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- 'Direct Intranet Publishing' - Dead Before Its Gone - Luke Knowland ponders the stupidity of cute little Web additions. [Wired News]
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- 3-D TV: Almost Ready for Those With Deep Pockets - Based on technology designed for use by air traffic controllers, 3D-TV will be available next year. Interested museums, theme parks and planetariums prepare to write big checks. [Wired News]
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- AI Technology Watches What You Read, Sells Accordingly - A new Web server product watches what you're reading, gets to know you, then serves a banner it hopes you'll want to see. [Wired News]
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- Air Force: The Next Generation - The Air Force wants to extend the so-called New World Order into orbit. [Wired News]
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- Airport Scanner Sees Through Contraband - and Your Clothes - The system aims to help security target plastic explosives and other terrorist paraphernalia. [Wired News]
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- All the Nudes That Are Fit to Find - Two professors are seeking a commercial use for a nude-photo search engine. [Wired News]
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- Appearing Soon: Adam and Eve (Snake Not Included) - An educational CD-ROM company will send an anatomically correct Adam and Eve on tour. [Wired News]
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- Apple Says Stick With Us; Will Developers Follow? - Some wonder whether Apple can lure developers from the lucrative Windows market. [Wired News]
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- As Cable Modems Get Faster, Sales Stay Slow - The technology is out there, but few of the nation's 65 million cable users will be getting cable modems. [Wired News]
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- Aussie X-ray Invention Shows More For Less - 'Phase contrast' radiology will spot bombs in luggage and tumors in humans. [Wired News]
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- Big Blue to Give the Net a Booster Shot - IBM is using AI algorithms to root out viruses across the Net and dispatch a 'cure.' [Wired News]
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- Browser Cookies are Persistent, Not Necessarily Evil - Despite the following diatribe, Simson Garfinkel likes cookies. When intelligently used they can increase privacy and improve the Web experience. But often, cookies are put to crummy uses. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Quake Not Too Deadly - The "Video Screens Cause Epilepsy!" media virus has been around for decades. [Wired News]
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- CAA and Intel Mate Hollywood Chic, Geek - LA's top agency wants to woo stars into new media. Intel wants to sell the hardware. Presto: synergy. [Wired News]
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- Caching Makes Web Faster, But Might Hurt Business - Simson Garfinkel says caching proxy servers make good technical sense, but they may create more headaches than they relieve. There may be a better way. [Wired News]
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- Car Zapper for Cops - Researchers may make it possible for cops to shut down a fleeing suspect's engine by remote [Wired News]
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- Castanet Could Spell the End of Plug-ins - Push media from Marimba will drastically change how developers and users deal with plug-ins. [Wired News]
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- China Shines Intranet Contract on Sun - China wants to build its own intranet. Sun, saying it's in line with US policies toward China's human rights record, has landed the US$15 million contract. [Wired News]
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- Choose From a Grab Bag of Browser Innovations - Browsers: in your pocket, in the dark, and ready for prime time [Wired News]
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- Cobots Learn to Guide People - Unlike standard industrial robots, which provide muscle under human guidance, cobots provide guidance for human muscle. [Wired News]
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- Crawling Comdex: PDA Orgy! - Everyone at Comdex just has to have a PDA. Funny, no one's using them, says Mark Frauenfelder. [Wired News]
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- Diba, Mitsubishi Team to Cut Developer Costs - The two are creating a component platform that they claim will cut the costs of building information appliances by at least 50 percent. [Wired News]
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- Die-Hards Keep Text-Based Browser Alive on the Web - Jeffrey Veen talks to the head of the Lynx development effort. [Wired News]
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- Digital TV Feud: Viewers the Real Winners? - Digital TV accord means dual standards, not dueling standards. [Wired News]
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- DNA Attaché is 'the Beginning of a Revolution' - The Army has made genetic analysis cheaper and portable with the DNA Analysis Kit. [Wired News]
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- ET Phones Home, Via Satellite Dish - Using a standard backyard satellite TV dish, a microwave receiver, a pre-amplifier, and a computer, H. Paul Shuch has been scanning the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Suburbia meets the final frontier. [Wired News]
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- Fast, Cheap Net Access - and Why You Can't Have It - The technology's available, but the FCC and telcos aren't willing to open up the radio spectrum for fast, cheap Internet access. [Wired News]
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- For Sale: In-Flight Fun and Games - You might be playing Quake with fellow passengers at 30,000 feet next year. And yes, there will be ads. [Wired News]
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- Forget Your Password - ZDNet is pushing what it calls "a safe, central storage location for" passwords. Is it? [Wired News]
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- Fractal Antennae Move Cellular's Plumbing Indoors - As a Cornell physicist puts it,'Why have a communication device that fits in your shirt pocket when you have an antenna that sticks out a foot?' [Wired News]
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- Genetic Breakthrough May Unravel Human Brain - Researchers may be closer to understanding how humans think and how disease affects the brain. [Wired News]
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- Get Un-Plugged for Thanksgiving - Shut off your computer this weekend [Wired News]
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- Giving a Voice to the 'Mouth Without a Brain' - Computers have made huge advances in recent years, so why does voice synthesis still sound like hell? [Wired News]
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- Here's What's in Store for the Web in 1997 - Jeffrey Veen predicts that Microsoft will take the technological lead in the browser wars in 1997. [Wired News]
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- Hey, Your Web's in My TV! - Access the Web with no configuration or maintenance? The future may be here. [Wired News]
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- Honest Talk between Browsers and Servers - Browsers are from Venus, servers are from Mars. Here's how they negotiate mime types. [Wired News]
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- Intel Takes One Small Step Toward Video Net Phone - Intel claims its Net phone technology is intimate. But it still feels like a call from outer space. [Wired News]
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- Intel Wins Teraflops Race, Cray Begs to Differ - Intel says it broke the teraflops computing speed barrier. But Cray will sell you one off the shelf. [Wired News]
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- ISP Keeps Traffic in the 'Hood - A new network access point will keep packets closer to home, save ISPs some dough, and spell better service for you. [Wired News]
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- It's MailBank's Net. We Just Surf It - Who owns the Net? You may be surprised. [Wired News]
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- Learning Java? Some Hints for Developing Web Software - A good book and a decent development environment are staring points. [Wired News]
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- Map of Science Reveals Hidden Connections - A technique for visualizing scientific research holds promise. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Released IE3 for Win3, But Where's ActiveX? - While Microsoft has been aggressively marketing ActiveX to developers for dynamic content on the Web, it's left the technology out of its IE3 browser for Win3.1 altogether. [Wired News]
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- Mission to Saturn Poses Plutonium Threat? - The plutionium-powered Mars probe crashed on Bolivia. Science activists are worried something could go wrong in a NASA launch. [Wired News]
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- New In-Your-Face Ad Banner 'Floats' Atop Windows - The next-generation ad banner will live on the desktop - and it can't be ignored, no matter how hard you try. [Wired News]
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- Next Generation of Web Crawlers Will Distribute Tasks - There's a lot of information on the Web that simply can't be found with the traditional "spider" approach, Simson Garfinkel finds. [Wired News]
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- One-Way to Mars? Volunteers Are Standing By - Mars has water, and an atmosphere that can be chemically processed to produce breathable air. The main problem is food, Henry Spencer says. [Wired News]
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- Outsmarting Smartcards - Intentionally spiking voltage to smartcards could give your bank account a jolt. [Wired News]
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- PacBell Backpedals on Call Blocking - Now PacBell is running ads that claim blocking options will hurt Mom. [Wired News]
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- PGP Lets You Take Charge of Your Cookies - Cookies track your movements around the Web. But a new plug-in from PGP will give you the magic recipe to stop them. [Wired News]
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- PharmChek Has Users Sweating Out Their Drug Tests - Dave Cravotta previews a new method of drug testing. [Wired News]
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- Politeness Pays as Secure Java Asks for Privileges - Simson Garfinkel discusses a new Java sandbox security model that will boost Netscape and provide another reason to avoid the deadly dangers of ActiveX. [Wired News]
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- Pushing and Pulling at Comdex - Microsoft and Netscape promote almost identical push-media browsers - with different names. [Wired News]
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- Radar Homes in on a Thousand and One Domestic Uses - Inexpensive, small and powerful, Microwave Impulse Radar is coming to a toaster near you. [Wired News]
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- Redmond to Release Web Server for Mac - Code from two ResNova Software packages will be used in personal server for home, small office. [Wired News]
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- Shake and Quake? - The tabs say that flickering videogames lead to epileptic seizures. We prescribe a reality check. [Wired News]
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- Singapore to Test Encrypted ID Cards - By March, some 50,000 Singaporeans will use an encrypted ID card to deal with bureaucracy. [Wired News]
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- Smart Phones Crash the PDA Party - Unwired Planet and Motorola unleash a new platform for cellular phones that may bury the PDA. [Wired News]
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- Surprise Player Joins Bandwidth Scramble - PBS - There's bandwidth to be sold alongside TV's closed captioning. And only PBS can pull it off. [Wired News]
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- Switchboard: A Mere Broom Against the Email Tide? - Spams driving you crazy? 'Switchboard' will filter them - and in the process drive you crazy. [Wired News]
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- Telecom Finland Picks Up the Internet Phone - The technology that some said would gut the phone companies is now being marketed by one. [Wired News]
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- Teledesic Putting $9 Billion Into Orbit - Teledesic says its 800 low-orbit satellites will bring better bandwidth at less cost. [Wired News]
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- TeleVillage Takes Compton Straight Into the Net - ATMs are hard to find in Compton, California. But commuters won't have any problems finding public-access ISDN. [Wired News]
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- The Future of Batteries: Think Plastic - They're lighter, can be made to any size and shape - and they could power a spacecraft and your Walkman. [Wired News]
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- The Future of Federal Labs: Only In Cyberspace? - The US$42-million Joint Genome Institute won't need a furniture budget. It will be built solely in cyberspace. [Wired News]
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- The Gilder Paradigm - Every economic era is based on a key abundance and a key scarcity. Today transistors are abundant, bandwidth scarce. [Wired News]
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- The New Economy of Computation - Agoric systems decentralize decision-making and information gathering on the Net [Wired News]
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- The Smell of Leather, the Power of a PC? Intel Tunes Up. - Intel wants to put a Pentium inside your car. But will consumers trade off horsepower for processing power? [Wired News]
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- TV Set to Go Digital - It's been accused of being a vast wasteland, but thanks to a new accord on digital TV standards, the boob-tube view is about to improve. [Wired News]
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- Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable, Heal Thyself - A new 25,000-kilometer undersea cable spanning the Pacific can take a break without losing a byte. [Wired News]
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- US Media Ignores Real Fate of Failed Russian Probe - The Mars probe did not crash in the Pacific; it crashed on Chile and Bolivia. Did the US media ignore the real story? [Wired News]
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- Video Memories Fade Fast - Those family videos may not last forever, unless they're backed up every several years. [Wired News]
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- Voxels Allow Doctors to Get Beneath the Surface - Andrew Rozmiarek explains how medical professionals are making extensive use of volume-rendering technology, to provide detail beyond what X-ray, MRI, and CT scans currently show. [Wired News]
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- WebCom Security Software Failed in Server Attack - A simliar "syn flood" attack has also crippled The New York Times' Web server. But don't blame the hacker zines. [Wired News]
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- WebTV Opens the Web to a New World of Nontechnical Users - Interactive TV may be dead and buried, but WebTV is on to something big - and doing it right [Wired News]
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- Who's Been Linking to Your Page? Find Out - Search engines tell part of the story, but referer logs reveal the specifics. [Wired News]
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- Who's Got the Biggest? Tune in to Times Square - Panasonic's big boob tube nudges Sony off the center stage for New Year's Eve. [Wired News]
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- Will ActiveX Threaten National Security? - ActiveX threatens Internet security. More chillingly, it may also threaten national security. [Wired News]
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- Will Gene-Control Report Curb Power, or Spur Clash? - The Human Genome Project's social-issues group is demanding greater autonomy and more funds. A milestone report comes out next month. [Wired News]
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- World's First Robot2Robot Chat Room - A robot in England boots up a robot in New York [Wired News]
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- Zen and the Art of Tables - Adding tables to Web pages is easy and, to the true geek, a transcendental experience. [Wired News]
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