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...remotely immobilize a car after it has been stolen. The N-S Aero-Stop uses a transmitter and antenna to send a signal to an onboard device that shuts down power to the engine and ignition - as long as the pilfered vehicle is within a 1-km radius. Inventor Vinay Verma believes the device could be developed to reach a 10-km range. SPACE EXPLORATION Galactic Gardening Astronauts could soon be tucking in to roast vegetables instead of rehydrated foods during long space missions. Experiments are due to begin at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC...
...Silicon Valley, copy protection is seen as folly. Not only do geeks treat code cracking as a contact sport, but the software industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...
Instead, Brands has capitalized on his study of Ben Franklin, whose exploits are well beaten into the heads of most third graders. Franklin is an American cliché, the symbol of the self-made man with a broad array of talents: inventor (of the Franklin stove, bifocals), writer (of Poor Richard’s Almanac and editor of the Declaration of Independence), businessman (printer) and politician (beginning as colonial envoy to Britain followed by a lengthy stint as the elder member of the Constitutional Convention...
Costello loves to play the mad inventor, mixing exotic rhythms, jazzy melodies and baffling metaphors into songs that dazzle for their strangeness rather than any feeling they convey. But Costello is at his best when he kicks back and reverts to the witty post-punker he was in 1978, a bespectacled dork with a chip on his shoulder and an uncanny knack for turning out catchy tunes. This album is so much fun, and Costello's best in a long time, because of how often he returns to that clever post-punker mode. Instead of seeming dated, these moments feel...
...Medal of Arts in 1999. DIED. MAUDE FARRIS-LUSE, 115, the world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of World Records; in Coldwater, Michigan. Luse reportedly credited an intake of boiled dandelion greens and fried fish as the reason for her long life. DIED. RUDOLF HELL, 100, inventor of the first machine that electronically dissolved text into a stream of dots to be reassembled at the receiving end, on which fax machines and scanners are based; in Berlin. Last year the city of Kiel commemorated his achievements by renaming the Siemenswall Rd., which leads to his former plant...