technology - "computer"

Washington - Notebook computers are the ultimate space-savers, but you give up a lot when you use them. The screens are small, the keyboards often uncomfortable, and expansion options are limited. Full-sized desktop computers, on the other hand, come...

As a teenager, Louis Hodes studied computers at a math and science honors high school in New York. Fascinated by the subject, he decided to build his own device.

BEIJING -- Three state-of-the-art Olympic media centers in Beijing have been equipped with rows of brand-new computers. Thousands of English-speaking volunteers stand at the ready, trained to offer Internet access with a smile.

John McCain admits that he is no computer whiz, but does that have any bearing on his fitness to be commander in chief?

theodp writes 'Bill Gates makes his case for Creative Capitalism in TIME, citing projects like a Text-Free UI for illiterate computing, the use of Multimouse technology to allow fifty kids to share one computer display, cell phone billing by the second, and Bono's RED campaign as examples of the type of corporate creativity that can make the world a better place for the billion or so people scraping by on less than a dollar a day. Michael Kinsley, a former Microsoft employee whose wife still advises the Gates Foundation, says it's hard to object to Gates' goals, but notes that creative capitalism does have its share of skeptics, and points out that there was not a whole lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor during Bill's three decades at Microsoft.' of this story at Slashdot.

Roland Piquepaille writes 'An international group of scientists has produced some of the sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made. According to one of them, they improved the efficiency of holography by a factor of 2,500. In order to achieve these spectacular results, they put a uniformly redundant array next to the object to image. And they found that this parallel approach multiplied 'the efficiency of X-ray Fourier transform holography by more than three orders of magnitude, approaching that of a perfect lens.' Besides these impressive achievements, it's worth noting that this technology has been inspired by the pinhole camera, a technique used by ancient Greeks. 'By knowing the precise layout of a pinhole array, including the different sizes of the different pinholes, a computer can recover a bright, high-resolution image numerically.'' of this story at Slashdot.

CWmike writes 'While it might seem like a practical joke or a harmless, furtive glance, e-mail snooping could land you in more hot water than you'd ever expect — you could be charged with a federal crime. The recent case of a Philadelphia TV news anchor charged with breaking into his co-anchor's e-mail accounts shines a light on the seriousness of such snooping. Scott Christie, a former federal prosecutor who headed up the computer hacking section at the U.S. Attorney's Office, said, 'You look over someone's shoulder and read a personal letter and that's not a crime, so how can it be a crime to access someone's e-mail? It's not the same thing, of course... What you're dong when you're accessing e-mail is affirmatively exceeding your access to electronic documents and systems.' He adds: 'Usually, you're doing that by pretending to be that person to break into their account.'' It's worth noting that the Philadelphia man accessed his co-worker's email over 500 times, and his use of

An anonymous reader writes 'Two FBI agents walked into a public library in Maryland, without a warrant, and walked out with two computers. The library director agreed to release the machines to these smooth-talking feds. According to the article, the director of Frederick County Public Libraries indicated that this was the third time in his 10 years there that the FBI had requested records, but the first time they had come without a court order. The director seemed to indicate no regrets, stating 'It was a decision I made on my experience and the information given to me.' He further justified his actions, noting that the agents indicated specific computers they needed (of the several dozen in the library) and further that they 'had an awful lot of information.'' The library director speculated whether the raid may have involved the Bruce Ivins / anthrax case, musing 'Obviously it coincided with the events everyone is talking about,' but he said the agents hadn't mentioned it.

In recent months, personal computer maker Dell Inc. has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said, citing several Dell officials.Dell's new foray would put it into an Apple-led market that has defied assaults.Compa...