[H]ardNews 3rd Edition - Blair's Tech Ed.

3D Circuitry at IBM:

However, one problem with 3D circuit stacking that the IBM paper does not seek to address is how to get the heat out. While the IBM research is based on measurements of simple circuits the 3D stacking technique would clearly come into its own if circuits of contemporary complexity could be stacked two, three, or more layers deep. However, some single-layer 2D circuits are already providing thermal challenges and multi-layer stacking to form a glass block would exacerbate this.

Star Gazers:

Scientists in the United States, armed with a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, are building a National Virtual Observatory (NVO) that will make the world’s huge store of astronomical data available to anyone with a Web browser.

No More Needles:

'Cellular machines' such as this could be used as 'nanofactories' that transport reactants in, and products out, of a biological membrane. There may also be applications for converting solar energy into electrical current.

But Can It OC?

The strange properties of the quantum world should allow a quantum computer to outperform any existing computer. While classical computers process binary digits (bits) of information, quantum processors use quantum bits, or qubits, encoded in the quantum states of particles such as atoms, photons and electrons. Since such particles can be in several states at once, qubits would allow huge numbers of computations to be carried out simultaneously.

Smooth Criminals:

A device hidden in the door recorded the card's details while a fibre-optic camera trained on the keyboard spied the customer's code, and the data was passed back electronically via antenna concealed in a bicycle to a control car parked nearby.