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- Technologist: Sniffing Bombs With Mobiles
  Posted by Jeff from Newsweek
  The project, known as Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cell Phone, would help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by "triangulating" the source of radiation when people carrying mobile phones pass by. (The greater the number of equipped cell phones, the greater the precision: phones closest to radioactive material will register stronger signals.) The Purdue project and others like it represent a "major shift" in combating radiation terrorism, says Rita Colwell, a former director of the National Science Foundation and now a professor at the University of Maryland.
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- 'Eternal Sunshine' director said to be behind Microsoft Seinfeld commercial
  Posted by Jeff from Computer World
  If as one expert said Seinfeld is the perfect pitchman to showcase Vista as the operating system of the 1990's, the director of Eternal Sunshine, a story about breakups in which the protagonist has his memory erased to forget the pain of his ex-girlfriend, may be the perfect compliment to this whole effort. The campaign is already a joke, can't wait to see the rest of it.
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- Rise of the rat-brained robots
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  : AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen. They just stop working and die off," says Mark Hammond, the system's creator. This is no ordinary robot control system - a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made - and continue to make - connections with each other.
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- Spam campaigns target msnbc.com, CNN
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Spammers have upped the ante in their efforts to trick news consumers, switching from e-mails with tabloid-style headlines to impersonating major online news services. On Wednesday, e-mails that appeared to be from msnbc.com landed in inboxes worldwide, promising breaking news and confusing some recipients.
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- Is Google a Media Company?
  Posted by Jeff
  While Knol is only three weeks old and still relatively obscure, it has already rekindled fears among some media companies that Google is increasingly becoming a competitor. They foresee Google's becoming a powerful rival that not only owns a growing number of content properties, including YouTube, the top online video site, and Blogger, a leading blogging service, but also holds the keys to directing users around the Web.
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- Hint of new Apple product generates blogosphere buzz
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Colegrove thinks Apple might unveil a 7- to 10-inch laptop, joining the many other PC companies that are offering relatively low-cost and lightweight laptops. "If you look at Apple's products - the iPhone, the iPod touch - what's next?" she said. "It's natural that you'll see [touch technology] with notebook computers."
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- On The Hill: Privacy Behind Bipartisan 'Net Data-Collection Probe
  Posted by mediaman
  Worried about privacy issues, top House Democrats and Republicans are jointly questioning data collection practices of Internet network operators who tailor Internet advertising based on a consumer's Web surfing activity.
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