Intelligent dustbins and Google will save us from aliens
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, it's official, aliens are indeed in the custody of the US authorities at Roswell, New Mexico. But don't pack up the station wagon and head for the hills. Not yet anyway. It just seems that even the faceless men at Area 51 can come unstuck when it comes to working out who should, and shouldn't be given the privilege of working in the good old USA.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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Also: NASA officials to make historic trip to China. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Our urban future, from Third World slums to the virtual Panopticon.
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Paper files next for the great data hoover Google has revealed plans to help convert the world's paper filing cabinets, in Tron-like fashion, into mere nodes in the great hive mind.â¦
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... but I am as confident as I am   that the Sun will rise tomorrow that it will be safe from terrorists.   After all, we have the children to think about.    It seems that David Clark, who led the development of  the Internet way back in the '70's - did you know there  even was a '70's? -  wants to     create a whole new Internet that will fix many of the problems the   current Internet is plagued with.  The New Internet's engineers will be  much more careful this time around to make sure it works better than  the first one did.    I'm afraid, though, that the engineers are not the only ones  who will be deciding how our New Internet will work.      If one is able to find any   privacy or anonymity in this New Internet,   it will be because of some undiscovered     security hole, which will be   quickly repaired, rather than any kind of conscious design decision.    Probably one reason they are accepting proposals before rolling it out   is to avoid the sort of accidental security holes that enable pr0n,   peer-to-peer filesharing and   left-wing political activism.
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Google's searching for a solution to our fuel woes.
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Plus: Scientists create technicolor neuron 'Brainbow'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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They're small, smart and vigilant, the sort of miniature technology that science fiction writers once dreamed of. But the battery-powered, wireless sensors sometimes known as "smart dust" are here, and they're making their way into the electronic fabric of our lives. -The Washington Post
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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Plus: NASA hunts rats for public health. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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Google's growth is chaotic, but will it help them take over the world?
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Government is using technology to burden their future -- and it's all our fault. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
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Chris Hughes has a vision of the future that involves -- finally! -- bringing together hacked game systems, wireless Internet access and clean floors.
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Google's plans for an inventory-reduction service could be worth billions to global companies.