Stories by Sharon Gaudin

Storing every life memory in a surrogate brain

Remember walking in to start your first job out of college? Or that diner you stopped in when you were on a road trip with your friends? The way the sky looked when you made that one perfect ski run, or the song that was playing when your daughter took her first step?

Is the Intel vs. AMD chip war back on?

With Advanced Micro Devices pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long chilled chip war with Intel may just be heating up again, analysts say.

NASA shuttle's returns is just the start for space robotics

As the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor made the journey home after a 16-day mission, scientists at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency credit them with taking the first step in a robotic partnership that will help humans press further out into the solar system.

RFID tags at the base of NYC's Freedom Tower

Builders are turning to RFID technology to set the foundation for the Freedom Tower that is being erected where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers had stood in New York City prior to September 11, 2001.

RFID tech turned into spy chips for clandestine surveillance

An employee looking to steal confidential information from his employer sneaks into what should be a secure back room after hours. He pulls charts and files from a top-level financial meeting and slides them into his briefcase before heading back out.

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