No, seriously they are!
The clever-bunnies at Xerox’s famous Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) are working on a technology that allows paper to be reused, because the “ink” will disappear after 24 hours.
Via: PCPro

Microsoft and Intel are to back two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centres” at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California at Berkeley.
“Parallel computing brings together advanced software and processors that have multiple cores or engines, which when combined can handle multiple instructions and tasks simultaneously.”
The two companies will provide $20 million (approx. £10 [...]