what it will turn out like ... it cost me $3.32 AUD

I've used a track pad under Windows XP and Windows 7 and my memory of the experience is that the trackpads were finicky and unresponsive and on the whole far worse than a mouse but now I am using a track pad (part of a Logitech K400 Plus keyboard) and it's as good as and sometimes better than a...

It may be that soon humanity will create some forms of artificial intelligence. Will "they" be good or bad or indifferent? If such were created and proved to be vastly quicker and more nimble than human beings at problem solving would you trust them?

I recently received in the mail a Teclast X98 Air 3G tablet computer with 64 GB storage and 2 GB RAM, it runs windows 10 and android 5. It's kind of cool. I added a 64 GB microSD card. It is rather like having a laptop but it cost $200 (give or take a few dollars). I am quite impressed with it...