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Pentagon Ready to Wage a Cyber-War -- Ben MacIntyre  -- Times  -- November 9, 1999
Information Warfare

Pentagon is making the legal, moral, and technological preparations necessary to wage a cyberwar.

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British team develops ?Black Death? vaccine -- Michael Evans  -- Times  -- February 19, 2004
Biological Warfare

British scientists have made a crucial breakthrough in the war on terrorism by developing a vaccine to counter bubonic plague, the bacteria that caused the Black Death.

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Google Search finds Seafaring Solution -- Murad Ahmed  -- Times  -- September 15, 2008
Metacomputing

Google is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its Internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore. The "water-based data centers" would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google's costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centers, which are sited across the world.

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