From mini to micro

Last month, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley announced the creation of the first compact monomolecular transistor ("made" from a single carbon-60 molecule, less than one nanometer in size, see photo). There have been attempts to make a monomolecular transistor before, but they were made in the form of a tube rather than a ball, and they were significantly larger in size. A transistor in general is a “switch” that controls the flow of electrons. A monomolecular spherical transistor is, accordingly, a precision device and can detect the passage of just one electron, and not a flux. Which opens up absolutely breathtaking prospects in data storage technologies. In about five years, perhaps, all that will be left of a conventional computer is the display - everything else can easily fit into a bead or, say, an artificial nail .


Printed virtual archive



The Internet is increasingly being called a global cesspool. The amount of information “uploaded” to the Internet is growing almost exponentially, and finding what you need has become almost impossible. And some things are still missing. That's why Adflip.Com, which has an excellent collection of print advertising from the last sixty years, seems so good . You can immediately see that Bill Gates, for example, has not changed at all over the past 15 years. After wandering around the site, after a while you begin to feel psychological fatigue - where are the usual sarcastic comments, emoticons, jokes and complete fun on the Internet? A city dweller, upon arrival from the village, inhales car exhaust with pleasure. And in a similar situation, I can prescribe for you a visit to the website www.adcritic.com , created by programmer Peter Beckmann solely for entertainment purposes.

Extra tickets



The word "parterre" (par terre) is a relatively recent origin from the French language and literally means "on the ground." However, no one has bought the domain parterre.ru yet. But recently a freshly baked Parter appeared on the Russian Internet. Ru - a new system for booking and selling tickets for all entertainment events in Moscow. Those interested can try to select a cultural event that interests them on the website, register and order the required number of tickets, indicating the most suitable part of the hall and a convenient delivery time.

The site will help you



The pace of web construction has recently slowed down somewhat due to the trend of a general decline in . stock prices of companies operating in the high technology industry and especially in the Web on NASDAQ However, extremely interesting projects still come to light from time to time. For example, a site with a wonderful name www.zappybaby.de . German Internet users offer very busy business modern women who want to have a child to provide some information about themselves and personal contact details on the site, and the site itself will calculate when the client is ovulating and at the right time notify her via SMS message to her cell phone (sic!). Akhtung, they say, it’s time to make love. An additional service is sending a similar message to the client’s partner. The compiler of Save As has never seen such a stunning level of meaninglessness on the Internet. However, the reaction of German women is still unknown. Good luck to you, Zappybaby.De builders!

Hey, move over!


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Not so long ago, a difficult journalistic fate brought your correspondent to the far abroad... It seems that this was the custom for venerable Soviet television observers to begin their reports “from abroad.” In my case, it was just a relatively long time ago, and I didn’t complain about fate at all. But the main thing was that we had to fly through Sheremetyevo, where a lively woman pushing an angular gray cleaning and washing machine in front of her almost took the life of the Save As compiler - he did not immediately react to the cry that came from behind him, “Hey, move over!” The cleaning lady’s movement was as steady as the trajectory of a killer iceberg. But the British got themselves a robot - an airport cleaner. It is capable of cleaning and washing 20 thousand square meters at a time and is stuffed with ultrasonic and laser scanners, gyroscopes and other smart devices to carefully navigate around passengers. To those who hesitate, the robot politely says: “Excuse me, please, I’m cleaning up here.” If the passenger does not move, the robot carefully cleans up around, simultaneously reminding the frozen citizen of various useful things - for example, that smoking is not allowed at the airport. True, he won’t rip a cigarette out of his mouth - after all, he’s not a person.

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