<cite>Wired</cite>'s NextFest to Award Largest Space Prize Ever

The X Prize and Next Fest team up to offer the biggest X Prize ever, winner to be announced on September 13 in Los Angeles.

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Sept. 4, 1888: Photography Leaps Into the Late 19th Century

George Eastman gets his patent for roll film and, suddenly, photography is at the fingertips -- or shutter finger -- of a waiting public.

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Drug Test: Kicking Cocaine Addiction With ADHD Treatment

Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.

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Planetary Imagery: 30 Years From Voyager Spacecraft

The Voyager probes are now the farthest manmade objects from Earth, continuing to relay data 30 years after their launch. We've assembled some of the more astonishing images the probes have captured in this retrospective slideshow.

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Sept. 5, 1980: If You Can't Drive Over the Alps, Drive Through the Alps

It opens as the longest highway tunnel ever built, and traveling between Switzerland and Italy just got a lot easier. Sometimes, boring is good.

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New Genome Map Shows We're More Diverse Than Scientists Thought

J. Craig Venter, genome scientist extraordinaire, takes his genome analysis to a new level of detail, showing humans are not 99.9 percent similar to each other as previously thought.

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BCI - Brain to Control Games Directly, Maybe Vice Versa

Medical practitioners raise concerns about a new breed of videogame that would allow users to control gameplay using thoughts alone.

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What's Behind the Epidemic of Municipal Wi-Fi Failures?

With a rash of muni Wi-Fi projects collapsing, companies and cities realize their initial approaches to providing ubiquitous, free network connectivity aren't working. The problem is Wi-Fi is too expensive to deploy, and there's not enough user demand.

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Holy Smoke! Hacked IPhone Explodes

Many iPhone hacks require opening up the case -- and that can lead to trouble, as one would-be hacker discovers, when a wayward screwdriver punctures the battery, causing it to explode.

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Fetish: Audio Masterwork, Porsche-Tuned Drill

The Zeppelin iPod-speaker system is majestic to behold and does justice to any Jimmy Page riff. Plus, the Porsche Design P'7911 drill is as rad-looking as it is easy to maneuver.

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