SPACE: Space.com 6/11/03 After Columbia, X Prize Entrants Remain Committed to Space: While the shuttle accident was an stark reminder of perils often overlooked in space travel today, competitors in the X Prize competition to put humans in space -- many of whom will ride inside the vehicles they're building -- maintain that their missions are still go.

Popular Science July 2003 Space Ship One gets ready to go up…up…and away… Burt Rutan wants to fly into space every Tuesday for five months, to test a concept and prove a point. And he wants to do it soon: He may make the first flight before the December 17 Wright brothers centenary. - Bill Sweetman reports for Popular Science on the progress of civilian spaceflight.

TECHNOCULTURE: NYTimes 06/11/03 A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a Smile: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Dr. Cynthia L. Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they they are programmed to perform specific tasks, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them. They are "embodied," she says, even "sociable" robots — experimental machines that act like living creatures. (Oh great, robots you feel sorry for... - ed)

NYTimes 06/29/03 Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com: No longer the province of the undatable, people are realizing that finding matches online gives them more choices and even more security in their search for a perfect, or at least acceptable, someone.

WIRELESS: NYTimes 06/11/03 Taking Technology to Extremes: Ever lighter electronics and a growing grid of world-girdling satellites have brought real-time connectedness to the world's most remote places.             

PHOTOGRAPHY: Valeo PR 06/17/03 Extreme Digital Resolution: 22 MP camera back!: Valeo announces a 22 MP Digital Back for extreme resolution digital photography. The Leaf Valeo 22 camera uses a 4,056 x 5,356 pixel sensor in a 48 x 36 mm format to create raw 126 MB 16 bit data files. The back also claims "the fastest capture rate in the industry" with an 8 frame continuous buffer feeding a 5 or 10 GB onboard storage. The detachable 6x7cm display is actually a Compaq iPAQ the photographer can use to simultaneously proof images and check their schedule. It will be shipping this fall.

TRANSPORTATION: NYTimes 06/12/03 Digital Music Hits the Road: The Time's J.D. BIERSDORFER takes his tunes to the road with the help of some FM transmitters that plug into the headphone jack on his mp3 player or laptop, then he cranks up the Linux based PhatBox, available as a $775 option on VW's and Audis. Music power to the people baby!

AutoWeek 06/11/02 XM winning the satellite radio war; Sirius not out of it yet: The battle for satellite car radio between XM and Sirius is still on…Did you even know there was a battle? That you could get 100 channels of digital radio anywhere you can see their satellites? No, I didn't think so.