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...DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli engineer and inventor of the submachine gun that bears his name; in Philadelphia. Sales of the reliable and easy-to-use weapon, a staple in the military arsenals of over 20 countries, have earned Israel's government-run armaments industry over $2 billion in revenue since the Uzi's introduction...
DIED. ED HEADRICK, 78, inventor who perfected the Frisbee; in San Francisco. Though other scientists developed the first, wobbly Frisbees, Headrick gave the top of the disk aerodynamic ridges, patenting the smooth-flying projectile still popular today. Later he founded the International Frisbee Association. His family said they will honor his request that his ashes be molded into memorial disks...
...just ride in cars--a top U.S. inventor has transformed the lowly scooter into what he calls a high-tech "human transporter," while the humble bicycle is poised to incorporate a few tricks...
...interest in prophecy, the headlines always come with asterisks pointing to scriptural footnotes. That is how Todd Strandberg reads his paper. By day, he is fixing planes at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb. But in his off-hours, he's the webmaster at raptureready.com and the inventor of the Rapture Index, which he calls a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of End Time activity." Instead of stocks, it tracks prophecies: earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, thereby easing the way for the Antichrist. In other words...
Last month TIME convened a five-member Board of Technologists to discuss how evolutionary biology--think of it as Earth's R. and D. department--is influencing the way we build computers, write software and organize companies. One member of our panel, Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, technology futurist and entrepreneur, observes that the human brain has no single "chief executive officer neuron." What gives the brain its power is not one boss but the ability of billions of neurons to conduct trillions of operations instantaneously. In computer lingo, that's called parallel processing, and it is something that today...