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Suddenly everybody's looking for a way to cash in on Mosaic's popularity, including Andreessen. In April he teamed up with Jim Clark, former chairman of Silicon Graphics, and started a new company called Mosaic Communications. Clark and Andreessen lured all but one of the original Mosaic team to Silicon Valley for some intense programming sessions. Last week they unveiled the first result: called Mosaic NetScape, it is faster and slicker, and it allows users to pass sensitive information such as credit-card numbers safely over the network...
Researchers in France have developed an electronic transistor that contains no metallic parts. Instead they used paper-printing technology to assemble very thin layers of plastic that mimic the properties of silicon chips. Because plastic is so much more flexible than metal, the devices could theoretically be used to create such futuristic items as video screens that roll up like window shades or bendable computers the size of credit cards...
...transformed from bank-clerk dweeb to zoot-suited superdude, genially terrorizing Edge City and winning the plushly encased heart of a gun moll (Cameron Diaz). The computer wizards at Industrial Light & Magic help alchemize this ragged film into a megamorphic extravaganza. But Carrey doesn't need any cybernetics or silicon to rubberize his limbs. He is his own best special effect, the first star who is a live-action toon...
...Americans are murdered annually. Some of them did useful things with their lives. None of them have been eulogized like Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman--the one a promiscuous tippler who puttered around in Ferraris without having contributed anything significant to society, whose lifetime occupation was that of silicon-impregnated consort to a brutish gladiator and rental car shill, the other a member of that most dispensible of species--the "aspiring actor/model". Are these two typical of murder victims? Is their loss the greatest tragedy on planet Earth this year, worthy of the global mourning that Rwanda cannot...
...these technologies exist, but they have never been put together. In order to assemble the Orlando trial, Time Warner had to sign up more than half a dozen outside vendors, some of them bitter rivals. For example, Silicon Graphics, which is building and programming the huge disk-drive systems known as video servers, and AT&T, which is making the network's switches, are competing elsewhere in the race to create the best video servers. The danger is that if the two companies decide in the future they cannot share key proprietary technology on the Orlando project, Time Warner...