Nanotechnology to Supercharge Internet
Sound System Lets Listeners Move
University of California at Davis research engineer Richard Duda laments that sound is poorly utilized in human-computer interaction, and this fact serves as the motivation behind the design of a headphone-based spatial sound system that give users the impression that sounds are moving with ...
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Crypto Researchers Abuzz Over Flaws
Researchers have announced preliminary indications of previously unknown vulnerabilities in popular security algorithms that could permit hackers to easily install undetectable back doors into computer code or to counterfeit electronic signatures. French computer scientist Antoine Joux reported on ...
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Pentagon Turns to Linux for High-End Battlefield Simulations
As part of the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), Linux Networx has set up 256-processor Evolocity cluster supercomputers at the U.S. Air Force Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) in Hawaii and the Aeronautical Systems ...
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SMS: The Thumb as Power Digit
Text messaging, in which people use their thumbs to tap out short electronic messages on cell phones, is catching on the United States after flourishing in Europe and Asia. The Yankee Group reports that the number of text messages sent on cell phones in the United States has more than ...
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Second Hat in Ring for Faster Wi-Fi Standard
A second coalition has submitted a proposal for the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard with Task Group N (TGn), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.11n task group, in time for the Aug. 13 deadline. This submission follows an earlier one from the World Wide Spectrum ...
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Biometric Technology Creeping Into Everyday Life
Biometric technology has made its way to the Statue of Liberty as a customer-facing application, and industry analysts say the greater public will be increasingly exposed to biometrics within the next five years. People who intend to use public lockers at the Statue of Liberty are now ...
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Starfish Gene Could Be Key to Regenerating Lost Limbs
At the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Auckland, Dr. Rick Lathrop of the University of California declared that the convergence of new genetic knowledge and modern computers will lead to a new understanding of genomic science that will in turn revolutionize ...
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Nanotech Funding to Grow to $8.6 Billion
This year's global nanotechnology research and development budget is estimated at $8.6 billion, and the private sector's segment of that funding is growing. Lux Research's annual state of the industry report finds that nanotech R&D spending will more than double from 2003's total of $3 ...
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Can You Spell Standard In Chinese?
China is creating indigenous standards for consumer electronic devices in collaboration with outside partners in the hopes of reducing the country's reliance on intellectual property with costly licensing terms. This development could ripple throughout the worldwide electronics industry if ...
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An Imperfect Spy Act
An anti-spyware bill approved by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on June 17 has met heavy resistance from industry and consumer organizations, technology vendors, and even the FTC, who allege that the proposal is inadequate. The current draft of the Spy Act ...
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E-voting Pioneer Plays Politics With Open Source
The first use of e-voting in an Australian election was in 2001 during the last Australian Capital Territory (ACT) elections, and even more people are expected to vote electronically in the next round of ACT elections, according to ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green. However, future ...
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Helping Develop Wireless Internet Services
Project WISE is bringing attention to new architectural guidelines that are designed to help programmers develop wireless Internet services for 3G devices. The architectural guidelines serve as a unified and organized approach to describing software architecture that addresses issues such as ...
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Linux Skills in High Demand as IT Jobs Pick Up
Estimates from Dice.com, a tech professional job board, indicate significant growth in demand from employers for people with Linux skills and experience: Dice CEO Scott Melland says that job listings calling for Linux skills have risen 190 percent over the past 12 months, from about ...
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CAPPS II's Mysterious Successor
The federal government abandoned its CAPPS II project in July, but continues to work on a computerized airline passenger-screening system. Privacy advocates were critical of CAPPS II, and the European Union expressed concerns about its impact on the civil liberties and privacy ...
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Emerging Field Shifts Perceptions of Human, Machine Limits
Electronic perception technology was on display last week at ACM's SIGGRAPH 2004 Conference and Expo in Los Angeles. Perception technology pioneer Canesta, based in San Jose, Calif., used the SIGGRAPH event to unveil a commercial development kit for its 3-D sensor machine vision ...
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Radio Chip Heralds the Smarter Home
About 70 electronics companies are hoping the new ZigBee radio technology will make the intelligent home, in which appliances and other electrical devices communicate with each other, more of a reality. Companies such as Motorola, Honeywell, Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric, and NEC, in forming the ...
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Anonymous Trust
Direct anonymous attestation (DAA) is a scheme that promises more secure machines and transactions while eliminating concerns about monitoring and privacy infringement. The scheme works by establishing a secure mode for computers in which the applications they run are restricted to those that ...
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Nanotechnology to Supercharge Internet
In a study published in the Aug. 11 edition of Nano Letters, University of Toronto professor Ted Sargent and associates report that nanotechnology can set the foundations for a supercharged, light-based Internet that is 100 times faster than current networks. Sargent notes that up to now, ...
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