You’ve probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life. They are just as indispensable to biotechnology and medicine, for instance in our response to diseases such asCOVID-19. However, the best light microscopes have hit a fundamental barrier – the bright laser light used to illuminate tiny objects can also destroy them. In researchpublished in Nature today, our team of Australian and German researchers has shown that quantum technologies offer a solution....

American Express has been running a fun promotion with iTunes to get you to switch over your credit card account to your AMEX. Today is the last day that cardmembers can get any 5 songs on iTunes for free. If you’re a music lover with an AMEX, it’s really easy to setup and download a couple tracks for free. I know ripping music is easy off the Internet, but I always feel more respectable buying tracks legitimately on iTunes....

The legal fight between Apple and Samsung over claims the Korean smartphone vendor had copied smartphone and tablet designs entered new territory on Thursday after it was revealed that Apple founder and ex-CEO Steve Jobs personally tried to intervene in proceedings and head-off courtroom meetings last year, before it filed legal complaints across the world. According to aMarketWatch release, Apple and Samsung were back in a Sydney courtroom to give evidence over an injunction that could see theban of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10....

Last.fmis being redesigned in an attempt to transform its website into a mainstream music service. Matthew Hawn, Vice President of Product at Last.fm,revealedto The Telegraph that he has brought on board eight new people to redesign the website and make ” the bits of the service which really matter come to the surface.” Hawn said that he’s trying to keep pace in the digital space, and feels that Last.fm has been usurped in people’s minds by more recent digital startups....

If you’re aLast.fmuser who has been tearing your hair our over the past day, unable to access the website or other parts of the service, we have good news. The 24-hourdowntime issueswe reported on earlier are well on their way to being fixed. In ablog posttoday, the company goes to great pains to detail exactly what caused the outage and explains that everything should now be returning to normal, although it may take some time....