Archive for February, 2007

Disabling Your Credit Card’s RFID Chip?

For those of you concerned about the little RFID chip on your contactless credit card or smart card, think twice before taking a hammer to it. Some blogs are suggesting this a means to disable RFID chips in credit cards and passports. Doing so to the latter might get you fined for tampering. For the […]

The Quantum Computer Cometh

D-Wave, a private Canadian company with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, demonstrated what they claim to be the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer. Such computers would be a complement to digital computers, not a replacement. Quantum computers can supposedly solve what in mathematics are called NP-complete problems, which often crop up in the life […]