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A company developing security technology for electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that executives think was tied to the rancorous debate over the safety of casting ballots online.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/29/voting.hack.ap/index.html
Good news for procrastinators: Online merchants say better technology and streamlined shipping are allowing them to take orders closer to Hanukkah and Christmas and still deliver gifts on time.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/12/sprj.hs03.gifts.online/index.html
Sony Corp.'s walking robot already knows a few hip dance steps and can kick a miniature soccer ball. Now, it can jog -- a new trick that developers say is ingenious because it requires the machine to jump off the ground, even for a fraction of a second.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/18/sony.robot.ap/index.html
Game over? Think again.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/05/space.invaders.reut/index.html
Officials of several nations meeting in Washington to consider where to build a nuclear fusion reactor postponed their decision after failing to agree on a site, representatives said Saturday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/20/fusion.plant.reut/index.html
Scientists struggled Sunday to understand why they have failed to make contact with Europe's first Mars probe, four days after the Beagle 2 craft was supposed to touch down on the Red Planet to begin its search for life.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/28/beagle.missing.ap/index.html
More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer's off-the-shelf PC.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/11/prime.number.ap/index.html
Genes that fine-tune the sense of hearing and smelling in people may be important in separating humans from chimpanzees, according to U.S. researchers.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/14/chimps.genes.reut/index.html
A study published in the journal Science has found the devastating effects on Alaska's waters and beaches from 1989's Exxon Valdez oil spill lasted far longer and are far worse than first suspected.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/22/alaska.valdez.reut/index.html
More than 170 countries approved an ambitious call to extend the Internet and the benefits of information technology to the poorest corners of the world Friday, but dodged some of the difficulties of doing so.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/13/tech.summit.reut/index.html
New Zealanders access the Internet more than computer users in 31 other countries, a new international survey shows.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/09/nzealand.internet.ap/index.html
Hungary moved on Thursday to stop users of new camera mobile phones from taking and sending snapshots of people without their permission.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/12/hungary.pics.reut/index.html
The U.S. technology industry is showing healthy growth for the first time since parts of the Internet sector collapsed two years ago, but jobs and wages still are down, the Bush administration says in a new report on the digital economy.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/17/digital.economy.ap/index.html
As computer programmer Shane Messer watched U.S. forces look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the search struck him as a perverse sort of treasure hunt.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/17/wmd.game.ap/index.html
A rocket plane broke the sound barrier during its first powered flight, but the achievement was marred by a partial landing gear collapse that caused it to veer off a desert runway.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/18/private.rocket.ap/index.html
A brand-new computer for free may sound too good to be true, but a British company is offering it to every UK household and even promising to replace it with a new machine after three years.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/17/free.pc.reut/index.html
Congress on Monday approved the first national effort to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail pitches offering prescription drugs, cheap loans and other come-ons.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/09/reduce.spam.ap/index.html
The love song of the lonely toadfish is giving scientists new insight on fighting human muscular diseases.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/19/toadfish.song.ap/index.html
Toshiba Corp. says it has developed a tiny hard disk drive that can be used to store music and video in mobile phones and other portable gadgets.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/16/toshiba.tinydisk.ap/index.html
Zeb Hogan plunges into the muddy brown waters of the Tonle Sap River and grabs hold of a 321-pound silvery giant catfish that has just slid out of a blue tarp held by several Cambodian fisherman.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/01/cambodia.catfish.ap/index.html
Two Americans have won the go-ahead to become the next tourists in space, and two more spots for a Russian rocket trip to the international space station are now on the market, the U.S. firm selling the spots said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/17/iss.tourists.reut/index.html
Sending unsolicited e-mails, or spam, in Britain in now a criminal offense under new laws that came into force on Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/11/uk.spam.ban/index.html
The extent of the technology gap between richer and poorer nations may be smaller than believed because of flawed statistics on Internet use, the U.N. communications agency has said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/digital.divide.ap/index.html
Global warming is threatening the world's ski resorts, with melting at lower altitudes forcing the sport to move higher and higher up mountains, according to a United Nations study released Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/02/un.melting.mountains.ap/index.html
The massive amounts of heat and pollution that rise from the world's cities both delay and stimulate the fall of precipitation, cheating some areas of much-needed rain and snow while dousing others, scientists said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/16/urban.climate.ap/index.html
The government is selectively blurring some of its highest-quality aerial photographs of Washington to hide objects in plain view on the roofs of the White House, Capitol and Treasury Department.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/24/blurring.washington.ap/index.html
The Justice Department on Tuesday ended its two-year-old antitrust investigation into the music industry's online ventures, finding ample competition exists in today's world of digital music.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/24/antitrust.onlinemusic.ap/index.html
It has been 31 years since a U.S. astronaut last walked on the moon, but China's space ambitions have signaled a possible American return to the lunar surface as part of a renewed space program.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/04/us.moon/index.html
The United States denounced on Monday the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol as an unrealistic straitjacket for curbing global warming as officials from 180 nations met in Italy to work out details of the landmark pact.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/01/us.kyoto.reut/index.html
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston on Tuesday demanded the removal of an animal rights group's billboard advertisement depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a lifeless chicken in her arms.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/25/peta.billboard.reut/index.html
The grave of a mysterious Viking queen may hold the key to a 1,200 year-old case of suspected ritual killing, and scientists are planning to unearth her bones to find out.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/09/norway.queen.reut/index.html
One of the darlings of the Web and a pioneer of electronic exhibitionism -- Jenni of JenniCam fame -- is turning off the lights after seven years.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/10/jenni.cam.reut/index.html
As Americans prepare to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight, a whole country is cringing at what it believes to be a historical injustice against one of its most beloved heroes.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/10/brazil.santosdumont.reut/index.html
Didn't get what you wanted this holiday season? You aren't alone.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/31/sprj.hs03.retail.online.reut/index.html
Warren Eugene, a pioneer of Internet gambling, sees a lucrative new on-line frontier in a Canadian law that allows people with certain illnesses to grow and smoke their own marijuana.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/web.marijuana.reut/index.html
A U.S. Web site specializing in language named what it called the top word, phrase and name of the year on Thursday, picking them all from the war in Iraq.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/26/top.word.reut/index.html
The U.S.-Russian crew of the international space station will mark the New Year along with Britons and feast on a roast chicken.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/31/russia.iss.ap/index.html
For those who have ever wondered why the sky was a lurid red in The Scream -- Edvard Munch's painting of modern angst -- astronomers have an answer. They blame it on a volcanic eruption half a world away.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/10/scream.munch.reut/index.html
As children count down to the arrival of Rudolph, scientists warned that Norway's remaining wild reindeer population is under threat.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/18/norway.reindeer.reut/index.html
It's called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/02/segway.military.ap/index.html
It's the size of three football fields in a 10-story building.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/15/museum/index.html
It wasn't the fact that Melissa J. Harrington appeared naked on the Internet that got her in trouble with police. It was where she got naked.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/30/offbeat.naked.web.ticket.ap/index.html
Since the start of the nuclear era, highly radioactive waste has been crossing continents and oceans in search of a secure and final resting place.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/30/nuclear.waste.reut/index.html
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