NEC is making 750 people redundant following its decision to stop producing memory chips in Scotland. The company has refused to confirm the cuts despite comments in the Japanese press from NEC executives admitting that jobs would have to go.
In priority order our ability to recognise people electronically goes like this: Implanted chips concealed inside the human body provide the highest level of security and information. The secret is to use hotel laundry and cleaning services and, of...
Average processors now run at over 1.5GHz, while top-of-the-line chips run at 3GHz. Microsoft's prototype application works better than a simple voice recognition system because the gestures improve accuracy, according to Wilson, who has...
Incidents of face-to-face credit and debit card fraud have tumbled by 67 per cent since the introduction of the chip and PIN standard 24 months ago. Speaking at the Retail Fraud conference in London this week, they confirmed 94 per cent of face-to...
Spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, raised concerns over the durability of these chips. The manufacturers could only guarantee the chips for two years, even though the passports are supposed to be issued for 10.
Because as any passing-madman-with-trousers-filled-with-herring knows, a data packet on a network follows the same pattern as a chip-lumbered bumblebee buzzing off in search of plastic flowers while studiously avoiding polar bears.