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• We'll all become super soldiers (arstechnica.com)
  In a boon to the overworked everywhere, the makers of Provigil are attempting to push their drug to a wider market. Originally designed for…
• Companies pushing online billing? (arstechnica.com)
  While the internet has made inroads in lives worldwide, many (most?) people are hesitant to deal with financial issues online. This hesitat…
• New (test) features for Premiere Subscriptors! (arstechnica.com)
  Back in September, we experimented with letting Premiere Subscriptors download the UT2003 Demo from the Ars Orbiting Headquarters.
• Tetris is hard --Barbie (arstechnica.com)
  In the world of chess, computers have proven to be formidable opponents for the best of the best human opponents. But how would a computer…
• Office 11's new feature: won't run on pre-2000 OSes (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has confirmed that they are currently planning not to support Office 11 on any OS that isn't running something as current as Wind…
• Microsoft Media Center officially launches (arstechnica.com)
  Today Microsoft officially launched Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE), originally code-named Freestyle. In short, it's Windows XP with…
• Army's search for the 3-yr PB&J (arstechnica.com)
  Food scientists have already been working on bringing mac 'n cheese to the MRE menu and now they are working on the sandwich equivalent of…
• Fortune on Intel's new 90nm fabs (arstechnica.com)
  There's a lengthy and interesting piece over at Fortune that discusses Intel's new 90nm fabs, which are scheduled to come online soon. The…
• Inside the IBM PowerPC 970 ? Part I: Design Philosophy and Front End (arstechnica.com)
  IBM's Tuesday, October 15th announcement of the PowerPC 970 was one of the most heavily anticipated processor announcements in recent memor…
• The right hand knows what the left is doing... (arstechnica.com)
  Cybernetic implants help two men to walk again! New Scientist has the coverage and this is fascinating. Two men who had previously suffered…
• Give your mom a hug from space (arstechnica.com)
  Man, this is great. I needed a good laugh, and I'm glad to see that science was able to provide it. The only information I can find is this…
• Inside the PowerPC 970 (arstechnica.com)
  From the moment IBM unveiled the Power4 a few years ago, Mac users began dreaming of a scaled-down, cheaper, Altivec-enabled version of the…
• Roll up displays in 2005? (arstechnica.com)
  Cambridge Display Technology group has acquired its rival Opsys, fusing the two companies together in the hopes that flexible, rollable TV…
• Viagra saves wildlife, but not the way you're thinking (arstechnica.com)
  From the wow-that's-odd-department: Researchers have determined that the advent of Viagra has reduced the trade in wildlife body parts in c…
• Game.Ars says Boo-yaa! (arstechnica.com)
  This week's spooky edition of Game.Ars carries news of yet another gaming-related death. I'm sorry, but there has to be something else to t…
• Privacy concerns raised by implantable tracking device (arstechnica.com)
  Well, they're finally here. Long touted as a way to find a missing pet, you can now have your children implanted with a security device tha…
• Temperature rising in video card market (arstechnica.com)
  This past week saw several new developments in the PC video card market. First, Matrox has announced the availability of a 256MB version of…
• Physics may have been hit with a nasty hoax (arstechnica.com)
  Ars Master of the Universe Aleksey "Geon" Cherman, author of such memorable articles as The Ultimate Limits of Computers, wrote in with som…
• Tim Bray says "A-OK" to Office 11 (arstechnica.com)
  Tim Bray, the co-creator of XML, has given his official thumbs-up to Microsoft's XML-enabling of Office 11. In the interview at sys-con, Br…
• When to care about spam? When it's spam versus spam (arstechnica.com)
  The Direct Marketing Association, a lobbyist group that wants to make sure that you receive at least 3 copies of J-Crew's catalogue a month…
• Sing me a song, HAL (arstechnica.com)
  Neat stuff. I just saw this at Discover. Our musician readers know that solo practicing can get boring. Christopher Raphael has developed a…
• Palladium @ MIT wrap-up (arstechnica.com)
  Over at Cryptome.org someone posted a good summary of Microsoft's recent Palladium talk at MIT. It goes into some detail on how Palladium w…
• A home on Lagrange (arstechnica.com)
  Even with a limited budget, questions about the International Space Station, and cloudy visions of future plans, NASA still has some vision…
• ECCp-109 Solved: Ars Technica's Team Vodka Martini wins! (arstechnica.com)
  Arsians, throw on your party hats! Chris Monico, project leader, has announced that the ECCp-109 challenge has been solved. Ars Technica'
• Cell phone use on planes? Can it be? (arstechnica.com)
  Someday you may be able to use a cell phone and place a call without airline personnel beating you to a pulp. If and when are up to debate.
• LG’s new robovac has a camouflaged dock that looks like an Ikea side table. (theverge.com)
  It may never come to the US, but LG announced its new HomeBot AI Objet Collection Roni robot vacuum in South Korea today. Its charging/clea…
• Root DNS servers attacked, no one notices (arstechnica.com)
  This happened yesterday, but it's big enough to warrant a day late post. As reported by MSNBC, nine out of thirteen backbone root servers w…
• No more Xbox for the outback? (arstechnica.com)
  Steve Ballmer seemed to get a bit huffy on the subject of Xbox modification and a recent Australian court ruling. In July a Federal Court r…
• The Golden Spam State (arstechnica.com)
  I saw a neat posting at SNN1 today. The California Attorney General has asked that California residents send him spam. No joke. Their websi…
• Sharp's new computer is a real pane (arstechnica.com)
  It's not going to replace your current desktop computer, but one thing is clear...it's clear. Sharp showed off a new computer, running at a…
• Office 11 beta testing starts (arstechnica.com)
  Why does it feel like Office XP just came out? Probably because few people I know actually have it (unless they've bought a new PC recently…
• Lower-end 15-17" LCD round up (arstechnica.com)
  You probably know that we're big fans of LCDs here at Ars, so we were pleased to see the Tech Report post a good review of a handful of low…
• ATI goes DDR-II, and not wanting to go it alone (arstechnica.com)
  While NVIDIA fans wonder about the NV30's final configuration details, ATI claims to have "demonstrated" a 3D processor that's G'd up with…
• Microfluidic integrated chips (arstechnica.com)
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a RAM-like chips made of silicone which can store fluid in 1,000 uniqu…
• Folding@Home breakthrough (arstechnica.com)
  Distributed computing is starting to produce results. Prime numbers have been found, encryption cracked, and now comes a major advance in p…
• Cray to build Opteron supercomputer (arstechnica.com)
  According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Cray is going to build a supercomputer for Sandia National Laboratories using AMD's Opter…
• Microsoft Longhorn inching along (arstechnica.com)
  Unofficial screenshots of Microsoft's next major overhaul to its desktop OS, code-named Longhorn, have been posted to the 'net (original si…
• Game.Ars, approved for all audiences (arstechnica.com)
  In this week's Game.Ars, it seems a BMX game is a bit too risque for Wal-mart's tastes. What, don't bikini-clad women and their even more f…
• Poll Technica: storage insanity (arstechnica.com)
  Hard drive sizes are practically on a unstoppable trajectory towards the insane. OK, maybe insane isn't the right word, but capacities are…
• Chess duel ends in a draw (arstechnica.com)
  Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz finished the Brains in Bahrain chess duel with a game 8 draw Saturday. This finish gave each participant 4…
• Microsoft solidifies product support duration (arstechnica.com)
  After reading our coverage of Licensing 6.0, a number of you seemed concerned over Microsoft's 'willy-nilly ability' to cease support for a…
• Largest Federal IT project ever: eliminate WordStar (arstechnica.com)
  The Washington Post is reporting on on the US Navy's efforts to update and equalize their computer systems to allow for easier, more effici…
• Are Dual-Core CPUs the future? (arstechnica.com)
  Dual-core CPUs are not new, but this article at the EETimes is suggesting that Hammer/Opteron's potential performance pressure on Intel may…
• Hotmail: Ante up for less spam (arstechnica.com)
  In the wake of the dot-com bust, many companies started paring back or charging for services which were once free. Free mail services were…
• AMD: "Itanium is the only processor that's competitive" (arstechnica.com)
  At this week's Microprocessor Forum, an AMD exec has "revealed" some interesting information on Hammer's potential performance. One must no…
• The Milky Way...a little dark in the middle (arstechnica.com)
  Nestled inside the caramel and creamy nougat is...ahem. I mean...what lies at the center of the Milky Way galaxy was the source of debate a…
• YACA: The 40-MPG SUV (arstechnica.com)
  It is the year 2002. Technological advances in the past 17 years have made computers and internet access household items. Gadgets unthinkab…
• A Brief Look at the PowerPC 970 (arstechnica.com)
  During a session yesterday at the Microprocessor Forum 2002, IBM gave analysts and the press their first public peek at the internals of th…
• Deep Fritz 3 - Kramnik 3 (arstechnica.com)
  In a dramatic turn of events, Deep Fritz has evened up the Brains in Bahrain challenge at 3 points each. Vladimir Kramnik went into the wee…
• Dude! You're gettin' a pink slip! (arstechnica.com)
  It may be curtains for Steven. The annoying but popular pitchman for Dell looks like he is being put on hiatus while they have rolled out n…