Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Building a Better Molecule - By trapping and studying an artificial molecule, engineers hope to improve upon Mother Nature and make DNA computers a reality. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Butterflies Show Path to Cooler Chips - By understanding how the biological thin-film structures work in butterflies, researchers at Tufts University hope to create a similar process for the thermal processing of silicon manufacturing. [Wired News]   Cable Finally Talking Digital TV - A new standard allows viewers to get next-generation television from the jack in the living-room wall. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cable TV Gurus Band Together on Targeted Ads - Merging self-styled network and cable TV programming with the Internet, Your Choice TV wants to give viewers and advertisers an offer they can't refuse. [Wired News]   Cache Confusion Shuts Down Site - Caching technology aims to help networks and Internet service providers deliver Web pages faster. But it can also introduce network problems. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cache and Carry - The newest Javascript exploit affects Netscape browsers and allows snoops to track users' Web travels. Netscape will tell users how to avoid it and will plug the hole in its next browsers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cadillac's Coupe DeStorm - The company that produced the first electric starter and the V-8 engine brings us "night vision," an infrared sensor that can identify objects up to 500 yards away. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Can Caching Tame the Web? - Web caching would store popular pages closer to users, and a flurry of companies are out to popularize it. Promising less Net traffic and faster browsing, caching must anticipate usage patterns on a constantly growing and changing Web. But skeptics say even when it does, caching's impact may be limited at best. [Wired News]   Can You Believe What You Read? - When The New York Times Web site fell to crackers recently, the damage was obvious. But what if a more subtle crack had been orchestrated? By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Catching Computer Science Cheaters - Fed up with chronic plagiarism, computer science instructors are increasingly turning to Web-based tools that search for "borrowed" computer code in homework assignments. [Wired News]   Cell-Phone Security Far From Airtight - The Smartcard Developer Association claims to have cracked the algorithm used to secure the subscriber information in about 80 million digital cell phones worldwide. [Wired News]   Cells Speak for Themselves - Stanford researchers devise a method to help them answer the riddle, "What did one brain cell say to the other?" By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Changing Coke.com Back to Coke - Network Solutions buys into a budding keyword-technology company. The domain-name king wants to be there when keywords flower as the new way to navigate the Web. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Changing Genes or Generations? - A California physician says in utero gene therapy could prevent some serious hereditary diseases. Critics say the experimental procedure could affect generations of mothers and children. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Checking Out Your Reservations - A Dallas company may have recorded the details of your most recent hotel stay, with the aim of crunching it for marketing trend research. But some privacy advocates are concerned. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   China: What Super Laser? - Both the Pentagon and the Chinese Embassy downplay speculation that China is developing a laser aimed at bringing down US satellite communications. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Chip Design Reaches for Light Speed - Researchers at UNC-Charlotte have discovered a technique that could lead to the integration of electronic and photonic capability on a single silicon chip. Translation: (potentially) light-speed computer chips for the next century. [Wired News]   Chrome-Plating Windows - Microsoft's latest innovation is supposed to turbocharge Windows' 3-D abilities for Web and multimedia graphics, but one observer says it's more of a push to get PC users to buy more hardware. [Wired News]   Civilian Space Travel: Got Cash? - If civilian space travel is to become marketable, safety, sickness, and pricing issues have to be addressed, says a joint report by NASA and private industry. [Wired News]   Cleaning up a Cold War Mess - Getting rid of uranium-contaminated warehouses and other vestiges of US nuclear weapons production is a job with heavy-duty requirements. Here are some of the technologies that have won the bid. By Kristen Philipkoski. [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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