Technology
2004

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• Is Your Car Spying on You?  30 million cars now record drivers' behavior - Christian Science Monitor 27dec04
• Electromagnetic Fields of Influence -  The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) 15dec04
• Deep Impact: NASA Projectile to Blast Through Comet's Skin-  SF Chronicle 15dec04
• Millau Viaduct: World's Tallest Bridge Inaugurated - AP 14dec04
• Lockheed and the Future of Warfare -  NY Times 28nov2004
• Taser: Claims Over Tasers' Safety Are Challenged -  NY Times 26nov04
• Wireless Devices Making it Increasingly Difficult to Hear What Universe Has to Say  - Wall Street Journal 15nov04
• UC Berkeley to Build Nanotechnology Research Center: New Nanoscience is Potentially Hazardous, Researchers Warn -  The Daily Californian 1dec04
• Robot Engineers - Jascha and Scott Little  -  Fortune 15nov04
• Homeland Security: Immigrant Status Indicator Technology - AP 15nov04
• Applying the FDA's New Electronic Product Labeling: The XML Migration - Genetic Engineering News 15nov04
• Using Remote-Control Technology, Soldiers Hope to Cut U.S. Casualties in Iraq -  AP 7nov04
• International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON): Nanotech Group's Invitations Declined: Critics Say Effort Glosses Over Risks -  Washington Post 28oct04
• Churches Installing Cell Phone Jammers -  AP 18oct04
• Cell Phones Could Cause Noncancerous Tumors: Acoustic Neuroma - South Florida Sun-Sentinel 14oct04
• Synthetic Biology: Starting From Scratch -  Nature 7oct2004
• Air Force Pursuing Antimatter Weapons: Program was touted publicly, then came official gag order -  SF Chronicle 4oct04
• Wizard of Octane: Eugène Houdry's miraculous catalyst turned nearly worthless sludge into precious high-octane gasoline - Invention & Technology 1oct04
• Nanotechnology Threatens to Destroy the Global Trade in Commodities: Atomising Third World Economies -  The Ecologist (UK) 1oct04
• $200,000 Rides to Space on Virgin Galactic  - SF Chronicle 28sep04
• Taser Stun Guns Pit Law Against Liberties: Officers Praise Tasers, but ACLU Wary of Abuse -  SF Chronicle 26sep04
• U.S. Military Satellite Deal may be Worth $3.27 Billion for Lockheed  - SF Chronicle 25sep04
• Taser: Stun Gunmaker Woos San Francisco Police Commission with Demonstration  - SF Chronicle 23sep04
• Homeland Security: Expansion Sank Terror Screening Program, Officials Say -  NY Times 19sep04
• Star Wars: Missile Defense Back on Radar: 2 California Companies Gear up Latest Version - SF Chronicle 19sep04
• Taser: Hit-Run Suspect Dies in Police Custody -  SF Chronicle 17sep04
• Taser: Richard Kevin Karlo: Autopsy Shows Man Died From Drugs, Not Taser - AP 15sep04

• HyperActive Bob: New Technology Estimates Fast-Food Demand  - AP 8sep04

• RFID: Device Can Track Drugs: Limiting access to imports is part of companies' plan - AP 7sep04

• Underground Cutting Edge: The innovators who made digging tunnels high-tech -  Invention & Technology 1sep04

• Nano: Length Scale Diagram Showing Nanometre in Context, from 1m to 10-10m  / Nanoscience and nanotechnologies / The Royal Society & The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) 1jul04

• Views of the General Public About Nanotechnology - Press Release / The Royal Society 15mar04

• Full-Body CT Scans: More Cancer Risk: The radiation from one exam is equal to that in some atomic-bomb survivors - LA Times 31aug04

• 'Marathon Mice' Created to Run Farther, Longer: Genetically engineered mice outperform their naturally bred brethren  -  AP 25aug04
• The Microwave Syndrome: Further Aspects of a Spanish Study -  Oberfeld et al. 1aug04
• Biometric Hand Scanners to Keep Tabs on Students at Boca Raton Middle School -  South Florida Sun-Sentinel 1jul04
• Nano: Space Elevator in 15 Years -  AP 26jun04
• RFID: Embedding Their Hopes In RFID: Tagging Technology Promises Efficiency but Raises Privacy Issue -  Washington Post 23jun2004
• Electronic Cards Replace Coupons for Food Stamps -  NY Times 23jun04
• SpaceShipOne Going to the Edge of Space for Private Enterprise -  SF Chronicle 21jun04
• Electromagnetic Fields (EMF): Killing Fields - Arthur Firstenberg / The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1jun04
• Invisible Beam Tops List of Nonlethal Weapons -  Sacramento Bee 1jun04
• Google Ponders Leap to Stay Competitive: Search Engine Might Penetrate Most PC Function  - San Jose Mercury 24may04

• U.S. Nearing Deal on Way to Track Foreign Visitors: `Virtual Borders' Planned: Huge Contract Would Let U.S. Track Foreign Visitors Through Databases -  NY Times 24may04

• Airborne Laser (ABL): Cost Increases in the Airborne Laser Program - GAO-04-643R 17may04
• BLEEX: A Cure for Spina Bifida? - Mindfully.org Email Response 6may04
• U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences -  NY Times 3may04
• EMF: Magnetic-Field-Induced DNA Strand Breaks in Brain Cells of the Rat -  Environmental Health Perspectives v.112, n.6, 1may04
• RFID: Wal-Mart Begins RFID Rollout -  RFID Journal 30apr2004
• Biological Computer Diagnoses Cancer and Produces the Drug — In a Test Tube - Press Release / Weizmann Institute 28apr04
• Biometric Fingerprinting EU - EUpolitix.com 26apr04
• BioBricks: Synthetic Life: Biologists are crafting libraries of interchangeable DNA parts and assembling them inside microbes to create programmable, living machines -  Scientific American 26apr04
• ID System for Cattle May Carry Large Tab -  Des Moines Register 25apr04
• Cyberkinetics Wins Approval for Brain Chip: FDA allows human trials of implant that could allow brains, computers to communicate -  AP 19apr04
• Brain Chip May Help Victims of Paralysis -  Wall Street Journal 19apr04
• Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care  - NY Times 6apr04
• Nanoparticles: Tiniest Particles of Matter Don't Behave Uniformly, Raising Concerns about Nanotechnology -  AP 1apr04
• Drugs to Prevent Painful Memories: The Quest to Forget  - NY Times 4apr04
• Grocery Shopping Enters a New Age: Hand-Held Scanners and Fingerprinting - Wall Street Week 30mar04
• Nanotechnology Linked to Organ Damage  - Washington Post 29mar04
• Nanoparticles Toxic in Aquatic Habitat  - Washington Post 29mar04
• Robotic Lumberjack Dives to Harvest Flooded Forests -  New Scientist 27mar04
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): Speech by Sen. Patrick Leahy at Georgetown University Law Center 23mar04
• Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX): Robotic Skeleton Takes Load Off Humans -  The Daily Californian 11mar04
• RFID: Albertsons Announces Mandate:  require suppliers to tag pallets and cases by April 2005 - RFID Journal 5mar04
• Blinded by the Light of Technology -  The Guardian (UK) 20feb04
• Scientific Revolution Tinier Than An Atom -  Daily Californian (UC Berkeley) 6feb04
• Cell Tower Camouflage Artists Just Want to Blend In: It's a flagpole, it's a palm tree . . . no, it's a phone system -  Network World 2feb04
• For Science, Nanotech Poses Big Unknowns -  Washington Post 1feb04
• Taser: Police Shoot Teenager with Taser in USA - The Wire / Amnesty International 1feb04
• Stephen Thaler's Computer Creativity Machine Simulates the Human Brain -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24jan04
• Nanoparticles in the Brain: Tiny particles enter the brain after being inhaled -  Nature 9jan04
• Plans for Anti-Missile Systems to Defend U.S. Commercial Planes - AP 7jan04
• Nanoparticles: Translocation of inhaled ultrafine particles to the brain - Inhalation Toxicology, (in press, 2004)

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