The Economist: On the tube. Though the recent chip is certainly impressive, the reason for getting excited about Nantero is not so much the present as the future. Unlike silicon, which is pushing against its physical limitations, carbon-nanotube technology is in its infancy. [Tomalak's Realm]
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In Germany, Customers Scan as They Shop. At an experimental store that opened last month in Rheinberg, Germany, customers do not just squeeze loaves of bread: they scan them. [New York Times: Technology]
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Recording Another Day in America, Aided by Digital Cameras. The two men who created the "Day in the Life" series of photography books in the 1980's, have come up with an ambitious 21st-century sequel called "America 24/7." [New York Times: Technology]
7:01:45 PM    

IBM unwraps speediest Unix server. New p690 nudges users toward On Demand [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Sun plans N1 developer kit, defends Java process. Official rejects open-source notion [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:00:16 PM    

Manage Your Career: The Naked Truth About Public Speaking. Public speaking is a skill you'll need to master to advance your career. These seven tips will help you to become more at ease in front of an audience. [Computerworld News]
6:59:30 PM    

Oy. Slashdot has trouble differentiating wild speculation by an insane reporter from fact. [Scripting News]
6:57:25 PM    

Have Phone, Will Not Get Lost. The cost of satellite navigation is dropping drastically and global positioning systems are making their way into -- you guessed it -- the latest generation of mobile phones. The navigation hardware and software will soon be ubiquitous say industry analysts. [Wired News]
6:56:37 PM    

Video Game Industry Plays L.A.. E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry's annual convention starts this week in Los Angeles. It's the favored forum for deal-making and promotion in a business expected to generate $30 billion in sales in 2003. [Wired News]
6:56:04 PM    

To Err Is Creative in Net Art. For two online artists, HTML errors become a thing of beauty. A husband-and-wife team misuses Internet coding to produce websites that contain unusual visual effects. By Gabe Friedman. [Wired News]
6:55:36 PM    

Etch a Site as Easy as Pie. Denim, a new sketching tool that allows entire websites to be designed as a series of rough drawings, is becoming a hit with designers. It's also being used by open-source programmers to build better interfaces for Linux. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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