This graphic from the New York Times shows how one man, a Chinese medical professor who had been studying SARS has infected 249 people (As of March 26). He stayed at a hotel for ONE NIGHT in Hong Kong, infecting other hotel guests. Two of those guests went to hospitals in Hong Kong and infected [...]

Dell has put the nail in the coffin of the good old Floppy Disk. They will be removing disk drives from their higher end machines, and where Dell goes, others are soon to follow. The technology, whether you are talking about the old 8-inch, 5 1/4 inch, or the more sturdy 3.5 inch disks, has [...]

The 150,000 year old femal ancestor of every person on earth may have lived in Tanzania or Ethiopia. DNA evidence shows high amounts of genetic variation in these areas.

A new technique for tracking down the ringleader has emerged by studying the emails transferring between members of a group. When studying emails within a company, a graph plotting the relationships always move the senior management to the middle. Patterns emerge which show which people in the organization are the most influential. This technique can [...]

So just as Intel puts off the release of its 64-bit processor, Microsoft acknowledges a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 that will work on Intel’s Itanium processor, but not on AMD’s 64-bit Opteron. This is probably due to the fact that AMDs chips haven’t been available in prototype as long as Intels’. Microsoft will [...]

Intel has announced that the world is not ready for 64-bit computing. It sounds like they are taking a page from the war propoganda machine. They’re not ready to release the new 64-bit processors, so they convince the world that we didn’t really want it anyway. It might be a good opportunity for AMD to [...]

Scientists at the University of California have created hollow tubes by repeatedly dipping silk from a spiders web into a solution, much like dipping a candle. The coated fibers are then baked, burning away the silk, and causing the coating to shrink, leaving a hollow, optical tube as small as 2 nanometers. These tiny tubes [...]

Chipmaker Texas Instruments has released a concept device that it says will be a universal wireless translator. The “Wireless Any Network Digital Assistant” will be one device that can speak 802.11 (WiFi), Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS. The idea is that while you are sitting next to your desk, you can take advantage of the high speed [...]

US President George Bush is pretty confident as he leads his country into an attack in Iraq. He may have good reason. In the 12 years since Gulf War I, technology has increased in leaps and bounds. I was using a state of the art 486 computer running Windows 3.0 in 1991. In 1991, only [...]

The US Army website was attacked through the IIS security hole disclosed on Monday. Allowing much less time than Bush’s 48 hour deadline offered to Saddam Hussein, hackers exploited this “0-day” security hole right away. This just underscores the need for Systems Administrators to be completely vigilant when dealing with security holes and patches.

Wireless carriers and mobile phone manufacturers meet in New Orleans this week for CTIA Wireless 2003. They are showing off new flashy phones that are smaller, lighter and have more features than their predecessors. Watch for new products and services being launched this week.

This stark message was the one coming from the 3rd World Water Summit in Japan today. The World Health Organization states that 2.4 Billion people lack basic sanitation, and 1.1 Billion don’t have access to safe drinking water. But simply encouraging hand-washing using soap would be three times more cost-effective than improving water quality in [...]