COMPUTERS: Byte.com 05/03 "Unleashed Column": Ernest compares products based on the cutting edge 802.11g wireless networking standard, as well as reviewing the Talking Head video phone and two ultralight notebooks.
CNET 05/09/03NEC to release mega-handheld: NEC plans to release the MobilePro 900 later this month, a handheld device that resembles a mini-notebook but contains the technological guts of a PDA.

The Register 04/24/03 PDA sales plummet thanks to 'limited appeal' - IDC: PDAs, who needs em? Seems to be the consensus of consumers. Though Sony and Dell are gaining market share, the market seems to be shrinking. Maybe everyone who thinks they need a PDA already has one, or maybe cell phones are taking over.  

NYTIMES 4/24/03 Decoding Computer Intruders: In the abstract, fighting a war is simple. The enemy and the targets are generally identifiable. But in the war against hackers and virus writers, the combatants are harder to know.

CNET 05/02/03 Analysts: No rush to new Windows: "Gartner doesn't expect many Windows Server 2000 customers will be ready to upgrade until around 2005. The successor to version 2003, code-named Blackcomb, isn't expected until 2006 or 2007."

SPACE: SPACE.COM 04/23/03 Prometheus: Lighting NASA's Nuclear Fire: "We need more power or the space program's dead!" "Aye lad, then you'll be wanting to put nuclear propulsion units on those space probes." If they can get by the space environmental lobby, Project Prometheus will usher in a new era in space exploration.

TECHNOCULTURE: NYTIMES 04/25/03 DESIGN REVIEW | THE NATIONAL DESIGN TRIENNIAL - A Frontier Spirit in Anxious Times: Times critic Muschamp un-gently reviews the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC's National Design Triennial - unlike last year's show, this one goes low-tech with handmade crafts and pioneer chic to integrate design in our lives.

CNET April 24, 2003 Dot-coms: Not so bad after all: "Don't look now, but many dot-coms are working. While most industries struggle to swallow the overwhelming effect of a prolonged lethargic economy, consumer Internet companies are just now hitting their stride."

NYTIMES 04/24/03 Online, All the Time, an All-Seeing Surveillance System: Fooling security cams is easy...in the movies, in real life it gets harder and harder. Good or bad, the fishbowl society is coming.

NYTIMES 4/24/03 An Electronic Tag for the Peripatetic Pet: Millions of Americans have had microchips implanted in their dogs and cats to help identify the animals should they be lost.

Wireless: POPMECH 04/03 Death Comes In Threes: "Dear mobile enthusiast: your processor, chipset and wireless card are now mournfully out of date.--Intel" Popular Mechanic's Jonathon Gromer delivers the news to the unleashed world, Centrino's taking over.

WiFi Tech -Wireless LAN Product Prices: We'll list as many merchants as possible regardless of whether they pay us or not. This is a free and unbiased listing, and you can sort the prices any way you want: by merchant, manufacturer, product name, or price.

ENERGY: The Washington Post 03/24/03 Md. Energy Project Gets Infusion:
the government will triple funding for a group of Rockville scientists trying to create man-made organisms, saying the audacious project could offer solutions to the country's most intractable energy problems.

MILITARY SCIENCE:    Popular Science May 2003 Shoot Not to Kill: When the role of the military overlaps with the role of the police, they need alternatives to lethal force. From paint pellets to pain rays, the Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate is coming up with some doozeys.