| Blog - Best of 2010: Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists and The Year in Computing |
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In March, we saw a new role that quantum information plays in gravity, setting the scene for a dramatic unification of ideas in physics.One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises from the complex interaction of simpler things.Best of 2010: Why Our Universe Must Have Been Born Inside a Black HoleBest of 2010: Time Likely To End Within Earth's Lifespan, Say PhysicistsSee:Quantum Gravity Test device, by comparison of mass damping characteristics, focussed on ONE axis of measurement. http://bigbang-entanglement.blogspot.com/2010/09/massless-higgs-and-massless-black-holes.htmlThe Physics arXiv Blog produces daily coverage of the best new ideas from an online forum called the Physics arXiv on which scientists post early versions of their latest ideas. [Read the full article] Planning in the cloud: Companies are turning to cloud-based forecasting software so that teams can collaborate better in creating and choosing from a range of what-if scenarios. Credit: Adaptive PlanningCloud-based services now provide a way for companies to plan ahead without relying on cumbersome spreadsheets. But what's a boon for smaller companies is disrupting the market for higher-end solutions.It may not look like a crystal ball, but Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet software, Excel, is often used as one by businesses trying to peer into their financial future.The problem is that many companies have so many different budgets and divisions that many different spreadsheets need to be linked together. Errors crop up if formulas are off or different departments have different budgeting styles. That makes it difficult to "drill down" from one spreadsheet to the next, or to come up with a financial forecast for the whole enterprise. [Read the full article] He Knows About You: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, is gaining increasing control over users' personal information and the advertising dollars that come with it. Credit: World Economic ForumSecrets are flying online, both state and personal, and Internet companies are still looking for ways to make money on applications—or with users' private data.The year started off with revelations from Google that China was attacking the Web giant's corporate infrastructure (Google Reveals Chinese Espionage Efforts). The company said, among other things, that the attackers went after Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese human-rights activists, and that 20 other large companies had also been targeted.That was the first of many examples of how the Internet is changing the way secrets are being kept and revealed. [Read the full article] 
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