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...have the money, and enjoy tinkering, iControl is a reasonable choice at the moment. But stay tuned, because high-tech home monitoring is the next big thing, and other contenders are gearing...
...urgency?is shared by city officials, who have launched an effort to move the local economy to a higher plane. The government is promising tax breaks and land concessions to tech firms, and has said it expects to invest $1.25 billion over the next five years to support high-tech start-ups and research projects. "Shenzhen is at an important strategic turning point," the city government said in a policy statement issued earlier this year. "We must not waste time and opportunities in establishing a new, high-tech development strategy...
...addict. All those paranoids simultaneously plotting one another's destruction in far-flung locations, yet unaware of what, specifically, the other guys and gals are up?except activities that will, by the end of the episode, result in one or more individuals being prettily tied up and awaiting some high-tech unpleasantness to be continued (but not necessarily concluded) the following Monday. As a technique, split screen has been around almost since the beginning of the movies. Although it has often been used merely for flashy effect, it is the only method of efficiently imparting simultaneously occurring events. And those...
...global appetite for the produce of the Mediterranean region? Few events so eloquently capture the tussle between international commerce and the locals over the Mediterranean's resources as the annual summer hunt for bluefin tuna. Much of the Med's tuna is no longer caught by traditional means. High-tech "tuna ranches" began appearing in the Med in the late '90s and have proliferated over the past decade - fish farms consisting of circular floating cages about 50 m in diameter and 50 m deep, set up 2-3 km from shore. The ranches are most often controlled not by small...
Through the late-afternoon sun shower, it hovers on the horizon: a fluoro-red-eyed monster, or a UFO. Then, as the rain clears, the strange beam of light becomes the reflector shield of a high-tech wheelbarrow being pushed along the Nullarbor by a tanned young man wearing a blue bandanna and a welcoming smile. "Every day I get at least two offers for a lift," says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long...