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Ancient lore says that vampires are vulnerable to wooden stakes and sunlight, but modern television has come up with an even better weapon: cute high-school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really...
...point out that wi-fi phones have short battery life and poor wandering capabilities. Mobile operators are also requesting that handset makers like Nokia and Motorola build into their hybrid phones a technology that will route wi-fi-initiated calls over mobile networks. And then there's the ultimate weapon: price cuts, which could make the underlying technology irrelevant. "At the end of the day, it's a pricing game,'' notes Gartner analyst Martin Gutberlet in Munich. Many mobile operators, for example, now provide virtually free intra-office calls. This fall, several will offer free calls that stay...
...differently than the subjects in the Wellcome Trust trials, which took place in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Burma. In addition, the Chinese companies that manufacture the injectable version of the drug haven't yet received full approval from the WHO. When they do, the world will have a formidable weapon against an ages-old scourge...
...secrets. Since 2003 the group had been conducting wide-ranging assaults on U.S. government targets to steal sensitive information, part of a massive cyberespionage ring that U.S. investigators have codenamed Titan Rain. On this particular night, the hackers' quarry was military data, and they were armed with a new weapon to reach out across cyberspace...
...Guard Corps with the express purpose of committing violence against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Over the past eight months, his group has introduced a new breed of roadside bomb more lethal than any seen before; based on a design from the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hizballah, the weapon employs "shaped" explosive charges that can punch through a battle tank's armor like a fist through the wall. According to the document, the U.S. believes al-Sheibani's team consists of 280 members, divided into 17 bombmaking teams and death squads. The U.S. believes they train in Lebanon...