Starting in October at London's Heathrow Airport, new iris recognition technology will enable selected passengers to look into a video camera at the passport control checkpoint and have their identity verified within seconds. The Heathrow program will be the first large-scale passenger processing trial in the world to rely entirely on biometric identification.
Production of 24x CD-R drives is ramping up and Plextor has kicked
in with a CD-RW which offers: 24x CD-R; 10x CD-RW, and 40x
CD-read.
It's an internal drive with E-IDE interface.
Plextor isn't the first with this, and Ricoh says it has had 1-24x
CD-R's available since the beginning of May, included in its
MP7200A-DP 20x 10x 32 CD-RW drive kit.
NASA's Ames Research Center is building a "personal satellite assistant", powered by a
Pentium III with the Linux operating system, to help out astronauts on space shuttle and
International Space Station (ISS) missions.
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have patented a potential breakthrough in their quest to develop computer circuits made merely of individual molecules. HP hopes to refine the process over the next decade to create microchips as powerful as the next generation of silicon-based chips - but 1,000 times smaller and less expensive.
That advance and others in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology could make computers small enough to be worn, embedded in materials or perhaps even injected into the bloodstream to serve as diagnostic sensors.
The research arm of IBM Corp. has a software tool under development to identify wireless LAN nodes that are vulnerable to a sneak attack by hackers, the company announced Thursday. Prototyped on a Linux-based wireless personal digital assistant (PDA), the device will be able to automatically monitor 802.11 wireless LAN networks and collect security-related information.
The project developed from internal concerns at IBM over the security of its own growing 802.11 network, said Dave Safford, manager of the Global Security Analysis Lab at IBM Research unit.
PC Hardware posted an article about the new testing methodology. This article
covers all the issues a user must take into account. Read about the five steps
of the methodology which include product identification, installation /
compatibility, features, reliability and performance. This is the general
testing methodology applicable to all products that will be reviewed at PC
Hardware. In several days specific products methodology will be introduced.
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The San Francisco Bay Area joins the metropolitan areas taking steps to allow people to make cell phone calls while traveling through tunnels and other wireless dead zones.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board of directors voted to begin negotiating with a company that wants to install the antennas and cables necessary to use cell phones in the 33 miles of the system that run underground, including one tunnel that travels underneath the San Francisco Bay.
Researchers have developed a new type of atomic clock that is significantly more precise than the current technology in use. It is accurate to one second in the lifetime of the Universe - about 15 billion years.
It works on the same basic principle that microwave atomic clocks have employed since the 1950s, but utilises optical light, which being of a higher frequency, provides more accurate timekeeping.
The new optical atomic clock's creators say that their new timepiece will provide "an even finer-grained view of the physical world."
The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool.
Despite early missteps in turning the Web into an entertainment channel, TV broadcasters have increasingly turned to the Internet as a talent pool to fill out their programming rosters. Just this week, for example, MTV Networks signed Josh Kimberg's 2-year-old Webtoon series, "Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob," to air in its fall schedule.
Hitachi has developed a silicon chip for security applications so
small that it can even be embedded in money.
Originally developed to thwart counterfeiting of bank bills, Hitachi
said the minute integrated circuit could equally be embedded in
consumer products to track them in case of theft.
