Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Walkman Does Digital Downloads - Sony joins the portable digital music player club with its latest Walkman. Also: Diamond Multimedia upgrades the Rio player with more memory. [Wired News]   War Is Virtual Hell - If you thought Saving Private Ryan was the most realistic war movie ever made, just imagine what'll happen when the Army teams with the USC film school. Michael Stroud reports from Los Angeles. [Wired News]   Waste Not Want Not - NASA funds a project to make sure astronauts' waste goes to good use. The stuff we flush could one day provide fuel and power for space shuttles. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Watershed for Digital Music - The music industry's standard for safeguarding digital music against piracy is complete and awaiting final approval. Detractors still think it's an industry power grab. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   Web Email for Your Eyes Only - Want to send a very private email to a friend overseas? ZipLip.com uses the security already built into your browser to offer secure Web-based messaging. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Web Football? Fuhgeddaboutit - Going online is great for looking up stuff, buying stuff, and just killing time. But it's not ready to be your prime source for Super Bowl XXXIII. By Steve Kettmann. [Wired News]   Web Phone: Sizzle But No Steak - Cell phone access to the Web is here. The only thing missing is content. Some think it may stay that way. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Web Publishing the Microsoft Way - Office 2000 ships Thursday, with features that leverage Microsoft's server and browser software. But will Web standards be rendered irrelevant? By Oscar Cisneros. [Wired News]   Web Talk Getting Crowded - Oddly named Odigo and Utok join the growing list of services for discussing and annotating Web sites. Each is a variation on a new layer of Internet communication. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Well-Armed Against Cancer - A Texas research team is the first to use a robotic arm to help guide the surgical treatment of malignant tumors. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   What Did Jaws Really Want? - Sharks are just misunderstood. Great whites are not the eating machines we once thought. Soft, fatty items, such as seals, are far more appealing to the toothy carnivores than human flesh. [Wired News]   What Is National Security? - For a long time the Soviet Union was the villain. But who is America's enemy today? Uncle Sam wants you to help decide. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   What it Takes to Be Fastest - Inverse Technology ranks America Online as the fastest ISP for loading popular Web pages. But AOL uses a cache, and that could skew the results. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   When Dot Com Isn't Enough - ICANN is contemplating whether to add new domains like .web, store., or .news. Others aren't waiting to see if it does, and are building their own root server alternatives. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   When Secrecy Stops Science - Yes, it's bad to share the recipe for a really big bomb. But scientific secrecy can go too far. An MIT colloquium tries to strike a balance. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Where's Netscape's New Browser? - It's late, very late. Netscape watchers say the company can be excused for taking a risk and doing things right. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   White House Orders Rocket Probe - The heat is on the space industry as President Clinton requests further investigation into a series of ill-fated US rocket launches. [Wired News]   Why Mickey's from Mars - Modifying a gene in rodents makes males more aggressive, while changing the same gene in females makes them more passive. Could this lead to a decisive weapon in the battle of the sexes? By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Will MP3 Walk Over Walkmans? - In a move that may push leery consumers to adopt digital music devices, both Diamond Multimedia and Creative Labs release souped-up portable MP3 players. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Will Robots Sail Your Veins? - New York University scientists are building tiny machines out of strands of DNA, with an eye to setting them loose on blood clots. 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 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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