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Former Security Chief Of El Al Airlines Says New Technology Will 'Revolutionize Aviation Security' IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Few people have heard of HiEnergy Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: HIET) of Irvine, California, but the company's Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Dr. Bogdan Maglich, has been a key player in global scientific circles for half a century. Soon, both he and his latest discovery will make HiEnergy a dominant player in the high stakes aviation security market, a market that industry research predicts will experience compound annual growth of 47 percent, from $600-million in 2002 to $8-billion by...

<p>The new laser technology offers a five-fold increase in DVD capacity.</p> <p>IRVINE – Intersil Corp. introduced a chip Monday that could change the DVD world as we know it.</p> <p>The Intersil chip makes possible a new breed of digital video recording, called Blu-Ray Disc, that burns five times more video onto a DVD than today's typical DVD recorder.</p>

<p>PALO ALTO – Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs have developed a new manufacturing process capable of producing molecular-scale circuits vastly denser than today's most advanced semiconductor chips.</p> <p>The discovery offers the hope of assembling billions or even trillions of molecular-size switches in an area comfortably smaller than a fingernail, and at a cost far lower than today's computer chips. The advance could lead to immensely powerful and inexpensive computers capable of holding entire libraries of music and movies for the consumer, or calculating now-unsolvable problems for scientists.</p>

AMD opens the transistor gates By John G. Spooner Special to ZDNet News September 10, 2002, 7:48 AM PT Advanced Micro Devices has created new high-performance transistors in its labs based on the simple concept that sometimes two are better than one. The chipmaker said Tuesday it has manufactured in its labs a new kind of transistor with two pathways, or gates, for electricity--instead of one. The new transistor design can double the amount of electricity that flows through a transistor, similar to the way that adding extra lanes can increase the capacity of a highway. AMD is the latest...

Hideous viruses and terrifying hackers will soon be neutralized so that the computing public might finally doze blissfully in a cocoon of safety, Intel announced yesterday at the Developers' Forum. The proposed solution is LaGrande -- which is not, as it sounds, a genteelized pickup truck for suburban use, but a hardware system which will control your computing experience for your own good. It will prevent you from doing silly things by sandboxing numerous risky processes and apparently establishing a secure sanctum sanctorum on one's HDD along lines of the IBM rapid restore gimmick. Details are sketchy, but LaGrande is,...

<p>Gasoline engines now in production can be nearly pollution-free, a California university engineering laboratory reports after three years of study.</p> <p>The finding suggests Americans can enjoy much cleaner air without the high price of electric cars.</p> <p>''You won't get to zero (emissions), but you will get pretty close,'' says Joseph Norbeck, director of the facility that performed the challenging tests at the University of California-Riverside.</p>

Microsoft reeling from hack attacks Patch what you can, worry about what you can't By Paul Hales: Thursday 05 September 2002, 13:08 MICROSOFT REPORTS that hackers are having a field day with its software. It seems the harder the company tries to shore up all its products, the more the hackers, crackers and whacky-bacciers enjoy worming their way through the defences. Last week the company posted an advisory here warning of an "increased level of hacking activity" that it had been tracking. The hacking attempts show similar symptoms and "behaviors", the company said and affect a whole slew of Microsoft...

Intel, Rambus wave goodbye on platform as gravy train shunts out SIS left holding PC Rambus babies. Sniff By Mike Magee: Wednesday 04 September 2002, 10:27 IT'S NOW CLEAR from the latest Intel roadmaps we've seen that the 850E, and by definition Rambus RDRAM memory, is not much longer for the PC planet. Unless, that is, SIS comes to the rescue of the memory type during 2003. The RDRAM gravy train is being shunted out of the INTC station. As we reported yesterday, graphics on the roadmap show that the 850E, which will be validated for 1066 RDRAM come early...

AMSTERDAM – A format fight over a future generation of DVDs will be decided by the entertainment industry which will back only one horse, a European consumer electronics executive said Friday. The DVD industry, already divided into three camps backing different recordable DVD formats, had been expected to close ranks when it moved to the more powerful blue laser successor to the current red laser DVD technology. However, this week Toshiba and NEC said they would launch their own blue laser DVD format. Jean Charles Hourcade, Chief Technology Officer at France's Thomson Multimedia, said it would be wrong to "repeat...

The helpful hacker demonstrates his techniques on camera for the NBC Nightly News, but lawyers kill the story when he cracks the broadcast network's own systems. How did a mediagenic hacker like Adrian Lamo get himself bumped last week from a scheduled appearance on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw? Perhaps with his impromptu on-camera intrusion into the peacock network's own computers. The vagabond hacker known for his drifter lifestyle and his public forays into large and poorly-secured corporate intranets sat down at a Washington D.C. Kinko's laptop station earlier this month with a freelance NBC news producer to...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. DANJIANGKOU, China — The booming cities of northern China are parched and constrained by a growing shortage of water. Yet in China's rainy south, the mighty Yangtze River pours vast volumes, unused, into the sea. So why not, Chinese leaders have long asked, cross the country with new canals, bringing that "wasted" water to where it is vitally needed for the country's progress? In a world short of fresh water, one of the gravest challenges facing governments is that needs and supplies are often far apart. Now China, with water scarcity...

The Pentagon is planning to use a British weapon that can disable electronic and electrical systems without killing anyone to attack Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons sites. The "radio frequency weapon", or E-Bomb, developed at a secret site in south-west England, sends out a high-intensity radio wave with similar effects to the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast. It is also able to penetrate the underground bunkers where Saddam's chemical and biological weapons are stored as protection from allied bombing. The radio pulse will travel easily down the bunkers' power and ventilation ducts. One of the biggest problems facing...

<p>Barely a week after I sang the praises of the Google Toolbar here, I'm about ready to uninstall it. The only thing holding me back is that I haven't yet decided among the several nifty alternatives suggested by readers.</p> <p>Not that I'm backing away from Google as my search engine of choice (although I have concluded that AlltheWeb.com works significantly better in at least one area important to me).</p>

<p>It's never been easier to build your own PC.</p> <p>People from all walks of life do it. Accountants, students, housewives, and engineers build their own PCs. I had a memorable conversation with a cab driver at the last Fall Comdex (see Is DIY Dead? (Redux)) about building PCs. Components are easy to install, connection standards are robust, and operating systems are easier to set up--even Linux is easier to install than, say, Windows 3.0.</p>

Has anyone else been getting pop-up ads while surfing freeRepublic? I have gotten several without leaving this site. The latest is the Official 2002 Smokers survey which asks me to enter my name address and other information to win a flat screen TV. This one poped up after I clicked on the "Messages" link.

<p>Researchers from the University of Southern California School of Engineering have developed a new type of memory that actually puts a processor on the DRAM chip, allowing for significantly faster memory performance and eliminating the gap between CPU and memory performance. The memory, called Data IntensiVe Architecture (DIVA), is a Processor in Memory (PIM) chip that contains four processors per memory chip, each capable of performing an 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit mathematical process.</p>

<p>San Francisco, California, USA -- For most people, tech gear is straightforward and utilitarian. You buy a modem or a computer or a piece of software to perform a task. Once you're done with it, it's obsolete and ready for the landfill if you can't find a charity or a friend to take it off your hands. I mean, what are you going to do with it -- start a collection?</p>

Judge throws out hyperlink patent lawsuitAssociated PressAug. 23, 2002, 5:20PM WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that could have made the World Wide Web a pay-as-you-click toll road. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon rejected BT Group's claim that it owns the patent on hyperlinks -- those single-click that make the Web what it is. Filed earlier this year, the suit accused an Internet service provider, Prodigy Communications Corp., of infringing on BT's patent on hyperlinks. McMahon rejected BT's claim that each Web server on the Internet is a central computer and thus the Internet...

<p>WATERLOO, Ontario -- Students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, upset over a $2.3 million (CDN) partnership fund from Microsoft Canada, have charged that the company is trying to buy its way into the academic curriculum.</p> <p>The corporation had lobbied UW staff to use its C# programming language in a new course before the partnership fund was announced, Wired News has learned.</p>

RackSaver Delivers Second Supercluster to University of Delaware Research Institute8/19/02 6:04 AMSource: Business Wire SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002-- Dubbed SAMSON-2, The New System Already Ranks Among the Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World.RackSaver, a leading provider of high-density individual rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters, today announced that the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute has completed installation and benchmarking of its second RackSaver supercluster system. The high performance, highly scalable system, known as SAMSON-2, is also the first supercluster system in the United States to use the new WulfKit3 three-dimensional interconnect, an innovative high-performance interconnect developed by...