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Elinor MillsElinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press.
Applications include wide-area surveillance systems such as those at military bases, airports, railroad stations, borders, coastlines, harbors, and power plants,according to Sentinels site.
A self-driving car, but thankfully a BMWBMW has revealed that it, too, has entered the self-driving car arena, inserting self-driving technology in a 5 Series car.
Social-network update: Facebook up; Twitter slow?Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitters lawyer responds.
It sure looks like Google Earth, [adult school] Sacramento city attorneys office says justice served in protest cases sacramento (0) 2011-12-27 14:46:29 but its not.
Pomera DM100 from Japan and iPhone make an odd coupleAlready have an iPhone? Pick up the tiny Pomera DM100 for text input and drop that expensive, bulky MacBook.
Cutting Edge
The El Segundo, Calif.-based company was founded in 2005 by computer science and electrical engineering professors at the University of Southern California.
Jobs e-mail to Schmidt suggests no-poaching deal in playA newly unearthed e-mail exchange between Apples Steve Jobs and Googles Eric Schmidt shows Jobs actively telling Google not to try to hire its employees, resulting in the firing of at least one recruiter.
Apple Talk
The AVE Video Fusion software seamlessly blends five video streams onto a 3D model of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., in this screenshot.
Live video in a 3D world is cool, and its not even GooglLive video in a 3D world is cool, and its not even Google map of california coastlinee map of california coastline,Ahigher-quality versionis on the Sentinel site.
Say no to boxed software! The future of applications is online delivery and access. Software is passe.Webwareis the new way to get things done.
Cutting Edge
A company called Sentinel, funded by the U.S. Defense Department, has posted ademo of its client software on YouTubethat shows the viewer flying through 3D cityscapes with live videos embedded in them.
Business Tech
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Hydrogen sponge could extend EV driving rangeNovel molecules with as much suce area per volume as a football field could be used to store more hydrogen than compressed gas, extending the range of fuel-cell electric vehicles.
Apple
Technically Incorrect
This screenshot shows a live USB camera and 18 live TV feeds projected onto monitors in a lab in Hong Kong.
The software, AVE Video Fusion, combines Google Earth-like features with live camera videos projected on a 3D model the video caption says. This program is NOT Google Earth. It is written from scratch using C++ and OpenGL. It runs on PCs and requires no custom hardware.
Apple, Google under scrutiny over no-poaching chargesAt issue is whetmap of california coastlineher some of the titans of tech conspired not to hire each others employees. Attorney Joe Saveri argues the alleged conspiracy kept workers salaries artificially low by stifling competition.
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Gates sent dying Jobs a letter he kept bedsideAn interview with Microsofts Bill Gates in The Telegraph is just the latest to show he and the late Steve Jobs had a strong relationship at the time of the Apple leaders death.
Untethered tech: Wireless sensors monitor brain wavesIt used to be that electroencephalography required users to sit still for a computer to track the brains impulses. New advances have made that technology wireless and mobile.
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