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Rick Astley's MTV Award Hacked, With Pleasure (09 October 08:52) |
| After word dropped that Rickrolling phenomenon Rick Astley had been included in MTV Europe's laughable Best Act Ever category some resourceful individuals wasted little time in scripting str... |
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Terminator: Gadgetry Salvation for Sarah Connor Chronicles (09 October 06:48) |
| Apparently Sarah Connor's devilish charm and ripped biceps aren't enough to prevent the Terminator show's own judgment day. They need ... some new things to blow things up real good -- yeah!... |
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Sony, Microsoft Virtual Communities to Start (09 October 06:04) |
| Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that ... |
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IBM 3Q Profit a Positive Sign For Tech Sector (09 October 04:31) |
| For the second time this year IBM offered an early peek at its quarterly results, showing in a surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the wors... |
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Photos: Is This the MacBook 'Brick'? (09 October 03:22) |
| A handful of "leaked spy shots" come by way of Chinese forum site Elesson and purportedly show the new MacBook Brick, carved – as the rumors go – from a single block of aluminum. Whether... |
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What's Inside Orbit White Gum? Boiled Pine Sap! (09 October 09:30) |
| Maltitol
This is one of a family of mild sweeteners known as sugar alcohols, or polyols. Typically derived from natural carbs, they lack the harsh, metallic taste of calorie-free sweetener... |
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Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles (09 October 09:30) |
| Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. The research endeavor, the third of its kind since 1882, is sending teams from... |
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Scientists Go for the Glow in Fluorescent Proteins (09 October 09:30) |
| : Image: fangleman/Flickr
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has gone to a trio of scientists for their work on green fluorescent protein, which allows scientists to see how cellular machinery wo... |
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Oct. 9, 2000: Ozone Hole Exposes Chilean City (09 October 09:30) |
| 2000: The Antarctic ozone hole extends so far north that health officials in Punta Arenas, Chile, start warning residents not to go out in the midday sun.
At 53 degrees south latitude, Pun... |
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Show Us Your Company Gear (09 October 06:30) |
| Are you working on a laptop that's as big as most current desktops? Do you get to use a particularly sweet piece of equipment for your job? We want to see the gear you use every day that's i... |
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Feds Start Moving on Net Security Hole (09 October 05:35) |
| Following a massive security hole that opened this summer, the U.S. government is now asking the public for comment on who should control and sign the net's most important document. Security... |
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Scouting the Blogs of Internet Icons (09 October 05:30) |
| Several superstars of the tech world have started up their own blogs, allowing us to bask in their deep thoughts and cower from the brilliance of their devastating insight. If only some of t... |
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Bailout Bill Rife With Tasty Green Pork (09 October 04:40) |
| The financial bailout bill that passed on Oct. 3 has a wide range of obscure green energy provisions, in addition to the better-known wind and solar credits, that seed the field for future g... |
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Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image (09 October 03:18) |
| GeoEye-1, the satellite Google has an exclusive arrangement with, snapped its first photo on Oct. 7 -- of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. The world's highest-resolution satellite will p... |
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How to Back Up Your Tumblr Blog (09 October 02:45) |
| The barely-there Tumblr blogging platform is one of our favorite Web 2.0 publishing tools. But Tumblr packs only a handful of default features, and it's missing an easy way to archive your p... |
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Whitman Sampler — Pick a Silicon Valley Exec for Treasury Secretary (09 October 01:50) |
| At last night’s debate John McCain was asked who he might choose as his Treasury Secretary. He dropped the name of billionaire Warren Buffett but his top pick in all seriousness was former... |
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MPAA, RealNetworks Smoking 'Illegal Substances' (09 October 01:24) |
| At the tail end of a three-hour federal court hearing on whether RealNetworks' DVD-copying software should be removed from the marketplace, company attorney James DiBoise said no harm was be... |
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YouTube Lets Commenters Hear Their Own Gibberish (09 October 12:30) |
| A new button in YouTube's comment interface plays back the user's comment as an audio file -- an idea originally proposed in the xkcd web comic. The hope is that users will scrutinize their ... |
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Opera Update Delivers Improved Mail, Syncing Tools (09 October 12:30) |
| A new version of the Opera browser has been released. Opera 9.6, which is available for all major operating systems, boasts enhancements to its built-in e-mail client and RSS reader, as well... |
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Judge Renews Decision Barring Sale of DVD-Copying Software (08 October 10:30) |
| A federal judge rules that RealNetworks' just-released DVD-copying software probably violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. She leaves intact a preliminary bar to its distribution pe... |
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Air Force Will Fight Online, Without 'Cyber Command' (08 October 09:25) |
| The Air Force is going ahead with plans to put together a force that will wage wars online. But it won't be a full-fledged Cyber Command as previously advertised.
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Tennessee Student Indicted for Hacking Palin E-Mail (08 October 09:23) |
| David Kernell, the 20-year-old Tennessee student who has been under suspicion for allegedly obtaining unauthorized access into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account, has bee... |
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Cell Illuminators Win Chemistry Nobel (08 October 08:14) |
| "Hey, this is a really great idea," snarked a commenter in our vote-off between the official and Wired Science winners of the Nobel Prize in physics. "Nobel laureates should be chosen by the... |
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Kernell Indicted in Hacking of Palin's E-mail Account (08 October 06:58) |
| A federal grand jury in Tennessee has indicted David Kernell in connection with the hacking of the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Federal officials say... |
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The Cold, Hard Data of Soda Ice (08 October 09:30) |
| Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup. To settle this once and f... |
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Steven Levy: Why the iPhone Is Almost Perfect (08 October 09:30) |
| My first full day with the iPhone 3G turned out to be too full. At least as far as the iPhone was concerned. It was just two in the afternoon when the screen displayed the most unwelcome dia... |
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Showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. iPhone 3G (08 October 09:30) |
| After teasing us with videos and a vague web site, Research in Motion has finally decided to come out of the closet with full details on its touchscreen handset, the BlackBerry Storm.
Those ... |
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Oct. 8, 1582: Nothing Happens ... in Catholic Lands (08 October 09:30) |
| 1582: Nobody does anything, anything at all. In fact, nobody does anything whatsoever between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of exist... |
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Mad Max Meets Cannonball Run in an Alt-Fuel Race to Vegas (08 October 09:30) |
| Ten cars, three days and two rules: no petroleum, and you've gotta scavenge your fuel along the way. Gentlemen, start your engines.
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Hands On With The BlackBerry Storm (08 October 09:30) |
| To put it bluntly, we’ve seen a butt-load of handset makers jump on the iClone bandwagon since Apple’s device was announced in 2007. And without exception, every single attempt has faile... |
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Gallery: More Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Spaceships (08 October 09:30) |
| : Image: Mihai Panaitescu
Space is vast, and so is the fantasy fleet of futuristic vessels that could be used to survey galaxies and engage in interstellar battles.
Typically left to th... |
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Alt Text: Bold Confessions of a Nerd-Party Candidate (08 October 09:30) |
| As the Guys Who Can't Stop Talking About Warcraft Party candidate for president of the United States, I am subject to irksome levels of scrutiny. My critics say I have not been properly vett... |
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Video: Violent Wii Titles Woo Hard-Core Gamers (08 October 05:35) |
| Nintendo's hot console isn't all about bowling. New Wii games let you use the Wiimote to bash zombies (Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop), zap aliens (The Conduit) and kill historic enemies (C... |
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Florida Vote Surfaces Grave Problems One Month Before Elections (08 October 05:17) |
| In Palm Beach County, the results in a race for county judge have flipped twice, as thousands of ballots have been lost and found, while vote tabulation machines spit out different results o... |
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Report Warns U.S. Could Lose Space-Spy Dominance (08 October 04:12) |
| America is becoming so lousy at building spy satellites that "the United States is losing its preeminence in space," a Congressional intelligence report declares. What's worse, the decline c... |
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IBM Researchers Put Test Project on iPhone App Store (08 October 03:30) |
| IBM Almaden researchers are adding their research projects to the iPhone App Store in a bid to bring them to real world users.
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Geode Tells Firefox Where You Are, What's Nearby (08 October 02:30) |
| Mozilla has released a new add-on for Firefox called Geode. The plug-in, which is now available to beta testers, will make the browser more location-aware, adding greater relevancy to local ... |
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Mad Men With an Ad Man: Optimedia Edition (03 October 06:21) |
| Every week on "Mad Men" Don Draper and Roger Sterling lead the men and women at the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper in creating and designing iconic 1960s ad campaigns in betwee... |
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House Schedules Second 'Rescue Plan' Vote Today (03 October 06:14) |
| Rejected once amid public fury about bailing out reckless financiers, a $700 billion rescue package gets a second chance in the House as voters anxiously ponder an economic meltdown that cou... |
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Fossett Slammed into a Mountain: Search Official (03 October 04:41) |
| Thirteen months after millionaire thrill-seeker Steve Fossett mysteriously disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine airplane: It slammed straight into a... |
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Photographer Awarded TED Prize for Work on War, Disease (03 October 09:30) |
| : Photo: James Nachtwey
Last year, acclaimed war photographer James Nachtwey was honored with the 2007 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Prize for his work documenting images of war, d... |
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Oct. 3, 1947: Birth of Palomar's 'Giant Eye' (03 October 09:30) |
| 1947: After 13 years of grinding and polishing, the Palomar Observatory mirror is completed at Caltech.
It was, at the time, the largest telescope mirror ever made in the United States, me... |
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My Paparazzo: Hiring a Stalker Is Easy (03 October 09:30) |
| I'm sitting outside a trendy Brooklyn café chatting with friends. I glance to my left and notice a huge telephoto lens peeking around the corner of the building. The actress Keri Russ... |
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Genetic Tweak Could Let Toxic Soil Feed Millions (03 October 09:30) |
| Researchers have discovered a gene that makes plants resistant to aluminum. It could let crops grow on the large portion of the Earth's surface that holds toxic levels of the metal.
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Assembling Internet Images Into a Garden of Webly Delights (03 October 09:30) |
| Give Hieronymus Bosch a Mac Pro with two 3.2-GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 32 gigs of RAM, unfettered Internet access — and some electricity — and you have Case Simmons... |
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'Star Trek' Writers Brace for Impact (03 October 04:03) |
| Being stone-cold Trekkies pays off for Hollywood scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who are treading carefully with director J.J. Abrams as they reboot the sacred sci-fi franchise. The ... |
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Apple iTunes Lives Another Day (03 October 02:41) |
| A federal board that sets royalty rates left unchanged the 9.1-cents rate digital music stores such as Apple's iTunes must pay publishers and songwriters for each song. Apple had threatened... |
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Eight Geeky Questions For Biden and Palin (03 October 02:28) |
| Does Sarah Palin support internet censorship? Will Biden turn the federal government into an enforcement arm of the RIAA? Those are just a couple of the questions Wired.com hopes PBS' Gwen I... |
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Free GIMP 2.6 Image Editor Looks, Behaves More Like Photoshop (03 October 02:15) |
| The GIMP project released the latest version of its free software image
editor. GIMP version 2.6 features a greatly overhauled user interface,
bringing the look and feel of the app much clos... |
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Review: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Strikes Sweet Chord (03 October 01:44) |
| Michael Cera's geek routine gets a college-bound twist in this cameo-laced comedy for the indie-rock crowd.
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