Hacking a 2,000-Year-Old Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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Tinkerer Iain Sharp couldn't bear to part with his first computer -- a Mac SE/30 -- so he turned it into a powerful media server using a mini PC motherboard and a software emulator. By Leander Kahney.
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Here's an interesting Howto on connecting FlickrFan to the Mac desktop. I love this stuff.  Here's a movie that demonstrates this coolest of hacks.
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Cash'n'Carrion Essential kit for the marauding sysdamin
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It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
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The modern PC is a marvel, a machine that lets an ordinary person with little training create a document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically to someone across the globe - and then save it accidentally into some dark
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By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 19--At first glance, the computer room doesn't look much like a  doorway.   But that's exactly what it is for senior citizens stepping into the cyber  age.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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InfoWorld - A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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An ingenious hacker finds a new application for Apple's remarkable Sudden Motion Sensor: World's biggest and most expensive Roomba remote control. In Cult of Mac.
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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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The "Anti-kythera Mechanism," an ancient Greek astronomical calculator dating to about 100 B.C., possessed a technical sophistication centuries ahead of its time, an international research team reports. "The actual design is superb, almost jaw-dropping," says study leader Mike Edmunds of the United Kingdom's Cardiff University. The mechanism is now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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A new computer virus is catching people out by coming back from the dead.