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Google's Japan division released this stop motion film explaining (in a rather fanciful way) how Street View works. It features a cute little robot puttering around town, taking film photographs and painting over license plate numbers with a marker. The video is part of an effort to make the practice less appear less invasive of individuals' privacy.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1398
Also, the title should more go like this:
"First Ever Complete Implementation of Shor's Algorithm"
or something in that direction. In fact I'm not even sure that is true but the paper is neat, check it out.
"2001 - First execution of Shor's algorithm at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Stanford University. The number 15 was factored using 1018 identical molecules, each containing seven active nuclear spins."
From this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing
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