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...activated its new Combined DNA Index System. A database containing the gene prints of 250,000 convicted felons--as well as 4,600 DNA samples left behind at the scene of unsolved crimes--the system acts as a sort of investigatory intranet through which law-enforcement officials can surf when trying to match a known criminal to a crime...
...Showcase: MTV for gourmets. The commercial-free service can be hard to find--it airs at odd hours, mostly on PBS or public access cable channels--but the search yields a feast. Opera, dance, chamber music, theater and more are presented in a beguiling spread of video clips. So surf that dial, comb that TV Guide. Caruso and Domingo, Lillian Gish and Paul Robeson, the Canadian Brass and James Galway all await...
Many tech companies would have you believe that heaven is a TV set-top box that lets you surf the Web and send e-mail from the couch. The TiVo box knows better. The new service, available in the next year from some cable operators, lets you pause, rewind or watch regular TV in slow motion--handy during a ball game or when the phone interrupts ER. TiVo will also store up to 20 hours of programming based on your viewing habits. One thing it won't do is skip commercials...
Netscape's exploding popularity was almost unimaginable. Suddenly, www.website addresses were everywhere--on billboards, buses, blimps. How do you surf the Net? With a browser! With Netscape! "We were the ones who put the Internet in people's homes," says Jamie Zawinski, Netscape employee No. 20. Zawinski is typical of the kind of person who gravitated to Netscape in those early years. When he applied to Andreessen for a job, his resume listed his career objective as "To improve people's lives through software...
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