The Gizmo Report: Sentry's QE5541 Fire-Safe
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Glaskowsky reviews a new USB-compatible fire and water-resistant media safe introduced at CES 2008.
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The Marconi Company adopts CQD as its Morse distress signal. It is short-lived but does play a significant role in the mother of all distress calls.
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One of the last frontiers of semiconductor technology - environments where electronic devices have to run at high power, in fierce heat or at lethal doses of radiation - may be about to fall.
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Battery maker insists that the risk of devices' catching fire is low.
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On Government Technology Magazine: Homeland Security
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A new camera tracks hot lead -- just like in the slow-motion "bullet time" scenes in The Matrix. The technology could lead to "active armor" that stops bullets midair. By David Hambling.
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In an advance that could lead to lighter spacecraft and smarter cars, researchers have developed a new technique for producing a high-quality computer chip that is much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today&#39;s
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Suitable for BBQ marshmallow roasting In the latest episode of The Laptop Infernos, a MacBook user is reporting his laptop came close to burning his house down after the battery exploded and burst into flames. The MacBook, which was less than a year-old, was charging with the lid shut when it spontaneously ignited at about three in the morning while the user and his girlfriend slumbered.â¦
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Also: New modular Hummer 'more animalistic,' 'eco-friendlier'. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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The replacement of a thin plastic resin insulating layer, or polyolefin, with a new and undisclosed heat resistance layer, could prevent future incidents of lithium-ion batteries spontaneously catching fire. From the battery producing arm of Matsushita, Panasonic's parent company, which claims it's now ready to begin producing batteries with the new insulator.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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The Hitachi 2400 Smart Windshield: You think you got clutter on your computer display? Ha! Screech! CRASH!
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The ultimate flight-to-safety investment.
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Blog: The Defense Department wants a few good inventors to devise a prototype system that can power a standard soldier's equipment for 96 hours.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.