Beam me up, Scotty!

8th of September, 1966: Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy started their journey through the history of television. Thus inventing a new kind of fandom worldwide. Since this day scientists are divided into two fractions: Those who think Science Fiction can be inspiring for science and culture and those who can't stop pointing out all the flaws. With pleasure.
Well. The truth is: We all got cellular phones like Kirk, there is a patent for a cloaking device, the Navy really made transparent aluminium and there is something like a real food replicator. 
But what about teleportation? Well, Russia plans to invest $2.1 trillion to develop teleportation by 2035. No joke. (Though a grain of salt may not be enough...)

Alice, Bob and Eve meet qutools

From the 12th to the 16th cryptographs will secretly meet in Washington DC. At QCrypt. "The annual conference on quantum cryptography (QCrypt) is a conference for students and researchers working on all aspects of quantum cryptography. The main goals of the conference are to represent the previous year’s best results and to support the building of a research community in quantum cryptography." You can meet us there!