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...advanced country?" asks Rubin. China's roads are in better shape than many found in the U.S., starting with the potholed, neglected highways near the Detroit auto factories that put America on wheels in the first place. On trains zipping past Indian fields, passengers surf the Internet on their laptop computers. On subway cars deep underground in China, riders chat on cell phones. Not in America. Indeed, Intel and other companies have hired Chinese researchers to work on the next generation of cell-phone and mobile Internet technology because Chinese workers are already using cutting-edge services and technology unfamiliar...
...Internet readers who also still love the paper half of the news, we can pretend that my article was written on the back of a real postcard, and let’s say the picture on the front was a war memorial statue. Then tilt your laptop to the size, fold the screen a bit, and pretend you are holding a newspaper...
...been conditioned to hate touch screens; we've all spent way too much time timidly caressing tiny laptop trackpads and jabbing fingers at the grubby, unresponsive touch screens on ATMs. But the iPhone's screen is another animal altogether. It's extremely sensitive, like a trackpad, but not oversensitive. There's software in there designed to filter out inadvertent touches, interpret gestures and anticipate what you're groping for. Unlike a trackpad, which goes berserk if you try to touch it in two places at once, the iPhone's touch screen can handle multiple touches. After you take a photo...
Touch screens are unlikely to stop there. They're just too useful. Once you use an iPhone, you'll get twitchy fingers. You'll wonder why you can't swipe your finger across your laptop screen to jump backward and forward in your browser. The touchability exposes the mouse as the crude finger substitute that it really is. Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free...
...sensitive weapons message originated on the laptop of Harold P. Smith, an LANS board consultant and former Pentagon atomic weapons adviser, who sent it to at least two other members of the board, sources told TIME. Those two then relayed the material to at least three additional LANS board members. Only then was the alarm sounded. After computers involved in the incident were seized, technical experts reportedly purged University of California servers that may have relayed the secret data. But it remained perplexingly unclear whether some of the highly classified weapons information might still be lurking on servers or along...