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A U.S. House subcommittee is considering two bills to extend the current ban on Internet access taxes, but at a hearing yesterday, the focus was on a related issue: the taxation of online sales.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/29/congress.reviews.taxes.idg/index.html
An invasion of an alien species with plant and animal attributes could take place within years. But Earth would be the departure point, not the destination.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/04/mars.jellyplants/index.html
A congressional subcommittee exploring the need for new cybercrime legislation was urged Thursday by private-sector officials to back laws protecting the confidentiality of security data shared with the government and to prohibit the
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/18/protect.corp.e.mail.idg/index.html
NASA engineers have raised the temperature on a Mars-bound spacecraft to help it weather a bout of space radiation. The induced fever should take care of radiation damage affecting an instrument on the Mars 2001 Odyssey, the space agency said.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/19/mars.odyssey/index.html
Although usually tame, the annual Bootid meteor shower could put on impressive fireworks over North America, delighting the eyes and ears of meteor enthusiasts tuned in to the show.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/26/meteor.shower/index.html
NASA launched a satellite on a journey back in time, looking for the oldest light in the universe on a scientific quest to explain the history and destiny of the universe.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/29/map/index.html
Software that can make decisions without guidance from humans
will guide a constellation of spacecraft that launch in 2002, according
to NASA.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/04/casper/index.html
Admitted author of 'Anna worm' unleashed last February faces trial this fall.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/22/kournikova.virus.idg/index.html
Astronomers have teamed up to direct an intergalactic thriller, starring a voracious neutron star as it unleashes pulsating jets of super-hot, super-fast subatomic particles.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/06/cosmic.movie/index.html
Lawmakers have passed legislation that could
make Nevada the first U.S. state with Internet gambling, which now
generates more than $1 billion annually for mostly offshore gaming
companies.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/05/online.gaming/index.html
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/26/entangled.whale/index.html
Scientists at the University of Georgia announced a breakthrough Tuesday in cloning technology, which they say makes the process more efficient. The new procedure, according to lead scientist Steve Stice, has a success rate of one in seven when it comes to the viability of embryos for Black Angus cows.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/26/cloned.cow/index.html
Fed up with rising utility bills and melting ice caps? Turn off everything in your house Thursday evening and let Washington know you won't take it any more. At least, that is the suggestion of a fast spreading Internet crusade calling on Americans to protest the Bush Administration's energy policies.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/21/solstice.unplugged/index.html
With the economic downturn forcing companies to reduce expenses, some arefleeing their big-city offices in favor of cheaper real estate in suburbanareas. But some are finding that fiber service is scarce in the suburbs. Toaddress this deficit, several carriers are lining up to deliver opticalconnectivity to those areas.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/18/optical.networks.idg/index.html
Whether shooting commercials, delivering pizzas or requesting a beef jerky brand, voyagers to the international space station have transformed the most expensive scientific lab into the world's highest billboard.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/13/alpha.products/index.html
A NASA observatory will soon begin a journey back in time, focusing on the afterglow of the big bang to shed light on deep questions as old as the cosmos.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/12/map.preview/index.html
An ordinary trip turned into an Orwellian ordeal for one Connecticut driver, forced to pay multiple fines after a car rental company tracked his every move via satellite.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/06/22/gps.airiq/index.html
While shrouded in ice and darkness, oceans underneath the crusty exteriors of several Jovian moons could possess the raw materials necessary to feed hordes of creatures, according to a new study.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/22/seti.life/index.html
Hy Spikell loves his kids. Since they live all over the country, the Los Angeles man looked forward to their once-a-week phone calls. Such events took on special meaning for the 93-year-old man who lives in a complex for senior citizens.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/04/web.seniors/index.html
One of the issues the new U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, may find on his plate almost immediately is the question of what to do with nuclear waste.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/06/nuclear.report/index.html
(CNN) - Two satellites scheduled to ride together into space in September will give scientists new information about the Earth's upper atmosphere and the oceans. The pair of probes is scheduled to be launched no earlier than September 13 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a Delta II rocket.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/07/timed/index.html
The Pitfall license swings back into action with a solid-but-unspectacular conversion of Harry Jr.'s 16-bit adventure.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/fun.games/06/19/mayan.adventure.idg/index.html
NASA is preparing this week for the upcoming test flight of an experimental rocket engine that could revolutionize space and air travel.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/01/supersonic.plane/index.html
FullAudio secured a licensing agreement with BMG Music Publishing, giving it access to the whole catalog of the company's copyright-protected songs for a new cache-download subscription-based service.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/15/fullaudio.sub.service.idg/index.html
Grab your keys and dust off your haggling skills, because Infogrames is bringing its popular and long-lived Test Drive series to the Xbox this fall. It's the first Xbox title to be announced by Infogrames.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/fun.games/06/12/motor.city.online.idg/index.html
Grab your keys and dust off your haggling skills, because Infogrames is bringing its popular and long-lived Test Drive series to the Xbox this fall. It's the first Xbox title to be announced by Infogrames.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/fun.games/06/14/championship.racing.idg/index.html
Scientists have identified the elusive chemical that fireflies use to turn their flashing bellies on and off, the same one that helps regulate heartbeats, aids memory and triggers erections in humans.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/28/fireflies.light/index.html
NASA has delayed yet again a space shuttle launch as ground controllers diagnose a mysterious ailment afflicting the robot arm on the international space station.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/14/shuttle.update/index.html
With Mars in its best position to view in years, budding astronomers will want to take note of these sites to help explore the red planet and the infinite universe beyond.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/22/surfing.saturday/index.html
Before the age of dinosaurs, a gangly pipsqueak of an animal could have sparked an explosive evolutionary stampede that still resounds across the planet.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/06/eating.herbivore/index.html
Amateur space enthusiasts plan to send a solar sail prototype
into suborbital flight this summer, following successful repairs to the
experimental spacecraft after a test mishap.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/12/solar.sail/index.html
Hundreds of workers who process the space shuttle fleet at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida could walk off their jobs this weekend.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/07/shuttle.strike/index.html
The space shuttle Atlantis can visit the international space station next month, since NASA engineers have formulated a cure for an ailing $600 million robotic arm attached to the orbiting outpost, the space agency said Monday.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/25/space.shuttle/index.html
Allowing wealthy guests to ride in empty space shuttle seats or bunk on the international space station could save NASA billions of dollars, space tourism advocates told congressional leaders.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/27/tourism.space/index.html
The weary battalion of giant radar dishes that tune in to distant spacecraft should soon have reinforcements, just in time for a long anticipated communications traffic jam in deep space.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/14/deepspace.network/index.html
As Fourth of July celebrations approach, CNN's Surfing Into Saturday segment offers some online destinations to enhance your holiday.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/29/surfing.saturday/index.html
Planning a trip this summer? CNN's weekly Surfing Into Saturday segment looks at some offbeat travel sites on the Web.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/15/surfing.saturday/index.html
Sending humans into orbit might capture the imagination but the expensive enterprise does little to advance science, the first paying space tourist told CNN.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/01/tito.report/index.html
The first total solar eclipse of the millennium will soon produce a spectacle of darks and lights over central Africa, where multitudes of astronomers and eclipse chasers have assembled to watch the event.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/21/solar.eclipse/index.html
Governments supporting the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) treaty will decide in Paris this week whether to impose export restrictions on Caspian Sea caviar. Conservationists say the limits are necessary to protect endangered sturgeon from being depleted by nations bordering the sea.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/25/iran.sturgeon/index.html
Thirsty users in Singapore can now buy drinks from vending machines using their mobile phones, Singapore Telecommunications and F&N Coca Cola announced Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/06/20/phone.buys.coke.idg/index.html
Calorie-conscious consumers who love a peanut flavor but don't want the fat may soon have another option.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/28/peanut.chip.t_t/index.html
Fifty years ago -- on June 14, 1951 -- the U.S. Census Bureau officially put into service what it calls the world's first commercial computer, known as UNIVAC I.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/index.html
Saturn has always made for great skywatching, even back in 1610 when Galileo first spied its rings. But a new sequence of pictures taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope offers five times the viewing pleasure.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/07/hubble.saturn/index.html
One of the many functions of mobile phones could soon include paying for pizza or cinema tickets if some of Europe's leading banks and mobile phone makers get their way.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/06/28/mobile.banking/index.html
As gas prices rise, some drivers are looking for more fuel-efficient cars. Honda and Toyota have hybrid cars on the market, and other automakers are following suit. Creating new fuel-efficient models, automakers are incorporating hybrid technologies into typical gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/14/fuelish.drivers.t_t/index.html
Kristine Hanna, president and CEO of GirlGeeks.com, talks with Marsha Walton about GirlGeeks.com's mission.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/15/girl.geeks.cnna/index.html
NASA has postponed the launch of a satellite designed to produce the first high-fidelity color movies of solar flares.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/04/hessi/index.html
Astronomers have spotted what could be a small population of objects the size of planets, wandering through the galaxy without the gravitational fetters of parent stars.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/27/hubble.cluster/index.html
(CNN) - Just imagine if your mode of transportation donned these: tires that didn't go flat, never blew out, and never lost their treads.
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/21/noflat.tires.t_t/index.html
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