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Terrence and Lesley Bridges have become the first people in the UK to trial a scheme which sees their gas boiler swapped for tiny computers.

They went from paying £375 a month in heating and electricity bills for his two-bedroom bungalow to just £40

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The Oscar winner, 51, and the Spider Man star, headed to London members club Annabel's on Tuesday night.

Researchers in Germany achieved a major milestone for the future quantum internet by successfully teleporting quantum information between photons generated by two different, physically separated quantum dots -- something never accomplished before due to the difficulty of producing indistinguishable photons from remote sources. Phys.org reports: At the University of Stuttgart, the team succeeded in teleporting the polarization state of a photon originating from one quantum dot to another photon from a second quantum dot. One quantum dot generates a single photon, the other an entangled photon pair. Entangled means that the two particles constitute a single quantum entity, even when they are physically separated. One of the two particles travels to the second quantum dot and interferes with its light particle. The two overlap. Because of this superposition, the information of the single photon is transferred to the distant partner of the pair. Instrumental for the success of the experiment were quantum frequency converters, which compensate for residual frequency differences between the photons. These converters were developed by a team led by Prof. Christoph Becher, an expert in quantum optics at Saarland University. [...] In the Stuttgart experiment, the quantum dots were separated only by an optical fiber of about 10 m length. "But we are working on achieving considerably greater distances," says Strobel. In earlier work, the team had shown that the entanglement of the quantum dot photons remains intact even after a 36-kilometer transmission through the city center of Stuttgart. Another aim is to increase the current success rate of teleportation, which currently stands at just over 70%. Fluctuations in the quantum dot still lead to slight differences in the photons. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

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New Government proposals could see hundreds of new homes built around stations in Chelmsford, Brentwood, Shenfield, Hatfield Peverel, Witham, Kelvedon, Marks Tey, Colchester, and Manningtree

The Fast and the Furious actor for the last two years had denied an ex-assistant claim that he 'forced himself on her' in Atlanta's St. Regis hotel during production of Fast 5 in 2010.

Someone wanted to make sure that invalid routes logged an error in their Go web application. Artem found this when looking at production code.

if (requestUriPath != "/config:system") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config/address") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config/key-id") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config/minpoll") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config/maxpoll") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/config/version") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state/address") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state/key-id") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state/minpoll") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state/maxpoll") && (requestUriPath != "/config:system/ntp/servers/server/state/version") { log.Info("ProcessGetNtpServer: no return of ntp server state for ", requestUriPath) return nil }

The most disturbing part of this, for Artem, isn't that someone wrote this code and pushed it to production. It's that, according to git blame, two people wrote this code, because the first developer didn't include all the cases.

For the record, the application does have an actual router module, which can trigger logging on invalid routes.

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Staff at three schools across Essex who work with children with special needs or disabilities are threatening to walk out over a pay row

PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet

Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.…

Leading nominees for the award show - all nominated for six honors apiece - included Ella Langley, Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson - who was also hosting the proceedings.

Plans for a new five-arm roundabout will not 'have significant environmental effects' a report has found

By October 2021, Colchester Fringe properly launched, and it hasn't looked back. It's the only one in Essex, growing exponentially each year.

Road safety experts joined the Safer Essex Roads Partnership for a memorial to launch Road Safety Week.

Carers in Essex are being reminded of their rights as part of an annual awareness day, with 124,000 unpaid across the county.

By October 2021, Colchester Fringe properly launched, and it hasn't looked back. It's the only one in Essex, growing exponentially each year.

Road safety experts joined the Safer Essex Roads Partnership for a memorial to launch Road Safety Week.

A new scheme is rolling out and 41 schools across Essex are eligible to apply

Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…

The First Lady was speaking to military personnel and their families at Marine Corps Air Station New River in North Carolina on Wednesday.