Ajit K

[”But of course, a mere machine can’t really think, can it?”], he said: “You insist
that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine
cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!”  - J. von Neumann in a talk on computers given in Princeton in 1948.

An interesting note from the author of “Probability Theory - The Logic of Science”.

The team of German scientist, lead by Gunnar Dolling at the University of Karlsruhe, has won the coveted race for creating materials with negative refractive index. The effect has been observed in a nanostructure (made from alternating layers of silver and magnesium fluoride on glass) at 780nm (far red end of the visible spectrum).

Read more about this at New Scientist.