Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Security Flaw Found, Fixed - Most major ecommerce Web sites have already patched a recently discovered security vulnerability in the SSL encyption scheme used to secure most online transactions. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Seeing-Eye Software - A Dutch researcher invents a program to help visually impaired people transform their computers into instruments of sight. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Seismic Network Ready to Rumble - To get a better picture of earthquakes, nuclear blasts, and other earthshaking events, scientists have built the first permanent US sea-floor observatory, 16,000 feet deep in the Pacific. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Sensors Keep Tabs on Emission Credits - A group of government scientists are setting up a network of sensors in forests around the country to help answer these questions: Where is Earths carbon dioxide going and why does it wind up in the places it does? [Wired News]   Server-Side Scripting, Brother - Yes, it's just a language for scripting the functions of Web servers. But Rebol Technologies says its new programming language brings more of the Web's power to regular people. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Set-Tops: The Longest Promise - Convergence players are in California for the Western Cable Show. Will the gathering light a fire under cable operators? By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Shape of Things to Come - Researchers at Stanford University's Rapid Prototyping Laboratory are developing a new manufacturing technology that could render the venerable ol' assembly line obsolete. [Wired News]   Sherlock Searching for Answers - Apple's snazzy new search engine has trouble breaking through to the Web when used on some networks. Instead of giving query results, it draws more than a few blanks. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Shockwave Plugs Right Along - Macromedia Shockwave turned two yesterday - and though the maligned and misused browser plug-in may be as popular as ever, the days of the plug-in format may be numbered. [Wired News]   Should Feds Trust Windows NT? - With potentially more than three million licenses at stake, Microsoft is keen to push its Windows NT operating system to government desktops even, alleges one security expert, at the expense of national security. [Wired News]   Silicon, Transistors ... Doodles - One day in 1995, Michael Davidson put a computer chip under his microscope and found, of all things, Waldo. It was his introduction to the silicon creatures that lurk within printed circuits. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Sim City, for Real - To help cities prepare for disasters and emergency situations, Los Alamos researchers have created a program to evaluate and fine-tune emergency response systems. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Site Braces for Starr Surge - The Library of Congress has posted the special prosecutor's report to its Web site, but its IBM systems -- in a configuration tested by the Nagano Olympics -- are showing signs of strain. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   Sky's the Limit at Big Blue's USER Lab - Looking for a laptop that doubles as an overhead projector? Or how about a hip-mounted wallet computer? If so, IBM's San Jose research lab may have an answer for you. [Wired News]   SkyBridge Constellation Grows - Activity in the low-Earth orbit satellite arena continues to bustle as the sole remaining non-Teledesic entity decides that more bandwidth is better. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Slowspeed, John Glenn - The launch of the space shuttle carrying John Glenn into orbit outdid even the Starr report for frying servers and choking video streams. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Small Satellite Carries Big Load - A small Israeli satellite scheduled for launch next week will be the host of several experiments that could improve the quality of life for satellites. But first the rocket has to make it into orbit. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Smart Drives - Giving disk drives the intelligence to communicate directly over networks just might save the foundering storage industry. [Wired News]   Smartcards Patrol Border - A new smartcard technology is helping the Mexican government keep tabs on the billion-dollar flow of commerce across its northern border. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Smoothing the Path to Faster Chips - Reducing the roughness of the surface of silicon chips may be the answer to developing more efficient semiconductors, according to Cornell University researchers. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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