mernil writes with an excerpt that kicks off a story at ZDNet Australia: "Companies are wasting money on security processes — such as applying patches and using antivirus software — which just don't work, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart. Speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast yesterday, Stewart said the malware industry is moving faster than the security industry, making it impossible for users to remain secure."
In our latest installment of Boing Boing TV's "SPAM THEATER" series, a cash proposition from a faraway land, and the secret to what girls want. Special thanks to Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions for contributing -- well, voice talent!
sdougal writes "This site is showing a Pico-ITX board running Ubuntu with no cooling whatsoever. They even let the public guess how long it would last: 'Last week thousands of you placed bets on how long the new Pico-ITX board from VIA, the VIA EPIA PX5000EG, can last without any cooling whatsoever. An ARTiGO Builder Kit was offered as the grand prize. Yesterday afternoon the voting stopped and the Naked Pico Challenge started in earnest. We simply loaded up Ubuntu 8.04, set it to work playing an mpeg-4 video and then removed the heatsink, leaving the CPU and VX700 chipset bare to the world. We recorded the event here in this video and set up a live video stream so you punters can keep a watchful eye on the PX5000EG as it works away.'"
If it lands safely on Monday May 26, Phoenix will search for water and signs of microbial life in Mars' arctic plain Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 22 May 2008 | 2:18 pm
Gamers have hit out at Nokia after learning that N-Gage titles bought for their handsets are locked to that specific device forever, reports the BBC "If a gamer changes or upgrades to a different Nokia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
CALGARY, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that it has successfully transferred cGMP production for REOLYSIN(R) at the 40-litre batch size to SAFC Pharma(TM), a Division of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. May 22--A long and sometimes rancorous Senate subcommittee meeting Wednesday showed that after all the years of fighting over it, Horry County and Myrtle Beach still disagree over Myrtle Beach International Airport. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) -- A deputy shot and killed a 50-pound feline -- a jaguar or leopard that may have been dumped by its owner -- after a woman reported the animal pawing at her door. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
Del. Griffith's tunnel vision I have to admit some anger and disappointment in my reaction to the op-ed ("Fuzzy math perplexes state on road funding," May 19) by Del. H. Morgan Griffith, the majority leader in the House of Delegates. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Greeley Tribune, Colo. May 22--Three Greeley students have been chosen to be the recipients of the annual Jim Longworth Memorial Scholarship. The 2008 recipients are Kassandra Barber, Samantha Black and Alyssa Prill. Each will receive a $500 college scholarship. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
EU countries give more aid for environmental protection BRUSSELS, May 21 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) countries have increasingly given state aid allowed by the EU rules to support environmental protection projects, the European Commission said in a report on Wednesday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, May 21: ___ The Bush administration finally listed the polar bear as a threatened species due to global warming. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released to Congress today finds the nation's 548 National Wildlife Refuges are vastly under-funded, leading to unstaffed refuges and closings; unsafe roads and trails; decreased safety; millions of acres of invasive species; unprotected at-risk species; and hundreds of layoffs. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Wesley P. Hester, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. May 22--If building on the 36,500 acres encompassed by Chesterfield County's Upper Swift Creek Plan Amendment proves as challenging as the process of drafting the document, some developers might be in trouble. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
1sockchuck writes "The EPA has been seeking at least 100 data center operators willing to share data about their energy usage to help the government develop an Energy Star program for data centers. Thus far, only 54 data centers have signed up, which suggests that few data center operators are eager to tell the government exactly how much energy they are using. The EPA issued a report to Congress last year on data center power usage, and is already developing an Energy Star program to rate servers. Can a program designed to rank the energy efficiency of appliances and computer monitors be a useful tool in addressing the enormous energy consumption of data centers?"
AT&T; and Verizon have won a $678.5 million contract over 10 years to supply data and voice security service and disaster communications systems for Homeland Security. [via Crunch Gear] Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:48 pm
In a Harris Interactive survey of 2,030 US adults of whom, 1,778 have actually flown in an airplane, a full three quarters say that cellphone usage on airplanes should be restricted to "non-talking features... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:44 pm
By Andrew Liszewski Star Wars fans have been able to score movie merchandise from the official Lucas Online StarWarsShop.com for a while now. And to coincide with the new Indiana Jones film, there's now... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:39 pm
Microsoft’s effort to bribe/reward/cajole ecommerce search business away from Google with customer rebates is the product of dubious business economics. It’s a trap: a customer acquisition... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:32 pm
Ken Ohyama's remarkable Flickr set of Tokyo freeway interchanges is all graceful, swooping curves and spirals. Link (via Making Light) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:16 pm
Great news: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Corynne McSherry arm-twisted Lockheed Martin into giving up on their crazy attempt to stop people from posting 3D models of the WWII bombers that they built at government expense, claiming a trademark in the design:
Last month we told you about Lockheed Martin's effort to use trademark infringement claims to cause the removal of digital images of classic military aircraft from TurboSquid, a stock images site. The central mark at issue was the term “B-24,” which Lockheed managed to register as a trademark for use in connection with scale models of airplanes. We sent an open letter to Lockheed’s licensing agency, demanding that they withdraw their improper objections. We're pleased to report that Lockheed has decided to withdraw its claim, and TurboSquid is putting the images back up forthwith.
This is a good outcome, but the problem remains. Because online communication and commerce often depends on intermediaries like TurboSquid, who may not have the resources or the inclination to investigate trademark infringement claims, it is much too easy for trademark owners like Lockheed to ignore fair use and shut down legitimate content. And not every target of improper claims is going to have the resources to push back.
Great news: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Corynne McSherry arm-twisted Lockheed Martin into giving up on their crazy attempt to stop people from posting 3D models of the WWII bombers that they built... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:12 pm
This American Life, my favorite US radio show after Howard Stern (a sentiment I seem to share inversely with TAL host Ira Glass) has a truly great episode made in partnership with NPR News explaining the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:12 pm
An anonymous reader writes "In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose."
Spaceless is a concept for zero-footprint balcony furniture -- it's a deck with pop-up, fold-flat recessed benches and tables, so that your little balcony can be a clear space when you want one, then turn into an al fresco dining area when needed.
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Spaceless is a concept for zero-footprint balcony furniture -- it's a deck with pop-up, fold-flat recessed benches and tables, so that your little balcony can be a clear space when you want one, then... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:06 pm
Whitney sez, "I recently interviewed Ele Carpenter, who runs the Open Source Embroidery Project, a "socially engaged art project" that "brings together programming for embroidery and computing." She has... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 22 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
Whitney sez, "I recently interviewed Ele Carpenter, who runs the Open Source Embroidery Project, a "socially engaged art project" that "brings together programming for embroidery and computing." She has some interesting things to say about the gendered nature and gift economy of both coding and crafting. The project is currently on display at the HTTP Gallery in London."
Embroidery is constructed (mostly by women) in hundreds of tiny stitches which are visible on the front of the fabric. The system of the stitches is revealed on the back of the material. Some embrioderers seal the back of the fabric, preventing others from seeing the underlying structure of the pattern. Others leave the back open for those who want to take a peek. A few integrate the backend process into the front of the fabric. The patterns are shared amongst friends in knitting and embroidery 'ciricles'.
Software is constructed (mostly by men) in hundreds of tiny pieces of code, which form the hidden structure of the programme or interface. Open Source software allows you to look at the back of the fabric, and understand the structure of your software, modify it and distribute it. The code is shared amongst friends through online networks. However the stitches or code only make sense to those who are familiar with the language or patterns.
In "China's All-Seeing Eye," Naomi Klein explains the terrifying and banal reality of China's new surveillance state, and the way that it represents a triumph of "Homeland Security" technology swaps between the US and China:
In Guangzhou, an hour and a half by train from Shenzhen, Yao Ruoguang is preparing for a major test of his own. "It's called the 10-million-faces test," he tells me.
Yao is managing director of Pixel Solutions, a Chinese company that specializes in producing the new high-tech national ID cards, as well as selling facial-recognition software to businesses and government agencies. The test, the first phase of which is only weeks away, is being staged by the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing. The idea is to measure the effectiveness of face-recognition software in identifying police suspects. Participants will be given a series of photos, taken in a variety of situations. Their task will be to match the images to other photos of the same people in the government's massive database. Several biometrics companies, including Yao's, have been invited to compete. "We have to be able to match a face in a 10 million database in one second," Yao tells me. "We are preparing for that now."
The companies that score well will be first in line for lucrative government contracts to integrate face-recognition software into Golden Shield, using it to check for ID fraud and to discover the identities of suspects caught on surveillance cameras. Yao says the technology is almost there: "It will happen next year."
When I meet Yao at his corporate headquarters, he is feeling confident about how his company will perform in the test. His secret weapon is that he will be using facial-recognition software purchased from L-1 Identity Solutions, a major U.S. defense contractor that produces passports and biometric security systems for the U.S. government.
Dekortage writes "The New York Times reports today about Michael Hollick, the actor who provided the voice of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV. Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid. If this was television, film, or radio, Hollick and the other GTA actors could have made millions by now. Hollick says, 'I don't blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games. Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.' Is it time for video game actors to be treated as well as those in other mediums?"
The French parliament on Thursday adopted a controversial bill on genetically-modified (GM) crops that had raised hackles in both the right-wing ruling camp and the opposition. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 12:32 pm
0522x_ILM_Indy In these hallowed halls, Indiana Jones almost seems out of place. A banner with a two-dimensional cutout of the swashbuckling archaeologist swings through the lobby of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 12:31 pm
Lifelock CEO and chief pitchman Todd Davis has built his ID protection business around a compelling gimmick: anyone can have his Social Security number (457-55-5462). Dissatisfied customers in three states are now suing Davis; they say his service doesn't work and that he knew it wouldn't -- because it had failed even him.
New investments and subsidies favouring the production of biofuels should be frozen, the United Nations' new independent expert on the right to food said Thursday. Such a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 12:27 pm
Chinese online gaming company Netease.com Inc. said late Wednesday its first-quarter profit declined due mainly to changes in China's income tax law, which increased tax charges. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 22 May 2008 | 12:06 pm
As if by magic, AT&T confirms that its HSUPA 3G will be rolled out across the USA by the end of June when, rumor has it, the 3-G iPhone will be on the market. Dumb luck, or did a little birdie from Cupertino fly into the death star?
As if by magic, AT&T confirms that its HSUPA 3G will be rolled out across the USA by the end of June when, rumor has it, the 3-G iPhone will be on the market. Dumb luck, or did a little birdie from Cupertino fly into the death star?
Anonymous writes "Some of you may have seen the 6th day, the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger a few years back. If you recall there was a 're-pet' cloning service to get your dog back if you ever lost them. Enter 'Best Friends Again': 'A US biotech company on Wednesday announced it will auction off the right for five dog owners to have their furry best friend cloned, with bidding starting at 100,000 dollars. "BioArts International ... will sell five dog cloning service slots to the general public via a worldwide online auction," the California-based biotech start-up said in a statement.'"
A Citi Investment Research analyst upgraded shares of Salesforce.com Inc. Thursday, saying the customer management technology company's sales are growing and face "no significant competitive threats." Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 22 May 2008 | 11:51 am
Lenovo, the world's 4th largest PC maker, sees earnings increase 133% in its Q4 and says it will growth in Europe and China offsets a slowdown in the U.S. The company -- which includes the former IBM PC unit -- will focus its attention on developing countries, CEO William J. Amelio
Lenovo Group, the world's fourth largest PC maker, said Thursday that earnings for its latest quarter rose 133 percent as strong sales in China and Europe offset slower growth in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 11:34 am
Long considered a pariah by environmental activists, nuclear energy is making a comeback as the new darling of the US "green" rush, as Americans cozy up to the idea of carbon-free power. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 11:13 am
Emaar, The Economic City (Emaar.E.C), the Tadawul-listed company developing King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), has joined hands with Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, for a pioneering educational initiative that will empower Saudi youth to be active participants in the growth of KAEC and Saudi Arabia. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
If you're looking for unique, user-friendly products for Father's Day gift guides this year, consider the chumby. The recently launched chumby device allows Dad to spend time with his family at home while staying connected to his Internet life. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Data warehousing and analytics appliance provider Netezza has announced a partnership with storage giant EMC whereby it will add EMC's network storage arrays to its Netezza Performance Server appliances. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
IRVINE, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ThinkCP(TM) announced the rollout of the ThinkTankQ(TM) ORTEN-MP (Optimized Real Time Enterprise Network Monitoring Platform) featuring integrated InterMapper(R) 5.0 Real-Time Network Mapping Software developed by Dartware, LLC. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Isocore, the technology validation leader in next generation Internet and wireless networking and services, today announced the successful completion of its Spring 2008 Leading Edge Code Testing. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
By Matt Krantz Time Warner investors Wednesday no longer had to wait around for the cable guy. Ending months of speculation over how it would be done, Time Warner said it will spin off its cable unit, Time Warner Cable, by the end of 2008 in a series of transactions. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
By Byron Acohido SEATTLE -- Unable to lure away Google's loyal patrons, and stymied in its efforts to catch the search giant by acquiring Yahoo, Microsoft on Wednesday revealed a new way to skin a cat. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, said Thursday that earnings for its latest quarter rose 133 percent as strong sales in China and Europe offset slower... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:42 am
Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. Created by the death of a star, a new supernova appears in a spiral galaxy only about once a century Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:42 am
Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, said Thursday that earnings for its latest quarter rose 133 percent as strong sales in China and Europe offset slower... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:41 am
The new speakers from Sony are as tiny as golf balls but deliver the big, robust sound of a top-notch home-theater sound system. The roughly cube-shaped speakers, to go on sale in Japan Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:28 am
LEXINGTON, Mass., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management division, the leading developer of network management software, announced today the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:08 am
BOSTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SeeFile Software ( href="http://www.seefile.com">http://www.seefile.com ), the leading developer of affordable DAM software, is pleased... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 22 May 2008 | 10:04 am
By Anonymous 96% The proportion of e-mail traffic made up of spam 'What have you got?' asks a customer in the Monty Python cafe sketch. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Rev. Dr. Eric L Brown wed Margo Allen during a private ceremony in Las Vegas. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, the bride is a flight attendant with US Airways. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 22 May 2008 | 8:00 am
longacre writes "Who owns the moon? In a thought provoking piece, Instapundit blogger/law professor Glenn Reynolds gives us a brief history of earthlings' discourse on lunar property rights, a topic which has stagnated since the 1979 Moon Treaty. Is it possible to claim good title on land that is not under the dominion of a nation? He goes on to plead his case for the creation of lunar real estate legislation. From the article: 'Property rights attract private capital and, with government space programs stagnating, a lunar land rush may be just what we need to get things going again.'"
Bruce Schneier's latest Wired column is a stirring call-to-arms for a comprehensive data-privacy law:
Who controls our data controls our lives.
It's true. Whoever controls our data can decide whether we can get a bank loan, on an airplane or into a country. Or what sort of discount we get from a merchant, or even how we're treated by customer support. A potential employer can, illegally in the U.S., examine our medical data and decide whether or not to offer us a job. The police can mine our data and decide whether or not we're a terrorist risk. If a criminal can get hold of enough of our data, he can open credit cards in our names, siphon money out of our investment accounts, even sell our property. Identity theft is the ultimate proof that control of our data means control of our life.
We need to take back our data.
Our data is a part of us. It's intimate and personal, and we have basic rights to it. It should be protected from unwanted touch.
We need a comprehensive data privacy law. This law should protect all information about us, and not be limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others' ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight. It should enforce data deletion, and limit data collection, where necessary. And we need more than token penalties for deliberate violations.
lennier writes "How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why did the official Lucasfilm position keep changing? And just how big an influence were the films of Akira Kurosawa on the whole saga? Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked."
Los Angeles Magazine has a tell-all memoir penned by one of the "Jack Sparrows" that play Disneyland -- a steamy tale of resistance and women throwing themselves at you.
I'll be honest: I didn’t follow all the Disney rules. I played Jack like he was real, and if a woman flirted, I would flirt back. Women loved it. But there were also women who would have too many beers at California Adventure or smuggle in alcohol you could smell on their breath, women who were clearly sloshed.
Here’s a napkin someone wrote on for me: “I will give you a blow job on your break, so sexy! Kim—714-XXX-XXXX.” I would also get offers from women in my ear: “Anything you want, just find me.” I had a girl who had turned 18 the day before. She was with a high school group, and she wrote down her room number at the Downtown Disney hotel. I had a lady hump my leg one day in the park.
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has spotted this fabulous, $100K gold toothpick/earwax scraper, retreived from a Spanish galleon dating back to the late 16th Century.
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1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a memo outlining how to connect the think tank's new personal computers to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of -- and names -- ethernet.
Metcalfe had been an MIT undergraduate whiz kid and Harvard grad student working on computers and how to network them. Even before completing his Ph.D., he went to work for Xerox PARC, which assigned him the task of designing and building the first network for PCs.
Metcalfe circulated his plan in a memo titled "Alto Ethernet." It contained a rough schematic drawing and suggested using coaxial cable for the connections and using data packets like Hawaii's AlohaNet or the Defense Department's Arpanet. The system was up and running Nov. 11, 1973.
Metcalfe didn't base the name ethernet on the anesthetic that puts people to sleep. It refers instead to a discredited scientific theory of the luminiferous aether, an undifferentiated universal medium that some 18th- and 19th-century scientists thought necessary for the propagation of light. Metcalfe saw it as an apt metaphor for a medium that would propagate information.
Metcalfe shares four patents for ethernet. He and PARC colleague David Boggs published the concept in a 1976 paper, "Ethernet: Distributed Packet-Switching For LANs." That was the same year Metcalfe convinced Xerox, DEC and Intel -- the three funding companies -- to let ethernet become an open networking standard. It eventually supplanted competing technologies like IBM's Token Ring and General Motors' Token Bus to become the predominant standard for local-area networks.
Metcalfe went on to found 3Com ("computers, communication, compatibility") in 1979.
He left after losing an internal power struggle in 1990 and became a widely read columnist for Info World. Today he's a general partner at the VC firm Polaris Ventures.
He's also known for Metcalfe's Law: The value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users.
Want to wish ethernet a Happy Birthday? Send this page to your office printer -- by ethernet, of course.
sprkltgr writes "Our HR department is implementing new software. The HR Director has tasked me with sending our data out of our network to the consultant that's loading it in to the new package. Obviously this data includes items such as SSN, Name, Birth date, etc.Upon being told that I would not email this data to her, the consultant asked what my security requirements were for sending the data. What would be on your wishlist for the best way to send sensitive data to someone outside your firewall?"
kolicha writes "After the failed Yahoo bid, Microsoft is going to try a new approach to gain market share on their rivals Google. Sponsored links will be pay per purchase rather than pay per click, and search users will be offered 'cash back' on their purchases."
A diesel-electric tugboat would burn 35 percent less fuel and emit 80 percent less pollution than a conventional diesel tug and go a long way toward cleaning up the shipping industry, which emits twice as much CO2 as aviation.
Give your garden a boost by setting up a home composting system. We explain the science behind harvesting the nutrients from your food scraps, plus tips on getting started.
President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) into law today, making it a crime for employers or insurers to use your genetic data against you.
Advisers to John McCain, and rival Barack Obama, expand on the candidates' technology positions at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, revealing a surprising change of heart from McCain.
You, too, can be a Lycra-clad superhero -- all you need is a grappling hook, a jetpack and three other real-world gadgets you can buy today. Your shopping list starts right here, in Gadget Lab.
In Guangzhou, an hour and a half by train from Shenzhen, Yao Ruoguang is preparing for a major test of his own. "It's called the 10-million-faces test," he tells me.
