It's No Dome: Greenwich's Conical Planetarium Tilts North

A spacey looking planetarium opens in Greenwich, U.K., home of GMT and John Harrison, who founded the longitudinal system in 1773. The bronze structure aligns with the North Star and houses one of the world's most advanced digital laser projectors.

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Bush Rejects Compulsory Emissions Goals, Urges More Talks

The world's top greenhouse gas producers should sit down and figure out a strategy for cutting emissions, the president says.

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May 31, 1977: Trans-Alaska Pipeline a Source of Oil ... and Worry

It's an engineering marvel that underscores the importance of balancing humanity's needs against nature's purity.

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Century-Old Quarantine Law Puts Patient Rights at Risk

U.S. quarantine law is in dire need of an update to protect patient rights, say legal experts.



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Hospitals Nationwide Combat Employee Camera-Phone Abuse

Hospitals across the country grapple with infringement of patients' privacy caused by employees using camera phones.



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Hands-On With Microsoft's Milan: A Table That Knows What You've Put on It

Microsoft announces the first product from the Surface Computing group, a tabletop computer for retail outlets code-named Milan. Our hands-on report includes photos and video.



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Seven Sexy Alternatives to Palm's Unlovely New Foleo

Intrigued by Palm's new "smartphone companion" but not ready to bet on an unproven and probably doomed Linux-based ultra-compact computer? We've got seven attractive options for you.



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Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of Firefox Users at Risk

Some of Firefox's most popular third party extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and Facebook, create a massive security hole by failing to use secure update servers, according to a security researcher.

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Don't Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice

It's possible to work out effective countermeasures if your enemy sticks with specific tactics. But if your foe is a terrorist with the innate ability to think and adapt, things get a little more tricky.

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Marines Battle Bureaucrats and Plead for High-Tech Gear

Conflict between the Marine Corps' fighting troops and the bureaucrats in Quantico may be endangering the fighters. Critics say resistance to efficient purchasing slows the process, while the enemy builds roadside bombs and communications networks with commercial equipment.

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<em>Mass Effect</em> Does for Games What <em>Star Wars</em> Did for Films

Pssst. Jedi wannabes. You might wanna jump ship. A sci-fi force more powerful than Lucas' is coming soon - not to a theater, but to an Xbox 360 near you.

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Hidden Retro Gems Light Up the Wii

Reviews of ActRaiser and other vintage classic games served up by Nintendo's Virtual Console.

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<em>Freaks and Geeks</em>: High School Hell (1999-2000)

Freshman Sam Weir is a geek. His sister, Lindsay, is a freak. They try to make their way through high school circa 1980, a melee of big rock, Monty Python skits, and enough Star Wars to choke a Wookiee. From the patron saint of misfits, Judd Apatow.



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Writer-Director (and Geek God) Judd Apatow Invites You Into His Mind

From Freaks and Geeks to The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he's the patron saint of misfits. Inside the mind of writer-director Judd Apatow.



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Vote Your Favorite Street View Sightings

Google's new mapping tool catches urban ephemera in the act, from tabbies in windows to red-light runners. Submit and vote on your favorite scenes captured by Google -- be they citizens flouting laws or hot dog vendors doing their thing.

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Gallery: Osamu Tezuka's Vision of the Modern World

Throughout his anime works, Osamu Tezuka explored profound and forward-thinking themes -- pacifism, civil rights, man versus machine, artificial intelligence and urban high-rise architecture.

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Museum Show Spotlights Artistry of Manga God Osamu Tezuka

Many Americans have seen Astro Boy on TV, but this is the first time anime fans in the United States are being exposed to the genius of its creator, Tezuka Osamu, the god of manga.

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Getting Naked on the Internet Is Risky, but Rewarding

A conversation with Audacia Ray, author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration.

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Pimp My Chair: La-Z-Boy Thrives on Overstuffed Innovation

A piece of souped-up patio furniture spurs eight decades of comforting craftsmanship.

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Splashy Tech Spawns Water Rides Gnarly Enough for Coaster Snobs

Roller coaster connoisseurs tend to dismiss water rides as too slow, too tame, and too wet. But the next generation of splashy tech should make coaster snobs take a closer look.

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Astronomers Spot 28 New Exoplanets and Hint of Big Finds to Come

Advances in planet-hunting technology lead to the discovery of more planets -- plus seven brown dwarfs -- outside our solar system.

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May 30, 1911: Gentlemen, Start Your Engines at the Indy 500

Begun as a way to redeem the Speedway, the Indy 500 grows into one of the world's premier auto races.

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Gear Gallery: Hot Helio Ocean, Dull Drills, Huge Dell LCD and More

Wired editors tout the latest, greatest gear (and torch the lamest stuff to hit store shelves).



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Which ISPs Are Spying on You?

Understanding website privacy policies is a challenge, but it's important to wade through your internet service provider's -- the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to porn.

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Justin.tv Signs Cute New Star: She's a Blond

Her name is Justine, and she's the new "lifecaster" on Justin.tv. But Justin Kan retains the star billing on the webcast.



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Fantasy Keyboards and Mice for a Perfect World

Need some positive input? These blue-sky devices could make every geek's life a little less irritating.

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May 28, 1999: Newly Restored <cite>Last Supper</cite> Returns to the Public Eye

Da Vinci's masterpiece has been restored so many times over the years some purists argue that it's no longer a Da Vinci.

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EU, Asian Ministers Agree on 2009 Deadline for Climate Pact

Kyoto replacement would set out firm emissions-reduction responsibilities for both richer and poorer nations.

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May 29, 1953: Mt. Everest Conquered by Beekeeper, Local Climber

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain.

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U.S. Rejects EU Climate Proposals; Favors Specific Emissions Targeting

The European Union's all-encompassing approach to the problem of climate change will not work, a Bush administration official says.

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Hacking My Kid's Brain: How a Child's Neurons Were Rewired

An effort to recalibrate the brain of a child suffering from sensory processing disorder using light, sound and motion therapy is successful.



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The Future of Internet Telephony Could Hang on Vonage Case

The internet telephony industry lets out a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a stay order, allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers during its appeal on a major patent infringement case.

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Courting Consumers, Dell Takes Pages From Apple's Playbook

In an attempt to target consumers –- the fastest-growing segment of the computer industry -- Dell is suddenly showing a keen interest in design and in retail stores: pages right out of Apple's playbook.



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MySpace Labels Innocent Woman as Sex Offender

Jessica Davis, a 29-year-old University of Colorado senior, finds herself falsely branded a sex offender and kicked off MySpace.

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Wired 15.05: Developers Race to Build an Entire PC Game in Four Days

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<cite>Super Paper Mario</cite> Leads Onslaught of New Wii Games

Inventive new titles keep everybody's favorite gaming system jumping. Game reviews by Chris Kohler and Lore Sjöberg.

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The Music Fan Behind Hype Machine: Q&A With Anthony Volodkin

Eliot van Buskirk interviews Anthony Volodkin, 21-year-old creator of Hype Machine: a live index and music-streaming station consisting of whatever's being talked about on MP3 blogs.



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Giant Light Boxes the Answer to Museum's Underground Expansion

When the collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, outgrew its space, architect Steven Holl faced a challenge.

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Handmade Steampunk Rayguns From the F/X Guys at Weta

Wired presents a gallery of artwork that inspired Weta's collectible rayguns, plus exclusive photos of the retrofurist sidearms.

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The Totally Awesome, Highly Ridiculous World of Scenario Paintball

Squad leader Michael Marks kneels, hidden by trees, surveying his target through the night-vision scope on his weapon, a paintball gun modded to look like an M4 rifle.

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Net Artist's Power Shift

The Empire State Building melts in the hands of prominent net artist Mark Napier. His custom code gives the iconic skyscraper a new look for the digital age, while reminding viewers that software, not steel, is the new medium of power.

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EU Raises User Privacy Concerns With Google

Europeans seek assurances that company is respecting privacy rights of people whose data it retains.

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Birthday High Jinks for <em>Ultima Online</em>'s Richard Garriott

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Beware These Old Games in New Clothing

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<cite>Star Wars</cite> Rewired: Interviews, Galleries and More

Over the years, George Lucas shares his grand vision for the space opera. Plus: photo galleries, game reviews and other great stuff from the archives.



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New Attraction Simulates Shuttle Launch at 17,500 MPH

The Kennedy Space Center unveils an amusement-ride-cum-astronaut-flight-simulator that lets riders experience something close to a shuttle liftoff.

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Fandom Forever: DIY <cite>Star Wars</cite> Tributes Keep the Saga Alive

Custom mods -- from cars to dental crowns -- show off a certain inspired devotion to George Lucas' sci-fi film series.



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Hollywood FX Pro Hypes Space Travel With Indie Film

Veteran visual-effects artist Alan Chan has spiced up such films as Titanic, Polar Express. Now, his own indie space film Postcards From the Future, is meant to rally Americans to support manned space missions.



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Indie Film Set to Make Space Missions Sexy

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at Postcards from the Future, a short film FX whiz Alan Chan created to boost public support for expanded space missions.



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Inner-Space Travel Is the New Frontier in the Anime Flick <cite>Paprika</cite>

Tired: space-exploration movies. Wired: brain-exploration movies. The fantastically imagined anime Paprika, which opens today in New York, offers more evidence that sci-fi cinema is trending away from the stars and planets and zooming towards your gray matter.



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Naughty, But Only on the Internet

Online sex can not only broaden your sexual outlook, but it can also mitigate bad behavior in real life.

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From the Revolutionary War to 'Nam: 90 Million War Records Online

Records obtained from the National Archives tell families when, or if, Johnny came marching home, and what he did overseas.

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May 24, 1935: Reds Nip Phils as Night Baseball Comes to the Major Leagues

The first major league baseball game ever played at night takes place at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

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Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?

Psychologists try to diagnose the demons that drive Darth Vader, the ultimate villain of the Star Wars universe.



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At Virtual Expo, a Harsh Reality: Not Enough Computing Power

The economics of putting on an in-world tech confab can strain servers. Wendy M. Grossman reports from Silicon City, Second Life.

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How to Make an IPod Nano Case from a Bicycle Inner Tube

Gadget Lab writer Charlie Sorrell shows how to make a non-slip iPod Nano case, step by step. It's easy!



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Ultimate <cite>Star Wars</cite> Fanboy Stashes a Galaxy of Cool Collectibles

Take a peek at one of the world's largest collections, amassed over three decades by self-proclaimed Star Wars completist Steve Sansweet.



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Lore Sjöberg Sounds Off on Dot-Combos in <cite>Alt Text</cite>

Listen to the audio version of this week's commentary.

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The Last Guy in the World to See <cite>Star Wars</cite>

With the 30th anniversary nigh, it's time to break down and actually watch the old warhorse.

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Order Is in the Eye of the Tagger

David Weinberger's introduces an excerpt from his recently published book, Everything Is Miscellaneous.

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Organizing the World in the Age of DNA

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The Virgin Birth Exists, at Least Among Sharks

Who needs a man? Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs with sperm, says a new study being published Wednesday.

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How to Make an IPod Nano Case from a Bicycle Innertube

Gadget Lab writer Charlie Sorrell shows how to make a non-slip iPod Nano case, step by step. It's easy!



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Poll: Using Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi Is Like ...

Vote for the best analogy for using an open wireless network.

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China Keeping Its Bloggers on a Short Leash

New rules imposed by the Chinese government indicates that authorities are not loosening their grip on bloggers, something they indicated they might do.

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Sex Offender Banned From MySpace Asks, Why Me?

A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.

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Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve

SAN DIEGO -- A novel medical technique that smuggles an electrical charge into the brain through the vagus nerve is proving at least as effective as medication in controlling severe depression, psychiatrists say.

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Growing the Tree of Life

The binomial nomenclature system classifies every known creature on Earth.

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May 23, 1985: Selling Stealth Secrets to the Reds Comes at a High Price

A Northrup engineer thinks he's cutting a deal with Russian agents for stealth aircraft secrets. He's wrong. They're Yanks.

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What's in a Name? The Future of Life

Carolus Linnaeus' system for assigning names to Earth's living creatures holds up over time, but in the age of DNA, some scientists hunger for a more modern approach.

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Hack My Son's Computer, Please

Police obtain permission from a 91-year-old man to break into his grown son's computer. The court that allowed this search might want to reconsider.

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Let's Make Website Mashups, Like Netflickr, Figg and BoingPress

Here's a novel way to reduce bookmark clutter: Combine domains, creating a new site that incorporates the strengths of both the originals.

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Spirit Rover Uncovers Further Proof of Ancient Water on Mars

The Mars rover Spirit has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the planet used to be wetter than previously thought, scientists reported Monday.

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Biodiesel Bikes, Rockets and Flaming Eggs Light Up Maker Faire

SAN MATEO, California -- About 50,000 people gathered to see the art and engineering expertise of several hundred "makers" at the Maker Faire on Saturday and Sunday.



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Military Dragged Its Feet on Supplying Bomb-Proof Vehicles

Documents show the Marines waited over a year before acting on a top-level request.

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Show Us Your <cite>Star Wars</cite> Fan Pix

Post your own photos of costumes, creations and collectibles into our 30th anniversary scrapbook.



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Burt Rutan and Richard Branson Want You to Hit Space in High Style

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Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit

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How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)

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May 22, 1990: Microsoft Opens a New Window on the World

Windows 3.0 finally gives Microsoft an operating system that's accessible; Apple smells a rat.

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The Magnetic Brain Stimulator Will See You Now

Psychiatrists are optimistic about the potential of a new therapy for treating tough cases of depression. Transcranial magnetic stimulation delivers a pulse to the gray matter and it could come to market as soon as the end of the year.

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Mighty Math Feat: Researchers Factor 307-Digit Number

An 11-month supercomputer project suggests even tough encryption can be cracked.

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Million-Color Myth: Apple's Not Alone Making 6-Bit Displays

The chances are, you think your laptop's LCD panel displays millions of colors. If so, the chances are that you're very much mistaken.



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Rockets, Cupcakes and Flaming Eggs Light Up Maker Faire

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Gear Gallery: Sweet New PowerShot, Touchy TabletKiosk, and More

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MySpace Hands Over Sex Offenders' IP Addresses

In response to a subpoena, the site provides info on thousands of users to state attorneys general.

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Rem Koolhaas Designs a Death Star for Dubai

His proposed design for a convention and exhibition center in the United Arab Emirates bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star. It looks cool, but will it really get approved?

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Graying Aerospace Industry Seeks Out New Blood, on Their Turf

The industry is trying to regain some of its sex appeal by turning to the virtual environment to recruit young engineers.

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A Plan to Build a Giant Liquid Telescope on the Moon

Astronomers propose an enormous liquid-mirror telescope on the moon that could be hundreds of times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope.

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May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks

Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in aviation history.

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Engineered Insanity: A Gallery of Wonderfully Useless Complexity

MakMost legacies are complex and indirect, but Rube Goldberg's is literally so: the cartoonist is famous for his sketches of insanely complicated contraptions.



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The Party's Over as LCD Television Prices Hit Bottom

After years of decline, the prices for LCD panels have hit bottom, which means consumer prices for flat-panel TVs will stop falling.



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Refusing to Fold, Online Poker Players Bet on Prohibition Repeal

Trying to overturn restrictive U.S. law is a high-stakes game, but players have some pretty powerful allies.

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Why a Famous Counterfactual Historian Loves Making History With Games

What if the great historical events had turned out differently? How would today's world be changed? Niall Ferguson, an economic historian at NYU is a champion of "counterfactual thinking" -- re-imagining major historical events, with the variables slightly tweaked.

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TV Pilots Crash, Fans Race to the Web for the Next Viral Hit

Get ready to scan YouTube and MySpace for the next big TV hit. Mid-May is when sitcom-makers get their network pink slips and when creative malcontents who want a second chance at primetime upload their rejected shows for web consumption.



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<cite>Worms</cite> and <cite>Ninja Turtles</cite> Kick Xbox Live Into Overdrive

Arcade classics rev the action meter, but Jetpac Refuelled runs out of gas. Game reviews by Lore Sjöberg and Chris Kohler.

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Solar Power's Early Adopters, the Amish

For some farmers, the panels provide self-sufficiency without smoke and noise.

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Microsoft's $6 Billion Acquisition Largest in Company History

Redmond hopes the hefty deal will make it a player in the advertising marketplace.

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Gadgets, Hacks and Mods All Weekend at the Maker Faire

Weekend coverage of the do-it-yourself event just outside San Francisco.



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Disney Cartoon Mashup Explains Copyright Law

A Stanford University documentary film project, A Fair(y) Use Tale, weaves snippets of classic animated films into a short short in which Disney characters explain the basics of fair use and argue against longer copyrights.

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'Little Loca' Becomes First YouTube-to-Network Star

Stevie Ryan to host Online Nation, a showcase for user-generated clips.



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<cite>Transformers</cite> Trailer: Can Robots Transform Director Michael Bay's Reputation?

No evidence of the sexist, homophobic overtones that stunk up 'The Island.' Just good filmmaking.



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The Guitar Zeros: Five Buttons Instead of Six Strings

The first band to replace its guitars with Guitar Hero game controllers.



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The Uncomfortable Reality of Sex in Space

NASA hates to talk about it, but as space voyages get longer and travel further, astronauts are likely to find the need for sex comes into play. How will that affect relationships onboard and back on Earth?

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May 18, 1953: Jackie Cochran, First Woman to Break the Sound Barrier

Famed aviatrix averages 652 mph as she streaks across the desert sky over California.

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Hack-It-Yourself Spectacle on Parade at Maker Faire 2007

At the Maker Faire this weekend near San Francisco, an emerging culture of hackers, modders and do-it-yourselfers will be on display.



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Maker Faire Preview: Robots, Art Cars and Towers of Fire

Make magazine's festival of hack-it-yourself technology enters its second year this weekend, returning to the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 19 and 20.



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<cite>Halo 3</cite> Beta Is Trial by Fire and Snow

Despite a few snags, the test version gets off to a blazing start. Review by Chris Kohler.

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Hillary Clinton Asks the Web to Choose Her Campaign Song

Whichever song wins, she promises not to sing it in public.



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Let There Be Light in Austria's Artificial Sky

The simulator lets architects test the lighting in their designs.

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Breathing Powers Chest-Mounted USB Charger

Homemade unit converts respiration motion into a 5-volt power supply.



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How 'Open-Source Guerrillas' Wage a <cite>Brave New War</cite>

Author John Robb says the U.S. military is in the same position as Microsoft as global conflicts morph to mimic the new rules of software development.

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Net Surveillance: If You Build It, They Will Tap It

Internet wiretap laws will make domestic spying easy and widespread.

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Liveblogging the Personal Democracy Forum in New York

Speakers including Google's CEO, columnist Thomas Friedman and representatives from presidential campaigns address technology's impact on politics.

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YouTube Ban Is All About Bandwidth, Military Says

Soldiers' use of blocked social-media sites hogged defense networks.

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Google Merges Video, Pictures into Search Results

A new, integrated Google search debuts and the coolest part of it is that it embeds videos into the results page. Also, no more separate searches -- Universal Search scans videos, images and web pages at once.



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<cite>Annals of Improbable Research</cite> Goes Digital, Ig Nobel Founder Tells All

For 16 years, the Ig Nobel awards have honored the most bizarre research in the world. Finally, you can buy an online subscription.

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May 17, 1970: The Boat Is Seaworthy and, Yes, We Can All Get Along

Thor Heyerdahl sets sail to prove a scientific theory -- and a point about human nature.

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Strange Science

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Bug Eyes and Bat Ears Might Enhance Military Drones

Researchers hope to equip handheld drones with compound eyes and echolocation systems.



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Ultra Mobile PCs Still Struggle With Performance, Relevance

Handheld wonder or over-hyped failure? A look at the possible future of the UMPC platform.



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Urban Scavenger Hunt Calls for Speed, Skill and Gadget Know-How

Forty teams combined physical fitness and tech know-how for Saturday's Urban Dare in New York City, a kind of race-meets-scavenger hunt in which choosing and using the right gadgets was as essential to success as speed.



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MySpace Dilemma: Sex Offenders Remain Online

MySpace has found and deleted "a few thousand" sex offenders since it announced its program to match Megan's Law registries with its user list last December, chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam says. But it looks like thousands more may remain.

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Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses

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Wired News Readers Fix the Patent System

We ask for suggestions on reworking the innovation-stifling patent system. You deliver.

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Ultimate 'Indy' Flick: Fanboys Remake <cite>Raiders of the Lost Ark</cite>

In 1982, three 12-year-olds from Mississippi set out to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark. No weekend project, the boys intended to replicate the 1981 George Lucas-Steven Spielberg blockbuster shot-for-shot using a rented video camera.



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Cities Embrace Green Technology Proposed by Ex-President Clinton

Sixteen cities will serve as a model for the rest of the world by renovating buildings to help cut carbon emissions.

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Sony's Vaio SZ4 Laptop Serves Up More Sizzle Than Steak

Ultrathin notebook looks sexy but lacks features. And its battery life sucks.



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Amazon to Sell DRM-Free Music

Move over iTunes -- Amazon announces a music store selling DRM-free music from EMI, the first major label to embrace DRM-free music. Apple announced a similar deal, but Amazon will sell tracks in the popular MP3 format.



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<cite>Dracula's Guest</cite> Gives Bram Stoker the Machinima Treatment

Spooky video is part of indie artist Alessandro Cima's vampire trilogy.

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May 16, 1988: Nicotine Declared As Addictive as Heroin, Cocaine

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop takes a bite out of big tobacco with his condemnation of nicotine's addictive properties.

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Gear Gallery: Buggy Ziova Media Player, Keyboard With IPod Dock, More

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Proposed Crime of the Century: Attempted Copyright Infringement

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<cite>Halo 3</cite> Beta: One Ring World to Rule Them All

Dedicated gamers get ready to try out the latest version of the world's favorite multiplayer frag fest. By Susan Arendt.

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<cite>Area 51</cite> Movie Takes Aliens and Conspiracies to the Next Level

Grant Morrison works himself into a fun, conspiratorial frenzy bringing the classic video game to the silver screen. Wired News interview by John Gaudiosi.



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CBS Chief Isn't Worried About YouTube or Google &mdash; 'As Long as We Get Paid'

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Still Caught in an Ugly Web of Spidey Marketing

Welcome to Part Two of my extensive, discerning, and almost completely unnecessary review of Spider Man 3 toys that you strap to your wrist. Last week we looked at laser games, darts and some stupid thing with an LCD screen. This week we're actually going to sling things!

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Hubble Finds Huge Ring of Dark Matter

It's the biggest find yet, astronomers say, and it's just 5 billion light-years away from Earth.

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Gallery: The Making of <cite>Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation</cite>

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Tintin Heads to the Big Screen in 3-D Trilogy

According to Variety, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson will each direct a 3-D animated film based on Georges "Herge" Remi's comic-strip hero, Tintin. The flicks will be part of a trilogy (it's a mystery who will direct the third film).



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May 15, 1859: Pierre Curie, Radium's Co-Discoverer, Is Born

His work with his wife brings him international fame and the Nobel Prize in physics. This Day in Tech compiled by Tony Long.

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States Seek MySpace's Sex-Offender List (With Hat Tip to Wired News)

Eight attorneys general want more info on perps known to use the popular site.

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Hundreds Click on Google Ad Promising to Infect Their PCs

A surprising number of web surfers click on a security researcher's advertisement touting a "drive-by download" with a viral payload.



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New Phytoplankton Model May Revise Warming Estimates

Global climate models are missing a good chunk of plant information that could significantly alter long-term climate change predictions. A new technique for modeling phytoplankton -- microscopic plants in the upper layers of the Earth's waters -- could reveal a much more accurate picture.

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Rumor: New Apple Laptops Won't Pack Disk Drives

Sequoia Capital’s Jason Calacanis claims solid-state portables are coming soon.



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World's Smallest Music Phone, Maybe

A new U.K. handset claims to be the tiniest GSM phone to play MP3s, but it's still big on features.



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Gallery: Sharks Steer Clear of Metals and Magnets

Scientists demonstrate how rare-earth magnets seem to repel sharks, a technology which may end up protecting a species close to extinction.



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Geeky Rare-Earth Magnets Repel Sharks

In testing, a startup called Shark Defense has found that sharks dramatically avoid magnets made from neodymium, iron and boron.



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Three Little Quibbles About the IPod

Apple's music player is like a marriage; after six years of bliss, some of the blemishes are starting to show. Commentary by Leander Kahney.



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New York Plans to Expand Massive DNA Database

Gov. Spitzer pushes to add all misdemeanor convicts to the data warehouse.

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National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards

Proposed immigration-reform legislation would turn the familiar blue-and-white cards into high-tech pieces of identification. By Ryan Singel.

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Gallery: Fans Swarm Square Enix Party

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Square Enix Gives Fans What They Want: Same Old Thing

Japan's leading publisher of role-playing games believes it has figured out the secret to surviving in the volatile games market: Make everything old new again.

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Linkin Park's Mysterious Cyberstalker

How a mysterious stalker hacked into the life of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington.



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Cell Phone-Only Users Growing As People Dump Landlines

Fewer people are relying on landline phones these days, especially the young.



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States Want MySpace to Provide Info on Sex Offenders

Attorneys general from seven states want the social-networking site to be more rigorous in purging itself of sex offenders.

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May 14, 1939: A 5-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Mother on Record

Precocious puberty is an exceedingly rare condition, but Lina has it and becomes the youngest mother in recorded history. This Day in Tech compiled by Tony Long.

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CPR Study to Test Emergency Treatment, Sans Patient Permission

U.S. and Canadian hospitals get ready to try out new methods on unsuspecting people. By Randy Dotinga.



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U.K. Music Label Creates a Vinyl-MP3 Hybrid

While the copyright fight rages between big record companies and their customers, some smaller, independent labels are moving in with innovation instead of litigation.



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Webcasters' Doom Could Remix the Future of Music

Ah, the long goodbye. Looming, potentially astronomical royalty-rate hikes first sent webcasters scrambling toward a May 15 deadline, then a July 15 deadline and now, potentially, an indefinite slide all the way into next year.



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Sci-Fi Mecca: It's Where Fantasy Meets Architecture

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Best Blogfights of 2006

When bloggers weren't busy taking cash bribes or collecting free laptops courtesy of Microsoft, they spent 2006 pissing in the link pool. Here's our look back at the blogosphere's best arguments, attacks, slights and scrums from the past year. By Michael Calore.

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Crafty Geeks Launch Sewing 2.0

Needlework and other grandmotherly crafts evolve into decidedly hip and stylish pursuits thanks to the internet. By Robert Andrews.

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CIA Gets in Your Face(book)

Want a job recruiting secret sources and working undercover in exotic overseas locations? Head to the CIA's Facebook page. By Chaddus Bruce.

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Image Search Goes Tagless

New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.

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Slideshow: Image Search Goes Tagless

New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.

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What Would Jesus Wiki?

Conservapedia is the web's go-to reference for conservative Christians, but for everyone else it's one of the biggest laughs on the net. By Michael Calore.

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Exclusive: MySpace News Pics

Leaked screenshots from Fox Interactive Media reveal the face of MySpace's new Digg-style news site. By Michael Calore.

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Slideshow: Rockstar Gameography

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Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games

See a gallery of top picks for the system that launched a thousand games.

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Reminder: Monday Is Wiretap the Internet Day

May 14th is the deadline for cable-modem companies, DSL providers, satellite internet companies and others to finish wiring their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear. They're complying with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

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Terror Hunters' Collect Human Scent

Terrorists, you can run, but with that body odor, you can't hide. The government's anti-terror research department wants a contractor to build a rugged, compact system for collecting scent that canine handlers could use to track specific targets.

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Why Does Wikipedia Suck When It Comes to Science?

Wikipedia is, by all measures, one of the great accomplishments of the Internet Age -- right up there with Google, eBay, IMDB and GoogleMaps. But science topics are not its forte.

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A Decade After Kasparov's Defeat, Deep Blue Coder Relives Victory

Ten years ago today, IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess, and mankind’s place in the universe was reshuffled. Wired News talks to one of Deep Blue's co-creators, Murray Campbell, who spoke about the historic match and the current state of computer chess.

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May 11, 1997: Machine Bests Man in Tournament-Level Chess Match

Deep Blue defeats chess master Garry Kasparov, although it took all the computing might of IBM to win the day. This Day in Tech compiled by Tony Long.

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Chemists Seek Drug to Help Crack Addicts Break Habit

Chemists at Georgia Tech and the Mercer University School of Medicine have been trying to discover a drug that will help cocaine addicts break their habit. The team, led by Dr. Howard M. Deutsch, published their findings today in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.



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Making Skin Cancer Therapy as Convenient as a Band-Aid

A new treatment promises to take the sting out of photodynamic therapy. By Mike Kobrin.



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The Ups and Downs of Take-Two Interactive's Stock Price

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Video Games Offer Fun New Violence

Violence and video games go together like peas and carrots. It's no surprise that the first video game involved two spaceships trying to blow each other up. By Chris Kohler and Lore Sjöberg.

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A Meticulous Data Trail May Have Saved 'D.C. Madam'

At first look, the "D.C. Madam" case had all the elements of a juicy political scandal -- feisty broad, a foot-high stack of phone records, a State Department official resigning resigned suddenly. Turns out, the scandal isn't all that scandalous.

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Myth of the Open-Source Volunteer Developer

Inquiring minds want to know if free software development is prompted by corporate investments or by bored programmers.

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Taxi Tech: NYC Cabs Try Touch-Screen Monitors

Taxi officials tout touch-screen monitors on trial in 200 New York City cabs as passenger aids. But many drivers resent the costly intrusion that accepts credit cards, brandishes ads for neighborhood watering holes and tracks drivers.



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U.K. Proposes Lie Detector Tests for Citizens Wanting Gov't Benefits

British social services agencies want to screen benefits applicants over the phone using software that's designed to weed out the cheaters -- a positive test would deny benefits. But opponents question the tool's reliability.

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Hitwise Tracks Internet Gossip Explosion

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May 10, 1960: <cite>USS Triton</cite> Completes First Submerged Circumnavigation

May 10, 1960: A U.S. Navy sub surfaces after nearly 61 days, completing the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.

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Comcast CEO Shows Off Blazing New Cable Modem

"Channel bonding" technology that offers speeds up to 150 Mbps -- 25 times faster than today's standard -- could be available within a few years.



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Doggie Style: Cell Phones, Webcams and GPS for Hounds

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Interview: Ideas Cut Through Daily Kos' Controlled Chaos

David Weinberger talks with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, head of one of the web's most influential political blogs. Audio interview plus full transcript.

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Courts Cast Wary Eye on Evidence Gleaned From Cell Phones

New methods of data tampering cast doubt on a digital records once held almost beyond question. By Annalee Newitz.

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Jazz Cats to Congress: Please Save Internet Radio

Leading musicians ask lawmakers to limit streaming music royalties.



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Have a Cup of Coffee and Shoot Me Your Resume

The Luddite: Coffee's good for you, but don't bank your future on a video resume. Commentary by Tony Long

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Every Species Will Have an Entry in the <cite>Encyclopedia of Life</cite>

Scientists plan to compile everything they know about everything that has ever lived and stick it on the web for your edification and enlightenment.

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Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis

Three years ago, Alejandro Gutierrez got a strange and tantalizing message from Hong Kong. Some McKinsey consultants were putting together a business plan for a big client that wanted to build a small city on the outskirts of Shanghai.

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May 9, 1960: Easy Birth Control Arrives, but There's a Catch

Women take a significant step forward as the first commercial birth control pill is approved, but the side effects can be deadly. This Day in Tech compiled by Tony Long.

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Removal of Girl's Uterus in 'Ashley Treatment' Breaks State Law

A Seattle hospital's controversial procedure, aimed at keeping a disabled girl in a perpetually childlike state, runs afoul of Washington's legal mandate regarding forced sterilization. By Randy Dotinga.



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'Humanized' Hybrid Mice Might Speed Search for AIDS Vaccine

Scientists hope the customized critters will help them find treatments capable of stopping the killer disease. By Randy Dotinga.



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Online Advertising: So Good, Yet So Bad for Us

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Caught Up in an Ugly Web of Cheesy <cite>Spider-Man</cite> Marketing

They're promoting Spider-Man 3 with some of the most pathetic tie-in products imaginable. Here's a sampling. Commentary by Lore Söoberg.

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Lamest 'Value-Added' Products

Overpriced and over the top, these crazy concepts will separate you from your money faster than an expert flimflam man. By Paul Adams.

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Seeking a Climate Change Accord Everyone Can Love

A new convention is being drawn up to help all countries participate in the fight to manage greenhouse gases, each according to its abilities.

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May 8, 1886: Looking for Pain Relief, and Finding Coca-Cola Instead

The drink we call Coca Cola is invented, by accident, in a Georgia backyard.

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