September 20, 2001 - Machines with a human touch - The Economist.com, Instead of using the ones and zeros of digital electronics to simulate the way the brain functions, “neuromorphic” engineering relies on nature's biological short-cuts to make robots that are smaller, smarter and vastly more energy-efficient...

 September 24, 2001 - Ditch Microsoft IIS now, says Gartner - By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco, We don't know if it's virus fatigue that caused us to overlook this, along with world+dog, last week.  But the Gartner Group has issued a remarkable advisory recommending - in the strongest terms - that enterprises abandon their investments in Microsoft's web server IIS (Internet Information Server). In the usually cautious, diplomatic language of analyst reports, weighted as they are with percentage probabilities, this is a blunt as they come: a kind of "flee now - and don't wait around to collect your possessions" warning...

 SPECIAL September 13, 2001 - Terrorist damage visible even from space - Damian Carrington, New Scientist, The destruction inflicted by the suicidal terrorists whose actions have killed thousands of people are visible even from space. Satellite images reveal in detail the impact of the hijacked passenger aircraft on the Pentagon in Washington DC. Sixty-five people were on the plane and hundreds on the ground may have died...

 September 19, 2001 - Magic Bullets Fly Again - By Carol Ezzell, Scientific American, Molecular guided missiles called monoclonal antibodies were poised to shoot down cancer and a host of other diseases--until they crashed and burned. Now a new generation is soaring to market...

 September 26, 2001 - Virus that exploits World Trade Center terror unleashed From... By Ellen Messmer, (IDG) - Antivirus software vendors are warning about a new computer virus dubbed "Vote" that exploits the World Trade  September 20, 2001 - No hiding place for anyone - Economist.com, Embedded in bank notes or designer labels, the “mu-chip” can beep out the owner's location and details to marketers and thieves alike. IN TODAY'S information age, everybody leaves an electronic trail in their wake. With every credit-card purchase, ATM transaction, telephone call and Internet logon, they create an electronic portrait of themselves that grows clearer at every step. Perhaps the only items that are still untraceable are people's clothes, cash and day-to-day movements. But with the introduction of Hitachi's new “mu-chip”, even these could become common knowledge...Center terrorist attack to entice victims to open up the dangerous attachment it carries which can wipe out files on victims' PCs...

 September 26, 2001 - Free wireless goes underground - By Paul Festa, Special to ZDNet News, Tim Pozar used to speak only rarely to his neighbors in San Francisco's foggy Sunset district, but that changed the day he hung out a wireless antenna and welcomed the world to use his high-speed Internet line. "I've gotten to know the neighbors much better," said the professional network and telecommunications consultant. "Occasionally, they bring me pies and things like that..."

 September 17, 2001 - Pathologists turn to DNA - MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS - "Identifying bodies proves a daunting task Watch a video clip of a Nightly News report by Robert Bazell. With hopes of finding survivors dwindling, an army of forensic experts is preparing for the monumental task of identifying the victims of the World Trade Center attacks. Grieving relatives have been asked to bring in hairbrushes, toothbrushes and other personal items of those missing in the rubble for DNA analysis..."

 September 14, 2001 - Wind-powered building design revealed - Will Knight, New Scientist, Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered constructions, say UK researchers. A team of aerodynamics engineers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Energy Research Unit, Oxfordshire, UK, has come up with a design for a multi-tower office building or block of flats with wind turbines fitted in between...

 September 14, 2001 - Wind-powered building design revealed - Will Knight, New Scientist, Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered constructions, say UK researchers. A team of aerodynamics engineers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Energy Research Unit, Oxfordshire, UK, has come up with a design for a multi-tower office building or block of flats with wind turbines fitted in between...

 September 5, 2001 - The Virtual Voyager - By Paroma Basu, Technology Review, I am feeling very small as I tread cautiously through a human artery. A track unfolds ahead of me, and as I follow it I notice a stream of brown blood silently flowing toward me. A steady thump makes me aware of how close I must be to a beating heart. The blood swirls as I come to a fork in the road. I go left, walk a few steps, and crash. I rip off my 3-D glasses and find my nose pressed up against a white wall. I am in an eight-foot cube, with screens on three walls and another one below my feet...

September 5, 2001 - Mobile Phone Users 'At Greater Risk of Brain Tumour' - People who used mobile phones for two hours a day in the 1980s and early 1990s have a "significantly raised" risk of developing a brain tumour, a Swedish scientist has found. The study by Lennart Hardell, a cancer specialist at Orebro University in Sweden, is a landmark piece of research in the debate over whether the microwave radiation put out by mobile phone handsets can cause cancer. It is due to be published later this year. His research compared 1,600 people who survived brain tumours with 1,600 healthy people...

 September 4, 2001 - Ads Can Alter Memory, Claim Scientists - by Claire Cozens. A group of US scientists has discovered that advertising can alter people's childhood memories, making them remember events that never happened. Adults shown a mock advert in which Disney World visitors shake hands with a Bugs Bunny character became convinced they had done the same as a child...

  eptember 4, 2001 - Wide Awake in Outer Space - Astronauts sleep poorly in space, and it's no wonder. Just consider: the excitement of blasting off on a powerful rocket, the strange sensations of floating in free-fall, the novelty of mornings that return every 90 minutes... Who could sleep through all that? On some space shuttle missions up to 50% of the crew take sleeping pills, and, over all, nearly half of all medication used in orbit is intended to help astronauts sleep. Even so, space travelers average about 2 hours sleep less each night in space than they do on the ground...

 September 6, 2001 - Cable standard may triple speeds - By Corey Grice. A new cable Internet standard slated to be finalized later this year could boost cable modem speeds, clearing the way for a raft of new services...

 September 11, 2001 - A Linux development call to arms - By Don Soegaard, Special to ZDNet. COMMENTARY-- A golden window of opportunity is going to be lost if the Linux community doesn't stay true to its revolutionary ideas and avoid capitulating to the status quo...