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...Dean is the nominee, Republicans will inevitably portray him as a tax-raising, soft-on-terror liberal with a chip on his shoulder and no substantial alternatives to what Bush is doing. Dean intends to help remedy his where's-the-beef problem and sketch out his vision for the country with two major speeches this week. In a foreign-policy address on Monday in Los Angeles, he will call for "a new global alliance to defeat terror" and advocate a tenfold increase in funds spent on finding and eliminating unguarded nuclear, chemical and biological materials left over from...
...applications for these sleuthing technologies range from deciphering buying trends in retail outlets to identifying dangerous chemicals. Want to know how many razor blades are selling in Prague or Pittsburgh? Slap a radio tag--a computer chip that allows a product to be tracked on its journey from manufacturer to consumer--on every pack of Gillette blades, and you will get your answer in a hurry. That's the specialty of Alien Technology, an eight-year-old company based in Morgan Hill, Calif. The same tags can help track weapons too, and the U.S. Department of Defense just commanded...
...Alien and Nanomix have learned a few hard lessons about focusing. Although Alien once concentrated on flexible computer screens, it is now putting all its efforts behind radio-frequency-identification (RFID) tags. The key to both flexible screens and RFID tags is Alien's patented manufacturing process, which allows chips to be generously sprinkled onto thin plastic sheets that can be easily attached to almost any type of product. Once fastened to a pack of razor blades, for example, a RFID chip emits a radio signal that allows the manufacturer or retailer to track if and when the product...
It’s just you and the chip leader, a big guy with dark curly hair and a five o’clock shadow. You’re looking for tells, watching his shifty eyes, trying to read into his carefree, almost goofy smile. He pauses for a moment, silently slides his chips toward you, and lays down pocket Aces. After just three hours, he is sitting alone at the table, stacking $1,600 worth of Foxwoods chips. It’s 7 a.m. on a Tuesday, but he’ll be back to Cambridge...
Educated as an electrical engineer, Kutaragi joined Sony in 1975 and helped develop several cutting-edge products: a liquid-crystal-display projector, a sophisticated sound-processing chip, an early digital camera. And when a joint venture with Nintendo to build a home-video-game console broke down in 1990, Kutaragi demonstrated vision and management expertise. Rather than concede the business to Nintendo, he formed a team within Sony to build a better system, pressing ahead against internal opposition. PlayStation, released in late 1994, vaulted over Nintendo's Super NES to become the world's top home-gaming platform...