New Theory Could Explain the Information Paradox
	In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that singularities, and therefore black holes, can exist in our space-time continuum. He also revealed that although black holes radiate mass and energy in the surrounding medium through the event horizon, information falling into a black hole would be lost forever, meaning that matter falling into a black hole and emerging later through the event horizon cannot be identified as being one and the same. ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2008, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Extensive Highlander Q&A with Producer Gilles Barril
	If there is one thing people want more than everything else, it is immortality. As we very well know, it is impossible to achieve such great things, but the virtual worlds crafted by great designers and lead developers allow us to get as close as possible to the real thing. This was just one of the reasons &l ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Entanglement Encodes More Information in Single-Photons
	You can't transfer much information with a photon, we've learned that from our experience with today's existing optic communication devices. If a single photon of light is manipulated in a classical way, then photons are not too different from electrons in the matter of information transfer, except maybe for the fact that photons of light travel slightly faster than electrons. Basically, a photon can carry only one bit of in ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Hard Drive Under the Looking Glass
	While most of the components of a typical computer system are not affected in any measurable way by their age, providing that they had spent their life in good conditions, there are still some systems that are based on mechanical components that are prone to a host of problems and critical failures. Among the still mechanical systems that are to be found inside a modern-day computer, maybe the most important and, unfortunately, the most pr ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 07:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Faster than Light?
	Quantum tunneling represents a quantum mechanics phenomenon, which allows a given particle to violate certain classical mechanics principles. For example, in order to extract an electron from the atom, one must contribute with an input of energy equal to or higher than that of the respective electron. However, quantum tunneling allows in some conditions for some particles to penetrate the potential barrier of the atom, even though classica ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Palm Treo 800w, Close to Reality
	Since there’s a lot of information flying around about new projects regarding various handsets, it's Palm's turn to spread a rumor. Well, if we follow the trail, we'll actually see that the officials from Palm were not those to release the new gossip, but some people who have ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Profiles Out to File You
	The path Google is walking on is a tricky one, the Internet users are still fresh after the Facebook problem that they’ve seen escalate and, eventually, come to a very abrupt ending with the CEO of the social network apologizing. Perhaps this might not be the best moment to push forward the "Google Profiles" idea, because of the hype about privacy that is still going on. It has already been introduced as a concept wi ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mysterious Smartphone Leaks Specs on Sony Ericsson's Site
	Some unusual things are going on over at Sony Ericsson with a Polish website publishing information regarding a smartphone, although there is no picture available. Nobody has ever heard of this R380e and it sounds pretty unusual and unlikely to actually be real. The specifications appeared on the ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is Torture Ineffective?
	People’s taste for using brute force and showing off power has not changed from the Medieval times, and torture has remained more or less similar over time, and even less effective. And despite the fact that the champion of democracy states it does not use torture on political prisoners, leaked photos tell another story. Behind the pervert aspect of the issue, is torture an efficient tool? Most experts say it is not reliable when it comes ... [read more >>]
	20 October 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Know If Audio and Video Tapes Are Fake
	Magnetic audio and video tapes and their use as evidence in court have been highly contested because field specialists could tamper with the original to include or exclude critical information that could decide the outcome of the trial. A new technology developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is able to actually see if and at what point this kind of evidence has been tampered with, with greatly ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola Launches Road Trip Website
	Motorola has recently launched an interactive Web site for people who are on the road and need to benefit from information for their journey at all times. The site is especially designed for being used on mobile phones and be accessible no matter where the user might be at ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 09:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Make Photons Talk to One Another and Possibly Transmit Information
	The building block of quantum computers is the qubit, a unit of quantum information that can be made up of either atoms or photons. Atoms have a long coherence time, so they're used as "stationary" qubits, the nodes of the network, while photons are the "flying" cubits, the quantum channels connecting the nodes. Matter could be used as a medium to make photons talk to one another, but there's a big problem ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Ghosts Can't Go Through Walls...and More – Scientific Arguments
	Hollywood movies are full of monsters, bad guys, aliens and mythological creatures, which make the good guys look better after saving the world, or at least some damsel in distress. While some depictions are scientifically documented, some of them are just plain impossible and could only exist in people's imagination. Science laws debunk many of these myths and prove that they simply can't exist in the physical world, as we k ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2007, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Future Computers Functioning by DNA?
	Would one day our computers be swarming with bacteria? This could happen as some researchers focused on DNA – believed to be the oldest storage medium found in nature – as the ultimate in permanent data storage. Now researchers have reported progress in employing DNA to store text, images, music and other digital data inside the genomes of living organisms. Artificial DNA with encoded information could be added to the genom ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Subpoena Sent to Google's YouTube
	The copyright lawsuits filed against YouTube are well known so I guess a new lawsuit is not able to amaze somebody that likes to stay informed about the video service. This time, it is somehow different. Magnolia Pictures, a film studio that produced Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, demanded a US Court to order Google to provide information about the user that uploaded videos concerning its copyrighted movies. The Dallas federal court ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia