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Stories · 3

  1. UK to get Public Wireless LAN

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the start-running-ethereal dept. · 140 comments
    shanksd1 writes "The IEE Review for May reports that BT is announcing the UK's first public access wireless LAN, with a little help from Motorola and Cisco. 400 wireless hotspots of range 100m should be implemented by June 2003, and 4000 by June 2005. These 500 kb/s access points will be located in hotels, railway stations, airports, bars and coffee shops."

  2. Hubble Space Telescope Goes Into Safe Mode

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the breaking-it-all-down dept. · 113 comments
    Generic Specialist writes "There is an article on the BBC web-site reporting that the Hubble Space Telescope has finally shut itself down due to the failure of a fourth gyroscope. For some time it has been running on the minimum three out of its six gyroscopes, and on Saturday the failure of another one sent the telesope into its safe mode. We'll have to wait until after the next servicing mission, due next month, before any more science can be done. "

  3. Prototype 150GByte Read-Only Disk Demonstrated

    Tech · Technology · · posted by Hemos · from the i-want-a-mp3-drive-for-it dept. · 73 comments
    Generic Specialist writes "A fully working prototype of a 150GByte read-only disk has been demonstrated by C3D Inc. The clever part is their "Fluorescent Multilayer Disk" technology. Rather than having only one or two layers (as per CD-ROMs, DVD) these new disks have 10 layers, which can be read simultaneously giving data transfer rates exceeding 1 gigabyte per second. Now, if only they could produce a read-write version... "