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Until last year, that is, when Intel delayed production of its latest Pentium 4 chip and scaled back its proposed speed from 4 GHz to 3.8 GHz. That was partly owing to technical complications; pack too many transistors onto a microchip, and you have magnetic resistance and overheating issues that require bulkier fans and suck up more battery life in your laptop. But the bigger problem is simply that most of us no longer have such a need for speed, at least when it comes to everyday applications such as e-mail, Web browsers and spreadsheets, which work just...
...long foreseen, but when it finally happened, it still seemed spooky. The FDA last week approved an implantable microchip for medical uses. When activated by a handheld scanner, the tiny VeriChip emits, via radio signal, an ID number that can be linked to a patient's medical records. Critics see Big Brother. Enthusiasts say ambulance crews and ER doctors will be able to access such critical data as medications and drug allergies, even if a patient is unconscious. Future versions may have sensors to read vital signs like pulse, temperature and blood sugar...
Mentioning such past American innovations as the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane prototypes, the moon-shot program of John F. Kennedy ’40, also a former Crimson editor, and microchip technology, Kerry said he would lift current administrative restrictions on embryonic stem cell research—and, in perhaps his deftest segue, tied this into the convention’s theme of an optimistic party on the brink...
...politicians should get one, because then we would know where they are when they steal our money." ARMANDO MARTINEZ, shopkeeper, on the microchip implanted in the arm of Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo, which emits radio signals that would allow him to be tracked if he were kidnapped...
...There are plans to make it smaller still. Like most developed nations, New Zealand is preparing to fake-proof its passports with a microchip holding the owner's details. But as one border-security scandal followed another, the government swiftly drafted new passport and citizenship laws. Under the proposed changes, immigrants will have to wait five years instead of three before becoming citizens. Marrying a Kiwi won't bring that day forward; having a baby in New Zealand won't necessarily make it a citizen; and the government will be able to cancel the passports of people deemed security risks...