Scientists from three universities recently hacked into an implantable biomedical device through a wireless connection, stole information about a hypothetical patient's health and personal history and changed the cardiac defibrillator's settings.

Discovery News : Discovery Channel

Decius wrote:

Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement?

Search boxes!1 With recommended search terms!

It makes sense, right? All the good domain names are gone. Getting people to a specific page in a big site is difficult (who's going to write down anything after the first slash?). And, most tellingly, I see increasingly more users already inadvertently put complete domain names like "gmail" and "netflix" into the Search box of their browsers out of habit — and it doesn't even register that Google pops up and they have to click to get to their destination.

I told you so :P

RE: cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out

All this got me to thinking about the relationship between time and gadgets, because there is a relationship between the two, and it's not just about the 18-month tech cycle or the decomposition-proof materials that will allow my swaggy new Casio Module 3070 wristwatch to be around when the sun goes supernova. Any gadget we use invariably morphs our perception of time's passing.

Dork Talk: Douglas Coupland | Technology | The Guardian

Homeland security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new driver's license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved, could cause big air travel headaches.

The Associated Press: Chertoff: ID Must Comply to Fly

Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T were big winners in the U.S. government's auction of wireless licenses that raised a record $19.59 billion, the Federal Communication Commission said on Thursday.

Verizon and AT&T win big at airwave auction | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

MIAMI (Reuters) - An eagle ray leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys on Thursday and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her, a Florida wildlife investigator said.

Jumping eagle ray kills boater off Florida Keys | U.S. | Reuters

Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.

Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies - New York Times

As news of Arthur C. Clarke's death spread through communities of scientists, writers and science fiction fans, many people shared their memories of how the visionary writer, inventor and futurist inspired and influenced them.

SPACE.com -- Arthur C. Clarke: Luminaries Pay Tribute

Very cute.

DOTHETEST

Customs officials had no plans to upgrade the $5 bill until they discovered that counterfeiters were bleaching $5 bills and printing $100 bills on the paper because the security thread was in the same spot on both. In addition, both bills contained a portrait watermark in the same spot, making them difficult to distinguish.

New $5 bill goes into circulation - Los Angeles Times