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Print Your Next PC

Forget billion-dollar fabs. If Joe Jacobson has his way, you may be printing cheap semiconductor chips on your desktop.

The Software Chip

Upstart Transmeta´s pioneering microprocessor chips are heralding a fundamental evolutionary step in the design of computing´s core technology.

Fill ´er Up With Hydrogen

Tired of waiting for an electric car? Automakers have put clean, efficient vehicles powered by fuel cells on the inside track.

RoboSurgeons

Their bedside manner is a tad impersonal. But the computer-assisted robotic systems finding their way into today´s operating room may someday save your life.

Biotech Speeds Its Evolution

A handful of hot startups are exploiting nature´s own methods - vastly accelerated - in order to breed better detergents, drugs and crops.

Lucent Ventures Into the Future

Researchers from Bell Labs are taking company ideas and using them to start new businesses, some of which could threaten Lucent´s established product lines. So what´s the company doing about it? Supporting them every step of the way.

The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2000

See how much 150 of the world´s top companies invest in R&D.

Search Us, Says Google

Can´t find it on the Web? The Google guys came up with a better way to sift through a billion Web pages-a stack of documents 100 kilometers high-in less than a second. As a result, they´re the hottest search engine around.

Columns

Your Work Is Mine!

Becoming interconnected is no excuse for surrendering to the fallacious notion that our information work must be shared for free.

Fabulous Science

Telling a good story has become essential to today´s biotechnology enterprise. But truth still matters.

IP´s Middle Child Grows Up

Trademark is the ignored middle child of intellectual property. But branding an idea is crucial.

Less Money, Better Technology

Are the vast sums of money pouring into Net ventures creating innovators who lack the character to deal with failure?

Viewpoint

The Cell-Phone Scare

When fear is the opponent, science doesn´t stand a chance.

Mixed Media

Toppling the Desktop

The Mac´s new OS X erodes the familiar user interface metaphor as Web browsers and the command line assert their influence.

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