Dirty FingersIf mouse-arm wasn’t bad enough, a study published in ‘The New England Journal of Medicine’ warns against the transmission of germs and diseases via multiple-user keyboards in public and university computer rooms.
Last year, an outbreak of conjunctivitis at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire (USA) was transmitted via keyboards, with around one hundred students contracting this extremely infectious disease, otherwise known as ‘red eye’.
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has received a $100 million donation from billionaire couple Eli and Edythe Broad. The donation will be used to set up a new biomedical institute, to be headed by MIT’s Professor Eric Lander, who was instrumental in cracking the human genetic code. With a $4.8 billion fortune, the Broad’s are 29th on the list of wealthiest Americans.
Rigging the vote
Student elections at the University of California were livened up recently when a 21-year old computer science student, Shawn N., hacked into the university’s computer network to rig the election. He added the name ‘American Ninja’ to the candidate list and gave his mythical candidate 800 votes. The student hacker, who claims he was merely testing the network’s security, now faces expulsion.
Dirty Fingers
If mouse-arm wasn’t bad enough, a study published in ‘The New England Journal of Medicine’ warns against the transmission of germs and diseases via multiple-user keyboards in public and university computer rooms. Last year, an outbreak of conjunctivitis at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire (USA) was transmitted via keyboards, with around one hundred students contracting this extremely infectious disease, otherwise known as ‘red eye’.
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has received a $100 million donation from billionaire couple Eli and Edythe Broad. The donation will be used to set up a new biomedical institute, to be headed by MIT’s Professor Eric Lander, who was instrumental in cracking the human genetic code. With a $4.8 billion fortune, the Broad’s are 29th on the list of wealthiest Americans.
Rigging the vote
Student elections at the University of California were livened up recently when a 21-year old computer science student, Shawn N., hacked into the university’s computer network to rig the election. He added the name ‘American Ninja’ to the candidate list and gave his mythical candidate 800 votes. The student hacker, who claims he was merely testing the network’s security, now faces expulsion.
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