OK, so you might feel weird about those naked-o-vision scanners they're installing at the airport. Here's a nice alternative: chemical noses that can sniff out explosives and precisely track them through crowded areas. Researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Gesellschaft have created a network of these chemical noses that can do just that. First, [...]
Unicode is great because it supports multiple languages simultaneously, bringing international understanding, universal peace, and planetary love. And so is ICANN's decision to allow domain names that use non-Latin alphabets. Until both combine to steal your credit card numbers. Or your login name, passwords, address, or whatever other data a phishing site [...]