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Science News April 16, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Captcha the Puzzle Computer scientists have worked out an ingenious security scheme that relies on computer programs that can, without further human intervention, automatically generate and grade tests that the computer programs themselves can't easily pass.
PC World May 2005 Eric Dahl	PC Drive Reaches 500GB Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive is the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB, however, new perpendicular recording technology will lead to drives that far surpass it sooner than you think.
PC World May 2005 Yardena Arar	Even Higher-Definition TVs Guess what. Your brand new high-definition TV is already outdated.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2005 Carl Wherrett	Toshiba's Battery Breakthrough Nanotechnology is making good on its promise -- at least in battery technology. Watch out for the other battery manufacturers to come up with their own breakthroughs.
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Clint Boulton	Car Diagnostics, Out For a Spin An IBM researcher delivers a service that helps manufacturers find and treat vehicular maladies.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston	The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Willie D. Jones	Wringing Watts From Waves A high schooler's invention involving a buoy, a gyroscope, and a generator turns water motion into "juice."
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Prachi Patel Predd	Riding Life's Twists and Turns How a strand of DNA launched the co-founder of Nanogen's career in the technology behind DNA microarrays.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Programmed DNA Forms Fractal A researcher has showed that it is possible to coax short strands of artificial DNA to spontaneously assemble into a Sierpinski triangle. The ability is a step toward embedding programming instructions in chemical processes.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 Eric Smalley	Dialogue System Juggles Topics Researchers have built a dialogue management system that promises to improve verbal communication with computers by giving the machine a sense of the type of phrase a person is likely to say next.
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