Technology Intel backs down over Pentium INTEL took on the world and the world won. Just before Christmas, the world's biggest computer chip manufacturer, announced that it would replace any Pentium chip containing the flaw that makes it inaccurate when performing some calculations. This overturns the company's earlier position, when it said it would only replace Pentiums used in high-precision scientific … 51¶¯Âþ
A new cultural revolution? FASTEN your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. This year looks as if it will be just as unsettling as last year with the global order and the distribution of wealth continuing to be transformed by technological and political forces. Here are a couple of safe bets for stories we are going to … Opinion
Maps of the Mind THE mind may well be science's final frontier. For a century, psychologists and neurologists have recorded people's behaviour, invented abstract computer models of mental processes and chopped up dead brains in their quest for clues about the nature of consciousness. But despite all this effort, there have been few returns. Indeed, when it comes to … Features
Enigma Deductions Alan has told Bill and Charlie that he had chosen two different integers, each in the range 1-15, and has noted their product and their sum. He shows Bill the product, and Bill remarks that he cannot deduce the pair of numbers. Alan then shows Charlie the sum, and Charlie, who has heard Bill's … Forum
Feedback BY their guest list ye shall know them. The Natural Environment Research Council's Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology held a "public meeting" a few weeks ago (reported in This Week, 3 December) to allay fears about its release into the environment of a genetically engineered caterpillar virus near Oxford. But the public found it … Regulars