Despite an FDA investigator’s public concern, the agency okays an implantable chip for humans — as long as it’s for security and safety reasons. No sooner had the ink dried on the FDA’s curiously quick approval of an implantable human chip than the company that produces it launches a national marketing campaign
Anyone wondering why MS executives Steve Ballmer and Brian Valentine are so bent out of shape about Linux should check out SuSE 8.1, for insight. For a desktop PC or small business network it’s already miles ahead of Win98SE and ME and closing fast on XP for ease of installation and use by first-timers
With customers methodically switching mobile services and upgrading to newer models, discarded mobile phones are hitting incinerators and landfills in record numbers, contaminating the environment. But now users have the option of donating unwanted phones to non profit groups, developing nations, or for recycling the components in environmentally safe ways
A world first scheme to underwrite the cost of PlayStation 2 development kits for local developers will boost Australia’s games development industry. Meanwhile Microsoft intends Xbox to be a closed system and to stay that way, and will use both technical and legal avenues to protect it
Sharp, Japan’s largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. It uses Sharp’s continuous grain silicon technology and should be used on some products in 2005 — via Slashdot
The head of the National Security Agency said last week that Congress might want to aim the most powerful surveillance system in the world at American citizens. Lieutenant General Michael Hayden said the ongoing terrorist threat means America needs to debate where to draw the line between foreign and domestic surveillance. Currently the NSA is prohibited from spying domestically
Top US science advisers say that anti-terrorism security measures have caused scientific information to disappear from the Internet
HardCoreWare.net have built a silent PC that’s well over twenty times quieter than their comparison PC (40 dB versus 65). It’s quite the zippy machine; P4 2.80 GHz, 7200 RPM hard drive and an overclocked GeForce4 Ti 4200 — the only fan in the entire system is in the PSU
The Direct Marketing Association has said that unsolicited e-mail has become so noxious that a federal anti-spam law is finally necessary
A federal judge ruled that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind
Egypt officially reopened one of the first and most celebrated centres of learning in human history — Bibliotheca Alexandrina — the library of Alexandria whose ancient roots stretch back more than 2000 years
Lucent Technologies said its research arm Bell Labs designed two prototype chips that will allow 3G users to surf the Web via mobile phones and other mobile devices at speeds more than seven times faster than the fastest 3G connection today
Prolific e-mailer, Jason Hecke, has been ordered to pay more than US$98,000 for flooding Washington computers several years ago with dubious offers to make money through the Internet
Sean Penn weighed in on the international debate over a possible war with Iraq, paying for a US$56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post accusing the retarded monkey boy of stifling debate and threatening civil liberties
A developer of bulk mail software has figured out how to blast computers with pop up spam over the Internet through a messaging function on many Windows operating systems
Microsoft must face a lawsuit by the University of California accusing the world’s biggest software maker of using patented technology without permission in its Internet Explorer Web browser
A way of keeping slices of living brain tissue alive for weeks has developed by a biotech company. This will allow drug developers to study the effect of chemicals on entire neural networks, not just individual cells
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