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Technology Review: July/August 2003

Spam Wars

The proliferation of junk e-mail is threatening to overwhelm the Internet. Software companies are rushing to build defenses-but will the new technologies do more harm than good?

Essay: Biotech's Big Chill

Government efforts to keep science and technology out of terrorist hands conjure images of the Cold War. But it’s biomedical researchers in the United States who could be frozen out.

Casting the Wireless
Sensor Net

Smart, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, maintain crops, and even watch for earthquakes.

Saving Lives with Living Machines

Hybrid devices that are part machine, part living cells, offer new hope to patients for whom purely artificial treatments like dialysis aren´t good enough.

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers.

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the Lab: Technology´s First Draft

Trailing Edge

Live via Satellite

Satellite communication's ascent.

Demo

Demo: Teachable Robots

Michigan State University researcher Juyang Weng shows off his "developmental" robots, which learn the same way kids do.

Columns

The End of End-to-End?

Internet service providers that control network content will kill innovation.

Wi-Fi, Li-Fi, and Mi-Fi

Wi-Fi's future depends on whether big tech companies consider it friend or foe.

Thinking like a Virus

The search for SARS was a success because of global collaboration.

Point of Impact

Total Information Overload

Co–program manager Robert L. Popp on the U.S. Defense Department´s Terrorism Information Awareness project.

Visualize

3-D Ultrasound

How 3-D ultrasound works.

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