E3 -- A Second Perspective
Since I also spent last week at E3, I figured I'd rise to the bait and offer my own perspective on developments there. I spent the first two days of the conference involved in running the Education Arcade @ E3,...
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E3 Wrap-Up
I'm back from E3, with the sounds of Missy Elliot's performance at the Sony party still thumping in my ears. As anticipated, the most interesting stuff at the show were the upcoming new handhelds: Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS. I...
Death of a Cold Fusion Proponent
Eugene Mallove, a science writer who for the past 15 years had dedicated himself to advancing the case for cold fusion, was murdered Friday in an apparent robbery. Mallove, 56, was founder and president of the New Energy Foundation and...
Another Way to Uncover Classified Information
Claire Whelan, a computer science student at Dublin City University, has shown that you can uncover "blacked-out" words in classified documents by doing a grammatical analysis of all possible words that can fit in the space of the black-outs.Kind of...
Women in Technology--Still Outsiders
Careers in science and technology are demanding for anyone--but especially so for women. It starts in school, where girls who love math and science are still outsiders, with few female role models to look up to or peers to relate...
Wi-Fi Weakness Found
Wi-Fi, also known as 802.11b (the name assigned to the standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), is by far the most common tool for wireless computer access to the Internet and home and office networks. Now researchers...
How Digital Photography is Unmasking the Banality of Evil
Salon has some interesting speculations about the impact of digital photography on the military's ability to manage public perceptions of the American occupation of Iraq. Concerned that wartime images undercut public support for the Vietnam War, the military has sought...
The Other Photos From Iraq
Hacker/Cracker Ejovi Nuwere writes on ejovi.net:Despite all the news about pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused and Americans being murdered, a small community has quietly built up among American and British solders in Iraq who publish personal pictures from Iraq...
Wi-Fi Phones
CNN, of all sources, has an interesting article about Wi-Fi phones--clever little devices that are voice-over-IP phones when they are in the WiFi cloud, and regular cell phones otherwise. Motorola is apparently developing a bunch of them....
No GM Wheat
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, which has brought us genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans, is no stranger to controversy over its technology. In the early days of the GM debates, Monsanto was criticized for being insensitive to the consumer backlash...
