Monday, January 20, 2003

Clash on Medical Marijuana Puts a Grower in U.S. Court. A cannabis celebrity's prosecution exposes a rift between California and the Bush administration over medical marijuana. By Dean E. Murphy. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 11:10:16 PM

IBM aims to get smart about AI. Big Blue will unveil technology that it believes will vastly improve the way computers access and use data--by unifying the different theories surrounding artificial intelligence. [CNET News.com] 11:07:27 PM

Newsweek: Sony's New Day. Steven Levy. To Idei, everything comes together with his beloved buzzword: broadband. Sony will create not only network-connected products but also devise services that deliver the content--much of which Sony owns through its own music, movie and game divisions. [Tomalak's Realm] 11:06:02 PM

China Awaits High-Speed 'Maglev'. Shanghai will see the world's first launch of a magnetic levitation train. Proponents of the technology, which has struggled to win converts, hope the Chinese example will prompt other cities to build their own systems. By Dermot McGrath. [Wired News] 11:04:07 PM

Is Chimera Dead? [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 11:01:22 PM

Safari Downloads Top 1 million [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 11:01:08 PM