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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650 customers. The centre immediately flag up attacks on its customers' systems, alerting the... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way has become a hot topic, especially after the high profile data leaks in the past year. Organisations like Computer Aid International will take a hard drive off your hands and put them to... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo You can see just one set of the processors and control systems that run what is currently the 175th most powerful computer in the world. Another one of the lab's supercomputers, this is IBM's Blue Gene, currently rated the 74th most powerful... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo CCTV cameras are plugged into an intelligent computer system able to recognise and raise alerts about suspicious behaviour such as running or someone fiddling around inside a bag. The centre is protected by two fire detection systems, the first is... [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo Throbbing cooling towers stretch from the floor to the high ceiling in the computer hall to keep the temperature at a constant 17.9 degrees Celsius. From 2011 it will install a system 10 to 12.5 times more powerful than the existing computer and by... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: Eric Maslowski, research computer specialist, University of Michigan 3D Lab This is the Q-Sight helmet display from BAE Systems which uses quantum technology and holographic techniques for a seamless transition between day and night... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: BlackBerrys on the beat
Photo The BlackBerrys can be used to access critical systems and applications while on the beat, including remote access to the Police National Computer, crime management system, intelligence database, warrants, Police National Legal Database and its... [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo This is one of the first transistors, a replica of which has been donated to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in California by LSI Corporation to mark the device's 60th birthday. The transistor was first manufactured commercially at the... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo Philips Medical Systems has unveiled a CT (Computer Tomography) scanner which can produce detailed 3D images. The images can be accessed on any computer in a hospital or remotely, to make it easier to share information between medical teams. [04 Dec 2007]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo The BlackBerry handsets will provide the force with direct access to back-end systems, such as the Police National Computer, warrants, the Police National Legal Database and its own custom-built briefings application. [27 Nov 2007]
Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel
Photo The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places to stay in town - with an Apple iMac desktop computer installed in every one of its 285 rooms. Each computer has the standard keyboard and mouse for... [20 Nov 2007]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo There's also a temporary generator affixed to the van that runs the computer systems inside during testing. Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Outsourcing to Russia
Photo He said: "If you want to install Linux you have to erase Microsoft and that increases the cost of each computer by $50. Some of the specialist research ongoing at the university includes banking IT systems, risk management and banking security. [15 Feb 2007]
Photos: PDAs in space
Photo Using PDAs as a voice or speech processing platform to get astronauts chatting to each other and the ISS' computer systems is another - less frightening - application under consideration at ESA. It is envisaged that crew-to-crew comms will combine... [29 Jan 2007]
Photos of the month - November 2006
Photo Our Top 10 Linux kit photo story puts the spotlight on other uses for the lesser known of computer systems. This is Ernie Mk 4, the computer that picks the winning numbers in the premium bonds. Join us in our celebration of 50 years of Britain's... [27 Nov 2006]
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