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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...
...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...
...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...