Court TV is experimenting with a whole new way to fund its programs, beginning with what executives call in program product sponsorship, or IPPS. It's what the rest of us call pop-up ads, but they are less obtrusive than what you'd think.

Web-Inspired Ads Coming to TV

Russia is to launch the construction of the world's first floating nuclear power plants, a unique project which should supply much-needed energy to its remotest regions... The idea instead is to tow floating nuclear "micro-power plants" off their coasts where they will operate, providing power and heating via cables linking them to the mainland for a planned duration of 40 years.

Russia to Build Floating Nuclear Plants

A letter from Hilary Benn, the Minister responsible for the supervision of sex offenders in the community, reveals the Home Office's electronic monitoring team is already developing technology to track paedophiles constantly. The team is now investigating the 'implant tag' after it was alerted to its capabilities by a campaign group for victims of paedophiles.

Britain Considering Implants for Pedophiles

Applied Digital Solutions Inc. says its glass capsule the size of a grain of rice, injected into forearms and other fleshy body parts, could help authorities find missing persons and speed up medical diagnosis treatment. The VeriChip, a scannable device worn under the skin and encrypted with personal information like medical records and emergency contacts, was unveiled last year in Florida.

Florida Firm Seeks to Microchip Americans

"Imagine an Internet with no e-mail. As ludicrous as it sounds, it could happen. And it won't take some new virus or worm to render the Internet useless. All it will take is unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise known as spam." This article is a bit too much on the panic & hysteria side.

ZDnet Claims Spam Will Eat Internet

The Army demonstrated equipment for detecting and identifying chemical and biological weapons Tuesday, and offered an unintended lesson when a soldier wearing a stifling protective suit collapsed in the heat of the television lights... Tuesday’s news conference was meant to publicize the Army’s Tactical Escort Unit, which provides experts to identify and try to defuse possible chemical or biological weapons.

Biosuit Technology Still Fucked

A computer game devised by the US Army has come under fire from parents anxious that it glorifies violence.

US Army Video Game Draws Flak

Two California men rebelling against a sea of America Online promotional compact discs have got mail like never before. People around the world have sent Jim McKenna and John Lieberman more than 80,000 CDs offering trial subscriptions to AOL's Internet services. They say when they collect a million, they'll go to the company's front door in Virginia to say, "You've got mail."

AOL CDs Return to Sender

Kinda scary that Norway hasn't fixed "Y2K" problems yet: "A 105 year old woman was offered a place in a Norwegian kindergarten after a millennium bug knocked a century off her age. "When our list showed she was born in '94' we just assumed it was 1994 rather than 1894," Olga Moerk, in charge of a project offering free day-care to five-year-olds in central Oslo, said on Friday." A social worker visited the old people's home where the woman lives after getting no reply to the free playschool offer.

Y2K Bug Bites 105 Year Old

The Internet’s promise as a new medium -- where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged -- is under attack by the corporations that control the public’s access to the 'Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and charge for the content people seek and send. The industry’s vision is the online equivalent of seizing the taxpayer-owned airways, as radio and television conglomerates did over the course of the 20th century.

The Death of the Internet