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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre immediately flag up attacks on its customers' systems, alerting the company to methods such as port scanning, or attempts to get through the firewall and intrusion detection system. The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo This is the Verity Systems VS7000 manual hard drive destroyer which crushes the hard drive with the turn of a handle. Obviously the previous approach depends on you having enough time to wait for acid to do its work but in some situations speed is... [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. The main supercomputer room at Oak Ridge has about 30 of these massive cooling systems. [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wimbledon on target for a tech ace
Photo The systems were all tested earlier in the spring before being effectively locked for the tournament. Jeff Lucas said the tech team and IBM focus on three areas during the tournament: the referee's office, data capture and TV graphics and general... [19 Jun 2008]
Photos: silicon.com hanging by a rope
Photo For each successful abseil, the comms and IT systems company donated £200. The silicon.com editorial team was invited down to Colt's office near London's Liverpool Street station to abseil down eight storeys to raise money for children's charity... [17 Jun 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo Below this display is a control for the NiCad batteries that power the boat's systems. However, Josse will doubtless be spending most of his time in the cockpit manning the tiller, looking out for 'growlers' (small icebergs often missed by the boat... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo Heathrow expects to keep running both systems side-by-side to allow processing of both barcodes and RFID chips. This scanner is positioned next to the RFID reader and the trial will examine which technology can read the information on the tags most... [14 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo The transistor was first manufactured commercially at the former Western Electric plant (which later became Agere Systems) on Union Boulevard in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1951. Since its invention, the size of transistors has continued to shrink... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Apple shows off new iMacs, software
Photo The 20-inch systems will cost $1,199 or $1,499, depending on the configuration, and the 24-inch system will cost $1,799, $200 less than the current 24-inch iMac. Apple hadn't updated the iMac's design in several years and it also used the occasion... [08 Aug 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo Grey said only one in every million collisions are put on the grid as electronics filtering systems within the detectors decide whether an event is "interesting" or not. When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on this November it will be... [21 May 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo The current pagers (pictured) are smaller than the previous devices and also have the advantage of a range of different ringtones: one for a launch situation, another for a systems test, another for a cancelled launch and so on. [02 May 2007]
Photo: Boom town Bangalore
Photo It supports, among other things, Tesco's Peoplesoft systems, production Unix servers, RFID and wireless systems. For more news from India visit the special report. This is Brigade Road, the most recognisably western shopping centre with a number... [16 Mar 2007]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo Countries that rely heavily on road systems, such as Australia and the US, have taken a look, while there has also been interest from Central and Eastern Europe (for example the Czechs are pressing ahead with road-charging) and further east, as... [02 Feb 2007]
Photos: Make vroom for your iPod
Photo In-car tech is changing rapidly with satellite navigation systems, DVD players and even in-car broadband now available. The TunePoint option is standard in several Renault models - including the Clio Campus i-music and Megane Extreme - but can also... [01 Feb 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year
Photo Talk-show host Jonathan Ross presented the guide to the studios, most famous for its comedies including The Ladykillers and Passport to Pimlico. RFID tags will be incorporated into bank cards and systems in branches will recognise you as you enter... [20 Dec 2006]
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