September
27, 2002 -
Solving crimes from the sky
- Paroled convicts at the
scene of a crime? CrimeTrax
knows, By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC,
For years, law enforcement
agencies have experimented with
technology that tracks paroled
criminals. Well, Seminole
County, Fla., has taken the next
step. Last month the sheriff’s
department launched CrimeTrax,
which automatically monitors the
location of parolees and
suspects out on bail. When the
people who are monitored are
found to be in the vicinity of a
newly committed crime, they are
picked up and questioned. The
technology marries GPS anklet
monitoring with a sophisticated
database that matches geographic
locations of reported crimes and
past offenders...
September 23,
2002 -
EBay Bidders Sold on Sniping
- By Joanna Glasner, Wired News,
2:00 a.m. Sep. 23, 2002 PDT, For
novice eBay bidders, it is a common
disappointment. They submit the
highest offer in the last few
minutes of bidding, confident in the
likelihood of winning. Then
suddenly, with seconds to go,
someone else swoops in with an even
higher offer. Before the novice has
time to retaliate, the auction
closes...
September
01,
2002 -
The Flight that Tamed the Skies
- By Seth Shulman, Technology
Review, Glenn Curtiss's
aeronautical innovations
outlasted the Wright brothers'.
But his biggest contribution to
aviation was an Albany-Manhattan
flight many deemed suicidal.
Next year marks the centennial
of flight—100 years since the
December day in Kitty Hawk, NC,
when the Wright brothers etched
themselves so deeply into our
collective consciousness. No
doubt a good deal of hoopla will
be whipped up about those two
bicycle builders and their
flight that changed America. But
what the history books leave out
is that the highly secretive
Wright brothers refused to
publicly demonstrate their
airplane for four and a half
years after that now legendary
12-second, 37-meter hop. By the
time they revealed their
machine, a number of other
inventors already had airplanes
flying...
