First programmable quantum computer created

Using a few ultracold ions, intense lasers and some electrodes, researchers have built the first programmable quantum computer. The new system, described in a paper to be published in Nature Physics, flexed its versatility by performing 160 randomly chosen processing routines. 

The new study is “a powerful demonstration of the technological advances towards producing a real-world quantum computer,” says quantum physicist Winfried Hensinger of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49951/title/First_programmable_quantum_computer_created

Windows 8 Scheduled to Arrive in 2012

Microsoft launched Windows 7 on October 22 and now the plans of Windows 8 roadmap were spotted on the Interwebs. The successor to Windows 7 is tentatively codenamed as Windows 8 and is expected to be next "Major Release" in 2012. On the contrary, Windows 7 is being treated as "Release Updates" - to what? Maybe the wild Vista code.
Obviously, Gamers would love to go for DirectX12 and who knows what would be incorporated in it.

Source: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Windows_8_Scheduled_to_Arrive_in_2012/551-107651-580.html

NVIDIA selling gaming PC to raise money for cancer research

I like to help cancer research in software design and algorithms.
100 percent of the proceeds of this sale will be going to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
for more information:
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12356-nvidia-selling-gaming-pc-to-raise-money-for-cancer-research/

YouTube gets automatic subtitles

it uses speech recognition to do this.
you can see more deatails in: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3378

my test

I think that robbolito's weaknesses is bad time management, running on only single core and weakness in beginning. it's search algorithm is not bad. i haven't time to complete test.
My cpu is amd X2 and rybka runs in both cores.
I will follow that more.
good luck my friends.

Wolfram Alpha Enriches the Bing Experience

My beloved software in mathematics is mathematica.
and "Wolfram Alpha is the computational knowledge engine developed by British-born physicist and Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram."
"Microsoft’s Bing decision engine will use the Wolfram Alpha API to incorporate Wolfram Alpha’s trillions of pieces of data and tens of thousands of algorithms in its search results."

link: http://www.findmysoft.com/news/Wolfram-Alpha-Enriches-the-Bing-Experience/

NASA finds 'significant' water on moon

NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

robbolito vs rybka

This is an open source program that has 50+ elo more than Rybka 3, but i don't test that.
0.085da is the last version(now).
robbolito hasn't multi processor version now.
for more information: http://www.chesslogik.com/robbolito.htm