Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arriving at Harvard I had no idea that I would be encountering anything worse than Expos. Bikes. More specifically, 28-geared high-tech ultra-light mountain bikes with front and rear shocks and tires with treads an inch deep. Astride this machine of terror rides the Harvard student. We all know how mild-mannered and bookish Harvard students usually are, but on top of these behemoths they become pilots of destruction. I glance behind me in apprehension, and find a bike-riding Harvardian screaming down the narrow Yard paths, no doubt late for his or her "Sex" section. They...
WASHINGTON: When you?re Al Gore, all tech news is good news -? which can lead to some pretty unorthodox press conferences. Take Wednesday, for example, when the veep announces the completion of the world?s fastest supercomputer, Pacific Blue, built by IBM for the Department of Energy. Big Blue?s new baby runs around 15,000 times faster than your humble desktop model and has 80,000 times more RAM. Talk about your multitasking ?- this puppy performs 3.9 trillion operations a second. Complex calculations that would take months, even on the current crop of supercomputers, will bother Pacific Blue...
WASHINGTON: So you say Mr. Gates did bad things to you? America Online and Apple are the latest victims in the Justice Department's parade of top tech firms allegedly abused by Microsoft. AOL's contention: That the software giant sweet-talked it into an exclusive (and illegal) deal, where AOL would get a cute launch button on the Windows desktop -- if it sold its service-provider soul exclusively to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape would be provided only if users asked for it ?- a deal that Redmond enforced by playing Big Brother. "Microsoft has carefully monitored references to Navigator...
...Charlottesville, Va., Thomas Jones ran for a 117 yards and two TDs as Virginia (6-1, 4-1 ACC) bounced back from a loss to Georgia Tech with a 23-13 win over N.C. State...
...however, the only thing he does. Last February Torvalds moved his family from Finland to Silicon Valley. He now pulls down a six-figure salary as a full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens...