Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. Oedipus (US /Ëidáµ»pÉs/ or /ËÉdáµ»pÉs/ or UK /ËiËdáµ»pÉs/; Ancient Greek: Î¿á¼°Î´Î¯ÏÎ¿ÏÏ OidÃ­pous meaning swollen foot) was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
The quantum computing technology developed by D-Wave gets ongoing scientific debate, but it's also getting money, $28 million last week, bringing its total funding to about $150 million. This Canadian company was started 15 years ago and is one of the most tenacious and longest-running tech start-ups around.
Confidence votes 26.0K. Magician Paul Harris is an inventor, magician, and writer. Described by the magic magazine Genii (December 1996) as the most innovative magic mind of our day and is listed in Magic magazine (August 1999) as one of the 100 [magicians] who shaped the art [of magic] in America.