Quantum Leap: Fortune speculates on the future of computing in this imaginative piece based on recent developments in quantum computing. Their take: it's all closer than you may think, and they point to Freescale's commercial production of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) as first evidence. The quantum effect known as "Spintronics" in Freescale's MRAM will first be used in cameras for instant storage of images. Later it will be used for instant startup on laptops and other computers, and eventually will be used for extremely fast and complex calculation. [The Speculist]
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Adding a Dimension: Microsoft will be presenting some new research and software next week at Siggraph. They're calling it "Photosynth", and essentially it's a tool for stitching together a bunch of photos to generate a 3D environment for a virtual walk-through. [EE Times via The Speculist]
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