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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

ScienceDaily: Computers and Internet News

ScienceDaily: Computers and Internet News


Social marketing at the movies

Posted: 23 May 2014 11:53 AM PDT

Word-of-mouth marketing is recognized as a powerful route from long-tail sales to blockbuster, whether one is talking about the latest fishy ice cream flavor or a Hollywood romantic comedy. In the age of social media and online networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, the potential for spreading the word could mean the difference between consumers seeing a product as the best thing since sliced bread or the most rotten of tomatoes.

Don't blink! Why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency' and may be trouble for potential quantum Internet

Posted: 22 May 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Researchers have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't commonly thought to blink, do. So what? Well, although the blinks are very short -- nanoseconds to milliseconds -- even brief fluctuations like these could signal trouble for using quantum dots in a quantum computer or between nodes of a future quantum Internet.

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