A U.S. government panel has been formed to check foreign student visa applications for possible terrorist risks, reports the Washington Post. The Interagency Panel on Advanced Science Security, consisting of representatives from the FBI, CIA, State Department, and INS, among others, expects to evaluate 2,000 applications a year submitted by researchers and students seeking to […]
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Helium-filled airships will provide a cost-effective way of bringing mobile phone networks and Internet connections to remote parts of the world, reports BBC News Online. Engineers at Britain’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) have designed an autonomous vehicle powered by solar cells and a backup diesel engine that will carry state-of-the-art technology such as transponders for […]
Groundbreaking surgery has fitted a British university professor with cyborg technology, enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer, reports CNN. A 3mm-wide silicon square was implanted into the professor’s left wrist that attached 100 electrodes to the median nerve. Connecting wires were fed under the skin of the forearm and out from […]
As companies and governments look to secure their most critical IT systems in the wake of 9/11, the worldwide security-software market is expected to grow to $4.3 billion this year, up 18% from 3.6 billion in 2001, reports Dataquest. Managed security services should grow even faster, according to market researcher IDC, which estimates network protection […]
A proposal to increase high-tech spending in the next U.S. defense budget is the first step in a long-term plan to incorporate more technology into all branches of the military, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The goal is to increase science and technology spending from 2.5% to 3% of a defense budget that may […]
IT professionals who (so far) escaped the layoffs and corporate downsizing can expect workloads to increase dramatically in coming years with salary increases slight. A new 2001 IT Market Compensation Study survey by Gartner Consulting’s People3 group found that IT departments should expect workloads to increase 50% in the next four years. Meanwhile, median salaries […]
So, you thought walking away from your desk is all it takes to leave your work behind. Sorry. Researchers at AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge, England have created a computer empowered to automatically know where its user is, where it is, and what resources it needs as it follows its user around an office. This follow-me […]
Recently enacted U.S. counterterrorism legislation makes it easier for the federal government to track suspected terrorists by extending its reach into citizens’ private lives. The measure, called the Uniting and Strengthening America Act, allows investigators easy permission to look at parts of an email application that show recipient and sender fields. It also allows the […]
An overload of information pouring into the U.S. National Security Agency’s most secret information-gathering program might have slowed the investigation into September’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, reports the New York Post. Echelon, a computerized interception program so powerful authorities don’t officially acknowledge its existence, has spewed forth so much information analysts can’t […]
ACM filed a declaration in federal court regarding the legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA case. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey by a number of computing researchers led by Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten, the plaintiffs are asking the […]
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