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- 'I Said Spleen, Not Heart!' Call It Oral Surgery - A new report says surgeons will one day steer scalpels with digital voice recognition. [Wired News]
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- 'Push'-able and Sewn Into Win 95, IE 4 Debuts - Earlier than even Microsoft intended, Internet Explorer 4.0 takes the beta edge over Netscape's Communicator with push-media and desktop integration features. [Wired News]
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- (Net) PCs That Go Bonk - Despite industry reassurances, the Net PC isn't signaling the paradigm shift it was supposed to. [Wired News]
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- 1-800-Stop-That-Car - A new pager network developed by Motorola will let you remotely shut down a car, unlock its doors, or warm up its engine. [Wired News]
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- 1.5-Gigabyte Piano Kills the Chipmunk Effect - A new technology from Rockwell International puts seven channels of audio and seven velocity layers into each of the 88 keyboard notes. Digitally sampled instruments never sounded so grand. [Wired News]
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- 3-D Organ Models Aid Virtual Testing of Drugs - Simulations of human organs may help medical researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA try before they buy into new drugs. [Wired News]
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- 3Com Misdirection over 56K Modems - The modem-maker recently announced that it would soon control licensing of the core technologies of the 56-Kbps standard. But the necessary patents and still-missing standard present some big ifs. [Wired News]
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- 50 Ways to Crash the Net - User self-sufficiency is incompatible with sustained corporate profits, says Simson Garfinkel. [Wired News]
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- A Blueprint for Fast Delivery - FedEx, et al. aren't the only ones who can deliver quickly. A/E/C's new satellite-based service helps architects and others stretch their deadlines. [Wired News]
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- A Brief History of HTML - From its simple start as an online subset of SGML through political maneuverings of the huge browser companies to its current piecemeal - but growing - compatibility, the language has weathered a storm of growth, abuse, and innovation. [Wired News]
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- A Cloned Bull, or Just a Twin? - Despite arguments as to whether Gene is really a clone, it's clear that science has crossed another significant milestone. [Wired News]
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- A Cougar in Your Cache? - The World Wide Web Consortium is beginning to show off the next version of HTML, which is destined for the 4.0 moniker but currently under the developmental codename "Cougar." [Wired News]
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- A Democratic Way to Search - AltaVista, Yahoo, and Excite now have a competing technology to ponder: A search engine that attempts to weigh the votes of Web users in its ranking of sites. [Wired News]
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- A Document for the Post-Web Era - The inventor of VisiCalc is trying to redefine electronic documents in the workplace, the same way HTML redefined documents on the Net. [Wired News]
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- A Formula for Sound, Dominance - Stanford and Yamaha join to license a new technology they hope will capture a big slice of the growing sound-technology market. [Wired News]
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- A License to Java - Australia's New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority is jumping on the technological bandwagon with the largest installment of Sun's JavaStations so far. [Wired News]
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- A One-Stop Shop for Hacker Info - A security-products vendor is trying a new approach to help IS managers fend off network attacks: a Web site that details attack tactics and methods to defend against them. [Wired News]
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- A One-to-Many Stream in a Many-to-Many Sea - IP Multicast technology may bring some needed bandwidth conservation, but it also could turn the Net into a vast new broadcast medium. [Wired News]
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- A PC and Phone and ... off Every Desk - The key to ubiquitous wireless is the same catalyst that brought about the PC - the integrated circuit. [Wired News]
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- A Protocol for All Devices - The goal: In tomorrow's connected world, let any device read documents from any other device. The obstacle: Every device out there. [Wired News]
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- A Pure Java Navigator - Any Takers? - Sun and Netscape say their browser plan will run everywhere. But it may really mean more to Sun's Java strategy than anything else. [Wired News]
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- A Real IE Opener: <blink> Is Better - It's a blatant scar on structural language purity, for sure, but up against its Web competition, this tag is it. [Wired News]
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- A Simulated Bridge to the 21st Century - A new simulation tool is helping California pols shop for the right span to improve the Bay Area's seismic and transportation health. [Wired News]
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- A Spacecraft with a Mind of Its Own - NASA's Deep Space 1, to be launched next year, will be able to make critical mission-related decisions without asking its creators first. [Wired News]
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- A Stomach-Pleasing Window into 3-D Worlds - Infinity Multimedia is taking the glasses and the nausea out of 3-D. [Wired News]
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- A Supercomputer for the Stars - A team of UK astrophysicists led by Stephen Hawking hopes a new supercomputer will help them answer centuries-old questions about the origins of the universe. [Wired News]
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- A Tablet in Every Hand - Trying to break away from the desktop, researchers are pondering just what would make a digital tablet work. [Wired News]
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- A Talk with the Father of Computing - Andre Thi Truong, the inventor of the microcomputer, has established another milestone by being the first to debut an NC. He talks to Wired News about the yesterdays and tomorrows of computing. [Wired News]
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- A Truly Organic Network - Data transmission through your fingertip? A technology with its roots in magic promises to tap in to the human body's saline to power personal information devices that communicate by touch. [Wired News]
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- ADSL and Cable Modem Makers Call Truce - Every acronym was on show at the ComNet show last week - and the future of high-speed households may look like coaxial. [Wired News]
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- ADSL Bids for Commercial Turf - As asymmetric digital subscriber lines go into service around the country, several cost and technology barriers may delay the technology's commercial prospects. Meanwhile, the regional phone operators are trying to milk T1 lines for all they're worth. [Wired News]
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- ADSL: All Delays Solved Later - ADSL promises cheap, fast home Net connections, but you can't have it, reports Paul Boutin. [Wired News]
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- Adult Content Is All Greek to Socrates - First came the filters. Now, along comes a supercharged Russian browser that claims to offer better customization and increased parental control. [Wired News]
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- Agents Are Getting to Know All about You - Autonomous agents need to know your likes and dislikes. If that proves to be too much of a hassle, you can always hand over your bookmarks. [Wired News]
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- AGIS Keeps Mum Over Attack, FBI Inquiry - The ISP may consider changing its spam-friendly ways after a server attack renders the company impotent. [Wired News]
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- AGIS: The Premier Provider of Spam - ISPs like AGIS hope to profit from selling connectivity to spam factories. But, the anti-AGIS backlash has begun. [Wired News]
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- AI System Seeks to Blaze the Final Frontier - NASA hopes an experimental technology may someday help create a livable atmosphere on Mars. [Wired News]
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- Airlines Make Room for In-Flight Laptops - Airlines are offering a new power trip for laptop users: 15 volts of direct current in the armrest. [Wired News]
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- AltaVista Adds Brains to Brawn - The search engine is adding new features to make it more accessible to novices and friendly to foreign users. [Wired News]
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- Amelio Pledges to Take Care of Mac Devotees - With Apple's stock still shaky from a precipitous slide, Amelio and Co. pulled out the stops to offer Macheads plenty of glitz - if little substance. [Wired News]
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- Amelio to Rhapsodize on Apple's Future - On Tuesday, Apple's chief will finally sketch out the plans for the Next/Macintosh OS. [Wired News]
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- Among the Virus Thugs - Computer security expert Sarah Gordon studies the ethical development, perceptions, and motivations of those who create and release viruses - and finds few antisocial geeks. [Wired News]
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- An Electronic Helping Hand - NeuroControl Corp.'s Freehand System can return limited use of a hand to quadriplegics. [Wired News]
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- An OS Is As an OS Does - Any Questions? - While Redmond tries to push its operating system Web-ward, the Justice Department is still stuck on the command line. So just what is an OS? [Wired News]
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- Andreessen: Market, Not Policy, Pushes Crypto - Netscape's use of controversial key recovery features isn't a capitulation to the government, but a response to customer demands, the browser boy says. [Wired News]
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- Anonymity by Degrees - AT&T's new software promises to help protect Net users by turning them into just another face in the crowd. [Wired News]
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- Another Computer Bug: Ants in the Machine - It's not just an urban legend. The insides of your computer and other electrical equipment are popular places for fire ants to dream, munch, and muck up the works. [Wired News]
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- Another Windows Networking Bug Discovered - The latest browser security bug allows a rogue Web site to obtain the username and Windows network password of a surfer running either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. [Wired News]
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- Anti-Porn Algorithm Senses Shades of Smut - A UK company says its new software can tell a dirty image from a clean one - and wipe it from your screen before you see it. [Wired News]
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- AOL Mail Chokes on Spam Antidote - The service's new email capabilities include an anti-spam filter that has a unique, uh, feature that slows junk and regular email alike. [Wired News]
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- AOL4FREE No Hoax This Time, Says DOE - It's a Trojan horse, not a virus, and it's targetting your hard drive. [Wired News]
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- Apple Must Drum Up Rhapsody for New OS - The Mac-maker has laid its new operating system plans on the table. Now, if developers will bite.... [Wired News]
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- Apple's NeXT Step Leaves Developers Hopeful - Apple has a reputation for ignoring its own fans. But with NeXT mapped out, it appears to be making amends. [Wired News]
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- Argentine Hacker Pleads Guilty - As part of a plea agreement, Julio Cesar Ardita will return to the United States to face charges of illegal wiretapping and computer-crime felonies. [Wired News]
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- As Go Surfers, So Goes Alexa - Brewster Kahle, founder of WAIS, offers a browsing companion that gets smarter as you use it. [Wired News]
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- Associative Processing Cuts to the Chase - A pioneer of parallel processing has now devised a way to speed up the processing of data, while interpreting the context of the information. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Wants to Make the Internet To Go - The telecom giant and others want to make sure you can get to the Web and your email from just about anywhere. [Wired News]
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- Augmented Reality Scientists Want Respect - The close kin of virtual reality is gathering momentum. But will clearing the technological barriers be enough to make the world take notice? [Wired News]
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- Aussie Adds Crypto Zip to Netscape - A freelancer's hack will inject a stronger flavor of crypto into a low-grade export version of Mozilla. [Wired News]
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- Backbones Wheel and Deal to Keep Net Moving - Backbone providers are having a harder and harder time routing traffic to maintain reasonable network speeds, a new report says. [Wired News]
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- Bandwidth at the End of the Rainbow - Researchers at Lucent have found a way to tweak fiber to increase capacity. The goal: affordable T3 in the living room. [Wired News]
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- Believers, Skeptics Pour Forth in Java Jihad - Amid the ready-for-prime-time proselytizing, there were some at the Java Internet Business Expo who realized that Sun's programming language may not actually revolutionize everything. [Wired News]
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- Beware of Meltdown - Simson Garfinkel reviews Spiderplant's Hot Little Therm, a nifty thermometer for your computer. [Wired News]
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- Beware Wake-Up Call from Password Guesser - If you pick an obvious password, a new release of a password-guessing program might let you know it knows. [Wired News]
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- Big Blue Backs up Copper Chips - Anticipating demand for its new copper-based chip technology, IBM has developed kits to speed integration in the mainstream electronics market. [Wired News]
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- Big Blue Backs up Copper Chips - Anticipating demand for its new copper-based chip technology, IBM has developed kits to speed integration in the mainstream electronics market. [Wired News]
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- Big Hopes Pinned on Little CyberDisplay - Teamed up with Motorola and Siemens, Kopin is touting a tiny active matrix display that could find its way into all kinds of information devices. [Wired News]
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- Big-Market Hopes for Low-Tech PCs - Manufacturers like Brother International are betting that a lot of people crave computers with fewer features for less money - and don't care about Windows. [Wired News]
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- Bigger Signature Lets Netizens Be Themselves - All that stands between netizens and secure identities is a few more bits of data, says VeriSign, which has expanded the scope of its digital ID services. [Wired News]
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- Biosphere Crew Hawks Pets with Space Pedigree - Former members of the Biosphere 2 project built two small-scale biospheres and sent them into space. They worked, they're back, and now you can own a piece of history. [Wired News]
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- Brander Adds a Little PNG to Web - The latest Web graphics format may give netizens a reason to kiss their GIFs goodbye. [Wired News]
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- Breeding Super Plastics - The future of plastics hinges on mimicking the self-organizing processes found in nature. [Wired News]
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- Breeding Tomorrow's Dream Apps - Next-gen Internets hope to open the door to a world of new ideas. [Wired News]
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- Bridging the Trust Gap - Online trust is often taken for granted, but systems for rating content and services as well as new kinds of agents might bring a new level of trustworthiness to the Net. [Wired News]
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- Broadcasters Raise Static over DARS - Depending on whom you talk to, digital audio radio has either a worldwide reach or the span of a tin can on a string. [Wired News]
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- Broken Glass, Sharp Tempers - Optical fiber is fast, but fragile. Without redundancy built into our networks, we're destined for more of last week's Internet outages. [Wired News]
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- Brooks Fiber Gets IP'd - The local exchange carrier is not only merging with WorldCom, but testing IP switching as the basis for its network. [Wired News]
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- Browsers Mask a Bug in Feature's Clothing - A potentially serious security hole inherent to both Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer opens up hard-drive files to ill-intentioned Web servers. And there's not much they can do about it. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Penpal's a Hoax, but Beware Attachments - An email Trojan horse? Despite whinnying alarm, there's little truth to the spreading rumor, an expert says. [Wired News]
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- Buckminster Fuller Gets His Corner of the Web - The inventor's magnum opus, Synergetics, finds a uniquely suitable home online. [Wired News]
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- Bug or Feature? Redmond Slow To Respond - Three developers who stumbled into the Microsoft Explorer 3.0 bug say they had to put up a Web site to let the world know about it. [Wired News]
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- Bye-Bye, Browser - Hello, OS - Graphical browsers put a pretty face on the Net; now Netscape and Microsoft want to do the same for your hard drive. But is the metaphor a good match for the job? [Wired News]
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- C2Net Short-Circuits US Crypto Policy - By developing SafePassage overseas, C2Net will bring full-strength crypto to the world market. [Wired News]
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- Cable Modem Providers Setting Own Agenda - As trial cable modem services roll out around the country, the development of open industry standards looks unlikely. But that may be just fine as far as providers are concerned. [Wired News]
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- Cable Modems: Big Pipes or Pipe Dreams? - Cable TV industry heavies weigh in on cable modem technology at a conference this week, and the prospects for a smooth transition look sketchy at best. [Wired News]
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- Calls of Politicking Follow SBC High-Speed Launch - SBC's technology turns the telephone network into a two-lane highway, with a dedicated fast lane for data calls. One critic says the move's disingenuous. [Wired News]
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- Cassini Carnival: Coffee, Carrots, Clock-Watching - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory had an all-night party, but the fete's star attraction never showed up. [Wired News]
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- Cassini Protesters Await Their Day in Court - Florida and Hawaii activists join together in a legal challenge to stop Monday's launch of the plutonium-powered mission to Saturn. [Wired News]
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- Cells Divided in Wireless Phone Industry - While competing cell phone standards mark their turf around the country, consumers are left to decide what type of service they really need. [Wired News]
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- Cells Divided in Wireless Phone Industry - While competing cell-phone standards mark their turf around the country, consumers are left to decide what type of service they really need. [Wired News]
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- CellularVision Offers Wireless Net in NY - A new "uncharted" spectrum could give urban surfers high-speed access the way they want it: cheap. [Wired News]
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- CGI Tools Apply Division of Labor to Servers - The Web programming language is far from dead, and a Texas-based company is hoping to keep it that way with some new tools. [Wired News]
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- Chip Pirates Pull Switcheroo on Intel - The box says Intel Inside, but is the chip you paid for the one you got? [Wired News]
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- Cisco Gives NCs a Server of Their Own - The network computer is supposed to make users' lives easier. Cisco thinks it will make network managers' lives harder, and offers its solution. [Wired News]
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- Clear Design Needed to Communicate Clearly - Even the CEO of one of the most successful high-tech corporations in the world doesn't have a grounding in online norms. [Wired News]
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- Clever Angling May Land the Big Spectrum - Sky Station's ambitious plans are tethered to procuring a swath of internationally sanctioned radio spectrum - not an easy fish to land. [Wired News]
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- Climbers Scale Everest - in France - Eight participants in a study in Marseilles are living inside a chamber that simulates high altitudes, while a scientist studies the mystery of ensuing sickness. [Wired News]
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- Closing OpenDoc - a Great Leap Backward? - Apple once held up OpenDoc as a key reason its Macintosh operating system was better than Windows. Some developers mourn its looming fate. [Wired News]
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- Coda Helps Designers Take Pages to Next Level - The new program from RandomNoise allows Web designers to build interactive pages better and with more ease. And it's all in Java. [Wired News]
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- Communicator Made Public in Customary Quiet - Netscape unofficially releases its new browser to help mirror sites meet expected download demand. [Wired News]
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- Complex Math Makes E-Commerce More Secure - A little-used encryption scheme does the heavy math so your smartcard doesn't have to. But it's getting a lukewarm reception. [Wired News]
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- Computerized Taxi Dispatch Eases Congestion - At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, computers call the cabs. [Wired News]
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- Conquering Codephobia - JavaScript was billed as a simple, accessible way for non-engineers to program - but it isn't. Paul Boutin on the need for a better common language. [Wired News]
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- Consortium Segregates the Bus - The I2O, a group developing a new computer bus specification, is charging US$5,000 for membership. Smaller developers see it as a move to kill the free software community. [Wired News]
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- Cooling Off to the Sound of Sound - Sound waves can generate a cool breeze. They can also help clear the air of noxious chemicals such as Freon. [Wired News]
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- CopNet Coming to a Precinct Near You - Although law-enforcement agencies have been slow to adopt high-tech tools, a new, secured case-sharing network looks to bring them into the Internet age in real time. [Wired News]
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- Copper's So Cool It's Hot - IBM's not alone in this quest for smaller, faster, cheaper chips. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Push, or How to Spoon-Feed Workers - A legion of small push-technology vendors are tying together disparate data sources so employees don't have to scramble for essential information, or whatever else the boss deems useful. [Wired News]
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- Covering Your Tracks via a Helping Hand - A new Lucent application helps users remain anonymous on the Web. That is, if you trust Lucent. [Wired News]
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- Crack a Mac For Fun and Profit - More than 24,000 people have tried to break into a Swedish Mac server this week. The bait: a cash reward. [Wired News]
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- Crackers Shuffle Cash With Quicken, ActiveX - If you are one of the 9 million people who run the Quicken home finance package, steer clear of the Chaos Computer Club. [Wired News]
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- Cracking Enjoys Renaissance in Eastern Europe - Former Communist countries have more important things to worry about than teenagers breaking into the Pentagon. Which explains a rash of recent attacks. [Wired News]
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- Craft Takes Kids on Nomadic Desert Trek - A US university robot set to roam the Chilean desert will bring Mars a little closer to home. [Wired News]
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- Creating Anonymous Sites That Can't Be Revoked - Taking advantage of one of the Net's oldest and most venerable services, the Eternity server can stash Web content in the anonymous folds of cyberspace. [Wired News]
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- Critics: Java Standards Proposal Substandard - Tech giants such as Microsoft and Intel oppose the terms Sun is seeking to put the language under the control of an international standards group. [Wired News]
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- Critics: Redmond Blows Browser Smoke - Microsoft has told the Justice Department that Windows and many other applications will "break" without certain components of Internet Explorer. That just isn't the case, say developers. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Kid Fan Heeds PGP Hero: Cease and Desist - A gentle warning from Phil Zimmermann was 'akin to talking to God' for a 16-year-old crypto programmer. [Wired News]
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- Cyber Promotions Attack Was the Real Thing - Incredibly, one of the Net's most despised spammers used obvious server passwords such as "SECRET." Last week, a cracker shared the file with the world. [Wired News]
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- Cyber Promotions Hack May Be Hoax - The day after a cracker posted the password file of spamming firm Cyber Promotions to Usenet, doubts arise as to the authenticity of the file itself. [Wired News]
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- CyberHome 2000: Some Assembly Required - Intel and ComputerLife want to show you your future home. But with bugs in the system, you'd better bring your imagination. [Wired News]
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- Czech Browser Won't Do Windows - Netscape and Microsoft could learn a thing or two from a DOS browser that holds promise for the NC. [Wired News]
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- Darwin in a Box - A blend of computer science and biology, genetic algorithms are proving to be a powerful research tool. [Wired News]
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- Data Diggers Quest to Solve Pre-Incan Riddle - An IBM researcher and Peruvian archaeologists put a new twist on imaging technology - all to find something ancient. [Wired News]
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- Data Mining, Meet Oil Drilling - Nanobots will patrol the pores of an oil or gas reservoir to help petroleum companies in their quest for black gold. [Wired News]
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- Database Aims to Send Mad Cow Disease Packing - Every time a cow is sold in Northern Ireland, agriculture authorities know about it - a plan that aims to stamp out bovine spongiform encephalopathy. [Wired News]
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- Dawn of the Shop Bot - Jango will search multiple sites, query databases, and check availability to take care of that most tedious of tasks: comparison shopping. [Wired News]
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- DeadBolt Aims to Lock the Door on Spam - The latest spam-fighting software will work with spammer blacklists. Just so long as the ISPs install it. [Wired News]
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- Deep Blue Still Has Some Learning to Do - So what if IBM's computer beat the world champion - a UC Santa Cruz researcher has a chess-playing system that could help PCs program themselves. [Wired News]
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- Delta II Rocket Falls to the Odds - No one was hurt in Friday's fiery explosion at Cape Canaveral. But things could get a lot dicier next time, say critics. [Wired News]
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- Deluged ISP Smaps it to Spammer - Tech guru Simson Garfinkel shows how the good guys can fight back when a spammer clogs his server. [Wired News]
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- Developers Struggle Through Revolution - Sun and Microsoft are in a tug-of-war that pits Java the language against Java the platform. In the middle are developers who have to make some hard decisions about where to place their bets. [Wired News]
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- Dialing in Ease, but Busying up Bandwidth - Two Net telephony companies seek to make talking over the Internet as simple as picking up the phone and dialing. But that may ring in trouble for traffic. [Wired News]
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- Dialogic NT System: Voices Carry More Weight - The alpha-numeric keypad wasn't made for typing. The company wants to help users talk through their transactions. [Wired News]
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- Digital Cell Phone Crypto Cracked - Researchers have discovered a significant flaw in the encryption technique used in the newest cellular telephones. [Wired News]
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- Digital Fingerprints: A Key of the Future - A new method of creating digital fingerprints will bring down the price and pave the way for applications of the technology in a variety of new devices. [Wired News]
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- Digital Hospital Automates Drugs, Vital Signs - New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center cuts the ribbon on a new wing with electronic gadgets to take vital signs and dole out drugs. [Wired News]
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- Digital IDs to Bust Out of Hard Drives - On Monday, VeriSign and Litronic will unite to bring digital identification to smartcards. But competitors say they're late to the game. [Wired News]
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- Digital Mapping Paying Off in South Australia - By combining land-title and other geographic information databases, the state has sprouted a cottage industry that's attracted the attention of Fujitsu. [Wired News]
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- Digital Maps Help You Take a High-Tech Hike - As topographic mapping software comes of age, interactive features and links to PCs will give hikers and other outdoors-lovers a high-tech compass for navigating remote areas. [Wired News]
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- Digital Newsstands: The E-Ticket of the Net - What happens when you cross e-commerce's micropayment and online publishing? A lighter pocketbook and a peek at the latest news. [Wired News]
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- Digital Radio Gets Good Reception - After five years of delays, your car radio will soon get a new button alongside AM and FM. [Wired News]
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- Digitizing Your Meter Reader - Nashville Electric Service is testing a system that will replace the ages-old meter reader with a computer network. [Wired News]
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- Dinosaur Sounds Echo from Nuclear Weapons Lab - Sandia scientists have simulated sounds from 75 million years ago, when the Parasaurolophus - aka the "trombone dinosaur" - was on parade. [Wired News]
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- Divining Java's Prospects - A new study reveals that high expectations are driving Java, despite the programming language's current headaches. [Wired News]
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- Divx Protects Content, But Not Your Liberties - A technology originally devised by a law firm gives you 48 hours to view DVD fare. After that, it'll cost you again. But more than money's at stake, and the studios are about the only ones smiling. [Wired News]
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- DNS: The Problematic Phone Book of Cyberspace - A new security protocol could plug the holes in the domain name system for good, Simson Garfinkel says. [Wired News]
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- Doctors Destructo - Doctors by day, software gaming moguls by night, BioWare's CEOs lead Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Byte lives. [Wired News]
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- DOE Puts Plastic into Orbit - The FORTE satellite's all plastic, snap-together construction signals a new era in satellite production. [Wired News]
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- Domain Names May Change without Your Knowing - Eugene Kashpureff has a quick and easy way for you to recognize alternative top-level domains. And you may not even know it's working. [Wired News]
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- DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar - A new standard for cookies threatens to cut off the Web ad agency from its prized user profiles. Surprise: They're not happy about it. [Wired News]
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- DVD Might Make a Beta Out of VHS - Experts predict the DVD will replace CD-ROMs within two years and video tapes within five. [Wired News]
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- DVD-RAM: Now You See It, Soon You Won't? - Prospects for unifying competing rewritable DVD-RAM standards seem bleak. Consumers may have another VHS/Betamax war on their hands. [Wired News]
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- Eclipsed by Space, Earth Scientists Toil On - For a small group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth-probing satellites are a powerful tool, but still no substitute for being there. [Wired News]
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- Electric Word: Infinitely Wearable Computing - Inventor Andrew Singer has designed a programmable 'tattoo' with the intent to aid the wearer in case of a medical emergency. [Wired News]
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- Electric Word: Prime Time - George Woltman hopes his search for the largest known Mersenne prime number will take on a life of its own. [Wired News]
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- Electron at 100: A Century of Negative Energy - The electron is turning 100. Without this tiny matter, you might not be reading this. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Border-Control - The Internet isn't a global village, it's a global ghetto. Without a powerful security system, you're toast. [Wired News]
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- Elevators Cut a New York Minute by Seconds - New, uplifting technology carries its own weight in getting skyscraper-bound passengers where they want to go. There's even a contingency for medical emergencies. [Wired News]
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- Ellison Charges Up Oracle8 Debut - Never one to pass up a chance to be showy, the database kingpin pulled out a lightning bolt to demonstrate his software's reliability. [Wired News]
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- Ellison Charges Up Oracle8 Debut - Never one to pass up a chance to be showy, the database kingpin pulled out a lightning bolt to demonstrate his software's reliability. [Wired News]
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- Ellison Charges Up Oracle8 Debut - Never one to pass up a chance to be showy, the database kingpin pulled out a lightning bolt to demonstrate his software's reliability. [Wired News]
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- Email Spy Lurks in Corporate Future - If you don't watch what you type, software might soon be doing it for you. [Wired News]
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- Engineers Take Virtual Tinkering to Next Level - New applications are taking engineering and CAD programs a step further by allowing multiple users to collaborate on digital designs. [Wired News]
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- Erasmatron Revs up Interactive Fiction - A noted game developer has turned his sights on interactive fiction, and his engine generates storyworlds that take readers wherever their imaginations lead them. [Wired News]
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- Ergonomists: Keyboard Pager Not Our Type - Motorola's new keyboard pager folds up smaller than a deck of cards. Just don't use it too often. [Wired News]
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- EU Selling Swiss Army Smartcard Solution - With the creation of a new currency comes the opportunity to dominate the globe in paperless currency. Will Europeans buy it? [Wired News]
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- Eudora Will Encrypt Missives for Netizens - The dirty little secret about personal encryption is that most people avoid using it. But now, there's no excuse. [Wired News]
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- Even Simple Pages May Harbor HTML Errors - Jeff Veen suggests checking code with one of the HTML validation services on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Evolution Means Devolution for Word Processor - Taking a different tack from its competitors, Word Place offers up a minimalist word processor. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Doctor Roboto - A hands-free operating room is taking shape in San Francisco, where a group of university engineers and physicians are building a robotic surgery system. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Power Up - Canada's Northern Telecom wants to wire the continent with high-speed Internet access over power lines. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Pretty Good Security (Privacy Not Included) - PGP Inc. has morphed its standalone, hard-to-use freeware program into a slick corporate security solution. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Voxel Victory - A new invention by Elizabeth Downing's 3D Technology Laboratories projects 3-D color objects inside a 1-inch-square fluorescent-glass cube. [Wired News]
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- Exercise Your Brain - Cognitive Diagnostics believes it can help keep your brain fit and make you smarter to boot. [Wired News]
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- Exploder Applet Takes Down ActiveX to Make a Point - To reveal the security flaws of Microsoft's ActiveX, a Seattle programmer wrote an applet that shut down the PC of any Internet Explorer user who visited the page. [Wired News]
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- Eyeware Provides View on Teleconferencing - A 3-D videoconferencing and collaboration system allows multiple users to see who is talking and to whom. [Wired News]
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- Family Surfing via Proxy - The first generation of blocking software has been patchy, at best. But a new breed of products - based on proxy server technology - aims to plug up the holes. [Wired News]
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- Faster Net Access? It's in the Alphabet - CAI Wireless is testing the Net bandwidth waters with MMDS, a two-way, fixed wireless system it thinks will unclog traffic jams. [Wired News]
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- Faster, Cheaper Chips? Unconventional Logic - Founded on a new theoretical model, Karl Fant's prototype computer chips can change pace with the information they're processing. [Wired News]
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- Feds Help Put Faster Chips on Faster Track - With backing of the Department of Energy, leading computer chipmakers are working on breaking the limits of Moore's Law. [Wired News]
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- Finally, a Computer That Understands You - A new voice-recognition software program has done what none before it could: interpret natural speech patterns in recording dictations. [Wired News]
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- Finding Low-Cost Fiber Optics - A new joint venture is striving to keep the dream of fiber to the home alive. [Wired News]
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- Flat-Panel Tops Tube, Girds for Desktop - Less looks like more as flat-panel LCD screens become cheaper and increasingly abundant. [Wired News]
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- Flipper Flapping May Float Boat and Then Some - A group of MIT scientists is trying to give man-made sea vessels the agility of fish and penguins. [Wired News]
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- For HBO, It's Not TV - It's HDTV - With a promise to make high-definition television a reality by mid-1998, Home Box Office is looking for the technical help to carry out the mammoth task. [Wired News]
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- Forget Computer Screens. Jack In Your Eyeballs. - A Seattle company has found a way to replace the computer screen with a device that fires images directly onto the retina. [Wired News]
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- FRAM Chips Take Memory to the Next Level - Next-generation FRAM chips combine the best of other memory technologies, and they'll soon be finding their way into everything from cell phones to smartcards. [Wired News]
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- Fuel Is Big on Supply, Short on Access - Gas hydrate reserves hold an "unlimited" supply of natural gas. But are the costs of tapping these resources worth the trouble? [Wired News]
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- Future Focus - KeraVision has come up with a cure for myopia: Corneal Rings that promise permanent near-perfect vision. [Wired News]
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- Future's So Bright Your Screen'll Wear Shades - A new 'smart glass' technology could be used to create brighter, higher contrast computer screens, which users can adjust to their fancy. [Wired News]
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- Geek Page: Privacy by Geometry - Elliptic curves and low cost-per-bit crypto strength. [Wired News]
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- Geek Page: Off the Clock - Dataflow techniques liberate a microprocessor from the limitations of its own internal clock. The industry knows a killer app when it sees it. [Wired News]
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- Geek Page: The Next Big Thing in HTML - Dynamic HTML is the magic wand Web wizards have long sought. The latest browser releases integrate scripting languages with HTML to bring true multimedia to the e-people. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: A Reach in the Grab Bag - From time to time, Geek Talk takes a pause to answer the little questions - those diminutive inquiries that don't warrant an entire column, but beg for answers nonetheless. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Battle of the Graphics Titans - Simone wants to know the difference between a GIF and a JPEG. Jon Wurtzel explains. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Bridges, Routers, and You - George knows what a server is, but wants to know what bridges and routers are. Matt Stevens has the answers. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Drumming Up Web Traffic, Cheap - Adam wants to know how to get more visitors to Fillet, his culinary webzine. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Java-Enabling, Border-Removing - The webmonkeys tell us how. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Multicasting and the Mbone - Large-scale broadcasting isn't that useful, but multicasting over a WAN (wide area network) is. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: One Dangerous Pre-Release - Kevin Kelly tells us why MSIE is not ready for prime time. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: Tuning Apache Web Servers for Speed - Some folks want to squeeze every last bit of performance out of Apache's current model. [Wired News]
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- Geek Talk: VBScript - What's the deal with VBScript? Is it the same as Microsoft's Visual Basic? Lawrence Sanchez tells all. [Wired News]
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- German Hackers Show ATM Security Flaw - When Germans lose money to ATM fraud, the blame is on the cardholder. But a group of hackers has demonstrated that the system, not the customer, may be at fault in some cases. [Wired News]
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- Getting 'Gooey' over Telnet - TeleGrafix hopes to revive interest in telnet sites by enriching them with GUIs. [Wired News]
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- Gigabit Ethernet Approaching Prime Time - The standard has evolved in record time, and by mid-1998, local area networks will start piping data at a much faster rate. [Wired News]
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- Giving New Meaning to Search Engines - A Xerox PARC spinoff has developed a technology to help search engines analyze the context of queries. The results could be relevant. [Wired News]
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- Global Atlas Offers Bounty of Climate Data - The World Water and Climate Atlas for Agriculture will provide weather watchers with climate data for every spot of land in the world. [Wired News]
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- Globalstar's Glitches Are Well Grounded - Satellite and ground stations are supposed to work together, but when they don't, keep some aspirin on hand. [Wired News]
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- Got Illicit Info? Run for the Border - Nations have always struggled to preserve the integrity of their borders. It is unreasonable to think that this struggle will abate as we move from the physical world to the digital. [Wired News]
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- Guiding Utilities into Telecom - A Colorado gas company offering telecom services and more wants to sell the whole utility industry on its own experience. [Wired News]
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- H.323: It's 'Open Sesame' in Firewall Speak - Intel and Cisco make an Internet telephone call through a corporate firewall. But don't worry. Thanks to a little protocol, the company's data is secure. [Wired News]
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- Hacking the Human CPU - With a little help from the Pentagon, researchers are hoping to eventually be able to watch the brain at work while it does the heavy lifting of thought. [Wired News]
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- Handheld Device Mimics Bomb-Sniffing Dog - Chemical weapons treaty or no, a Louisiana researcher plans to go forward with his "electronic nose." [Wired News]
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- Handheld Internet Will Be Huge - Really! - There might well be 600 million Internet phones by the turn of the century. The Unwired Universe conference kicks off the drive to get there. [Wired News]
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- Hardware Wiggles toward Real Time - In configurable computing, hardware is treated like software and programs execute in a wormlike way. Progress has been slow, but interesting. [Wired News]
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- Hassle-Free Net Music Delivery - Almost - Listen Up seems to have the Net-based audio delivery formula down: buy, download, carry, broadcast, listen. Will folks tune in? [Wired News]
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- Have Launch Pad, Will Travel - Aerospace contractors are only too happy to meet the demand for launching new satellites into orbit. But they're finding competition from scrappy upstarts. The third installment in a four-day Wired News special report. [Wired News]
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- HDML Puts Push in the Palm of Your Hand - New additions to the markup language for handheld devices promise to bring more than the Web to your cell phone. [Wired News]
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- Headless Frogs Call for a Leap of Faith - English scientists' revelation that they've created headless frog embryos spurs some head-spinning speculation. [Wired News]
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- Heaven's Gate Opens into AOL Hell - Following a complicated series of cracks and spoofs, those looking to visit www.heavensgate.com on Wednesday instead found themselves dropped into a very different place. [Wired News]
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- Helping Servers Balance the Load - DNS round robin is a good idea that doesn't work; so here comes LocalDirector. [Wired News]
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- High-Flying Plane Will Counter Global Warming - NASA is developing a pilotless, solar-powered plane that will fly to the edge of space to research how we can make the planes that fly below easier on the ozone. [Wired News]
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- High-Power Desktop Imaging for the People - Intel wants to take high-end 3-D graphical rendering away from the workstations, put it on the desktop, and power it with you-know-what. [Wired News]
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- High-Speed Neighborhood Closer to Home - A new network installed in residential complexes will give apartment dwellers high-speed Internet connections. [Wired News]
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- High-Tech Medicine Making Wireless Connections - Wireless technology was at the heart of futurist's conference, where attendees got a glimpse into the paranormal world of high-tech medicine. [Wired News]
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- History's Code Will Run an Infinite Loop - Fred Davis is building his dream museum to tackle what some believe is an archivist's nightmare - making landmark code forever bootable. [Wired News]
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- HMOs Connect the Docs with Technology - A new report says health-care organizations will invest heavily in information systems, smartcards, and the Internet. [Wired News]
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- Hospital Adds Human Touch to Patient Tracking - Biometric identification technology, already being pilot tested in banks and law enforcement agencies, checks into the hospital. Some observers say the prognosis is for quick and accurate care. [Wired News]
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- Hot Links and Snaglets - Sausage Software is cooking up short-lived Java utility apps, the hottest Australian export since Foster's Lager. [Wired News]
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- Household Enigmas: Catch 'Em If You Can - There is a crypto-museum in Jon Paul's, house but you can't see it unless you pass muster. [Wired News]
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- How AT&T Will Take a Bite out of Bells - The carrier plans to bypass the Bells by combining three wireless technologies in one box stuck on the side of your house. Here's what's inside. [Wired News]
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- HTML: It's All About Structure - Jeff Veen tells you how to keep your pages structural, and the purists happy, while maintaining control of the visual aesthetics of your content. [Wired News]
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- Hype List: Deflating this Month's Overblown Memes - Online chat start-ups, privately funded space racers, and Teletubbies keep us wary of the pushy press. [Wired News]
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- IBM Learns to Speak Chinese - New speech-recognition software could blow open the Chinese market with sweet talk. [Wired News]
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- IBM Takes Macro Viruses to the Cleaners - A technology that IBM has developed could eventually wipe out the most widespread type of computer viruses. But first Big Blue has to release the product. [Wired News]
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- ID System Makes Your Mug to Go - Still photos are one way to identify people, but a new system that uses moving images to track and identify faces helps capture those on the go. [Wired News]
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- IE 4 Spells Integration - With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft has taken the merger of browser and operating system a step further. [Wired News]
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- IE Security: Playing Catch-up with Netscape - Beseiged by bad press over IE security holes, Microsoft pledges new features to protect users from the Net. [Wired News]
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- In-Your-Face Ad Banners Get Louder - A Java-based advertising technology moves sales and transactions right into the banner ad. Will it click with consumers? [Wired News]
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- Indecent Exposure - The Internet can make some things a little too easy to find. [Wired News]
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- Infoseek Storms GeoCities Pages - In an attempt to maintain the accuracy of its index, the search engine severs a domain to remove the abusers. No, it's not nice to fool Mother Crawler. [Wired News]
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- Inktomi Launches Flagship - Known for its savvy search-engine technology, Inktomi is now taking Web data to task with a new network caching product. Also: NASA targets women's health, and Java jabbers. [Wired News]
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- Inktomi Launches Flagship - Known for its savvy search-engine technology, Inktomi is now taking Web data to task with a new network caching product. [Wired News]
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- Intel Cuts Chip Prices ... Again - The chipmaker is planning reductions of 13 to 40 percent to keep up with competition. Also: Rockwell announces a faster modem technology. [Wired News]
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- Intel Moves to Squish Pentium Bug - The dreaded "erratum" can be subverted with a little help from the operating system, and OS vendors are taking action. [Wired News]
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- Intel Shows Off MMX Chip, Upsets Apple's Cart - Intel's new MMX technology will make a Pentium feel more like a Mac. Guess where they showed it off. [Wired News]
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- Intel Speeds the Way, sans Silicon - The chip titan has figured out how to make your PC even speedier. Guess what? It's software, not hardware. [Wired News]
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- Intel Steps Up Pentium Bug Efforts - The chipmaker confirmed the "errata" and said it is accelerating its normal process for dealing with it. [Wired News]
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- Intel Studies End-User Processor Patches - A tool for fixing Pentium "errata" provides the chipmaker with another weapon in the bug battle. [Wired News]
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- Intel Weeds Pixels and Makes the Web Scream - With its new compression technology, Intel can speed up modem downloads, and may even get Unix-dominated ISPs to make room for Wintel servers. [Wired News]
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- Intel's New Chips Are Hot and Power-Hungry - Notebook computer manufacturers have found Intel's new MMX Pentiums too hot to handle. [Wired News]
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- Intel's Processor Plan Zones Out Competition - The chipmaker's proposed motherboard redesign may lead to new, flexible PC designs, but it also leaves the competition without a place to plug in. [Wired News]
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- Intel's Tastes Turn to Networking - Plug-and-play networking is nothing new, but promoting the capability is. Intel's latest noise is more about what's "inside." [Wired News]
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- Intellicast Smartens Up to Banner Bypass - Once upon a time, Net surfers could link directly to MSNBC's radar weather maps. But then Intellicast added up all the banner impressions it was losing, and severed the link. [Wired News]
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- Interactive Television's Dubious Past - Even other big media companies have had problems getting their interactive television projects off the ground. [Wired News]
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- Internet Deux: Not Your Father's Net - Technology and politics are keeping the next Internet from being an, uh, internet. [Wired News]
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- Internet Explorer Snags Lotus Notes - With competing technology bundled into Netscape's Communicator, Lotus closes the door on the browser maker and clears the way for another, Microsoft, to stroll right in. [Wired News]
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- Internet Explorer: First look - Would you trust this software? Jeffrey Veen would. [Wired News]
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- Internet Telephony: Calling All Packets - Routing voice calls across IP networks - whether public or private - is predicted to be the big thing for 1998. [Wired News]
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- InterNIC Who? - In protest of InterNIC's claim to ownership of domains it manages, AlterNIC took control of the Internet's main domain-name registry this weekend. InterNIC is now pondering a response. [Wired News]
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- Interpreter Helps Basic Speak Java - Tools to make programming accessible to mere mortals are on their way. Soon, you may speak Java in a Basic fashion. [Wired News]
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- Interpreting the Java Earthquake - What's most important in the Sun Microsystems Java lawsuit against Microsoft isn't the back-and-forth over who did what, but its impact on the future of computing. [Wired News]
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- InVerse: Keeping Players Afloat in Post-Yeltsin Russia - IBM's distributed technology will power Tom Clancy's online strategy game. [Wired News]
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- Iomega Primes Bite-Sized Storage Solution - The company's new low-priced, portable technology is being prepared for release next year. But by the time it arrives, its 20 megs may not be enough. [Wired News]
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- IP Multicast: A Brave New Net? - The system for simultaneous data delivery is either grease for Internet efficiency or the end of the medium as we know it. But, first, an industry cooperative has to get ISPs and network managers on board to make its multicast dream ubiquitous. [Wired News]
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- Is Big Brother - or His Server - Watching You? - New PC monitoring software gives employers a way to watch users' daily activities - and limit computer misuse - by capturing screenshots throughout the day. [Wired News]
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- Is Michelangelo Finally Dead? - Dwindling use of 5.25-inch floppies is helping to stamp out the virus. [Wired News]
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- Is the Web Set for SET? - The industry is busily developing electronic-transaction technology that nobody needs. [Wired News]
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- ISP Growth Leaves Shell Accounts in Limbo - With the move to more commercialized services, many ISPs are no longer supporting the text-based shell accounts that many Unix users prefer. [Wired News]
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- It's My World and Welcome to It - Marc Laidlaw adds the powerful level-design shareware Worldcraft to Quake and invites his friends to share his nightmare. [Wired News]
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- Java Drips into Chips - While several major-name manufacturers are working on "Java chip" programs, several are leaving the door open should things go awry. [Wired News]
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- Java Gets into a Musical Headspace - The language of the moment is cool, but it can't handle music well. Which is why Thomas Dolby Robertson is getting with the program, and licensing his tool for making soundtracks for Web sites. [Wired News]
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- Java May Perk Up Smartcards in US - The programming language of the moment pops up in an unlikely arena: the tangled world of smartcards. [Wired News]
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- Java Pours from Many Pots - Despite Microsoft and Sun pulling the language in different directions, everyone's busy with Java enhancements. [Wired News]
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- Java's Suite Salvation? - Bigger wasn't better. Now, second-generation Java apps are shaping up as thin-client suites. Word is, a certain software behemoth's thinking of squeezing in. [Wired News]
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- Java, VRML Find Cosmo Convergence - As part of its continued movement into the software biz, Silicon Graphics is giving Windows Web developers a cheap and easy environment for cranking out Java and VRML. [Wired News]
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- Java: The Flavor Middleware-Makers Love - Java may only just now be maturing as an application language, but for vendors who need to run pipes between distributed systems, the language was born to plumb. And as this Java-based "middleware" matures, the applications at the end of it could get thinner faster. [Wired News]
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- Joke-in-a-Box - AI doctorate Kim Binsted has created a computer program that automatically generates jokes. [Wired News]
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- Joysticks Abuzz with Game Vibrations - Next-generation devices put some real feeling into the game. But you may feel it most in the wallet. [Wired News]
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- Junkbuster Strips Banners, Cookies - Fed up with unwanted cookies being shoved on your hard drive? Internet Junkbuster invites you to send back a protest 'wafer.' [Wired News]
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- Jupiter: Bright Future for the Net Appliance - A new study says Net appliances will account for 16 percent of online use within three years. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: Beyond the Browser - Forget Navigator and Explorer. Passport moves the focus of the Net wars off the Web and onto the desktop. [Wired News]
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- Just Outta Beta: The Quiet Zone - Chris Rubin sings the praises of new Koss headphones that hush the world. [Wired News]
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- Keeping an Eye (and Ear) on Web Files - Web sites that use copyrighted music and video files may have to watch their step: A new tracking service is keeping tabs for the recording industry, which wants to know where its music is being played. [Wired News]
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- Keeping the Pace in Net Security - As more private networks get hooked into the Internet, security vendors are racing to add new technology to keep out the phreaks. [Wired News]
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- Kiss That 404 Goodbye - Brewster Kahle's Alexa searching tool leverages his Web archive to make information easier to find. [Wired News]
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- Kodak Sharpens Focus of Digital Images - Cheap and high-res, a new digital camera could transform the look of the Web. [Wired News]
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- Language ID: Now, More Than Just Greek - Is your name English? A new language-recognition technology will help clue netizens in to the linguistic differences they dig up on the Web. [Wired News]
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- LANs Aim to Steer Cars from Traffic Jams - Wireless networks under development could ease traffic congestion. But will drivers want to surrender control of their autos to a computer? [Wired News]
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- Laser Picks Out Needles in Molecular Haystacks - A Bell Labs laser technology that holds promise for pollution detection and automobile safety may finally go commercial. [Wired News]
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- Launch Entrepreneurs Bet Down Under Goes Over - Geographic location and political stability make northern Australia attractive as a hot new commercial satellite launch site. [Wired News]
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- Launch of 'Safe' Delta II Scrubbed - McDonnell Douglas gave the green light for a Friday launch, but the weather didn't cooperate. High winds postponed until Saturday the mission to put an Iridium satellite into orbit. [Wired News]
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- Lava Lites: Easy to Break, Hard to Crack - It sounds far-out, but cryptologists at Silicon Graphics are putting the classic bachelor-pad accessory to practical use in generating the coolest random numbers possible, man. [Wired News]
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- Learn To Read ASCII, the Flash Card Way - Why read text left to right, line by line, when you could see it flash before your eyes? A new applet will let you do just that. [Wired News]
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- Let Your Voice Box Do the Dialing - Voice-activated cell phones are going through growing pains, but if the industry has its way, you'll soon be talking to your phone more and dialing less. [Wired News]
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- Lights Going Down for Darkrooms? - From the photo capture to the final print, Hewlett-Packard's new suite of equipment could cut photo developers out of the business altogether. [Wired News]
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- Like Java? Try Scriptlets - By combining HTML and scripting languages, Microsoft may have found another way to make developers' lives easier and give Java evangelists a headache. [Wired News]
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- Linux Faithful Defuse Bliss Panic - A software company learned a tough lesson about alarmist virus warnings when it tried to halt the first Linux virus. [Wired News]
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- Little Organizer Causes Big Stir - Phillipe Kahn's Starfish Software is powering the new credit-card-sized REX, a device that may give the PalmPilot some serious competition. [Wired News]
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- LittleBrother Puts Big Nose in Your Surfing - Electronic monitoring of employees is not new, but new software may turn out to be one snoopy sibling that most workers would rather do without. [Wired News]
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- Living Machines Tackle River Pollution - A project that uses biological organisms to clean wastewater hopes to clean up Philadelphia's famously dirty Schuylkill River. Then it wants to clean up the rest of the world's waterways. [Wired News]
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- LMDS Microwaves Your Internet Connection - An obscure technology sends data and voice through the radio spectrum at about 20 times modem speed. And it's coming with the stroke of a pen. [Wired News]
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- Loaded for VR: Headset, Gun, Scalpel - Sandia Labs is putting virtual reality to work to train FBI agents in hostage crisis simulations, and send medics into virtual battlefields. [Wired News]
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- Look Before You Push - Push media's adoring press often fails to mention the technology's many pitfalls. [Wired News]
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- Lotus and Partners Spread Java Suite Gospel - The slimmed-down apps for desktop and network computer use challenge Microsoft Office. Also: LANs for the home. [Wired News]
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- Lucent Leaps to Rescue Net Telephony - Software glitches, network bottlenecks, crackly sound quality - these are the bugbears of Net telephony. But to Lucent, they are the sound of opportunity. [Wired News]
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- Mac OS 8 Arrives - Apple's new operating system is an improvement, but can it be the silver lining the company needs? [Wired News]
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- Macho Computing at Root of RSA Contest Flap - Malicious acts have turned the largest current effort to crack a 56-bit encryption key into an "organizational nightmare." [Wired News]
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- Macromedia Pushes Shockwave through Castanet - Macromedia hopes to get revenue out of Shockwave by enabling content developers to deliver through Marimba's tuner software. [Wired News]
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- Macromedia Rides the FutureWave - FutureWave's vector graphics plug-in wasn't exactly looking like the wave of the future. Until Macromedia bought in. [Wired News]
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- Magnetically Speaking, Frogs Float - A magnetic personality can cause animals to defy gravity, two European researchers say. [Wired News]
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- Making Cures, Not Bombs - A waste product of nuclear war is being used in the war on cancer. [Wired News]
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- Marimba Finds Itself on Another Frontier - The start-up that blazed trails in distributing software now has a greater challenge: Competition. [Wired News]
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- Mars Nukes Is Good Nukes - University of Florida researchers want to use a nuclear propulsion system to get humans on Mars faster. [Wired News]
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- Masking the Complexities of Chip Development - A new facility jointly founded by some of the world's biggest chipmakers is developing new materials and platforms for photomasks and reticles - the building blocks for smarter, faster chips. [Wired News]
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- Massaging Your Bandwidth - Several companies are finding ways to wring more - and better - bandwidth out of the wires. [Wired News]
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- Matra Marconi Awarded Celestri Contract - The French-British aerospace venture will supply power, propulsion, and avionics equipment for Motorola's Internet in the Sky. Also: Intel cuts chip prices dramatically. [Wired News]
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- MCI Technology Could Vault Net Telephony - The long-distance carrier will soon mingle voice networks and packet-switched data networks. Industry watchers call it a step toward Net telephony. [Wired News]
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- McNealy Still Perky about Java - At the Java Internet Business Expo, Sun's CEO continues the campaign to put Java in every pot. [Wired News]
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- Mea Culpa: AFC Ain't So Bad - Microsoft's Java class library is actually more robust than Netscape's. And it really is cross-platform. [Wired News]
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- MediaOne Has More than Net Access on Its Mind - The US West cable operator has built a fiber-optic network with flexibility in mind. [Wired News]
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- Meet the Transistor of the Future - Bell Labs' newest world record in transistor development will - eventually - have a high-speed, low-energy impact on the circuits and processors of the future. [Wired News]
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- Metadata, Sooner or Later - What we really need is data that describes the data we already have. Got it? Simson Garfinkel gives you his view. [Wired News]
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- MetaTools Takes PC Game Graphics to Next Level - A new technique for rendering 3-D images could bring high-end graphics and arcade-quality games to mainstream PCs. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft and SGI Plan 3-D for the Masses - Their alliance aims to build a whole new hybrid application programming interface that'll bring Jurassic-like graphics to the Windows world. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Bob Rides Again - Redmond resurrects the idea of personal software agents and ports them to the Web. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Browser Takes On a New Flavor: Unix - Amid charges that it sees the world only through Windows, Microsoft gives us IE 4.0 for the Sun Solaris platform. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Employs Good, Clean PICS - The most effective censorship technology the Net has ever seen may already be installed on your desktop. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Enters 3-D Chip Dimension - A new graphics chip architecture is being applied with the hope of integrating the technology in mass-market PCs. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Hardballs Office 97 Cracker - Redmond's lawyers are dropping the boom on Christopher Fazendin for distributing a crack to a demo version of Office 97. But the whole thing may be blowing up in their faces. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Jiggers Windows to Get Video Data - The software behemoth is polishing its Windows to step up to an old platform, broadcast TV. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Pushes Java Aside - As the language slowly matures toward usefulness - and potentially - an operating system, Microsoft continues to sweep it under the rug. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Says Java Is Best on Windows - The software giant unveils technology to leverage Java with Windows, eschewing Sun's cross-platform vision. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Game Developers: Let's Talk - The software giant decides that an open discussion on supporting the OpenGL API might be a good thing. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Hold its Own Java Court - An invitation-only affair will offer Redmond's spin on Sun's prized language. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft's CDF: Everyone Get out and Push - Redmond's Channel Definition Format brings the first proposed standard to the jumbled push-media arena. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft's Really Ubiquitous Plan - The potential for Windows CE may only be limited by the software behemoth's own imagination. [Wired News]
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- Missing Pieces to E-Commerce Puzzle - A new breed of dedicated cryptographic processors aims to speed up electronic commerce applications and bolster consumer confidence in online banking and shopping networks. [Wired News]
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- Mission to Mars: A Rocky and Storied Past - Earthlings have looked to the Red Planet for more than three decades - with mixed results. [Wired News]
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- Modem Chips Mesh Analog and Digital into One - A joint 3Com and Analog Devices design will integrate functions on a single chip. [Wired News]
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- Modem Race Speeds Up - 3Com and Diamond Multimedia have made the latest offerings in a marketplace that has kicked into increasingly higher gear. [Wired News]
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- Monika: Life in a Doll's House - A well-dressed Danish manikin may hold the keys to letting workers have more control over the air they breathe in the office. [Wired News]
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- More on the Cougar Spec: Forms - New forms draft takes HTML where browser developers fear to tread. Jeffrey Veen joins the adventure. [Wired News]
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- More Than Just the Fax, Man - Though he insists he's really not a jet setter, Colin Berry feels pretty cool downloading email and all other business-related documents via one medium, thanks to his travelmate, JFAX. [Wired News]
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- Motorola Gets Cheap with Voice over IP - The company is debuting two products that help put voice onto data lines. [Wired News]
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- Motorola's Smartcards May Think with Java - Before plunging into the business, the company is thinking through the hardware, software, and crypto. The key is cross-platform. [Wired News]
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- Mouse Creator Gets His Due - His name may not be familiar, but Doug Engelbart changed the look and feel of computing. And now he's been honored with the world's most lucrative prize for inventors. [Wired News]
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- MSIX Turns on the ISP Meter - Compaq's new metering protocol could give ISPs an easier way to offer premium services - and give customers cause to watch their use. [Wired News]
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- Multi-Platform is Only One Consideration - Java offered Corel more than just the convenience of writing one set of code. Apple's Rhapsody must follow suit. [Wired News]
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- Multicast or Bust - The Internet logjam will end as soon as we all adopt multicasting. You go first. [Wired News]
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- Multicast Project Seeks to Better the Bandwidth - Multicasting lets you broadcast your data to an audience. Right now you send it from A to B. Is another overhaul in order? [Wired News]
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- Music Synthesis Through Software - A new software package could turn your Pentium into a quintet - or at least a simulation of one. [Wired News]
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- NASA Gets Its HAL - An artificial intelligence system dubbed dMARS could be managing systems on a space shuttle within a year. [Wired News]
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- NASA's Dose of Reality from Virtual Reality - When the Pathfinder craft lands on Mars, scientists will develop a VR map of the planet to keep the rover out of trouble and focused on the research at hand. [Wired News]
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- Naval Forces Get Some Tech Support - A National Research Council report outlines how the Navy and Marine Corps should mix technology with military might. [Wired News]
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- Navio Helps Other Devices Navigate - The software is designed for smaller machines - like the NC and TV - that lack the memory muscle of a personal computer. [Wired News]
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- NBC Interactive TV: Offering Less for Success - NBC plans to offer an interactive TV project in the fall. They call it enhanced TV, but it is less ambitious than its predecessors. [Wired News]
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- NC: Easy for Whom? - Oracle's "Network-In-a-Box" may prove to be less than Larry Ellison's "divinely simple" solution. [Wired News]
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- NC: Easy for Whom? - Oracle's "Network-In-a-Box" may prove to be less than Larry Ellison's "divinely simple" solution. [Wired News]
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- NCR Licenses Solaris - The computer giant will use Sun's operating system for its Intel-based computers. [Wired News]
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- NEAR Gets Up Close and Personal with Mathilde - A fortuitous flyby of the largest carbon-rich asteroid gives scientists a chance to capture it on film. [Wired News]
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- NEC's 4-Gbit DRAM Steals the Limelight - NEC's new chips are expensive. Will DVD be the killer app that drives them into the PC? [Wired News]
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- NEC's Computer Recycler a Green Smoke Screen - The EcoSeparation System recycles computers for nearly US$1 million. But a toaster and smelter will do it for peanuts. [Wired News]
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- Net Cannot Work by Man Alone - Despite a major DNS failure caused by human error, the Internet's still ticking. It's now clear that humans are not good enough to run a network without a little computer help. [Wired News]
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- Net Outage: The Oops Heard 'Round the World - Parts of the Net went south for a few hours on Friday. The reason? A router gave the wrong directions. [Wired News]
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- Net Telephony - Without the Net - In order to make voice over IP work well, Networks Telephony has developed a system to send voice packets over a private data network. [Wired News]
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- Net Traffic Reduction Plan Under Attack - The sagging fortunes of a little-known software company were lifted when it publicly announced its lawsuit against Marimba. Meanwhile, the W3C standards body finds itself caught in unfamiliar territory. [Wired News]
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- Net Traffic Study: Baby Bells Telling Tales - A new report debunks the claims made by the Baby Bells that the Internet is tying up voice networks. [Wired News]
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- Net Video Streaming Toward the Workplace - At Internet World, streaming-media products and alliances cast a net for high-speed business users. [Wired News]
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- Netcaster Sneak Peek Draws Big Crowd - Netscape quietly put a developers' version of its push-technology software on its site. Then the word got out. [Wired News]
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- NetDiver Makes a Splash among Java Believers - There's a new kid on the Internet browser block - IBM. Armed with Java, the company hopes to jump into the Internet appliance market. [Wired News]
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- NetMedic Measures Web Vital Signs - Network managers have had a way to know why the Net slows down. Now users do, too. [Wired News]
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- Netscape 3.0 Users Will Wait for Bug Fix - Net surfers with Communicator 4.0 can breathe easy, but those with earlier versions are still vulnerable. The solution? Upgrade, says the company. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Aims CORBA, JavaBeans at Microsoft - The browser company gathers a few of its friends to lure enterprise developers to its Java-centric platform. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Bug Detector: I Did Nothing Wrong - In an interview with Wired News, Christian Orellana says he asked Netscape for more than the usual US$1,000 for details on a browser bug because of the work he did to uncover it, not to blackmail Netscape. The company still considers it a threat. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Dodges Bug, 'Extortion' Bullet - Netscape engineers have reproduced the bug which a Danish consultant lorded over them much of this week. Plus, an email trail from the bug spotter to the browser-maker. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Dodges Bug, 'Extortion' Bullet - Netscape engineers have reproduced the bug which a Danish consultant lorded over them much of this week. Plus, an email trail from the bug spotter to the browser-maker. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Isn't Cowed by CDF Netcaster Support - Microsoft thinks it's upping the ante in its browser war with Netscape, which wonders what the fuss is all about. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Kiosk Takes Control - In Netscape's new Kiosk mode, all control of the local computer is relinquished - just don't call it a beta! [Wired News]
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- Netscape Loses Inside Track on HTML Standard - The company that considers standards compliance the battle cry of their brand now must watch as Microsoft declares its latest victory. [Wired News]
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- Netscape's Bug-Ridden Beta Has Promise - Jeffrey Veen holds out hope for Communicator, Netscape's latest crash-prone piece of code. [Wired News]
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- Netscape's Key Recovery: That's Business - The browser firm opted to hand over the backdoor keys to your email to the government. Not to worry - it's only email. Right? [Wired News]
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- Netscape's New Communicator Lacks Netcaster - The browser company unveiled preview release 5 of its Communicator software - this one without its trumpeted push technology. [Wired News]
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- Netscape's New Communicator Lacks Netcaster - The browser company unveiled Preview Release 5 of its Communicator software, this one without its trumpeted push technology. [Wired News]
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- Netscape: We Had Security Fix All Along - Netscape reveals its quick answer for a newly discovered security hole - just upgrade. But if the solution's so easy, why was there a bug in the first place? [Wired News]
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- Network Associates Disavows Key Recovery Tie - Citing unintended political consequences, Network Associates - the new owner of PGP - has withdrawn from the Key Recovery Alliance. [Wired News]
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- Network Dream Faces a Familiar Obstacle - As Netscape maneuvers into the network enterprise market, it faces a standards battle against - who else? - its old foe Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- New Alliance Stirs Java Speculation - Details have yet to be announced, but most industry observers believe the Apple-Microsoft alliance won't have much impact on the language's future. [Wired News]
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- New Gene Chip Makes Matches by the Millions - Your Human Genome Project at work: A new chip can analyze one million segments of DNA at a time and help doctors identify rapidly mutating viruses. [Wired News]
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- New IE 4.0 Security Hole Discovered - If you surf with Microsoft's new browser, watch out for links that begin "res://" - they might just lead you to a nasty surprise. [Wired News]
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- New IE3 Bug Far from Deadly - Another IE3 bug has emerged while Microsoft is still reeling from the first. But don't hit the panic button - this one's small time. [Wired News]
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- New Net Hub Will Speed Data to Latin America - The service will provide Caribbean, Central American, and South American countries with a faster, more direct link to the Internet. [Wired News]
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- New Satellite Economy - The Package - In a four-day special report, Wired News looks at changes in the satellite economy and Teledesic's formative role in it. [Wired News]
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- New Software Will Never Forget a Face - Face-recognition technology will help computers remember you so you can forget your passwords and PINs. [Wired News]
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- New Toll-Free Dialing Prefix Coming - All the 800 numbers are gone, and the 888 numbers are going fast. Plan for your 877 while you can. Operators are standing by. [Wired News]
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- Next ATMs Will Flog Soda, Tickets, Mortgages ... - It's an ATM world: A Canadian bank opened without any branches, and Australians may soon buy pop at the cash machine. [Wired News]
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- Next Netscape Will Chew Cookies on Command - A new proposed Internet standard aims to put cookie control squarely in the hands of the user. And that puts Netscape in an uncomfortable spot. [Wired News]
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- Next up for Obsolescence: Human Foibles - MIT's Pattie Maes says computers will become prosthetics for the mind, helping us cope with everyday annoyances such as trying to remember names. [Wired News]
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- Nokia Rolls Out Wireless Pay Phone - The system might find a home on buses and subways. But will there be much call for it? [Wired News]
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- Nomad Robot Toils in Sojourner's Shadow - Though eclipsed by its Red Planet-roving cousin, Nomad has achieved milestones that could lead to better bots. [Wired News]
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- Object-Oriented Publishing Meets the Web - Spending countless hours managing your site? Webmonkey looks at smart publishing systems. [Wired News]
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- Old Hands Give Internet2 a Helping Hand - Despite the general hands-off, no-government approach engendered in Net fever, the next-generation Internet will again depend on the government and universities that helped develop it years ago. [Wired News]
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- One Paint Chip Could Ruin Your Whole Space Trip - Orbiting junk and meteoroids pose a serious space shuttle threat. A new report offers NASA some ideas on how to lessen the risk. [Wired News]
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- One Small Step for Priorities ... - A National Research Council report suggests ways for NASA to continue to proceed with space exploration in an era of reduced R&D funding. [Wired News]
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- Opening Communication Between PCs and Phones - As caller ID technology enters the telco mainstream, inexpensive PC applications are starting to take advantage of call-tracking to create tighter links between PCs and telephones. [Wired News]
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- Orbital Launches into Competition - The medium-Earth-orbit satellite system plans to offer services like Internet access and email - just like Teledesic. [Wired News]
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- OS to Be, but BeBox Not to Be - With little potential for broad-based success, Be founder Jean-Louis Gass e bails out of the hardware biz. [Wired News]
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- OS, Schmo-S - Give Us Wireless Apps - As Microsoft assumes that its operating system is what every device wants, vendors like Geoworks are giving wireless communicators an OS that is as unimportant as possible. [Wired News]
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- Oscilloscopes for Everyone! - Complex and expensive scientific instruments are making the leap from the lab bench to the PC browser window. [Wired News]
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- Out of Band Bug Kicks Users Off Networks - A denial of service attack aimed at Microsoft's OS prompts the software king to pull back on the release of NT Service Pack 3. [Wired News]
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- Out of Power, Not Luck: Chip Ensures Memory - Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and France Telecom have developed a prototype memory chip that uses protons to retain its data even when the power is turned off. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta Omnibus: Sci Eye, Bungie Jump, Play-It-Buro - Vincent di Fate's Infinite Worlds showcases sci-fi art; a new level of combat gaming is achieved by Myth; and Tom Clancy's company Red Storm Entertainment releases Politika, a game of power-brokering. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta: Community Building Blocks - Identifying a woefully underserved market, entrepreneurial-minded Web start-ups are selling their proprietary authoring and production tools. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta: Moonraker Meets Main Street - CyberSuit digitizes human movements of every kind: Stick a person in the suit, get them jumping around, and all the motion from their hands down to their feet is captured. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta: Must-See Digital TV - ACTV, a New York based one-to-one television programming company, is aiming at an easy target for interactive TV: the armchair quarterback. [Wired News]
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- Outta Beta: True Pull - General Magic rolls out Serengeti, an electronic assistant that channels everything from appointment schedules to Internet data through the common telephone. And with a Voice User Interface, it avoids the annoying touch-tone navigation approach. [Wired News]
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- Pac Bell Junks Cable TV for Wireless TV - Maybe - After pulling the plug Thursday on its San Jose cable television project, Pacific Bell is touting its wireless TV project in Los Angeles. Analysts wonder how long that will last. [Wired News]
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- Pager: 'You've Got Email' - Your beeper will soon be able to selectively screen for important messages and let you know when they arrive. [Wired News]
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- Painting the Landscape of a Wireless Frontier - People have dreamed of a connected world where computers will seamlessly communicate with a plethora of wireless devices. More and more, the talk is shifting to how to make this a reality. [Wired News]
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- PalmPilot Adds a New Page to PDA Market - An add-in card will enable one-way paging capabilities. Also: Motorola contracts for the Celestri satellite constellation framework. [Wired News]
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- ParaGraph Lends Dimension to SGI's Web Deux - Just-acquired technology breathes new life into Silicon Graphics' 3-D worlds. [Wired News]
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- Patchwork Is Key to New Tech Innovations - New technologies and products aren't invented so much as sewn together now that business and market forces have come into play, a Harvard professor says in an upcoming book. [Wired News]
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- Patent Expires on Crypto Granddaddy - The Diffie-Hellman public-key encryption system, the basis for a variety of current security products, is now freely available to anyone who wants it. [Wired News]
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- PC Games Get a Reality Check - Interactive, high-quality videos in PC games will give players a vivid, 360-degree experience. [Wired News]
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- PDAs Have Ears to the Ground at Comdex - PalmPilots have won over the market with their size and simplicity. But with the personal digital assistant game moving to new frontiers, like speech recognition, competitors are lining up fast. [Wired News]
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- Pedal, Speed Racer, Pedal! - At the Human Powered Vehicle Competition, 30 teams of mechanical engineering students from across the US and Canada will vie for the world speed record using only brute strength and some pretty fancy alloys. [Wired News]
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- Pegasus Soars Beyond Spam Goof - When a US government security bulletin called a popular email program a spam tool, all heck broke loose. [Wired News]
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- Perl: The Web Is Its Oyster - A gem of a scripting language sparkles in tech guru Simson Garfinkel's eyes. [Wired News]
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- PGP Enters New Phase: Corporate Networks - A fixture in the freeware underground, PGP is now catering to the Fortune 500 with a new software package. [Wired News]
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- PGP's Export Solution: Stamps, Envelopes - The cryptography company is launching a technical newsletter for developers, cryptographers, clients, and fans. And no, you can't get it on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Phantom Limbs Show Doctors the Surgery Ropes - A kinesthetic machine simulates the body, so doctors make their mistakes long before the operating room. [Wired News]
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- Philippines to Let Fingers Do the Identification - New Social Security ID cards will bear bar codes with fingerprint scans. [Wired News]
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- PICS Walks Fine Line on Net Filtering - The World Wide Web Consortium's updates to the content-labeling framework are meant to smooth the way for transparent filtering mechanisms. And they're sure to bring more fuel for the Internet censorship debate. [Wired News]
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- Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen - A Pennsylvania researcher finds that you can lead a pig to a videogame, teach it to play, and make it learn some language skills. [Wired News]
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- Pioneer Flatlines, but Probes Keep on Trekkin' - NASA may have turned out the lights on its 25-year-old Pioneer 10 project, but the agency's other endeavors continue on into deep space. [Wired News]
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- Please Hold While Windows NT Transfers Your Call - Wherever there is a processor, there is a marketplace for Windows, Microsoft believes, including your office switchboard system. [Wired News]
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- Please Hold. A Robot Will Be with You Shortly - Brightware's artificial intelligence software will automate customer service on Web commerce sites. Will it be any good? [Wired News]
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- PointCast Adds Bells and Whistles to Its Push - User-interface and performance improvements are among the firm's effort to step ahead of its competitors in the growing field of push technology. [Wired News]
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- Posse Sniffs Ether to Track Yahoo Scammer - Members of the inet-access mailing list follow the "Verse Chorus Verse" trail to come up with the suspected perp in the Yahoo credit-card caper. The 13-year-old's mom is stunned. [Wired News]
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- Power Supply Helps PC Chips Beat the Heat - Your computer's fan is blowing off wasted energy. But researchers hope a new diode will chill things out. [Wired News]
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- Pranksters Pull a Sly One on Fox - For several hours, Fox Interactive's homepage was altered to send a cryptic message to a fictional FBI agent. [Wired News]
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- Predicting Browser Trends - Jeff Veen weighs using a new technology before it's mature enough to be trusted, or risking missing the Next Big Thing by being conservative. [Wired News]
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- Pretty Good Politics - RSA Data Security pushes its proprietary encryption technology as an industry standard. Simson Garfinkel takes a peek. [Wired News]
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- Prioritizing Net Traffic - New systems have the potential to help manage network traffic loads. But does anyone want a Net where you actually do get what you pay for? [Wired News]
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- Prisons Aim to Keep, and Keep Ahead of, Convicts - The California corrections system, the largest and most technically advanced in the nation, is a testbed for prison technology. [Wired News]
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- Privacy by Law - Secure crypto has always been dogged by crackers wielding ever-increasing amounts of computing power. But no amount of chip power can circumvent the laws of physics - and that's the keystone of quantum cryptography. [Wired News]
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- Probe's Tear May Waylay Cassini - For the second time in a month, a blemish has cropped up on NASA's controversial mission. [Wired News]
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- Progressive Moves to Conquer Streaming Video - Progressive wants its RealVideo to do for your eyes what RealAudio's done for your ears. [Wired News]
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- Project Mnemonic Aids Addled Browsers - A new freeware browser takes on the bloated giants by picking and choosing the features it adds. [Wired News]
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- Project Sounds Seismic Sirens Sooner - Seismic triage would allow emergency crews to spread their forces faster. [Wired News]
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- Protecting Your Electronic Self - The Internet Background Check, a one-stop search of online information databases, tells you who's got the dirt on [your name here]. [Wired News]
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- Providers Race to Beat the World-Wide Wait - Dramatic increases in high-capacity connections to homes has backbone providers rushing to strike up the bandwidth. [Wired News]
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- Putting a Female Face on Technology - Scientists and researchers are gathering at a different kind of tech conference: The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which seeks to increase the ranks of women in the fields of computing and technology. [Wired News]
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- Putting Your Data in a New Dimension - For years, humans have had to bend their minds to the way PCs display information. Perspecta and others hope to reverse this situation. [Wired News]
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- Question 1: Define Human - Technology has finally made the cloning of humans possible, now all Congress has to do is figure out what 'cloning humans' really means. [Wired News]
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- QuietWare Lets Net Surfers Turn On and Tune Out - New Web headsets are helping folks create their own soundproof booths. [Wired News]
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- Radio Networks Signal a Wireless Internet - Simson Garfinkel says RAM and ARDIS networks are a nice start, but there's work to do. [Wired News]
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- Radio Telescopes: Astronomy's Next Big Wave - Astronomers in New Mexico are using radio telescopes to get images from black holes and quasars that optical telescopes aren't able to deliver. They did it by lofting an antenna into space. [Wired News]
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- Rambus Helps Memory Catch Up to Processors - Faster microprocessors trip up poky chips. Newly public Rambus is hoping to close this gap with its new protocol. [Wired News]
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- RedButton Lets Anyone Be Everyone - A security hole in Windows NT grants even password-challenged users network access. [Wired News]
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- RedOwl Lets Human Net Monitors Rest Easier - A new service for watching over servers fills a void and may enhance the Net's reliability. [Wired News]
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- Reload, Redraw, Repeat - Redundant ad banners are a waste of time and bandwidth, but the solution requires an unlikely truce between the browser companies. [Wired News]
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- Remove IE? Do We Have the Technology? - The Add/Remove feature in Windows 95 will disable the browser without major fallout. Microsoft admits that much, but says that's not what the Justice Department and Judge Jackson asked for. [Wired News]
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- Reporter's Notebook: Bill Live, at 8.5 Kbps - As Bill Gates entertained the Comdex masses Sunday night with glimpses of the new Web lifestyle, one "attendee" experienced the future, here and now. [Wired News]
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- Robot Takes the Heat for NY Utility Crews - How does Con Edison repair the problems of 19th-century steam pipes? It builds its own 21st-century solution. [Wired News]
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- Roche Rx: Helix Thyself - The bioscience company will evaluate the GeneChip technology developed by Affymetrix. [Wired News]
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- Rocket Jockey - A curious blend of '50s hot rod and 21st-century jet come together in a game as inventive as it is addictive. [Wired News]
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- Rockwell Claims Suit Delays Standards Process - The modem-maker is charged with misappropriating the ideas of the man 3Com credits - and pays - for the 56K technology. Rockwell's reaction is dubious to some. [Wired News]
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- Romanian Cracker Faced Few Obstacles - A dearth of laws governing computer crime in Eastern Europe set the stage for this weekend's Undernet attack. [Wired News]
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- Romanian Cracker Takes Down the Undernet - A Romanian teen cracked many of the Net's chat servers this past weekend, and also hit several ISPs, including AOL. [Wired News]
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- Route Locally, Send Globally - By creating a network of private, local routing stations, a Seattle company hopes to bring more reliability to messaging over the Internet. [Wired News]
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- RSA Blows Standards Smoke - The data security company claims it's on the road to an open S/MIME standard. Crypto peers smell a lie. [Wired News]
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- RSA Crackers Throw a Fit, Launch Syn Flood - When Earle Ady assembled a team of 10,000 machines to take on the latest RSA Data Security Secret-Key Challenge, he didn't expect they'd attack each other. [Wired News]
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- RSA Creates Email Standards Battle - After RSA dropped the ball on submitting its S/MIME email encryption technology to the IETF, PGP stepped in with its own solution. The end result may be a double standard. [Wired News]
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- S/MIME Cracked by a Screensaver - Adding to RSA's problems in getting S/MIME approved as an email encryption standard, crypto expert Bruce Schneier is giving away the program to crack it. [Wired News]
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- S3 Dusts off VRML, Boxes It Up for '97 - Virtual Reality Modeling Language is a case study in vaporware. But this may be the year it happens without hassle. [Wired News]
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- Satellite Swatter Stops Spies in Space - A stealthy space craft is part of the US Army's efforts to engage in its own star wars. [Wired News]
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- Scammers Use Yahoo Again - A message circulating the Net falsely announces prizes, then asks recipients to send their credit card information to an address at Yahoo Mail. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Big Brother Is Washing You - Soap up. Hygience Guard, an infrared system by Net/Tech International, catches food-service employees with their pants down. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Irrefutable Evidence - The FBI builds a DNA database. Authorized by the 1994 DNA Identification Act, the system will be used by state, local, and federal authorities to help solve crimes in which DNA evidence is routinely left usually in sexual assault cases. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Lighter Laptops? - Plastic batteries may lighten portable computers, but their lifespan still leaves many wanting more. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Most Valuable Player - Inderpal Bhandari has created a data-mining application called Advanced Scout. It's transforming the way NBA coaches prep for games. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Nano Feelies - Scientists have created a mechanism that enables them to virtually manipulate specimens, making them appear 1 million times larger than actual size. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Tracking Turbulence - Wind sheer has always imperiled airplanes during rapid ascent or steep landings. A new Doppler radar system could save lives. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Find the Human Cheat Code - The recently isolated protein telomerase may hold the key to extending human life. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Hunt for Silicon Replacement - Advances in superconductor science may have wide-ranging implications for the computer and communications industry. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Mine Bacteria for Better Storage - It turns out that a protein found in salt marshes could be the key to a high-density data-storage system. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Send Satellite to Scope Seascape - Oceanographers hope an orbiting sensor will yield pictures and information about the deep unknown. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Set Out on Sonar Sea Hunt - Improvements in sonar are helping a team of researchers plumb the murky depths of the Mediterranean in search of Roman cargo and make heads and tails of tiny objects. [Wired News]
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- Scientists Set Out on Sonar Sea Hunt - Improvements in sonar are helping a team of researchers plumb the murky depths of the Mediterranean in search of Roman cargo and make heads and tails of tiny objects. [Wired News]
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- Scoping Out the History of the Universe - New data from the Hubble and W. M. Keck telescopes reveal clues about how we got here. [Wired News]
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- Seattle Station Joins the Digital TV Bunch - KOMO TV begins testing high-definition television. But wait 15 years to judge the results. [Wired News]
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- Security Report Begs Explanation - A government/industry collaboration to protect the "critical infrastructures" in the networked cyber age is long on goals, short on specifics. [Wired News]
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- Seeding Intelligence - MIT professor Rodney Brooks' AI made it to Mars. Now, he's trying to dispel the myth that there's something special about being human. [Wired News]
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- Seeing His Work in Action, in Space - Rodney Brooks' work is helping drive Sojourner. [Wired News]
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- Serial Killer App Helps Cops Get Their Crook - A software program created in the Vancouver Police Department helps hunt serial criminals. [Wired News]
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- SET Coming Together Slowly But Surely - The major credit-card companies underscore the point that secure online credit-card transactions are becoming a reality. [Wired News]
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- SGI Pumps Up Workstations With Octane - The high-performance desktop line will deliver more of what the company does best - so long as it can sell them. [Wired News]
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- Shockwave Security Hole Leaves Email Exposed - The latest Web security hole threatens users of Netscape Navigator 3.0 and the popular Macromedia Shockwave plug-in. [Wired News]
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- Shutting the Door on Cookies and Applets - As cookies and other downloadable programs have a field day collecting Web user data, new programs are being developed to thwart the pesky invaders. [Wired News]
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- Shuttle Experiment Takes Silicon Chips to Task - What changes take place in silicon disks as they are cooled in liquid helium? The answer may help develop the next generation of microprocessors. [Wired News]
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- SIFT May Help Censorware Firms Close Ranks - A new coalition aims to bring Internet filtering software companies under an ethical umbrella. But enforcement is another matter. [Wired News]
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- Sight for Poor Eyes: Hard-Wiring the Retina - Researchers at John Hopkins University hope their retina chip may one day restore a level of sight to the blind. [Wired News]
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- Simulation Fills in Universe's Billion-Year Holes - A new tool of theoretical astronomy will give researchers a better idea of what happened after the Big Bang. [Wired News]
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- Simulation Has Its Limits - Despite great increases in processing power, computers are still struggling to provide researchers with accurate simulations. [Wired News]
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- Sky's the Limit for Privately Run Spaceport - California's Spaceport is set to take off in the privatized space-freight biz. Can it avoid the problems that have dogged recent launches? [Wired News]
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- SkyBridge, Celestri Struggle to Catch Up - The late entrants in the race to set up an Internet in the Sky are finding creative ways to slip into others' spectral streams. The second installment in a four-day Wired News special report. [Wired News]
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- Sloshed Mice May Help Humans Dry Out - Researchers are isolating the genetic material in mice that may also govern alcohol-withdrawal symptoms in humans. [Wired News]
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- Small Satellites Push for Elbow Room - When it comes to competing with large geostationary orbit satellites, services such as Teledesic have to finesse their way into microgravity. [Wired News]
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- Small-Form Displays Graduate to Clarity - A three-year-old California start-up says one word will change the future of high-quality wireless websurfing devices: optics. [Wired News]
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- Smart Drugs Top Hype List - Deflating this month's overblown memes. [Wired News]
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- Smart Guns Know You From the Bad Guys - Robber got your gun? Soon, thanks to Colt, you may be able to let him take it. [Wired News]
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- Smart Web-Publishing into the Future - Jeffrey takes his investigation of object-oriented Web publishing systems into the future. He sees beyond stylesheets to the world of XML. [Wired News]
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- Smartcard Privacy Tops This Month's Hype List - Other overhyped memes include Virtual LANs, Parody Web Sites, and Network Computers. [Wired News]
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- SMIL Hopes to Weave the Streams - A new markup language under consideration with the World Wide Web Consortium could change the face of multimedia on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Snooping on Workers Goes PC - As new technologies make spying on employees easy and profitable, what you think your boss doesn't know can hurt you. [Wired News]
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- Software That Reduces Your Soul to a Scribble - New software makes it easy for companies to screen applicants by handwriting samples. And if the folks that sell the programs have their way, your future employers will use them. [Wired News]
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- Sojourner Settles in for Long-Term Look - After wheeling around the Mars surface, the rover will now focus on studying the planet's atmosphere. [Wired News]
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- Sound Scapes: a Much Sharper Image - Most ultrasounds send sound waves through the body, but only use some of the signals to create a picture. A new technology from Sequoia fully processes all the signals. [Wired News]
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- Spamming for Dummies - The latest spam is selling spam itself - a package that turns any Win 95 user into a bulk emailer. [Wired News]
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- Sparrow Leads E-Car Charge - The major automakers are edging into the electric vehicle retail market. But they're already facing some stiff competition, in the form of entrepreneur Mike Corbin's bulbous three-wheeled wonder. [Wired News]
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- Speeding Web Graphics - Help is available for obese graphics in the form of new compression applications that slim down images bound for the Web. [Wired News]
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- Spoofing and the Hazards of Careless Surfing - Caveat surfer: Princeton researchers say many people are easily fooled into giving up private information. [Wired News]
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- Standards Bodies: A Field Guide - In the emerging world of open standards, a few organizations are playing an increasingly critical role. [Wired News]
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- Standards Break May Doom Rewritable DVD - NEC follows Sony in breaking with the DVD-RAM specification. Looks like a format war for sure. [Wired News]
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- Standards Group Jolts Java, Rejects Sun Bid - Sun's attempt to become the standards body for Java was thwarted by a US committee. Back to the drawing board. [Wired News]
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- Star Gazing: Netscape Ships Constellation Early - How will Netcaster stack up against IE 4.0? Jeff Veen takes a peek. [Wired News]
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- Stars, Extras, and Other Agents on Parade - A dog and a barmaid are stars at the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents. [Wired News]
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- Steering You toward a Lighter Commute - Etak's demo Web site lets commuters get the traffic information they need - when they need it. [Wired News]
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- Steet Cred: Head Space - MetaCreations' CD-ROM Life in the Universe makes the most of multimedia and gives life to the heady theories of physics guru Stephen Hawking. [Wired News]
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- Stratospheric Net Service Floats into Action - Sky Station's balloon-based plans to enable speedy connections for laptops and handhelds are catching flak, but things are beginning to take off now that it's jettisoned a cool but impractical engine. Plus: How clever angling may land Sky Station the big spectrum. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: DVD on Trial - Toshiba's new DVD player delivers cool new technology, but the inability to record and a dearth of software make this author an unlikely buyer. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Hand Job - The granddaddy of palmtop designers has a computer of totemic proportions on its hands. With a high-definition screen and a proper keyboard, this may be the least-lame handheld on the market. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Hot Connection - Hotline, the freeware communications suite by Adam Hinkley, is a powerhouse built to boost the capabilities of electronic conferencing. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Look Ma, No Hands! - An experimental new automated highway system takes the driving out of human hands - good thing, since 90 percent of all accidents result from human error. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Maybe Next Newton - It's a shame, but despite the great promise of the Newton MessagePad 2000, it's more of a hindrance than a help. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Neverlost - For the adventurer who loves to scout unfamiliar terrain for remote camping or fishing spots, the GPS 2000 system generates a map to find the route back home. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Petite Plume - In the astronaut and oceanographer crowd, Fisher Space Pens are like BICs. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Phat Video - The Targa 2000 RTX digital video board offers speed, power, and real-time video production with a real price tag. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Roam Free - Nextel's new handheld has all the signs of a road warrior crowd pleaser - it doubles as a commando walkie-talkie to satisfy the inner man-child, and offers bean-counter-friendly pricing. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Sacked Out - Hilton's Sleep-Tight rooms provide gadgets that help you sleep like a baby, or provide plenty of distractions for the insomniac. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Secured Digits - I/O software's fingerprint reader creates a system for login security. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Star Hacking - Immersed in the scenery, Paul Saffo reviews his new telescope, the Tele Vue Pronto. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Sweet TeleSuite - Teleconferencing has always been characterized by jerky movements, broken sentences, and line noise. A set-up with a 100-inch display and full eye-contact cameras wants to eliminate the stereotype. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Interface Hackers - Recently, Greg Landweber and some friends released Kaleidoscope, a souped-up version of Aaron that offers an array of colorful interfaces such as Onyx and Ice. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Next NC? - Accessing the Web from your old IBM PC is no longer a dream. The Caldera Spyder is a Web browser designed for computers that run on DOS. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Wired(less) - Better than sliced bread, Metricom's Ricochet wireless modem provides secure Net access at up to 28.8 Kbps - as long as you're in the service area. [Wired News]
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- SuiteSpot: A Soft Spot in Networked Vision? - Who's buying server products like SuiteSpot? In the second installment of a five-part look at Netscape, technology reporter Miguel Helft examines the company's attempt to build the products at the center of the 'networked enterprise.' [Wired News]
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- Sun Buying Smartcard Start-Up - With the take-over of Integrity Arts, the company extends its Java interests to smartcards and databases. [Wired News]
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- Sun Leaps First Hurdle en Route to Java Standard - The ISO has approved Sun's bid to become the publicly available specification submitter for Java, and now the company looks to greener pastures for its prized language. [Wired News]
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- Sun Pressured to Loosen Its Grip on Java - Leading computing companies have sent an open letter to Sun, asking the company to give up its drive to be the ISO Java standards bearer. Sun says it will pass muster. [Wired News]
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- Sun Reportedly Has Lock on Java Stewardship - With its apparent victory for submitter status, Sun may be positioned for the next crucial step: Standardization of the language. [Wired News]
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- Sun Rides to the Rescue of Geriatric PCs - Millions of Net-hobbled 486 machines gather dust around the world. But not for long, says Sun. [Wired News]
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- Sun Sets To Building Supercomputers - Sun Microsystems enters SGI-Cray Research country with a new line of 32-gigaflop supercomputers. But is the race already over? [Wired News]
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- Sun Spawns New Scripting Division - A quietly popular scripting language is now going to get more individual attention. [Wired News]
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- Sun Takes Java by Horns with Activator - Sometimes to get anything done you have to do it yourself, Sun appears to be saying with today's release of the browser add-on that replaces Microsoft's virtual machine with Sun's runtime environment. [Wired News]
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- Sun Unfazed by US Java Vote - Despite the United States' delegation's rejection of Sun's bid to make Java an ISO standard, executives are optimistic. [Wired News]
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- Sun Unveils New Java GUI Tools - But the new class libraries may fuel the feud between Sun and Microsoft for control of the language. [Wired News]
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- Sun's Adventures in the Third Dimension - Long viewed as a computing workhorse, Sun Microsystems is now looking to grab some of SGI's special-effects glory - and profits as well. [Wired News]
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- Sun's Java Standards Bid Hobbles Along - The votes are in, but the process is far from completed. [Wired News]
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- Sun's Not Bowing in Standards Battle - Despite general industry and ISO disapproval of Sun's bid to become the international Java standards bearer, the company remains intent on its course. [Wired News]
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- Sun, Microsoft Release the 'Java Papers' - Both sides in the language-licensing jihad post their contract on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Super Computer Fills in Genetic Gaps - A microindustry growing as a result of the Human Genome Project is that of souped-up search engines that help researchers find matches for genes. [Wired News]
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- Supercomputer Simulates Sun in 3-D - 3-D simulations of the sun's upper atmosphere may help scientists predict solar storms, which affect satellites in space and electrical grids on Earth. [Wired News]
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- Surfin' the Plasma Waves - Plasma-wave technology promises to deliver information at terahertz rates - but not anytime soon. [Wired News]
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- Surfing on Radio Waves - Affordable Web surfing without the wires, Ricochet brings wireless Net to the masses. [Wired News]
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- Suspected Pentium Bug May Harm ISPs - A reported flaw in the Intel chip may cause computers hooked into a network environment to crash. [Wired News]
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- Swatch Tests Smart-Watch Uses - If the company can successfully put the brains of a smartcard inside its watches, you may never have to carry a wallet again. [Wired News]
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- Talking the Talk across the Net - Internet telephony has lacked some key technology to make it a reality - until now. [Wired News]
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- Tama-Hackers Play God, Catch Hell - The popular virtual-pet game has fallen victim to the cheat-code curious, whose life-and-death hacks are drawing condemnation from Tamagotchi faithful. [Wired News]
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- TCP Bug Threatens Networked Computers - There's yet another uninvited guest to look out for: The Land Bug, which uses standard TCP protocols to wreak its havoc, usually in the form of a machine crash. [Wired News]
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- Tech Solution to Spam a Long, Winding Road - People who want to stop spam are united on curbing the junk mail but are divided on a method for doing so. [Wired News]
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- Teensy Transistors Get Even Smaller - A new nanotech transistor uses a single electron to represent one bit of information. [Wired News]
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- Teledesic Deal: From Russia, with Lift - Teledesic wants to put 840 satellites into space by 2001, and a fleet of converted Russian ICBMs may help get them there. [Wired News]
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- Teledesic Mounts Lead in New Space Race - The story of how Teledesic won the right to build a roving global satellite network is a tale of corporate stealth, new-economy style. The first installment in a four-day Wired News special report. [Wired News]
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- Ten Ways to Make Browsers Better - After yet another year of Web browsing, Jeff Veen offers his browser wish list. Anyone listening? [Wired News]
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- Testimony Gets Animated - Computer-generated simulations are making their way into the courtroom, just as photography did years ago. Question is, will these Jurassic Park witnesses do any good? [Wired News]
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- Testing New Drugs Virtually - Pharsight's simulator is helping design more accurate and productive clinical drug trials - with the hope of curtailing the long and precarious road to FDA approval. [Wired News]
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- Texas Utilities to Buy Into Telecom - In the face of deregulation, one thing seems clear: When the going gets competitive, the big utilities get bigger. [Wired News]
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- That Really Long-Distance Feeling is Calling - Bulky satellite phones were out of reach to everyone but the military and CNN. Now the price and size are coming down to earth. [Wired News]
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- The ADSL Era Is Dawning - Sort Of - Expectations have been high for the high-speed lines in homes and businesses. Now, ADSL is slouching toward fulfilling them. [Wired News]
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- The Architect of Man's Demise - Hugo de Garis is developing technology that will evolve an electronic brain. If it works, he may have written humanity's epitaph. He explains how, in an email interview with Kristi Coale. [Wired News]
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- The Bid to Build a Better Wafer - Chipmaking is a quest for perfection, and two companies are testing a new process to edge closer to this goal. [Wired News]
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- The Boy Who Cried 'Net Access!' - Though Nortel's plan for Net access through the power lines sounds sexy, the system has serious obstacles to overcome, proving once again that there ain't no free lunch on the Internet. [Wired News]
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- The Future is in Beta - Wait around for things to shake out, and you'll be hopelessly behind everyone else before the week is out. "Public beta" software and "under construction" sites have been the norm rather than the cutting edge since the day the first HTML page was set up. [Wired News]
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- The Future of Silicon May Be Carbon - Researchers at two US universities have used strands of DNA to mimic microprocessors. [Wired News]
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- The Information Highway Is Coming - Really - A Silicon Valley firm wants to plug you into your city's highways and byways to help tame traffic. [Wired News]
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- The Joy of CSS: Deliver Us from Tables - Cascading stylesheets may rescue HTML from its bastardizers. [Wired News]
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- The Key to Home Banking is the Human Touch - A new terminal that marries encryption and smartcards with biometric technologies may be the answer for home-banking networks. [Wired News]
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- The Navbar Applet Grows Up - Java was a born Web star. But only now are webmasters starting to figure out how to use it. [Wired News]
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- The Safety of SET - With the joint Visa/Mastercard SET standard due in two weeks, how will secure credit card transactions over the Internet work? [Wired News]
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- The Silicon Mule - Dueling Java classes from Netscape and Microsoft vie for supremacy. [Wired News]
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- The Tech Press Falls Down - Tech journalists are more interested in crises like the Explorer bug than the fundamental problems behind them. [Wired News]
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- The Truth Will Be Out There - It's 2001. Do you know where your privacy went? [Wired News]
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- The Ultimate Caller ID - British astronomer Peter Duffett-Smith has invented a technology that can pinpoint a digital cellular phone's location within a few hundred feet. [Wired News]
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- The Un-Selling of Digital TV - Digital television may save the TV-set industry, or destroy it. It's a dangerous game that has electronics manufacturers donning kid gloves. [Wired News]
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- The Whole Web in Your Hands - PDAs and cellular phones face off in the nascent handheld Web-device market. [Wired News]
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- There's No Need to Speak Slowly and Clearly - Dragon Systems, a pioneer in the field of computer speech recognition technology, claims to have found its Holy Grail - software that can understand natural speech without stilted pauses. [Wired News]
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- Think You Know Push? Your Leg's Being Pulled - Despite what you've been sold, what you're getting isn't true push. Don't worry, though. It's coming. [Wired News]
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- This Is Your Brain on VR - A student's novel marriage of virtual reality and neuroimaging opens a new window to the mind, and a pretty cool PhD thesis. [Wired News]
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- This Is Your Brain's OS on esreveR hceepS - Reverse speech, in David Oates's mind, isn't what you say or even how you say it - it's how you say it backward that matters. [Wired News]
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- This Virus Detector Makes House Calls - Trend Micro's new service will check your files for viruses. All you have to do is dial in to their servers. [Wired News]
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- TIFNY Cuts through Usenet Garbage - The new tool makes downloading Usenet graphics as easy as watching a television program. [Wired News]
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- Tilling the Tech for Better Tractors - Stanford researchers and John Deere are working on GPS satellite-guided farm equipment. [Wired News]
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- Tiny Ruler Makes the Little Things Count - A new "ruler" made of alternating layers of metallic elements can measure distances as small as one atom. [Wired News]
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- To Win the Game, Change the Rules - The GEOS operating system, at the heart of the Nokia 9000 communicator, could succeed in wooing PC users away from the desktop. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Acronyms You Can't Live Without - It's a bizarre time in the software industry. It's your job to keep up. Which obscure acronym should you drop at the next multimedia cocktail party? [Wired News]
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- Tools: Are You Stealing Fonts? - Every few months, the battle over Web-based typography appears on the horizon, is fought through press releases and breathless announcements, then settles under the surface again. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Design Utopia - Are you a Web designer? Ever even put a page online? I've got a tantalizing prospect for you. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview 2 - IE 4 takes another step forward: Do we have a winner? [Wired News]
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- Tools: Mark Hurst, Ease-of-Use Evangelist - Ever wish you could just point and click your way to interesting stuff, avoiding the inane hoops we jump through every day just to stay online? You're not alone. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Put Your Browser Where? - A browser built in to an operating system is a good thing. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Test Your Designs - on People! - Providing users with a consistent, easy-to-use interface to your Web site isn't just good for your hit count, it's a simple matter of respect for those who have chosen to visit your page. But how can you be sure? [Wired News]
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- Tools: The Next Generation of Stylesheets - So, you've mastered Cascading Style Sheets, right? Yeah, me neither. [Wired News]
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- Tools: What has Happened to Java? - As if on cue, Java has popped back into the media's consciousness recently. Sun filed suit against Microsoft for, among other things, breach of contract in the dispute over Microsoft's Java license. [Wired News]
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- Tools: What You Should Know about HTML 4.0 - Seems like just about everything on the Web turned 4.0 this summer. Not to be outdone, the World Wide Web Consortium released a new version of the official HTML specification for public review and comment. [Wired News]
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- Tools: What's the Big Idea with Scriptlets?! - As HTML dives headfirst into the future, there's a growing sense of unease among those of us not exactly comfortable with writing pages of code just to move a headline across the screen. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Why Channels Suck - The television-meets-the-Web analogy is running along in full force: There are dozens of channels, but nothing to watch. [Wired News]
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- Tools: Will CSS Open Up? - While stylesheets might seem like an obvious direction to move in, it may well be a long and arduous journey. [Wired News]
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- Tornado Gives Universal Messaging a Whirl - Staying connected usually means having to deal with different communications systems. A Java applet promises to reduce this complexity. [Wired News]
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- Total Photonics: A Sight for Sore ISPs - Lucent is getting ready to show off new laser-beam network switching that speeds voice, video, and data traffic. The next futuristic fantasy you see may be real. [Wired News]
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- Traffic to Take the High Road - for a Price - Unfortunately, a bulk email will traverse the Net as fast as a live audio stream. But MCI and Cicso believe that people will pay to have their packets get there first. [Wired News]
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- Training Wheels - With the help of biorobotics, one company is finding ways to extend a wheelchairs utility, and thus its power. [Wired News]
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- Transistor Technology Takes a Quantum Leap - Researchers at the Sandia National Labs are using "quantum tunnelling" to dramatically increase the speed at which transistors operate and reduce the number needed for integrated circuits. [Wired News]
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- Treknology - Non-Boring Technology - Presidents, prime ministers, and corporate executives want to instill in the young an interest in technology and the future, to make genetic research more appealing than gangsta rap. I offer a proposal guaranteed to succeed: more Star Trek. [Wired News]
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- Tuner Aims to Netrify Fax, Copy Machines - A new software design for silicon chips is being used by consumer electronics manufacturers to lend text and graphical capabilities to fax machines, copy machines, phones, and the like. [Wired News]
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- Turning Bipolar in Face of New Markets - Deregulation is forcing utilities to re-approach their business and decide - offense or defense? [Wired News]
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- Two Modems Double Your Data Pleasure - With a little software, a second modem, and some sense of invention, you can roll your own high-capacity bandwidth lines. [Wired News]
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- UK Coder Builds New Anti-Spam Weapon - Steve Harris arms flamers with an automatic weapon: Spam Hater. [Wired News]
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- Uncle Sam Wages Low-Tech War on High-Tech Fraud - If it takes a thief to catch a thief, does it take high-tech gizmos to catch high-tech frauds? Such was the discussion at a futurist conference. [Wired News]
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- US AIDS Progress Is Bad News for Tijuana - A new generation of powerful anti-HIV "cocktails" is saving lives in San Diego. Across the border in Tijuana, more people will die as a result. [Wired News]
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- US Computer Security Called a Critical Mess - Saying America's critical infrastructure "stinks," security guru Peter Neumann fires off a warning over the Clinton administration's "obvious" recommendations for staving off hacks. [Wired News]
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- US Robotics Unveils Cost-Cutting Cable Modem - The modem maker has announced a cable modem priced to compete with the telephone boxes - and incentives for cable TV operators to get hustling. [Wired News]
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- US Votes 'No' on Sun's Java Plan - But company officials, noting other support, remain optimistic of passage. [Wired News]
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- US, Japan Test Trans-Pacific's Golden Spike - A trans-oceanic network of satellites and fiber-optic cable may be the way to bring the superhighway to remote areas. [Wired News]
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- Usenet Attacker Still at Large - The Rice University student fingered in the ongoing Net-wide attack on Usenet was just an unwitting copycat, say university officials. [Wired News]
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- Usenet News Servers Take a Beating - While a student at Rice University has been nabbed as the suspected culprit in the attack that has affected 130 sites, Usenet servers are still falling. [Wired News]
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- Usenet Servers under Assault - An ongoing attack affecting potentially thousands of news servers just might be the largest systemic assault since the Internet worm of 1988. [Wired News]
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- USPS Stamps Company for Electronic Postage - No more fishing for coins to buy stamps. Now users can print postage along with the rest of their docs. [Wired News]
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- Video Conferencing for the Masses - With improvements plodding along, one developer is trying to make the technology as commonplace in chat groups as email is in office networks. [Wired News]
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- Vintage Infobot Falls to Email Abuse - In the pre-Web days, you could get just about anything you wanted through email. But the infobots are fading away under abuse and the march of obsolesence. [Wired News]
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- Virtual Dig Brings Ruins to Surface - Britain's fourth-largest Roman ruins are getting "extruded," without a single spade. [Wired News]
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- Voice-Over Provides Identification - Speech verification is the latest in secure ID technology. Simson Garfinkel looks at neat hardware already in the works. [Wired News]
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- VR Videoconferencing Enables Real Work - MuSE Technologies' Continuum system dissolves the geographical distances that often hinder a collaborative working environment. [Wired News]
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- Wanna Know How High You're Biking? - Paul Kedrosky reviews the Cyclometer, a serious cyclist's dream gizmo that's a lot like an airplane altimeter. [Wired News]
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- Water and Wealth at Odds in High-Tech West - A coalition of environmental groups publishes a report alleging abuse of water resources by chipmaking companies, and seeks to have the evidence put into a museum. [Wired News]
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- WavePhore Gives Home PC Content Room to Roam - WavePhore teams with PBS to offer six channels of programming. And the good news is that it's free. Sort of. [Wired News]
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- Web 101: How Computers Communicate - Did you know computers talk to each other? [Wired News]
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- Web Design Needs Contextual Clues - Jeff Veen reminds designers: The point is to keep readers focused on reading content, not trying to find it. [Wired News]
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- Webcastabunga: Extreme Networking Hits Slopes - William Mutual has made a career out of putting live events on the Web with a hodgepodge hookup of satellites, fiber, spread spectrum, lasers - and spit. He's going for it again, this time from a mountaintop in Alaska. [Wired News]
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- Webmonkey Tools: Navigator Turns 4.0 - for Real - In the hyperspeed development of the Web, weeks turn into eons and product life cycles are measured quarterly. [Wired News]
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- Webmonkey: The Web in the Palm of Your Hand - With the power of pure information accesss, HDML is like a graphic-free version of HTML with forms support on a 12- by 4-character display. [Wired News]
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- Webmonkey: Tools - Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 pushes "Push." [Wired News]
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- WebTV Plus Raises the Stakes - The set-top box maker has added some serious hardware to its product that raises the question: Is interactive TV back? [Wired News]
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- Weird Science Comes in Small Satellites - A group of Los Alamos scientists have a concept for tiny solar-powered satellites that would perform simple tasks as they orbit the earth. It's an out-there project, for sure, but just wait 'til it does get there. [Wired News]
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- Welcome to the Celestial Junkyard - With a dizzying array of space debris whizzing above Earth, the chance of satellites colliding is growing increasingly large. The final installment in a four-part Wired News special report. [Wired News]
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- Western Digital Comes Clean on Disk Crash - The hard-drive manufacturer says foreign matter got into a batch of Caviar units, and is now trying to reel in the dirty drives. [Wired News]
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- What is IMAP? - Sean Welch tells all about a system that now allows users to access and manipulate messages on their mail server in the same way they access them locally. [Wired News]
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- What's Missing in the 4.0 Browser Betas - Paul Boutin's 5.0 Browser Wish List includes real desktop integration, behavior tracking, and a real Java scripting language, among other things. [Wired News]
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- What's on Push Tonight? - Phlip.Net is set to unveil a Web site that serves as your push-channel directory. [Wired News]
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- When It Comes to Standards, Everyone's a Suit - Netscape not only pledges, it guarantees that it's committed to open technology standards. But is it? Technology reporter Chris Jones goes to the front lines of the Internet standards wars. [Wired News]
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- Where Do You Want To Bank Today? - Microsoft's online banking development platform will help banks get on the Web - provided they use Microsoft's server platforms. [Wired News]
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- Who Says You Can't Take It with You? - Microsoft says it can cure the World Wide Wait; nevermind that Freeloader already did it. [Wired News]
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- Why Wireless Net Access May Not Be a Pipe Dream - The FCC's move to open a bit of the radio spectrum to the public for Net access could return the airwaves to the people. [Wired News]
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- Why Wireless Net Access May Not Be a Pipedream - The FCC's move to open a bit of the radio spectrum to the public for Net access could return the airwaves to the people. [Wired News]
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- Wide-Ranging Vision, and Feet on the Ground - NASA researchers, crash-test technicians at Ford, and scientists working to combat AIDS all wear the same stereo goggles. [Wired News]
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- Winds, Software Glitch Halt Cassini Launch - Weather and technical problems give those protesting the nuclear-powered probe's launch what a federal judge would not - a delay in the mission. But NASA will try again on Wednesday to launch the Saturn probe. [Wired News]
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- Wireless LAN Vendors Talk Standards - Wireless LAN technology is most notable today for its lack of a cohesive, standard infrastructure. A group of interested vendors hopes to change all that. [Wired News]
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- Worldgate's Cable Net Access Is a Pipe Dream - Worldgate Communications thinks it has the answer to Microsoft's WebTV. But its plans for cable-based Internet access are sketchy at best. [Wired News]
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- Wpoison Sets Trap for Spam Weasel - A free anti-spam tool aims to clog up spambots with reams of bogus email addresses. But will it snare the WebWeasel? [Wired News]
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- XML and the New Industry Order - XML has gained considerable ground in the past year, going from an arcane metadata language hashed around in developer circles to a prime-time player at this week's Internet World. [Wired News]
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- XML Rules. Any Questions? - Developers can start getting excited, now that Extensible Markup Language tools are finally beginning to emerge. [Wired News]
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- XML Ushers in Structured Web Searches - As HTML-based search engines reach their limits, a new method of categorizing Web-page data offers promise for returning more focused query results - though it's uncertain when the search-engine vendors will get around to supporting it. [Wired News]
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- XML Wins - Despite the allure of the whiz-bang, high-tech publishing systems at last week's Seybold conference, developments in XML and Web fonts took center stage. [Wired News]
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- XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us (Part 1) - What if you could merge the simplicity of HTML with the flexibility of standard generalized markup language? [Wired News]
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- XML: Roll Your Own Markup Language (Part 2) - This week, we talk about some of the underlying workings of XML and take a look at some practical applications. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Hack: Heck of a Hoax - A group of hackers posted a message to Yahoo's site last night, declaring that unless fellow hacker Kevin Mitnick was released from prison, a "logic bomb" would bring down any machine that had recently visited the site. [Wired News]
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- Your Bank Is Watching, One Transaction at a Time - Your bank may know more about you than you think, and you have a new data surveillance system to thank for it. [Wired News]
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