July 23 2003 -
Windows Passwords Cracked in Mere
Seconds - ITPlanet.com, By
Pedro Hernandez, Is your Windows
NT password a jumble of letters and
numbers? If so, it may take just seconds
for your machine to spill the secrets
you thought were guarded by a
tough-to-guess sequence of keyboard
taps...
July 28 2003 -
Robot cars rally for desert race - By Michael Kanellos, CNET
News.com, By day, Seth Cabe is a manufacturing engineer for a
mannequin maker. By night, he's working on what could become the
battlefield vehicle of the future. Cabe, leader of Team Loghiq, is one
of a number of engineers, researchers and robot aficionados who have
signed up for the DARPA Grand Challenge, a contest designed to generate
ideas that ideally will lead to the development of self-driving combat
vehicles...
July 16 2003 -
Study: Masturbating lowers prostate cancer risk - (Reuters
Health), LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in
the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new
research. Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate
between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the
disease that kills more than half a million men each year...
July 16 2003 -
Researchers delve into the human factor -
By Ina Fried, CNET News.com, SAN JOSE,
Calif.--Researchers are trying to get a grip on one of the big problems
with computers: the human on the other end... A team of computer
scientists, academics and others gathered this week at IBM's Almaden
Research Center to swap ideas on how to better understand the ways in
which humans interact with machines. Specifically, they met to compare
notes on different ways to make sense of how technology is being
consumed...
July 11 2003 -
Here's how Linux gets to the desktop - By Dan Farber, ZDNet,
PORTLAND, OR-- Nearly 200 years ago Lewis and Clark arrived in
Portland, Oregon on their cross-country expedition to explore the West.
It was a journey that captured the spirit of a young and inspired New
World that thrived on trailblazing new frontiers. Attending the O'Reilly
Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland gave me the sense that the
open source movement is opening a new frontier, and at the same time
shedding some of its more idealistic trappings...
July 07 2003 -
NASA launches Mars rover -
Second spacecraft lifts off after several delays, ASSOCIATED PRESS,
MSNBC, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., After nearly two weeks of delays, a
rocket holding NASA’s second Mars rover was launched into a night sky
Monday on a mission to study whether the Red Planet ever had enough
water to sustain life...
