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520 Days Later: Fake Mars Mission Ready to Return
520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth.
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Whole Lotta Shakin’ at El Hierro Suggests New Eruption Might Be Imminent
It has now been a little over a week since the submarine eruption to the south of El Hierro in the Canary Islands peaked. Since then, the activity on the southside has waned significantly, no longer the bubbling cauldron we observed last week UPDATE: Nix that – bubbling has returned to the sea off of [...]
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Settlers of Catan in a Novel New Form
I promise: I tried to hate this book, I really did! Up front, I beg all of my fellow members of the cult of Catan to forgive me if you can. I mean, I pretty much despise the idea of a product tie-in with any board game, but I have come to expect such shenanigans [...]
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Amazon Aims to Shut Down All Physical Stores With Flow App
Oh, man. Bricks’n'mortar retailer are going to love this. Amazon has launched Flow, an app which not only scans a product’s bar code, but can even identify items just by pointing your camera at them. It then uses augmented reality to overlay pricing, reviews and availability (at Amazon, of course), and even gives you a [...]
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Cars 2 AppMATes: Augmented Reality on the iPad
In general, my kids don’t get a lot of screen time: it pretty much amounts to a DVD every so often and some time on my iPod or iPad. (Since our move, we haven’t gotten our TV set up yet, so there hasn’t even been the occasional DVD in a while.) Part of that is [...]
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Lomokino ‘Video’ Camera Shoots Lo-Fi Movies on Film
Lomo, the company that resurrected its light-leaking, plastic fantastic 35mm film cameras from Soviet-era Russia, has now added a movie camera to its lineup. Called the Lomokino, the hand-cranked camera also shoots on 35mm film, and thanks to its low framerate and non-full-frame captures, it manages to squeeze 144 frames onto a single 36-exposure roll. That’s [...]
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5 Wishes for The Next Generation of Consoles
Some forward-looking suggestions for what we hope is around the corner in the next round of console wars.
11.03.11 -
Star Wars Snowboards From Burton!
The only thing my youngest son wanted for his birthday last week was a snowboard. He learned to ski when we lived in Utah, starting his first official lesson on his fourth birthday (you had to be four, and he lucked out that his birthday fell on the day the mountain opened). He saw his [...]
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Ghostly, Layered Photographs Peek Inside Gadgets
These pictures may look like ghostly illustrations, but the are in fact painstakingly-constructed photographs. Barcelona-based artist Max de Esteban disassembled various gadgets, photographed each part individually and then combined these photos to make an x-ray-like composite. The results look like the illustrations inside the how-it-works books I loved as a kid, only instead of being airbrushed [...]
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In-Depth RPG Review: Trail of Cthulhu
Trail of Cthulhu is a game written by Kenneth Hite, and published by Pelgrane Press. It uses Robin D. Laws’ GUMSHOE system for its underlying engine (i.e., the mechanics the game is built upon), which had previously been used in Pelgrane Press’s Fear Itself and The Esoterrorists RPGs. The GUMSHOE system is specifically designed to [...]
11.03.11
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Talking About My (Smart Phone) Generation
As I was standing in a long line at the bank the other day, minding my own business (and by that I mean: mindlessly wasting time on my iPhone by either repeatedly checking email, looking at my Facebook wall, or tweeting a one-liner I hoped my small list of followers would appreciate), a well-dressed, strong [...]
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Borrow a Book a Month With Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Kindle owners can now check out up to one book a month from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, free. The service is available to Amazon Prime members, and works on any Kindle device. It is not available on any Kindle apps running on non-Amazon hardware. This seems to be a lot better deal than the lame [...]
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Exclusive Interview: Ubisoft’s Creative Teams on Assassin’s Creed Revelations
I was fortunate to have the rare chance to pose some tough question’s to Ubisoft about Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I spoke to the Art, Game Design, Transmedia Production and Scriptwriting teams. They shared their thoughts on the background history, the narrative design, the community collaboration and more on this legendary franchise upcoming November 15th. GeekDad: [...]
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Breakthrough Medical Gadgets: The Future of Healthcare Hardware
Nearly a thousand of the brightest minds in medical R&D convened in San Diego last week for the TEDMED conference. Innovative new medical gadgets and other bleeding-edge healthcare hardware ran rampant. Here are some of the more, well, unusual pieces of technology we uncovered after scouring meeting rooms and watching dozens of lectures.
11.03.11 -
A Complete Education in Robot Builder’s Bonanza
My experience with robotics involved some brief hands-on in college and a large amount of hands-on with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit. It was the Mindstorms NXT kit that reignited my interest in robotics five years ago and got me wanting to learn more. I’ve since built a handful of small robots using Stamp and [...]
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Lasers Power Pentagon’s Next-Gen Artificial Limbs
After decades of sluggish progress, the military's prosthetic research has finally seen the light: Experts are making rapid progress on ultra-sensitive prosthetic devices, all thanks to teeny, tiny laser beams.
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Top Shelf Kids Club
Not long ago I was a guest at a comic book convention and while walking around the floor I happened upon the Top Shelf table. For years Top Shelf has been known for publishing quality books from great talents like Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson and Alan Moore. However, as a father, what really struck me [...]
11.03.11 -
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 3
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Jawbone Unveils “Up,” A Health Monitoring Wristband for Data Fiends
Finally, something to wear to the gym that isn’t spandex or sweatpants. Wireless accessory makers Jawbone pulled back the curtain on its “Up” wristband on Thursday, marking the company’s first foray into the fast growing industry of wearable health and wellness technology. Think of it as a Livestrong bracelet that keeps track of your body’s inner [...]
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Samsung Prepares To Grill Apple’s Jonathan Ive
As the Apple-Samsung patent soap opera rages on, Samsung’s been busy preparing for pull its next patent punch. In the latest move: it’s been pushing to depose industrial design team — and Apple design mastermind, Jonathan Ive. Depositions of??key Apple designers had been scheduled to be done with by November 1, Edible Apple reports, but Samsung [...]
11.02.11
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Google Slips Gmail Into Business Suit
Google has overhauled Gmails' user interface to give it a more professional look. Here's the take from Wired Enterprise
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World’s Largest Glasses-Free 3-D Display Debuts in Japan
Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications (NICT) and JVC Kenwood teamed up to develop a massive, 200-inch glasses-free 3-D display. They're claiming it's the largest auto-stereoscopic full HD 3-D display in the world.
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‘Merchant of Death’ Convicted on Terror Charges
Over a decade of gun-running for the world’s nastiest regimes and terror groups has come to an end for Viktor Bout. The infamous mega-arms trafficker was convicted in a New York City court on Wednesday of providing material support to terrorists — with the intent to kill Americans. He could spend the rest of his [...]
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Japan Pushes World’s Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, at a press conference in Tokyo, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab told the world that the supercomputer they've built in Kobe can crank through 10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
11.02.11 -
First Look: Official Gmail App for iOS
One distinguishing feature of Android phones is their exclusive Gmail app. Not anymore. Today, Google began sharing the Gmail love with iPhone and iPad users through its new Gmail iOS app. Ano
11.02.11 -
Yahoo Doesn’t Understand What Makes Flipboard Special
Flipboard solves an actual problem for readers: trying to distill newsworthy reading items from already-existing RSS and social media feeds. Yahoo only solves a problem for publishers and advertisers: how to display content and advertising to readers without having to have everyone write their own code from scratch.
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Viking Sunstone Guided Ships in Cloudy Weather
Norse sagas mention a mysterious "sunstone" used for navigation. New research hints calcite crystals could have guided Vikings with highly accurate compass readings even when the sun was hidden.
11.02.11 -
The Muppets: Two More New Film Clips!
Can you tell I’m excited about seeing this movie? I posted the first film clip they released yesterday, and now they’ve released two more. In the first, Walter (the Muppet) tells his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary’s girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) something he overheard at the Muppets’ studios and then has a great idea. In [...]
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GameStop Begins Selling a Tablet-Based Gaming Bundle
Attention prospective tablet buyers: Are you worried a new touchscreen device won't sate your gaming lust with Angry Birds alone? Video game retailer Gamestop launched a customized tablet package on Wednesday, bundling an Android tablet (you can choose among three) with a physical gaming controller (well, sort of) and a selection of pre-installed games.
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Gallery: Glimpse Our Love Is Real’s Strange Sci-Fi Sex
Sex with dogs. Trysts with crystals. When it comes to sci-fi love, who’s to say what is real? Writer Sam Humphries and artist Steven Sanders, that’s who. In their comic Our Love Is Real, you’ll find characters who happen to do both. Also, plants, which carry much sexual capital in Humphries and Sanders’ differently horny future. Click [...]
11.02.11
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Does Music Change The Taste Of Wine?
The tongue is very suggestible according to new research that tested the effect of background music on how people perceive and describe the taste of wine.
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Take a Deep Breath, Pentagon. Your Budget Is Safe.
Army Secretary John McHugh looked troubled during breakfast. The Defense Department is steeling for budget cuts above the $450 billion it’s already chopped out of its ten-year budget projections, and it seemed to have put McHugh off his meal. “We’re pretty confident we can accommodate that,” McHugh told reporters on Wednesday morning, staring at his [...]
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Rim Skids Redux
Rim is teetering at the point where5 the once-dominant mobile phone company would be worth less than the sum of it parts. Bloomberg reports that Rim hit $18.66 at 1:31 today, below the company’s book value of $18.92. According to??a Google Finance chart of delayed trades RIMM hit an intra-day low of $18.55 and is currently [...]
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Groupon’s IPO: Such A Deal?
Groupon is set to go public on Friday, bringing to an close an important chapter in the red-hot daily deal company’s relatively brief history. Having snubbed a $6 billion offer from Google, and having had to re-state its balance sheet, Groupon is now looking to part with a minority share of the company, allowing founders, Andrew [...]
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New Google ‘Transparency’ Feature Aims to Reduce Ad-Targeting Creepiness
Google’s bread and butter is its targeted advertising technology, a multi-billion dollar business that tailors ad results to the browsing habits of individual users. The problem is, the better Google gets at guessing which ads we might want to see, the creepier its system feels. Google wants to change that. The company just announced plans to [...]
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Battle of the Bulge: China’s Military Recruits More Fatties
Wake up, America. Your global military dominance is on the decline, challenged ever more by a rising China. The People's Republic now has hallmark American military technologies from stealth jets to armed drones. But now they're eroding our lead in another area: fat people.
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Ra.One Is Like Tron With Dance Numbers and Crotch Punches
Calling the new 3-D Hindi superhero flick the Bollywood Tron or Iron Man would be a bit of a misnomer. The most apt parallel for Ra.One would be Automan, that swiftly cancelled 1983 cop show about a crime-fighting hologram. And like Automan, Ra.One is preposterous in all the right ways.
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Yahoo’s ‘Manhattan’ To Rescue Web From the iPad
Google lets outsiders run applications atop its infrastructure via the Google App Engine. Amazon offers its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). And sometime next year, Yahoo! will launch "Manhattan" — an online service where anyone can build and host applications using standards web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript.
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The Raunchy Parody Products of Grand Theft Auto V
The wacky, funny, often bawdy parody products of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, as shown in the game's first trailer.
11.02.11 -
Revamped Gmail Looks Nice, But Performs Badly
Google is prepping a major redesign of Gmail, which is, for now, wholly optional. That's good news because while the new site looks good, it's still slow and buggy enough that Google might want to consider adding the beta label back to the Gmail logo.
11.02.11
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Copyright Troll Righthaven Teetering on the Brink
Looks like copyright troll Righthaven is teetering on the abyss. A Nevada federal court slapped it with a $63,700 legal-fee tab, and said the U.S. Marshal Service "is authorized to use reasonable force in the execution of this judgement." Righthaven said it might go bankrupt if forced to pay.
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Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20
Twenty years ago today Bram Moolenaar unleashed Vim on the world and text editing was never the same again. Short for vi iMproved, Vim was originally written as a vi clone for the Amiga and then soon spread to just about every computing platform known to man. Our friends over at Ars Technica have a great [...]
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Cell-Aging Hack Opens Longevity Research Frontier
Research into longevity, that most fundamental and intractable of all human health challenges, is slow moving. It deserves to be described in terms of years, not individual studies. But once in a rare while, a finding has the potential to be a landmark. Such is the case with a new experiment that flushed old, broken-down cells from the bodies of mice, slowing their descent into the infirmities of age.
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Grand Theft Auto V Rolls Back to San Andreas
The first Grand Theft Auto V trailer, which developer Rockstar released Wednesday, depicts crime and palm trees in a Los Angeles-inspired city.
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Kenyan Air Force Tweets Somalis: We’re About to Bomb You #Duck
Two weeks into Kenya’s risky attack on Somali extremists, the Kenyan military is warning civilians to expect air raids in the vicinity of 10 Somali towns. The heads-up itself is not unusual. What is unusual is the medium: Twitter, the short messaging service. “BAIDOA, BAADHEERE, BAYDHABO, DINSUR, AFGOOYE, BWALE, BARAWE, JILIB, KISMAYO and AFMADHOW will be [...]
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The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage
Internet Explorer's dominance is coming to an end. Thanks to the rise of mobile and tablet browsing, where IE is noticeably absent, Microsoft's once mighty web browser is now used by less than half of the web.
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Square’s App Refresh Makes Mobile Payments Hands-Free
It’s a scene cut straight from Cheers. You hit the bar on the way home — the one where everybody knows your name — the bartender slings you the drink you want, and tacks the purchase on your ever-growing tab. It’s understood that the money will eventually change hands; most likely by the end of [...]
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Why Curated Content Matters: A Lament for Reader Share
Google Reader unveiled big changes this week, and the internet recoiled. Some folks (I’m one of them) loathe the new design: the excessive use of white space at the top of the screen, the heavy black-and-gray palette, the black-underlined links that have replaced the stand-out blue. But far more irritating to many users is the [...]
11.02.11 -
Dork Tower Wednesday
Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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Big Data, Fast & Slow: Why HP’s Project Moonshot Matters
Don't yawn at HP's announcement that it's getting into the low-power "microserver" business in a big way. Here's why the company's Project Moonshot announcement is a big deal for Big Data.
11.02.11
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Duck Duck Moose: Now More Than Just Apps
Duck Duck Moose has always been slightly in front of the pack. Early on in the days of iOS apps they developed a little musical app called Wheels on the Bus which is well known in Pre-K circles and continues to be a well recognized and successful app that demonstrates the some of the capacity [...]
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Could You Jump Rope Faster Than This?
The strange things you come across on The Internet. Check out this video. That is some serious jump roping. Honestly, the jump rope is one of those things that I never learned how to do. There, I said it. So, here is what I thought. Is there some maximum speed that you could [...]
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Startup tracks the cloud’s stealth invasion of the Fortune 500
About once a month, another research firm announces the results of yet another CIO survey in which a majority of the CIOs invariably explain that they’re still studying and researching cloud computing, but they haven’t yet begun migrating any part of their business to the cloud. Here’s an important fact about those CIO “we’re not [...]
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PETMAN Robot: Nearly Ready to Go Looking for Sarah Connor
A few years back, Boston Dynamics impressed us with their quadruped robot, Big Dog. Well, believe it or not, they’ve managed to top that with their latest bipedal robot, PETMAN: The Boston Dynamics guys had this to say about PETMAN: PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US [...]
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Tycho Deep Space ??? Lifesaver or High-Altitude Torture Chamber?
Blogger and rocket builder Kristian von Bengston walks through the process of designing a safe -- and affordable -- Apollo-style capsule.
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Exclusive Preview: Superman Plays Christmas Spirit in Batman: Noel
Superman takes the Dark Knight on a Dickensian trip through his conscience in a new graphic novel inspired by A Christmas Carol. Get a sneak peek in Wired.com's exclusive preview of Batman: Noel.
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There Can Never Be Enough Horror: Lovecraft eZine
There are Things that were tamed in the beginning of the cosmos and chained by the stars which were placed in a sigil of five dimensions in the tongue of a formless race which was ancient before the elements. The Prophecy of Zarah by Jenne Kaivo Although Halloween has come and gone, there’s no reason to limit [...]
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Review: Does the Vuzix Wrap 1200 Take TV Viewing Into the Future?
All you’ve got to do is slip on these glasses, and you’ll have a 75-inch virtual screen projected ten feet away from you. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? The answer is almost universally yes, as there are few people who would deny wanting to own a 75-inch television. Projecting a video image inside of glasses is not [...]
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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Reviewed as a Film
Reviews of big games are always hard to write, not least because so many other people are writing about them at the same time and often saying quite similar things. As I wrote my Uncharted 3 review I found myself taking a different route, and along the way comparing it to Lord of the Rings, Star [...]
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Air Force Keeps ‘Micro-Aviary’ Of Tiny, Bird-like ‘Bots
Tiny robotic hummingbirds, dragonflies, and bats. That's what Air Force researchers are developing out at their "Micro-Aviary" in Ohio, a place where motion-capture sensors on the walls help engineers shrink lifelike robots down to the tiniest of proportions.
11.02.11
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Life in a Day Released on YouTube
Google has released Ridley Scott’s full length feature??Life in a Day on YouTube. Appropriately, with over 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries submitted to YouTube capturing July 24, 2010, globally, the final movie is now also available for viewing on the video sharing platform. This is one of those perspective films, giving us a little [...]
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Harold & Kumar Christmas Flick Reveals Neil Patrick Harris as ‘Ninja of Comedy’
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas star John Cho talks about working on the third installment of the stoner franchise, including being intimidated by Danny Trejo and dancing with Neil Patrick Harris.
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Nov. 2, 1947: Spruce Goose … Or an Expensive Turkey?
Conceived as a wartime necessity, in the end Howard Hughes' gargantuan cargo plane looks more like an enormous vanity project.
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Solved: The Aerodynamics of Super-Fast Jump Ropes
Thanks to an impressive athleticism, high-speed video and clever computer modeling, two researchers have unraveled the hidden aerodynamics behind the playful task of skipping over a speeding rope.
11.02.11 -
Gaming’s 10 Best ‘Threequels’ Ever
Wired.com's picks of the 10 best videogames ending in a "3."
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Congratulations to the Winner of the GeekDad Battlefield 3 Origin PC Token Giveaway!
We have a winner in our GeekDad Battlefield 3 Origin PC Token Giveaway! The lucky winner is Gaurav Rajasekar! Thanks to Electronic Arts for providing us with the prize. If you haven’t already purchased the game, check out the Battlefield 3 site!
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WikiLeaks Founder Loses Appeal in Extradition Hearing
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must return to Sweden to face sex-crime allegations in that country, according to an appeals court in the United Kingdom.
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iPad Update May Cause iHeadaches For Some Pilots
Apple’s iPad has been a big hit with pilots, but the recent upgrade to the latest operating system could create problems for some users. As is often the case with an OS upgrade, there are some issues with the software running on the devices. Several companies with iPad aviation apps have reported potential problems. The biggest potential [...]
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Occupy Round Up: Oakland General Strike, Virginia Bulldozers, and Court Victory
Occupy Oakland, now completely re-established in its original plaza as well as nearby Snow Park, has called for a general strike for Wednesday, Nov. 2nd in Oakland. Occupy’s General Assembly, a meeting open to all that requires consensus for decisions, approved the call last Wednesday, the day after the now infamous Occupy Oakland eviction that lead [...]
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DHS Doesn’t Want Its New Spy Drones
It was a really thoughtful gesture, but officials with the Department of Homeland Security kinda wish Congress had held onto the gift receipt for the spy drones.
11.01.11
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Supreme Court Plays Hooky, Leaves Student Online Free Speech Rights Murky
The U.S. Supreme Court is declining to review a former Connecticut high-school student's punishment for calling the school's administrators "douchebags" on her LiveJournal blog. The high court's inaction means the justices have never squarely addressed the parameters of off-campus, online student speech.
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Calxeda Stretches ARM into the Clouds
On Tuesday, Austin-based startup Calxeda launched its EnergyCore ARM system-on-chip (SoC) for cloud servers. At first glance, Calxeda's looks like something you'd find inside a smartphone, but the product is essentially a complete server on a chip.
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Seven Clouds Align Around Google Apps
Seven independent software providers have joined forces to make it easier for businesses to find and deploy applications that compliment Google's online office suite. They call it the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps.
11.01.11 -
The Video Remix ‘Supercut’ Comes of Age
For the last few years, I've tracked a particular flavor of remix culture that I called "supercuts" ??? fast-paced video montages that assemble dozens or hundreds of short clips on a common theme. Today, I'm happy to announce that I've relaunched the site to let you browse the entire collection in different ways, subscribe to updates, or submit your own to the growing list. I'm also releasing the entire dataset for Wired readers.
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Global Microbe Study Finds ‘Black Market’ of Superbug Genes
Researchers have discovered an underworld of genetic exchange among bacteria, one more vast than previously imagined.
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Exclusive Clip: Takeshi Kitano’s Blood-Soaked Yakuza Outrage
Bullets fly and blood splatters in this exclusive clip from the Japanese auteur's latest yakuza bleeder. Kitano created Outrage as an experiment in accessible ultraviolence, building the film around the various ways he planned to brutally dispatch its characters.
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NASA Considers Tractor Beams for Future Rovers
NASA is exploring ways to use tractor beams in future robotic probe missions. The agency has recently awarded a team of engineers $100,000 to study three experimental techniques for trapping small particles with lasers. Spacecraft flying by comets and asteroids or rovers landing on Mars could use the methods to continuously sample their target.
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IBM Sends Watson Supercomputer to Business School
IBM brought Watson to Beantown to take on students from Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School. As a warm-up to the match, MIT economists talked about technology and economic mayhem.
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Big Move: Chicago Schools To Buy Antibiotic-Free Chicken
Chicago Public Schools announced they will begin buying and serving chicken drumsticks from birds raised in the local area without antibiotics. The deal will bring 1.2 million pounds of chicken to 473 schools per year. It's a big move for many reasons. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna explains why.
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How Technical Glitches Foiled the Russian Sleeper Spies
Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you're meeting with and talking to. That's why it's best to make sure your secret agent gear is top quality and working properly. Otherwise, the FBI's IT department may end up "fixing" it for you.
11.01.11
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Amit Gupta’s Quest: Life, Death and Social Media
Amit Gupta has until the end of November to find a life-saving bone marrow donor, and his friends are willing to pay. The campaign, called Amit Gupta Needs You, was started by Gupta himself and his social-media-savvy friends. Their plea for marrow has swept across the web via Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook, gathering hundreds of new potential marrow donors along the way.
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The Opposite of Virtualization: Calxeda’s New Quad-Core ARM Part for the Cloud
Austin-based startup Calxeda has launched its EnergyCore ARM system-on-chip (SoC) for cloud servers. At first glance, Calxeda's looks like something you'd find inside a smartphone, but the product is essentially a complete server on a chip, minus the mass storage and memory.
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Thousands Petition Obama to Block E-Parasites Act
Net users angry at the introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act, also known as the "E-Parasites Act," are attempting to force the White House to oppose the bill, which would boost the government???s authority to disrupt and shutter alleged trademark- and copyright-infringing websites.
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Cable Isn???t Doing So Poorly After All
Sure: Netflix, Hulu and Amazon may be the future of TV, but in the here and now don’t count out cable just yet. The most recent earnings reports from most cable providers show that they are faring much better than they had hoped, according to the??New York Times,??with the number of people still subscribing to cable [...]
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Video: DIY Airship Sets Altitude Record
JP Aerospace flies a remote-controlled airship to an altitude of 95,000 feet, setting the stage for air-launching payloads into space.
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Beatboxer Jason Singh Scores Silent Movie Using Only His Voice
Human beatboxer and sound artist Jason Singh composes a score for 1929 movie Drifters using only his own voice, which he mixes and loops in real time during the screening.
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How Your iPhone Chip Will Reinvent the Internet Data Center
HP introduced Project Moonshot today, an effort to build extreme-low-energy servers for the data center. Some of these servers will use chips based on the ARM architecture -- processors much like those used in the iPhone, the iPad, and so many other mobile devices. Does ARM really have a shot at knocking Intel out of the data center?
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Touching To The Moon Has Everything But Gameplay
If you took a classic Japanese-style role-playing game and stripped it of all the traditional gameplay mechanics???experience points, equippable weapons and armor, usable items, and even combat itself???what exactly would you be left with? And more importantly, could this-stripped down experience actually be compelling? In the case of indie game To The Moon, the answer is [...]
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Fail: What We Got Wrong About Saving Apple
Back in 1997, Wired offered up some embarrassingly awful ideas to save Apple from bankruptcy.
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Wired's Lab-Tested, Muppet-Vetted Formulas for Smartifying Your Life
At last, here's a guide to doing everything better, from finding a soul mate to walking on the moon to avoiding spaghetti splatter.
11.01.11
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Halo Effects: Remastering Classic Games
Movies get Blu-Ray Remastered Special Editions. Now classic movies are getting prettied-up reissues, too.
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Found Contest: Imagine the Future of TV Dinners
This month's assignment: Imagine the future of TV dinners. Will their trays be made of graphene? Will manufacturers find a way to make the veggies taste like veggies, and not like tasteless rubber?
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Infinite Encore: Catch Epic Fugazi Concerts in Online Archive
Fugazi???s label, Dischord Records, has launched an online archive that will host more than 800 of never-before-heard live recordings, each newly mastered and most available for the band???s traditional $5 fee.
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Remembering Tomorrow: Vintage Images Predicted Brave New World
In his Paleofuture blog, Matt Novak reminds us that our big new ideas (Skype, Segway) were actually dreamed up decades, and even centuries, ago.
11.01.11 -
Stephen King's Rules for Time Travel
Stephen King chats with Wired about the mechanics of time travel, the grandfather paradox, and the scariest thing about trying to change history.
11.01.11 -
Historical Tourism Takes You Way Back
Who needs a physical contraption to revisit the past? The historical tourism industry makes it easy to drink like a colonist or run with the raptors.
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Three Smart Things About Gun Silencers
Wired clues us in on the gun accessory that became widely used in the 1920s and '30s.
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Musician Uses Looping Pedal to Play With Time
Merrill Garbus, the brains of the experimental outfit tUnE-yArDs, samples her own output live, creating ???an antidote for the chaotic collage of sound??? of the urban world.
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New Afghan War Plan Concedes the Surge Fell Short
As the Obama administration winds down its troop surge in Afghanistan, it’s adopted a new political strategy for ending the war. And that new strategy represents a tacit concession that the best the surge could accomplish was rescuing Afghanistan from from the brink of total failure. What was the surge for, anyway? In one sense, as [...]
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Shape Type: The HTML5 Typography Game
Attention type nerds, did you know there are online games just for you? It’s true, Shape Type is a new HTML5 typography game where you have to drag curve-adjustment tools to perfect letterforms in various font faces. The closer you get to the actual letter the higher your score. Shape Type is the brainchild of web [...]
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