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...RFID reader emits a radio wave to scan the chip via an attached antenna. Unlike bar codes, which have to be scanned one at a time, an RFID reader can theoretically scan every item in a shopping basket, case or pallet--at one glance, at a distance, even in rotten conditions like inside a freezer or in a sandstorm. Place an RFID reader in a series of gateways, and it can follow supplies from assembly line to store shelves and right out the door with the customer...
SALTON BEYOND COFFEEMAKER Instead of fumbling with confusing buttons to schedule the coffeemaker, you "surf" to this $99 device via your Web browser and program it in plain English. Salton's breadmaker and microwave will even scan food bar codes to pull up recipes. And no more blinking 12:00. These appliances set their own clocks...
...uncovered in dyslexia research. "In education, the whole idea that there is evidence that some programs are more effective than others is new," says Dr. Sally Shaywitz, a Yale neuroscientist who has written a fascinating new book, Overcoming Dyslexia (Alfred A. Knopf; April 2003), that details the latest brain-scan research--much of it done in her lab. "The good news is we really understand the steps of how you become a reader and how you become a skilled reader," she says...
...much, so the four e-mail giants have started to employ a new weapon: humans. People, it seems, learn the rules of this new battlefield faster than machines do. At AOL's new control facility in Gainesville, Va., home to its antispam special-forces unit, workers like Anna Ford scan screens that show blocks of mail entering the system. She's looking, Matrix-like, for suspicious patterns. "Here's someone sending 50 e-mails to 3,000 recipients," says Ford. "That stinks." With one click, the sender is identified as a China-based spammer; with another, he is banished from...
...from domains you put on your safe list (newsletters you subscribe to, websites you've shopped at, etc.). You can have spam deleted immediately, but if you've chosen the most aggressive filtering option, you'll probably want to set up a junk-mail folder that you can scan for false positives (then retrieve them with a click of the THIS IS NOT JUNK button). Warning: if you maintain a junk-mail folder, those messages will count against your 2-MB storage limit...