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Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo The machine, seen in action here, is made by BAE Systems and is being trialled by UK Border Agency to reduce the heavy demands that searching the underside of vehicles for stowaways and smuggled materials places on staff. [24 Jul 2008]
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. Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way has become a hot topic, especially after the high profile data leaks in... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo While this tech is not currently interoperable with other high end videoconferencing systems, such as HP's Halo, Cisco said the goal is to open up to a broader set of users over time as market opportunities increase. [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo The main supercomputer room at Oak Ridge has about 30 of these massive cooling systems. 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. [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo The former supplies the hardware and the latter supports the software systems. Also, broken beam systems cannot tell whether a customer is entering or leaving the store. Some of the technologies on show may not appear in the shops for some time but... [27 Jun 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: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo Remote users gain secure access to ECMWF's systems using a solution developed by ActivIdentity and Sysec. Here are the mass of connections that link up the systems in the centre through its 10GB high performance network. [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track
Photo This is the systems integration lab, high above the Olympic venues, where the software to run the games is tested. Data on the competitions sent back from each of the venues will be fed into the Information Diffusion Systems for delivery to... [07 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo Team Barnard Microsystems - like the majority of the other teams - is combining off-the-shelf components as platforms for bespoke auto navigation and sensory systems. The Mindsheet team have developed sensory systems to negotiate the debris of... [06 May 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo Below this display is a control for the NiCad batteries that power the boat's systems. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Eye in the sky to spot 'friendly fire'
Photo It will reduce friendly fire by allowing ground troops to avoid hot zones where allied aircraft are operating, help soldiers evade hostile aircraft and direct air missile systems. UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo 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 vision. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo Photo credit: BAE Systems Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be loaded into the high tech baggage system at Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5. The system at British Airways' (BA) new home can process 12,000 bags per hour.silicon.com... [28 Feb 2008]
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