October 11, 2001 -
Microsoft has a new message for Win XP - By Joe
Wilcox, Special to ZDNet News, Consumers are just getting
their first look at Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped
Microsoft from preparing the first major update of the new
operating system. Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said that
starting Oct. 25, Microsoft plans to make available an upgrade
to Windows Messenger, the communications console delivering
instant messaging, videoconferencing and Internet phone
calling, among other features. Windows XP is already available
on PCs, but the boxed version comes out Oct. 25. The enhanced
version of Windows Messenger packs new features kept under
wraps during XP's development, including the first clear ties
to Microsoft's forthcoming .Net software-as-a-service
strategy...
October 11, 2001 -
The Perfect Dust Storm Strikes Mars - NASA NEWS,
Three months after it began, an awesome global dust storm on
Mars is waning. Two NASA spacecraft have captured dazzling
images of the planetary tempest. A pair of NASA spacecraft, the
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope, is
giving scientists a ringside seat for the biggest global dust
storm seen on Mars in several decades. The extraordinary
storm, which first enveloped the Red Planet three months ago,
is finally subsiding -- but researchers say it could flare up
again at any time...
October 11, 2001 -
ZoneAlarm 3--an even better personal firewall - By
David Coursey, AnchorDesk, This week Zone Labs announced
the 3.0 versions of its wildly popular personal firewall and
security products, ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro. Key
improvements include a beefed-up firewall, support for Windows
XP, a much-improved user interface, and more help for users
who want to understand the alerts the software presents to
them...
October 05, 2001 -
Hot Wired Cars - By Glenn Derene, Your next car
will take you from 0 to 128K with Net access, e-mail,
satellite radio, and real-time directions. But will you be
driven to distraction? We are a society stuck in traffic,
frittering away unproductive and frustrating hours each day as
we inch our way around town. We have the kids in the car, we
have our coworkers wondering where we are, and we have a big
SUV in front of us that just won't move! Is it unreasonable to
want a movie to entertain the kids, or e-mail access, or the
means to find an open road that will bring us speedily to our
destination? Well, no and yes...
October 11, 2001 -
Planetary Waves Break, Ozone Holes - Huge
planet-girdling atmospheric waves suppress ozone holes over
Earth's northern hemisphere. Listen to this story via
streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help. October 11,
2001: Most of the world's ozone-destroying pollutants come
from the northern half of our planet. Yet Earth's yawning
ozone hole straddles the south pole -- not the north...
October 09, 2001 -
At last! New security measures from MS - By Robert
Vamosi, AnchorDesk, COMMENTARY-- Last week, Microsoft
unveiled a bold new initiative to help protect its beleaguered
corporate Windows customers and IIS Web server families from
future malicious code attacks. Even the Microsoft press
release offered this frank admission: "It's become incredibly
clear that viruses and worms directed against our customers'
systems are on the increase." Well, better late than never.
The new Strategic Technology Protection Program (STPP) is
designed to help enterprise customers keep their Internet
businesses secure (and keep Microsoft as their software
provider)...
October
05, 2001 -
New Code Tracks Genes, Not Jeans - By Mark K.
Anderson, Wired News, Researchers on Friday unveiled a
potentially important tool that could lead to better medicine
and also help combat biowarfare. It's based on the same idea
that in 1973 brought about the UPC bar code -- which created a
standard code system that, can be affixed to every product and
distinguishes it from every other product in the
marketplace...
October 04, 2001 -
NSA offers supersecure Linux - By Deni Connor,
CNN.com, (IDG) - The National Security Agency, the
government's security arm, along with help from Network
Associates, last week announced it has made a
security-enhanced version of Linux available for download...
October 03, 2001 -
Genetic Images - 1993, Karl Sims, Genetic
Images is a media installation in which visitors can
interactively "evolve" abstract still images. A supercomputer
generates and displays 16 images on an arc of screens.
Visitors stand on sensors in front of the most aesthetically
pleasing images to select which ones will survive and
reproduce to make the next generation. It has been exhibited
at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Ars Electronica, Linz,
and the Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles...
October 05, 2001 -
Discovery of 'Baby Galaxy' a Clever Feat - By USHA
LEE McFARLING, Times Science Writer, Using a clever
technique that pushed two of the world's most powerful
telescopes to their limits, a team of scientists has
discovered a "baby galaxy" so small, faint and distant that it
may be one of the long sought-after building blocks of modern
galaxies...
October 01, 2001 -
Fusion power 'within reach' -
By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse,
Controlling the "naughty child": The plasma reaches millions
of degrees in the Mast experimental reactor... Fusion power is
"within reach", according to atomic scientists in the UK.
There are still very many difficulties but perhaps in a few
decades we could have commercial fusion reactors in cities
providing cheap pollution-free power. Fusion is the form of
nuclear energy that powers the stars. Although, it has many
advantages over conventional nuclear power, it has been
technically difficult to develop...
October 03, 2001 -
More Americans living to age 100 - Scientists look for
biological, behavioral answers... ASSOCIATED PRESS,
WASHINGTON, — Bernice Bach has never puffed on a cigarette or
had a sip of alcohol. Is that her secret to living to 101?
“Secret? I don’t think there is one,” Bach joked by phone from
her Oklahoma City home. “Let me know when you find out...”
October 03, 2001 -
Could robo-pilots thwart terrorists? - ASSOCIATED
PRESS, BOSTON, A Federal Express 727 cargo plane lands via
remote control at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., during an
August test of satellite-based technology conducted by the
Raytheon Corp. The technology provides precise navigational
instructions that would be required for remote control from a
secure location. By Justin Pope, There’s little doubt that
landing a plane from the ground — technology that could
prevent hijackers from turning a commercial jet into a weapon
— could soon be feasible. Whether it’s a good idea is another
question...
October 01, 2001 -
Brave New World for Higher Education - By Michael
Schrage, Technology Review, Digital technologies have
created the "open-source" university. In April 2001, MIT
president Charles M. Vest announced that the Institute would
bring the "open-source" software sensibility to higher
education and offer—for free!—its curricula and courseware
to the world via the Web. This "OpenCourseWare" initiative
represents a radically different approach to digitizing,
marketing and globalizing education...
October 02, 2001 -
Don't Trust Any E-Mail Over 30 - Reuters &
WiredNews, LONDON -- As great inventions go, e-mail had
a rather ho-hum beginning back in 1971. In fact, Ray
Tomlinson, the American engineer considered the "father of
e-mail," can't quite recall when the first message was sent,
what it said, or even who the recipient was. "I have no idea
what the first one was," he told Reuters. "It might have
been the first line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for
all I know. The only thing I know was it was all in upper
case..."
October 01, 2001 -
Nvidia unveils high-end Titanium chips - By John
G. Spooner, ZDNet News, Nvidia on Monday unveiled
Titanium, a new family of graphics chips. The graphics
chipmaker says the GeForce Titanium family will offer twice
the performance for a given price than its previous chips.
The chips also match high-end Radeon graphics chip recently
introduced by Nvidia rival ATI Technologies. The new
Titanium family includes three members: the GeForce3 Ti 500
and GeForce3 Ti 200 for high-end PCs, and the lower priced
GeForce2 Ti...
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