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Do You Want to Live Forever?

Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging. He’s brilliant, but is he nuts?

Unnatural Selection

Machines using genetic algorithms are better than humans at designing other machines.

Terror’s Server

Fraud, gruesome propaganda, terror planning: the Net enables it all. The online industry can help fix it.

Dr. Nanotech vs. Cancer

James Heath has a better way to fight cancer: tiny silicon wires that could sniff out early signs of the disease.

Demo

Me, Myself, and Eye

Anil Jain at Michigan State University seeks to improve security by integrating various types of biometrics.

Megaphone

Technology Can Fix U.S. Intelligence

The intelligence reform bill evaded real reform.

Megascope

Keeping Tabs

The history of an Information Age metaphor.

Reviews

The Unobservable Mind

One of Britain’s leading philosophers is skeptical that neurobiology can tell us anything about self-consciousness.

The End of Oil?

here are good signs that worldwide oil production is declining. Best hold on tight.

How Lucent Lost It

The telecommunications manufacturer was a Potemkin village.

Briefcase

New Zealand: Green Haven for Biotech?

The island nation may have found a way to calm both sides in the debate over genetically modified organisms.

Intel’s Centrino Solution

The old mantra for PC chip makers -- faster is better -- is breaking down. Can “platformization” take its place?

Two Sides of Outsourcing

Indian outsourcing giants like Infosys are spawning innovators like Ittiam.

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