Intel Develops World's Smallest, Fastest CMOS Transistor Intel Corporation researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough by building the world's smallest and fastest CMOS transistor. This breakthrough will allow Intel within the next five to 10 years to build microprocessors containing more than 400 million transistors, running at 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles per second) and operating at less than one volt.

DaveNet : Desktop Websites In the centralized model for the Internet, your browser makes requests of a server that could be very far away, or slow for other reasons. Now imagine that the server is very close and you don't have to share it with anyone, it's yours and yours alone. It would be fast!

ABCNEWS.com : Mysterious Sculpture in Seattle Park Vanishes When workers went to Magnuson Park this morning, they found that the 9-foot steel monolith was gone. Park officials said only some burned candles and a rose were in its place. Parks officials were deciding whether to leave or move the object that resembled the shrieking black marker in Stanley Kubrick’s landmark movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. They were concerned it could be tipped over. No one has publicly claimed credit for installing the monolith. The structure reminded Rebecca Sargent of Machu Picchu, the ancient Incan ruins — similar vibe, she said.

Dum Dum Da-Dum: Mysterious Monolith Appears in Seattle Park Many have thought of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey now that the titular year is upon us, but nobody expects to actually stumble across the movie's famous black monolith. Cheryl Hatch/AP Tuesday: A curious spectator touches the surface of a monolith standing on a grassy knoll in Magnuson Park in Seattle. Seattle residents were a little surprised when a 9-foot-tall steel monolith mysteriously appeared in a city park on the first day of 2001. Denny Sargent couldn't resist humming the theme to 2001 when he walked up to touch the imposing object, which stands like the movie's enigmatic extraterrestrial guardian on a grassy knoll in Magnuson Park. "I feel my intelligence increasing by the moment," he said.

DotComGuy, Gone and Forgotten Geeks across the net are bidding DotComGuy a gleeful and sarcastic goodbye. The silicon shut-in walked out of his front door Monday after spending 365 days inside a house where he was monitored round-the-clock via a couple of dozen webcams that blasted the life and times of DotComGuy over the Internet.

Ananova - Two jailed over e-mail scam which threatened internet providers Two men in Los Angeles have been jailed for two years after they sent 50 million e-mails as part of a SPAM scam which almost brought the largest internet providers to a standstill.

NY TIMES - The Dot-Com Bubble Bursts "The current sense of despair in the dot-com universe may be as overdone as last year's euphoria. The Internet, after all, really is a transforming technology that has revolutionized the way we communicate. What recent months suggest, however, is that it may not be an indiscriminate, magical new means of making money."