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Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 07:53:07 PDT
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A Business Out of Thin Air
August 4, 2003
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HoloTouch has developed technology
that allows users to operate
equipment simply by passing a finger
through a holographic image. The
system uses lasers and infrared
sensors to create images that can be
manipulated in the air....
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Supercomputing's New Idea Is Old
One
August 4, 2003
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Scientists in government, industry
and academia involved in the race to
build the world's fastest computing
machines are now turning their
attention once again to Seymour
Cray's elegant approach to building
ultra-fast computers. The designs
use special hardware that to handle
the long strings of...
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VR accommodates reality
July 30/August 6, 2003
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Researchers have advanced the
representatiom of real objects in
virtual environments by allowing
real and virtual objects to coexist
in a shared virtual space. The
system uses four cameras and object
recognition software to determine
the shapes and positions of real
objects in the environment....
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New Neurons on Demand?
August 1, 2003
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A ubiquitous signaling molecule,
nitric oxide (NO), turns off the
production of new neurons in the
adult brain, researchers have
discovered. By shutting down this
off switch, doctors may one day be
able to generate new neurons in the
brains of patients suffering from
neurological diseases or...
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Circuit design evolving in
distributed digital world
July 31, 2003
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A digital simulation of natural
selection, using distributed
computing in home PCs, is evolving
superior electronic circuit designs....
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U.S. says Windows vulnerable to
attack
August 1, 2003
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The Department of Homeland Security
has issued an updated advisory about
possible hacker attacks on computers
running Microsoft operating systems....
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The Case for Terrorism Futures
July 30, 2003
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The cancellation on the Pentagon's
Policy Analysis Market (PAM) -- a
controversial plan to create a
futures market to help predict
terrorist strikes -- will rob the
country's intelligence agencies of a
tool with a strong history of
accurately predicting future events,
according to proponents of...
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PluggedIn: Cutting-Edge Science
Creates Stain-Free Pants
July 27, 2003
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Nanotechnology - the science of
manipulating materials billionths of
a meter wide - has emerged as a
promising new field that could lead
to stunning advances like
molecule-sized computers, tiny
cancer-fighting robots that travel
the bloodstream and stain-resistant
trousers in years to...
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Most Notebooks Go Wireless by 2008
July 16, 2003
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By 2008, mobile workers will be
largely unhooked when they're on the
road, according to a new study. Only
24 percent of notebooks PCs sold
worldwide this year have embedded
wireless connectivity, but that
number is expected to jump to 90
percent by...
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General Relativity Sinks Submarine
July 30, 2003
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A Brazilian physicist has resolved
a paradox highlighted by Einstein's
theory of relativity, which explains
how movement at close to light speed
can distort space. Apparently,
underwater there is some
inconsistency in that theory, as the
Brazilian physicist has discovered
with the help of a...
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Unlocking the Brain's Secrets
July 27, 2003
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An international team of six
scientists has been involved in
scanning thousands of images of the
brains of people of all ages with a
range of conditions, in the hopes of
creating a "map" that would reveal
the mysteries of how the brain
controls everything from language to...
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