• They can use scanning tools -- such as the ISS Internet Scanner -- to scan for it.

    CNN: New denial-of-service attack tool uses chat programs

  • Trapper Keepers -- the way they combined all of one's desktop tools -- were an early incarnation of the smartphone.

    ENGADGET: This is the Modem World: An ode to the trapper keeper

  • The lathe is a tool for making tools--it makes manual crafting tasks easier, allowing for increased production and lower costs.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Middle school, diversity rules, role models and new media tools--that is how we in America's business community can help address our national math problem.

    FORBES: Taylor W. Lawrence

  • Plan says that the legal tools - such as international agreements and human rights charters - already exist but their principles must be followed.

    BBC: Educating girls is vital to a country's economy, Plan says

  • The decision to bring the shuttle down came after one of the orbiter's three key navigation tools -- an inertial measurement unit -- stopped working.

    CNN: NASA to shuttle: Come home

  • We had no qualms with most of these tools -- the only silly bit was the lack of customizable alarm time options for calendar events.

    ENGADGET: LG GW300 impressions Mobile

  • "Furniture, cutlery, power tools - will be little more than material billboards for a vast, interactive, postindustrial support system", err, you're losing me now Bruce.

    BBC: 10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK

  • The sounds -- of trailers full of debris rolling by, or the buzz of power tools -- were reminders that, for some, life was moving on.

    CNN: Powerful Texas blast left nearly 100-foot-wide crater

  • On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it has reorganized the company's various advertising businesses--from PCs to mobile and game ads, along with ad placement software tools--under one roof.

    FORBES: Microsoft's Desperate Move

  • In its rural crime survey, the theft of power tools - such as chainsaws, electric drills and lawnmowers - topped the list of items targeted, it said.

    BBC: Thefts from South West farms cost ?8.3m

  • "We are in the process of notifying impacted users and recommending that they scan their computers and run current anti-virus tools--good advice for all internet users, " they added.

    BBC: NEWS | Technology | Bloggers battered by viral storm

  • It's so useful that five out of our top twenty tools--the chisel, the lathe, the saw, the scythe and the sword--are themselves forms of the knife, specialized for different circumstances.

    FORBES: The 20 Most Important Tools Ever

  • Then 50 or 100 folks sit at headquarters and use a query engine and tools -- sold by MicroStrategy or its competitors -- to try to extract insights from these huge databases.

    FORBES: Database evangelist

  • "The problem with tools - which is what robots are - is that we become dependent on them, " says Wilson, whose new novel Robopocalypse is being made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

    BBC: Why are humans scared of robots?

  • The ultimate goal is to empower blind consumers to create their own low-cost and potentially life-saving tools -- particularly in developing countries, which account for an estimated 90 percent of the world's blind population.

    ENGADGET: Braille-It Labeler brings low-cost printing, 'sightless construction' to the blind

  • Using a combination of modern physics tools--including three-dimensional, high-resolution X-ray, radiocarbon dating with accelerator mass spectrometry, and infrared spectroscopy--the researchers analysed the tooth to determine the age and composition of a resinous filling detected inside.

    UNESCO: Basic Sciences

  • "We believe the failed backloading vote points to the fact that we need alternative tools - direct, ambitious, just regulatory policies, " said Hannah Mowat from Fern, a NGO that has been working on carbon issues for a decade.

    BBC: Green energy on the back foot after carbon trading blow

  • That was as deep as one could look into the earth with the available geological tools--and also about as far into the ground as anyone knew how to drill a well and push pipe into the hole.

    FORBES: A Gold Mine In Oil Exploration

  • When they get back, the space vehicle will hopefully have provided enough data to pinpoint a potential drilling area so it can drill, collect and analyze rock samples using onboard tools -- a feat never-before attempted on Mars.

    ENGADGET: Curiosity spends holidays in Yellowknife Bay, immortalized on special Foursquare badge

  • Even in this high-tech era of amazing medical tools--MRI scanners that can see deep inside the body, gamma-ray beams harnessed to zap tumors, implantable defibrillators that shock the heart to keep it pumping--surgeons still wield an old-fashioned blade to take life into their hands.

    FORBES: Robo-docs

  • It does mean we possess many tools -- diplomatic and political, and economic and financial, and intelligence and law enforcement and our moral suasion -- and using these tools over the past three years, I believe -- I know -- that we have saved countless lives.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Preventing Mass Atrocities

  • These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.

    ENGADGET

  • It offers financial-planning tools and low-cost online trading, as well as some advice services.

    WSJ: A New Era for Do-It-Yourself Investing

  • In the retail industry, sales assistants are finding tablet PCs easy-to-use tools with real-time updated catalogs, allowing for customization and on-the-spot ordering.

    FORBES: Written by Mitch Cline

  • Since winter is my enemy, I've installed a thinner wire in a small barn a "barnette" that I built single-handedly using 18th-century tools and timber-framing traditions.

    WSJ: Philippe Petit on the House That Came Wired

  • It can do this by having built a suite of off-the-shelf tools and back-end structures that, for most of its new companies at least, it can deploy in a pick-and-mix way.

    WSJ: Germany's Model Stresses Execution Over Innovation

  • The United States exported 515 five-axis machine tools between 2005-2007, and only 12 of these went to China.

    FORBES: Is Foxconn Fleeing China? Sure Looks Like It.

  • Productivity Tools: document-centric tools used by knowledge workers to manage and maintain their work files.

    FORBES: Enterprise 2.0: Why All Business Software Must Go Social

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