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Last week, in a concession to Silicon Valley, the Administration blinked--or perhaps it merely winked. Fittingly, in the arcane world of code making and breaking, it's difficult to ferret out who's doing what to whom...
...tools overseas, an estimated several billion-dollar market that they have been until now kept out of by national security concerns. The catch? Law enforcement agencies will be given the keys to break the codes with the permission of a court order. "Clinton was taking a beating all over Silicon Valley, a potentially rich source of campaign contributions, due to his hard-line views on encryption," says TIME's Joshua Quittner. "Clearly a compromise was hammered out. The software industry is too big a part of the international economy for Clinton to ignore its concerns." The White House's plan...
...cozy planets like ours, they might harbor carbon-based life like ours. Unfortunately, the vast majority of places out there are depressingly and forbiddingly unearthlike. We figured that life there, if at all possible, would probably come in highly exotic forms based on completely different chemistries from ours (silicon, for example). And yet here in front of our noses are deep-sea, carbon-based microbes able to live in hellish, almost Venus-like conditions. If here, why not out there...
...year, the Rosens will have spent $13 million on their project. They expect to spend an additional $10 million to $15 million next year, nearly all of it from Ben's silicon-lined pockets. They also plan to begin selling their flywheel to utilities for stationary power generation next year. Says Ben: "By the end of next year, we will have generated enough risk reduction to seek external funding." Eventually they plan to sell shares to the public. They want to build their own plants to make their own power trains and sell them to car companies. In their vision...
...weeks, America's two largest cable operators, TCI and Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however, is the same: Net access at speeds hundreds of times faster than today's conventional modems...