February 2012

3D superconducting qubit device suspended in the center of the cavity on a small Sapphire chip (Image courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation. Unauthorized use not permitted)

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The team at IBM Research made very important progress in reducing the error in elementary computations and in maintaining the integrity of the quantum properties of qubits. A key element in the production of superconducting qubit was to use manufacturing techniques developed for the production with silicon currently in use.

Dino Zoff in Italy - England at the football European Championship 1980

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Dino Zoff was born on February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli, Italy. He’s one of the greatest football goalkeepers of all time. At 40 he was the captain of the Italian team that won 1982 football World Cup.

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber

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“The Mind Robber” is an adventure of the sixth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1968 featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. It follows “The Dominators” and it’s a five parts adventure written by Peter Ling and directed by David Maloney.

The Mars Rover Curiosity

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The Mars Rover Curiosity will reach Mars in six months but is already working. In fact, its job isn’t only to go to Mars to study it more thoroughly than the previous spacecrafts but also to give us an idea of ​​what dangers astronauts will face in the future if at last there will be a space mission to take humans to Mars or anyway in deep space.

Tales of the Dying Earth Omnibus by Jack Vance

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The novel “The Eyes of the Overworld”, also known as “Cugel the Clever”, by Jack Vance was published for the first time as a book in 1966 after the stories that compose it were previously published in a magazine. It’s the second novel of the cycle of the Dying Earth.