Word: widgets
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...Widget Station...
...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...
...Widgets is a word guaranteed to excite only engineers. But that's what Apple calls the components of Dashboard, a collection of customizable and incredibly useful widgets, each of which materialize on your desktop with a soothing ripple effect and look good enough to lick. There's a widget that tracks your chosen stock prices, a widget that translates any word into one of a dozen languages, widgets that converts currency, weights and measures, and a widget that searches the entire Oxford American dictionary and Thesaurus (which also ships with Tiger). Widgets do all the workaday stuff...
...were scrambling to locate the bugs. U.N. sources told TIME that the world body may soon take long-overdue action to make its New York City headquarters more resistant to espionage. With only about 200 security personnel, the U.N. has always found itself hopelessly outclassed by widget-wielding spooks from nations intent on spying--which is a common practice at the U.N. A senior U.N. official points out that the organization is not structured to maintain a sophisticated security service. So, sources say, it is considering bringing in private security contractors and consultants to fortify its defenses. In the interim...
...more necessary than ever before ? in an era of global terrorism." At the U.N., most diplomats were unruffled. They all know the place is bugged; Annan's predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, called it "a kind of tradition." With only about 200 security personnel, the U.N. can't compete with widget-wielding spooks. But U.N. sources tell Time that the world body is now stepping up "sweeps" of Annan's office and considering bringing in private security contractors to make its headquarters more resistant to espionage. British officials, meanwhile, have been quietly trying to undermine Short's story: casting doubt that...