by Ian King, Alex Sherman, Bloomberg News Intel Corp, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, said a design error in one of its chips will cost it $1 billion in missed sales and expenses. The error will cut first-quarter revenue by $300 million and gross profit margin by 2 percentage points, Intel said in a [...]
by Karen Nugent, NEWS Telegram.com A doctor enters a hospital room to examine a patient, but neglects to wash her hands. A special badge on her lab coat turns a deep shade of red as wireless computer components in the door, the soap dispenser and near the bed immediately relay information about the unwashed hands. [...]
by Byron Spice, bspice@cs.cmu.edu Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Tel Aviv universities are drawing on inspiration from a fruit fly’s nervous system to develop models for distributed computer networks. A fruit fly’s nervous system cells organize themselves so that a few cells act as leaders that connect the other nerve cells together. “It is such [...]
by Stephen Cass, MIT technology Review It’s been quite a while since appliances had any prominence at a high tech show: images of women immaculately dressed in evening gowns while demonstrating the magic of microwave oven technology at the 1964 World’s Fair spring to mind. When LG discussed its new technology for fridges and washing [...]
by Gareth Morgan, BBC News, Technology The amount of junk e-mail being sent across the globe has seen a dramatic fall in recent months. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being sent each day in [...]
by Tom Gjelten, NPR Online The nationwide cyber attack that took down Estonia’s government, financial, and media computer networks in 2007 led the country to establish the Cyber Defense League, which consists of volunteer programmers, computer scientists, and software engineers that are ready to function under military command during a cyberattack. “[Our] league brings together [...]