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Skorts have often been regarded as the tuna Mornay of fashion: comfortable yet tasteless. But with the flippy new styles sported at Wimbledon last week by the physically gifted (Anna Kournikova, center), the athletically gifted (Serena Williams, left) and virtual unknowns (Asa Svensson) alike, the skirt-shorts combo may be back. "I think it's cute," says Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys and a noted style sultan. "I could see Carrie Bradshaw wearing one in Sex and the City with a pair of Blahniks." Kournikova's Adidas skort is already in stores ($45). Be warned, though: the new styles...
...that. By next summer it expects to be able to produce live images direct from cars negotiating the harshest and most spectacularly beautiful courses around the world. It was on a visit to New Zealand that Richards encountered the technology that is taking the sport into a new dimension. Virtual Spectator, a computer-graphics company, had created Internet coverage of America's Cup races, showing the yachts' positions on a virtual ocean. Richards immediately thought, "This could work very well in motor racing." But it was a complex job. Virtual Spectator had to recreate exact pictures of all the courses...
...sure, such a lavish tribute seems wholly inappropriate for a ruthless killer who made his living through hijacking, racketeering, extortion and drugs. Yet the virtual lionization of underworld figures is nothing new. During the 1920s, America’s mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American...
...meantime, Kurzweil juggles several lucrative projects under the banner Kurzweil Technologies, descendants of his original work in pattern-recognition programs, which simulate human cognition: Medical Learning Co. provides doctors with broad health-care information and a "virtual patient" educational tool. At FatKat, Kurzweil runs both simulated trades and an actual experimental investment fund that uses pattern-recognition software to spot trends in financial markets; a hedge fund is in the works...
...hackers are doing it right now. Over a period of several years, U.S. investigators believe hackers - probably from Russia - tunneled into department of Defense sites and illegally downloaded large quantities of technical defense research, all unclassified, according to the Pentagon. The leap from this kind of sporadic hacking to virtual terrorism is only a matter of time, specialists believe. "After every terrorist attack, security is tightened up and improved," Chepchugov remarks. "But these days you don't need to get a truck bomb into, say, a chemical plant or crash a plane into it. All you need is a group...