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Digerati debate the wisdom of product placement in blogs.
Taking blood pressure from the inside, and more
D-Wave Systems is building a ‘quantum’ computer to solve intractable real-world problems. The secret: cooling the chip to -269 C with liquid helium.
Wireless goes rural.
Digital maps marry past and present.
Open-source advocate Mark Gorton went from options-trading to file-sharing.
Short items of interest.
The National Archives’ lack of speed in preserving digital federal records, existing in 16,000 different formats, could lead to serious data losses.
We need to treat obesity as a real disease, not as a ‘bad habit.’
Businesses should beware the danger of incoming distractions.
A 300-gigabyte, holographic storage device based on polymers, a molecule-tagging technology, and more
Cooling data centers, speeding up secure data transmissions, making Internet phone calls clearer, and more
Safer genetic therapy and an imaging technique for monitoring the development of Alzheimer’s disease
Faster plastic-based semiconductors and a step toward lighter, nonsteel auto engines
Forensic technology may deter states from giving terrorists nukes.
John Maeda leads techno-artists who are pushing the boundaries between computer programming and design.
More than 50 percent of all U.S. households now have a DVD player, wireless phone, and Internet access. But only 25 percent have broadband.
Energy stocks performed poorly; semiconductor stocks did well.
With their creative uses for hydraulic-powered machines, 12-volt conversion technology, fiberglass, and even herbicides, the Amish have a lot to teach the rest of America. By Ed Tenner
It was Albert Sabin’s vaccine, not Salk’s, that truly defeated polio.
The placebo effect is real, but what is it?
A museum tries to make sense of the bomb.
Research in Motion’s stock has climbed 800 percent in three years, thanks to a strategy of licensing its hugely successful BlackBerry email software to Nokia and Motorola.
By creating its own customized Internet retailing system, coffee distributor Pura Vida has increased sales from $100,000 in 1999 to a projected $4 million in 2005.
Dakota Gasification Company was once a defunct coal mine. Now it’s a thriving CO2 recycling plant.
Ernst Mayr was the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century.
