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Impact Watch: China out of the Internet?

Impact: Online Information    January 21, 2010
If China removes itself from the Internet, what impact would that have? I don’t mean that China won’t have the Internet, or even that it will cut itself off entirely from international connections, but what if, for all practical purposes China operates on a different, separate Internet? What would removing the world’s largest Internet using [...]
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Update: Google’s use of a ‘quantum computer’

News: Computer Power    December 17, 2009
Chris Lee over at Ars-Technica has some background observations on the story about Google’s use of the D-Wave system for analyzing images. Google doesn’t give a damn if it is a quantum computer or not, just that it works, and works better than existing systems. [Source: ArsTechnica]
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