Archive for September 14th, 2006
Will airport of the future fly?
CNET news | Sept. 13, 2006
By Stefanie Olsen
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–The airport of tomorrow might have virtual intelligence agents that check your bags, “smart dust” sensor networks that vet passengers heading through security and commuter pilots who fly the plane from a home office.
That is, if Dave Evans’ vision is to be believed. As chief technologist [...]
City removes fluoride from water
Del Rio News Herald | Sept. 13, 2006
By Karen Gleason
Fluoride will no longer be added to Del Rio’s drinking water.
The Del Rio City Council made that decision Tuesday night after a presentation by John Morony, a retired college biology professor, who characterized fluoride as a poison and showed the council numerous research references that link [...]
VeriChip Sells First Baby Protection System, in Talks with Military
eWeek.com | Aug. 25, 2006
By Renee Boucher Ferguson
Updated: The maker of human-implantable RFID chips makes its first sale of its infant protection, wander prevention and staff duress system to a Canadian hospital and is discussing testing its implantable chips in two military branches.
VeriChip, the company that makes human-implantable RFID chips, is looking to span its [...]
Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine
Associated Press | Sept. 13, 2006
TRENTON, N.J. – A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
In a paper posted on the university’s Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate [...]
The Rockefeller File
