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Artist’s impression of the quantum photonic chip, showing the waveguide circuit (in white), and the voltage-controlled phase shifters (metal contacts on the surface). Photon pairs become entangled as they pass through the circuit. The fundamental resource that drives a quantum computer is entanglement—the connection between two distant particles which Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance'. The Bristol researchers have, for the first time, shown that this remarkable phenomenon can be generated, manipulated and measured entirely on a tiny silica chip. They have also used the same chip to measure mixture—an often unwanted effect from the environment, but...

<p>DALLAS – Arch West, a retired Frito-Lay marketing executive credited with creating Doritos as the first national tortilla chip brand, has died in Dallas at age 97.</p>

<p>The computer giant and 3M this week are announcing a collaboration to advance the practice of stacking multiple chips on top of each other, packing much greater computing and data-storage capability together into a small space. Electronics companies now routinely stack a few chips together–particularly memory chips, for use in small devices like cellphones–but IBM is talking about bonding 100 or more chips together, including high-performance microprocessors.</p>

Just when you thought you'd seen it all on reality TV shows, along comes: * California DMV: Field Offices No I'm not making this up. Can you imagine what the show will be like? Long lines, short tempers - bad attitudes? Apparently it will be formatted along the lines of Ice Road Truckers .. Deadliest Catch etc. So who's behind this one? Published reports say Entertainment Weekly has and TruTV are working on four episodes of: * California DMV: Field Offices

Las Vegas casino bosses are serving notice to the bandit who made off with $1.5m in chips from the Bellagio: Try to redeem those worth $25,000 soon or they'll become worthless. Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International is giving public notice that it's discontinuing its standard chip valued at $25,000 and calling for all gamblers holding the chips to redeem them by April 22. After that, gambling regulators say each red chip with a grey inlay won't be worth more than the plastic it's cast from. 'The bottom line is that they're not money,' said David Salas, deputy enforcement chief for...

One of the actors in the 1970s hit television show "CHiPS" is accused of being part of a stock fraud scheme, authorities said Thursday. Larry Wilcox, who played motorcycle officer Jon Baker, was one of 12 people charged in the scheme, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission just charged Wilcox and more than a dozen others with allegedly manipulating the volume and price of penny stocks to illegally generate stock sales. Translation: Wilcox and the others allegedly set up a phony company to generate bogus stock sales. This is not a criminal charge. The SEC is asking for an injunction against Wilcox and some of the others, as well as financial penalties.

Ladies and gentleman, somehow, over the loud, crinkling noise, FritoLay hears you. And changes are coming. About 18 months after the company unveiled its new 100 percent compostable packaging for SunChips, the company has said it will transition back to the original packing for five of its six flavors. The original, plain flavored chips will still be sold in the eco-friendly wrappers.

A move by insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies is drawing criticism ahead of Thursday, when the federal health overhaul will require insurers to cover sick children. Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., WellPoint Inc., Humana Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Golden Rule subsidiary say they will no longer sell new child-only policies. The new law requires them to accept applications from sick children on insurance policies that they sell, but doesn't require them to sell a policy individually to children in the first place. Insurers said children with pre-existing conditions will be able to apply for coverage on their parents'...

It seems collecting empty crisp packets is quite a popular hobby. Last week Metro reported on Dave Valentine’s impressive 500-pack archive – but this obviously opened a can (well, a packet) of worms. Hannah Conduct has come forward to reveal a whopping 9,000 empty bags in her collection, which she has gathered over the past 30 years. The marketing manager, who insists she is ‘not a big crisp eater’, said her pastime began during one of her regular family holidays on a canal boat. ‘We were sitting at a pub on the canals one day and I was eating pork...

Has anyone out there bought a bag of Sun Chips lately? The new Frito Lay eco-friendly green bag is really LOOUUUDDDD!!!! I swear it's capable of waking the dead if you so much as breath in its general direction, much less actually touch it or reach inside to get a chip. Anyone who's touched one will know what I'm talking about, since it's very noticeable and unforgettable. I guess the new green strategy is to replace landfill pollution with noise pollution instead?

NASA Potato Chips — Holy what the f***? This was the most out there skit of SNL I think I’ve seen in years, and that includes the digital shorts. This was so absurd that it must be based on something that I haven’t seen before…? I’ve gotta say, though, I thought it was pretty freakin’ funny in just how weird it was, even if I almost threw up in my own mouth a little at the thought of what happened.

A woman pleaded no contest last week to prostitution charges, accused of agreeing to be paid for services with a box of chips by a man who said he was a Frito-Lay employee. Lahoma Sue Smith, 36, was ordered to pay a fine of $1,142 in municipal court from charges from a February arrest.

Recently I found myself arguing with a British friend of mine over which tastes better: English cooking or dirt. According to a Feb. 10 report by news agency Reuters, the issue has been settled once and for all. It’s dirt. That’s not what the article actually says — what it says is that according to Dr. Graham Clayton, a researcher at Leeds University, British potato chips combine the aromas of “butterscotch, onion, cheese and ... ironing boards.” If you’ve ever had these chips, you’re probably thinking: “Wait, ironing boards? I don’t remember tasting any ironing boards; what did they do,...

A shopper saw a man squirt a foul-smelling brown liquid over frozen chips in a Tesco store in Gloucestershire, Bristol Crown Court has been told. Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, of Bibury Road, Gloucester, denies squirting a mixture of urine and faeces at four businesses last May. Alison Harris told the court she was suspicious of the way the man was holding a laptop bag in the food aisle. "I was taken aback... there was a strong smell of urine," she said. "I became aware of him about three to six feet away from me in the chip aisle and thought he...

A Portland, Ore.-based packaged goods company is combining two complementary tastes in one snack -- beer and potato chips. Called Beer Chips, the all-natural snack is made with thick-cut kettle-style potato chips coated with beer, sugar, honey and salt, the manufacturer, Beer Chips LLC, stated. Two other flavors are available -- Chip Shots, potato chips flavored with margarita and salt; and Hot Potatoes, potato chips flavored with spicy Bloody Mary. All three varieties are trans-fat free with no cholesterol, and are available in 2-, 5-, 9- and 20-ounce bags. Beer Chips LLC, Portland, Ore. (503) 471-9999; www.beerchips.com

In California last week, Chinese researchers unveiled details of a microprocessor that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010. The chip, code-named Godson-3, was developed with government funding by more than 200 researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology (ICT). China is making a late entry into chip making, admits Zhiwei Xu, deputy director of ICT. "Twenty years ago in China, we didn't support R&D for microprocessors," he said during a presentation last week at the Hot Chips conference, in Palo Alto. "The decision makers and [Chinese] IT community...

Nox Defense creates chips (and even RFID Dust) for tracking property and people An employee looking to steal confidential information from his employer sneaks into what should be a secure back room after hours. He pulls charts and files from a top-level financial meeting and slides them into his briefcase before heading back out. What the insider doesn't know is that his shoes picked up hundreds of tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that had been scattered across the floor. As he passes by an RFID reader near the front door of his office building, security will be alerted that...

The humble radio tag is growing up. So say researchers and developers who are finding ways to make the tiny devices much more than just a hi-tech price tag that can help shops and supermarkets track cans of beans from warehouse to store shelf. "It all started with simple radio tags and asset tracking," said Gerd Kortuem, "but that really only gives you an identifier for an object." Now, said Dr Kortuem, tiny Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags are getting smarter and more communicative as bigger memory, basic processing power and wireless technologies are added to them. "We are trying...

REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the “software spiral” — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. Newer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software that breaks up computing chores into chunks that can be processed at the same time. The challenges have not dented the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft, where executives...

This website has been created in memory of an unforgettable French Bulldog named Léon. While it was never our intention to create a website, life has a way of presenting obstacles and allowing us to determine the way in which we will respond. We can ignore the obstacles and hope that they magically disappear. Or, we can face them and play our part, however great or small, in their resolution. In April 2004, Léon was diagnosed with a fibrosarcoma (cancer) at the site of his microchip implant. This location (dorsal neck/interscapular area) is also commonly used to vaccinate dogs, cats...

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 — At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity. Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens. Data on the chip will include not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background,...

CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms. ADVERTISEMENT The "chipping" of two workers with RFIDs — radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick — was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key cards and clearance codes, the company said. "To protect high-end secure data, you use more sophisticated techniques," Sean Darks, chief...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cheap glue that gets stronger at high temperatures might be useful around the house, but make it 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and you have nanoglue, a sticky substance that could help make extremely tiny computer chips, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, nanoglue is made from ultrathin materials that are already commercially available. "It is really mind-boggling to think about a single layer of molecules improving the adhesion of something," said materials science researcher Ganapathiraman Ramanath, whose work appears in the journal Nature....

NEW YORK (AP) - Computer chips, it seems, work better if they're more like Swiss cheese than American cheese. Chips with minuscule holes in them can run faster or use less energy, IBM Corp. said in announcing Thursday a novel way to create them - potentially one of the most significant advances in chip manufacturing in years. To create these tiny holes, the computer company has harnessed a plastic-like material that spontaneously forms into a sieve-like structure. The holes have a width of 20 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, placing the method in the much-vaunted field of nanotechnology. "To...

It's about time this show comes out on DVD... It has been over 20 years since viewers were captured by the adventures of two state motorcycle patrolmen, but now Jon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncharello have returned to entertain us once again with Warner Home Video's (WHV) release of CHiPs: The Complete First Season on June 5, 2007 for $39.98 SRP. The exciting action series which aired for six seasons on NBC starred Erik Estrada ("Ponch"), Larry Wilcox ("Jon Baker") and Robert Pine ("Sgt. Joseph Getraer") and had its fair share of multiple car pile-ups, high speed chases, hijacker plots...

Chips push through nano-barrier New materials have had to be developed to shrink the transistors The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled. Chip-maker Intel has announced that it will start manufacturing processors using transistors just 45 nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide. Shrinking the basic building blocks of microchips will make them faster and more efficient. Computer giant IBM has also signalled its intention to start production of chips using the tiny components. "Big Blue", which developed the transistor technology with partners Toshiba, Sony and AMD, intends to incorporate them into its...

LOS ANGELES -- Most Golden State drivers go out of their way to avoid the California Highway Patrol, but Erik Estrada can't seem to stay away. Estrada, who experiences the reality of law enforcement in his new unscripted CBS series "Armed & Famous," told reporters on Thursday that he's looking forward to the upcoming feature film version of his seminal series "CHiPs." "I tell you what -- I think that Wilmer Valderrama's gonna do a fine job," Estrada says. "I think he'll do a fine job as Ponch. And the script, I've read the script and I'm not in the...

Taiwanese chipmakers will gain government approval before the end of the year to use the same level of technology as their international competitors in their factories in China, it emerged Friday. The Taipei government’s long-awaited move to relax restrictions on the operations that its semiconductor companies run on the Chinese mainland is intended to prevent companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, from losing global market share. ADVERTISEMENT In 2002, Taiwan ended a total ban on semiconductor investments in China and said it would allow a limited number of chipmakers to move some more mature manufacturing...

Fish and chips sushi: Britain's answer to the California roll It may sound like a culinary contradiction, but "fish and chips sushi" has just become a gastronomic reality. Composed of white fish tempura in the centre of a maki roll, the sushi is topped with a sprig of green onion and served with a tartar-style sauce. Inspired by the classic British dish of battered cod and fries, "fish and chips sushi" was created by Noriake Yasutate, chef at Perry''s restaurant in Washington D.C. It was just one of a feast of original sushi concoctions specially created for London''s Sushi Awards...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2006 -- Next time the munchies hit, Americans in some parts of the United States only need to look for the red, white and blue bag asking shoppers to “Support Our Troops.” Lowes Foods stores in North and South Carolina and Virginia have recently started carrying Support Our Troops tortilla chips. The chips are packaged in red, white and blue bags and percentage of the proceeds from the sales benefits local Operation Homefront chapters. The chips run $1.99 to $2.59 a bag. Courtesy photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The bags of Support Our Troops...

<p>A coalition of chipmakers have produced successful prototypes of next-generation chips, marking a milestone for an emerging business model as well as for technology.</p> <p>The four companies -- IBM (IBM - commentary - Cramer's Take), Chartered Semiconductor (CHRT - commentary - Cramer's Take), Samsung and Infineon (IFX - commentary - Cramer's Take) -- said Tuesday that they have established a process for manufacturing chips with 45-nanometer circuitry, two generations ahead of the current standard.</p>

Implanted Chips in Our Troops? A Florida company wants to get under the skin of 1.4 million U.S. servicemen and women. VeriChip Corp, based in Delray Beach, Fla., and described by the D.C. Examiner as "one of the most aggressive marketers of radio frequency identification chips," is hoping to convince the Pentagon to allow them to insert the chips, known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips under the skin of the right arms of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen to enable them to scan an arm and obtain that person’s identity and medical history. The chips would replace the legendary metal...

FROM IBM PATENT: A method and system for identifying and tracking persons using RFID-tagged items carried on the persons. Previous purchase records for each person who shops at a retail store are collected by POS terminals and stored in a transaction database. When a person carrying or wearing items having RFID tags enters the store or other designated area, a RFID tag scanner located therein scans the RFID tags on that person and reads the RFID tag information. The RFID tag information collected from the person is correlated with transaction records stored in the transaction database according to known correlation...

IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed. A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was “no doubt” that a huge shipment of smuggled uranium 238, uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania, was transported from the Lubumbashi mines in the Congo. Tanzanian customs officials told The Sunday Times it was destined for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, and was stopped on October 22 last year during a routine check. The disclosure will heighten western fears about the extent of Iran’s presumed...

NEWPORT CITY -- Farmers vowed Tuesday afternoon to defy any effort by the state to make them register their farms as part of the preparations for bird flu or other diseases that could jump from animal to human. Calling the Vermont Agency of Agriculture's livestock premises registration rule a fascist or Nazi plan, the three dozen livestock owners at a hearing at the state office building in Newport City said they would destroy their animals, or pay fines rather than put their names and addresses on a state registry. "I'm not going to comply," said Jack Lazur of Butterworth...

New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials. Historically, the semiconductor industry has relied on flat, two-dimensional chips upon which to grow and etch the thin films of material that become electronic circuits for computers and other electronic devices. But as thin as those chips might seem, they are quite beefy in comparison to the result of a new UW-Madison semiconductor fabrication process detailed in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Physics. A team led by electrical and computer engineer Zhenqiang (Jack)...

VeriChip Corporation announced that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health insurer in the state, has agreed to a two-year pilot program of VeriChip's VeriMed Patient Identification System in conjunction with Hackensack University Medical Center and its physicians. In this new test program, participating patients suffering from chronic diseases would be provided with the VeriChip implantable microchip, to provide emergency room staff easy access to those patients' medical information, as well as to help avoid costly or serious medical errors. Under this trial, participating Horizon BCBSNJ members with chronic illnesses will receive VeriChip's FDA-approved, human-implantable Radio...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today's conventional chips -- and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass. The finding, which represents the first time a so-called "wet" semiconductor device has bested traditional, more costly grown-crystal semiconductor devices, is reported in the July 13 issue of the journal Nature."Traditional ways of making computer chips, fibre-optic lasers, digital camera image sensors – the building blocks of the information age – are costly in time, money, and energy," says Professor Ted Sargent of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department...

Andy Kessler has worked in Silicon Valley for a long time. He's seen the way that improving technology can lower costs and increase capabilities in all sorts of areas, and now he says that it's time for silicon to do for medicine what it's done for so many other fields.

New York's attorney general sued leading makers of memory chips Thursday, claiming they made secret price-fixing arrangements that inflated the cost of personal computers and other electronic devices. More than 30 other states were expected to file a separate but similar lawsuit against chip makers Friday in San Francisco federal court, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. The lawsuits follow a long-running U.S. Justice Department investigation that has resulted in more than $730 million in fines and guilty pleas from four companies — Samsung Electronics Co., Elpida Memory Inc., Infineon Technologies AG and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology...

Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's By Nick Britten (Filed: 25/05/2006) Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boadicea - on the site of a McDonald's restaurant. Having spent her life in fierce resistance to one empire - the Romans - her last stand is thought to have been overshadowed by another one, this time corporate. Having found ancient artefacts where new houses and flats are due to be built, experts have now asked the local authority to allow a full excavation of the area. Little is known about...

The roots of radio-frequency identification technology stretch at least as far back as World War II, when transponders helped distinguish between Axis and Allied aircraft. Over the years the concept has been greatly miniaturized, landing RFID technology in such settings as animal tags, toll-collection devices, passports, keyless entry systems for cars and wireless credit cards. But perhaps none of these projects will have as much impact for consumers as the adoption of RFID in the supply chains of huge retail stores. Mega-retailers led by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) have gotten their biggest suppliers to add RFID chips to pallets and...

Posted on Mon, Apr. 24, Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants RYAN J. FOLEY MADISON, Wis. - Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was one of the first high-profile supporters of tiny microchips implanted in people's arms that would allow doctors to access medical information. Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say. A proposal moving through the state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would...

The LA Daily News caught up with That '70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama and asked him about Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming adaptation of the TV series CHiPs. Valderrama will play Ponch, the character played by Erik Estrada in the series, and says the movie won't make fun of the show. "What we're doing is, we're having fun with it, but we're not making fun of 'CHiPs.' A lot of the remakes that have happened in the last couple of years have failed because they make fun of their franchise. You can't be making fun of something that at some point...

IBM will unveil a technology on Monday that aims to bring a new level of security to devices such as PDAs and mobile phones that were previously considered vulnerable to attacks."SecureBlue", as the technology is called, will enable encryption of data to protect it on the core processors, or central chips, that power such devices. IBM's initiative might put pressure on processor makers Intel and AMD to step up security on their chips.

MALTA -- George Crum's name doesn't mean much to most people, even though his invention probably is eaten in the millions daily. Crum is credited with discovering the potato chip, slicing potatoes so thin they couldn't be picked up with a fork, then frying them.Crum supposedly created the chips spitefully in 1853, after a patron at Moon's Lake House didn't like his thick french fries. Now chips are eaten worldwide.That's what brought a crew from the German television show "Talents and Patents" to Malta and Saratoga Springs on Tuesday."It's the story of very basic things: glue, ballpoints. Nobody knows they...

For the chip industry these days, the consumer is king. Though chipmakers still rely heavily on the traditional computer field, consumer gadgets — MP3 players, video game machines and the like — have become their fastest-growing source of sales. Apple Computer's (AAPL) iPod music player alone sold over 14 million units in the fourth quarter, up 207% from the year-ago period. And there's huge pent-up demand for gaming machines. Microsoft (MSFT) has struggled to keep its Xbox game console in stock. And gamers are eagerly awaiting Sony's (SNE) PlayStation 3 machine, which recently had its release date set for November...

Couple's implant chips take love to a new level Updated Thu. Feb. 16 2006 1:59 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Grand gestures of love take many forms on Valentine's Day -- flowers, chocolate, romantic dinners -- but a tech-savvy couple has taken it to a new level. Jennifer Tomblin and Amal Graafstra have made the most modern declaration of their affection for each other, with implanted electronic chips that allow them unfettered access to each other's lives. It's called Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID. Both have had a small electronic chip embedded under their skin that grants access to each...