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...notion of collecting mug shots of potential criminals has sparked comparisons to the futuristic thriller Minority Report, in which a fictional high-tech police unit identifies criminals before they commit crimes, an analogy that Szczerba says is laughable. He adds that it is "highly improbable" that innocent people were caught up in the sweeps. But police statistics show that nearly 20% of the more than 600 people detained thus far were not charged with any offense...
...MacGregor, a high-tech entrepreneur, runs NanoMuscle, an Antioch, Calif., company that makes 3-in. motors suitable for everything from power windows to dolls with nuanced facial expressions. "I like to be on the wave of the next insanely great thing," he says. His motors work because the alloy nitinol can assume different shapes as its temperature fluctuates. An electrical current causes a nitinol wire in the device to shorten, allowing the linear motor to contract like a human muscle but at 1,000 times the strength. That's a simple task but an important one, and one MacGregor believes...
...over his customers and prospects, one after another canceled or postponed orders. His venture-capital investors started making nervous noises. So Dalias looked abroad for help. Despite having a meager track record and no multinational distribution channels, the CEO landed his first big sale, to NetOne Systems, a leading tech distributor and systems integrator based in Tokyo, and that success helped Dalias close his first U.S. sale in June...