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Watch Live: Higgs Boson Announcement
Watch a live feed as CERN spokespeople announce their latest results in the search for the Higgs boson. What will they discover? The Higgs? New physics? Tune in to find out.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 4
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
07.04.12 -
Pterosaurs Done Wrong
Take a glance at the photo above. It’s a snapshot of a life-size Pteranodon model on display at the San Diego Natural History Museum. The flying reptile – restored life size – looks like the standard image of Pteranodon I have seen in museums and books since I was a kid. The large pterosaur is [...]
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Review: Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet
If you've been on the fence about Android, or tablets in general, this is the tablet you've been waiting for.
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Review: Parrot Zik Noise-Canceling Wireless Headphones
These wireless, noise-canceling headphones from Parrot are packed with multiple sensors: capacitive surfaces, microphones and an NFC chip.
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After U.S. Says Sorry, Pakistan Reopens Border
For seven months, Pakistan has blocked ground convoys from resupplying troops based in Afghanistan. Pakistan wanted an apology for the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers -- killed in U.S. airstrikes last November -- and a new fee for every shipping container transiting the country. Until Pakistan got its apology, the border would remain closed, forcing the U.S. into a costly aerial resupply route through Kyrgyzstan.
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What Finding the Higgs Boson Means
There has been a rise in speculation from the international physics community about the contents of a press conference that has been called by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be held at 9am Geneva time (3am EST) on July 4, 2012. Physicists expect that the announcement will be positive proof of the Higgs boson particle and a successful mission for the team. The anticipation reached a frenzied state yesterday when scientists from the Tevatron at Fermilab in Illinois announced that they had found significant supporting evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson.
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Dell Ramps Up its Cloud
I recently spoke with a couple VPs that head up the cloud initiatives at Dell. I have been watching Dell closely, because I think they have one of the best platforms and bundle of products and services in which to launch a full-scale cloud solution.??But I have to wonder if it will pan out for [...]
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Watch a Livestream of the Higgs Boson Announcement Tonight
Watch a live feed from Europe of the possible announcement of the Higgs boson discovery on Wired.com starting at 11 p.m PT tonight (2 a.m. ET). The announcement of results is expected to begin at midnight PT.
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Ratio of PC to Mac Sales Narrowing to Lowest Level in Over a Decade
Apple must be doing something right in the PC space -- or PC makers or doing something wrong. The ratio of PC sales to Mac sales has dropped to the lowest point in about 15 years.
07.03.12
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Buh-Bye MobileMe — iCloud Rules Now
While folks like to talk about Google’s many failed properties, one that stands out for Apple is MobileMe. Well, Apple’s troubled child is no more as of Monday — Apple’s new golden boy, iCloud, is all things cloud at Apple now, and includes many of MobileMe’s features. Gadget Lab’s Christina Bonnington writes of MobileMe’s checkered [...]
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Amazon Blames Generators for Blackout That Crushed Netflix
Amazon has published a more detailed explanation about the Outage that knocked out a number of popular websites on Friday night, including Netflix, Instagram, and Pintrest. The culprit: a twenty minute power outage at a single Northern Virginia data center.
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Study Shows Electronic Driver Aids Mostly Help, Occasionally Hurt
The Highway Loss Data Institute, a division within the automaker-supported Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), released findings on how active safety systems help drivers when their vehicles are fitted with crash avoidance technology and adaptive headlamps. But interestingly, lane departure warning systems aren't living up to their claimed potential. And in some cases, the tech may be increasing the number of crashes.
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Leaked Video Appears to Accidentally Announce Higgs Boson Discovery
An accidentally published video appears to leak the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson that is rumored to be officially announced by CERN early tomorrow morning.
07.03.12 -
How Breaking Bad Resurrects Its Antihero Again and Again
Vince Gilligan and his writers' finely tuned plot machine deftly keeps the chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cooker hitting rock bottom -- and bouncing back for more madness.
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Spectacularly Preserved Fossil Suggests Most Dinosaurs Were Feathered
The discovery of a fantastically preserved, bushy-tailed fossil theropod has cloaked the dinosaur world in feathers. Other feathered dinosaurs have been found before, but none so close to the trunk of their evolutionary tree.
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Man Lives Off Craigslist for One Crazy Month in Craigslist Joe
Produced by Zach Galifianakis, the new documentary shows a man attempting to survive for 31 days and nights using nothing but Craigslist.
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Judge Upholds Sales Ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
A federal judge has decided to uphold her decision to place a temporary sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in a patent fight between Apple and Samsung.
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Take That, Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display
Google's been flaunting their Google Glass prototype left and right, but it may not be the only company getting into the heads-up-display business. Apple was granted a patent for a head-mounted display apparatus on Tuesday.
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Report: iPad Mini to Feature Sharp IGZO Display, Cost $250
We've said it before and we'll say it again: The iPad Mini is the Apple rumor that refuses to die. The latest in the long twisted history of the fabled miniature tablet is that it will feature a 330 ppi resolution, 7.85-inch IGZO display made by Sharp.
07.03.12
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Video: Eating Heads, Fighting Undead Armies in Skulls of the Shogun
Jake Kazdal, CEO of indie game developer 17-Bit, tells us about his upcoming game Skulls of the Shogun on this week's Game|Life video.
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Urinal Cake Delivers PSA on Drunk Driving
The Detroit News reports the state of Michigan distributed 400 talking urinal cakes to some 200 establishments before the 4th of July holiday. The cakes issue a clever public service announcement, reminding the intoxicated to solicit safe rides home.
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Video: Joffrey Gets Slapped Silly in Game of Thrones RPG
From Daenerys' dragons to the epic Battle of Blackwater, this goofball video from College Humor boils down major plot points from Game of Thrones' second season and serves them up in classic RPG style.
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Competitive Eaters Gobble Hot Dogs for Spots at Nathan’s Table
We brave flying crumbs and bits of hot dog to see firsthand what it takes to make it to Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Be careful. It's messy.
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
By??Jon Walsh Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a Cloud Computing Redbooks Residency at IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the office with the longest corridors I have ever seen. IBMers in Raleigh must be the fittest on the planet because it is a mile walk for a coffee.As part of the [...]
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Google Shaman Explains Mysteries of ‘Compute Engine’
Google pioneered the art of the "cloud" infrastructure. But Amazon beat it to the idea of sharing such an infrastructure with the rest of the world. Six years after Amazon first offered its web services to outside developers and businesses, Google is still playing catchup. But it's intent on making up that lost ground.
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Nexus 7 Teardown: Harder to Repair Than Kindle Fire, Easier Than iPad
Less than a week after Google announced the Nexus 7 at Google I/O, the iFixit team disassembled the device. And what they found is a tablet that's a breeze to open up and repair, but not quite as easy as Amazon's Kindle Fire.
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Leaked BlackBerry Roadmap Details Handsets, Points to Larger PlayBook
RIM's upgrade to BlackBerry 10 hit a serious snag on Thursday when the company announced that it would be delaying the release of the BlackBerry 10 platform until the first quarter of 2013. The statement called into question whether RIM has any future at all, but now a leaked presentation document details RIM's roadmap to redemption.
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Defunct Copyright Troll Seeks Resurrection
Copyright troll Righthaven, which famously went defunct last year after a epic failure in trying to make money for newspapers by suing sites that reposted even parts of news stories, is seeking a second life.
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More on Eden TV’s Meteor Event
The last video from Eden TV showed the result of a large meteor impacting a taxi in London. This meme correctly captures my response. Clearly, they were trying to promote science with their Science Month. My only course of action was to make a quick calculation of the energy for such a large meteorite. Let [...]
07.03.12
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Japanese Teen Arrested for Wii-Modding Software
Japanese police have arrested a 19-year-old Kyoto college student for allegedly distributing software online that illegally circumvented the copy protection on Nintendo Wii game consoles, the Saitama Prefectural Police said on Tuesday.
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Tiny Fireworks
“Is that thunder?” I asked my husband on Saturday night. I hoped it was, actually. It hasn’t rained here for so long that our lawn crunches like burnt toast. But, no. “That’s the big fireworks show,” he answered. “Oh, right.” I always forget that show because our July 4th family tradition is one of tiny [...]
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Nokia Accuses Google’s Nexus 7 of Patent Infringement
Google and its partners are knee deep in patent disputes. And this time, instead of a certain Cupertino company, it's Nokia on the offensive. Less than a week after Google unveiled its new Nexus 7 tablet, Nokia made claims that the Nexus 7 infringes on some of its patents.
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Simulating Fireworks
The first screensaver I ever used was Pyro! A screensaver that simulated fireworks for the Macintosh in the 1980′s (it predated After Dark‘s Flying Toasters), it was rather simple: Fireworks, whether rendered in a very basic way, or in a much more complicated format, are beautiful. They are essentially anthropic thunderstorms–our little attempts to paint [...]
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The GeekDads Podcast Cancelled This Week
As both Ken and Matt are on vacation this week, we must cancel this week’s GeekDads podcast, which we would ordinarily record tonight. HipTrax will be back next week on schedule, though, and the GeekDads podcast will record again on the night of July 17th. We hope you can join us in the chatroom then! [...]
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Better Than College
Success without college. It's the new non-track career path.
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Travel Week: Universal Studios Cinematic Spectacular — 100 Years of Movie Memories
Recently, I was given the opportunity to check out Universal Orlando's latest nighttime show. I've never seen an evening show at the park before, so I was looking forward to the experience. My past experience with nighttime shows at Disney, prepared me to fight the crowd and wait for over an hour for a good seat. To my surprise, that wasn't necessary at all. Unlike the shows at other Orlando theme parks, there are multiple locations along the water front that you can view the show and still have a front row experience.
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A Day at Drayton Manor and Thomas Land
Drayton Manor is billed as a family park and is the UK home of Thomas Land (another Thomas themed park is located in Japan). With a train-obsessed two-year-old boy in our house this was obviously the park to go for this time.
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Exposure to Dogs Could Protect Kids From Asthma
Babies exposed to certain microbes carried by dogs may build up immunity against asthma, according to research by a team of biologists from the University of California.
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Travel Week: Tips for a Stress-Free Road Trip With Small Kids
The idea of taking a long car trip with young kids might make some parents nervous. But some of these tips from GeekMom Chaos Mandy might help make your road trips with small children more manageable.
07.03.12
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What Is a Vector?
Alternate title: You Khan’t Divide a Vector by a Vector. Get it? Maybe you don’t, but that is ok. Really, I was going to make this a video critique of Sal Khan’s video critique of my video critique. If I made this a video, I could use this meme. But that would be wrong to [...]
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Alpha Colony Kickstarter Footnote Hints At Transphobia
A recent article at Border House highlights the transgender issues of a current Kickstarter campaign for Alpha Colony. Meant as a tribute to the late Danielle Bunten Berry, a video grame pioneer formely known as Dan Bunten, the new video game license was granted by Dani's family comes with the footnote "*Dan Bunten was the creator of the original M.U.L.E. game in 1983 and the family would prefer that we refer to him as Dan instead of Dani."
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tINDIE: Like Etsy For Electronic Tinkerers
Etsy-like site for electronics tinkerers is here!
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Gold and DNA Could Create New Dark Matter Detector
A combined team of physicists and biologists aim to build a directional dark matter detector using strands of DNA and gold.
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Hex Laptop Tote Carries Your Tech in Style
Hex is a division of August Accessories who has been designing fashion accessory products for over 20 years. This newer division of the company aims to use their design experience to develop functional and attractive solutions for taking your tech with you, wherever you need to go. I tried out the Hex Fleet 15" Laptop Tote and found that it did exactly what was promised.
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The Amazing Spider-Man: The Game
In my experience most movie-based games fall flat, but once in a while one comes along that makes me think there is hope. The Amazing Spider-Man is one such game.
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Pentagon’s Brain-Powered Videogames Might Treat PTSD
Soldiers and veterans looking to alleviate the devastating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder might soon have a new way to help themselves. Strangely, it involves using their gray matter to control a videogame.
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How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
The success of Anonymous without leaders is pretty easy to understand???if you forget everything you think you know about how organizations work. Anonymous is a classic ???do-ocracy,??? to use a phrase that???s popular in the open source movement. As the term implies, that means rule by sheer doing: Individuals propose actions, others join in (or not), and then the Anonymous flag is flown over the result.
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Feds Look to Fight Leaks With ‘Fog of Disinformation’
Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away.
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A Start Up Trek – Rules of Thumb, the Revenge
I see all of these benchmarks as knobs to turn and adjust to maximize the effectiveness of MindGear. In reality though I don't know ahead of time where these knobs should be set. The data I've collected gives me some comfort that I know generally where to set things, but for instance I won't know whether I need an employee for every four, five or six customers until I start operating and see how things go. Hopefully I'll be in the right operating range on all my knobs, that way my engine won't explode in my face when I first crank it.
07.03.12
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Camera Bag Delivers WWII Style and Modern Day Function
Elegant is not the first word that comes to mind when photographers think of most camera bags. Boring is more like it. The Kickstarter-funded bags offered by Langly change all that.
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How Instant-Streaming Games Could Change PlayStation’s Destiny
Sony Computer Entertainment's $380 million acquisition of a game-streaming service is a bold, decisive move into cloud gaming for the PlayStation maker.
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Skater Recreates Iconic Skateboards of Yesteryear
John Greeley wanted an original Powell Peralta Mike McGill F-14 Jet Fighter skateboard. When he couldn't find one, he did the next best thing: He made one.
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After Ted, Seth MacFarlane Reboots Science Series Cosmos
The Family Guy creator is putting a fresh spin on Carl Sagan's classic science show.
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Author Claims Electric Vehicles Are a Green Illusion
To hear automakers and environmentalists tell it, electric vehicles (EVs) are the greenest and cleanest solution to personal mobility. But in his book Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, author Ozzie Zehner argues that EVs are more symbolism and marketing than environmental and fossil-fuel saviors.
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Take It or Leave It: Family-Friendly Press-Your-Luck Game
Take It or Leave It is a new press-your-luck dice game from Gamewright, a company that GeekDad is quite fond of. If your family is fond of Zombie Dice but you want a little variety in your games of chance, here's one worth trying.
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Supreme Sound and Price with Skullcandy Hesh 2 Headphones
The Skullcandy Hesh 2 headphones are another competent and coherent offering in Skullcandy's continuing line-up of music enjoyment devices.
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Contest Deadline: Star Wars Celebration VI Ticket Giveaway
If you want to enter GeekDad's random drawing for a pair of four-day Celebration VI passes, generously provided by our friends at Lucasfilm, you've only got until midnight tonight - July 3 - Eastern Daylight Time. (You can also find the entry form at this link.) We'll be announcing the winner July 5.
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The Email Charter (NNTR)
Back in June of 2011, TED Curator Chris Anderson (no relation to our Wired head honcho) and TED Scribe Jane Wulf wrote a blog post about the ridiculous amount of time that email takes ??? and a large part of the problem is that email is so easy and quick to send that it often requires more time from the recipient than it did from the sender: particularly if it's been copied to a huge list of people. Their call for help and list of suggestions resulted in the Email Charter: 10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral.
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Video Review: Xploderz Blaster Guns Fall Short for Summer Fun
On a hot summer day, there's nothing like a big blast of water to cool you off. That means a summer around our house isn't complete until we've had at least one huge water gun battle. So when I saw the new Xploderz blasters, I just had to try them out.
07.03.12
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Planetary Paths
This past week's puzzle was an interesting study in math and human nature. While we did not have nearly as many solutions offered as we do most weeks, *all* of the solutions offered were correct! Here is the puzzle as presented...
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The Chemistry of Fireworks
My family loves going to watch fireworks on the Fourth of July. Who doesn't? And our friends at ByteSize Science have a new video explaining how all those different colors are produced. (Did you know they put in extra stuff to make the boom?) The video features a demonstration by fireworks expert John A. Conkling, of Washington College in Maryland, who literally wrote the book on The Chemistry of Pyrotechnics. ByteSize Science is produced by the American Chemical Society.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 3
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed the Web
The "leap second" crash -- which hit several web operations on Saturday evening -- can be traced to a single glitch in the Linux operating system. Here's the inside story on what happened.
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Big Tech: New Patent Office Fighting Tech Giants for Talent
Einstein may have worked in the patent office, but Switzerland at the turn of the 20th century didn't have Google, Facebook and and other Silicon Valley giants stalking the earth in search of top science and engineering talent.
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Physicist Adds ‘Mathematical Glitter’ to Amazing Spider-Man
When the creators of The Amazing Spider-Man needed to devise an equation called a "decay rate algorithm" for the movie, they asked physicists for help.
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Government Demands Growing for Twitter User Data
Twitter reported Monday that the United States leads the pack when it comes to government demands for user data, with 679 requests for the first half of the year. Worldwide, Twitter said it has received more government demands for data for the first six months of the year than all of last year.
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News Round-Up: Meat, Superbugs, Denmark And Big Food
I was off-line for a week with family issues, and while I was gone, news broke out. (It senses your absence, news does. This is the real reason why coups and major foodborne outbreaks happen in August.) So while I dive into the bigger stories that seem to be happening — and get some fun [...]
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Belarus Dictator Says He’s Totally Not Building a Dynasty
Dictatorship is a hereditary business, because in a dictatorship, it's all about you. By extension, this includes your kinfolk, which can work out pretty great for them. Now Belarus' authoritarian president wants you to know he's totally not serious about handing over power to his 7-year-old son Nikolai.
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It’s Time to Build a Twitter-Free Twitter
Twitter has once again put third-party developers on notice, hinting that unofficial Twitter clients may soon be a thing of the past. That's bad for developers, but it may have a silver lining if it wakes us up from our Twitter API slumber. It was fun, but it's time we stopped relying on a centralized messaging service and used the open web to create a twitter without Twitter.
07.02.12
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Twitter Ordered to Cough Up Occupy User Data
A New York judge has ordered Twitter to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case, which the judge called one of "first impression," concerns Malcolm Harris, who was among hundreds arrested Oct. 1 in an Occupy movement march along the Brooklyn Bridge.
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When Nature Strikes, Cloud Failures Cause Storm
Can Amazon handle its fast-growing cloud? That the questionWired Enterprise‘s Robert McMillan asked Saturday. Hurricane-like storms knocked an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, offline last night, and a chunk of the internet felt it. The six-hour incident temporarily cut off a number of popular internet services, including Netflix,??Pinterest,??Heroku, and??Instagram. The outage was the??second for [...]
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Wiretap Stats Decrease, But Don’t Go Celebrating Yet
The number of criminal wiretaps authorized by federal and state judges in 2011 decreased 14 percent from the year prior to 2,732, according to the latest figures available.
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Unsung Color Photographer Saul Leiter Is In No Great Hurry
A new documentary about photographer and painter, Saul Leiter, is a reflection not only on the artist but on life and art in general. Best known for his quiet, and often abstract, color street photography, the trailer above shows Leiter in a cluttered apartment taking a modest view of his decades of influence. At age [...]
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Stunt Drivers Survive ‘Hot Wheels’ Double Dare Loop, Cars Less Fortunate
In a blend of precise speed, rogue physics and downright insanity, stunt drivers Tanner Foust and Greg Tracy have done what plastic track-obsessed kids have dreamed of for years: the Double Dare Loop.
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No Coin Toss, No Run-Off in Olympic Trial After Sprinter Withdraws
EUGENE, Oregon — There won’t be a coin toss or run-off to determine the third and final spot on the women’s 100-meter U.S. Olympic team after all. Jeneba Tarmoh, who finished in a dead heat against Allyson Felix in the 100 meters trial here, has withdrawn from the team. Tarmoh and Felix were to face [...]
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Higgs Hunt Heats Up With Final Tevatron Data
As scientists await the latest results from the LHC, the final data from the Tevatron helps confirm the mass of the Higgs boson.
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Review: How Andrew Garfield Spins Amazing Spider-Man Forward
With a winning mix of angst, athleticism and witty wisecracks, the Brit actor proves to be a perfect pick to play Marvel's geeky wall-crawler.
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The Fast and the Fearless: Athletes Go for the Gold in the X Games
The X Games double back-flipped through its 18th year of extreme sports, providing no shortage of awesomeness from famous, and infamous, athletes. Records were set, rivalries were reignited and the crashes that come with pushing the limits stunned audiences as some of the world's most fearless athletes competed in downtown Los Angeles.
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Dell Continues Quest for Software Domination
Dell has agreed to purchase Quest Software -- a San Francisco-based outfit offering tools for managing a wide range of business software -- as it continues to shift its operation toward the world of software.
07.02.12
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Video: Terrafugia Flying Car Completes Phase 1 Flight Tests
The path to a flying car is one step closer to becoming reality. That may sound like a stretch, since the flying car has been "just around the corner" for decades. But Terrafugia just completed its first phase of flight testing for its production-conforming prototype Transition "roadable aircraft" and is firmly on the path to completing the development and delivering to customers.
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Get Ready for The Children’s Republic of Shoreditch
In just two days, on July 4, 2012, a group of kids will take over an area of London. They will rename it The Children's Republic of Shoreditch. There will be passports, an embassy, and many cabinet positions. Local people will be able to visit, and check out this new, independent country. Learn more from the video they put together. Unfortunately, I am thousands of miles away from there, in the western portion of the United States. But if anyone closer by has a chance to visit, please report back in the comments! I'd love to know what this newest country is like.
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The Confusing Comparison: Google vs. Amazon
The big winners here are not the buyers, but the marketing departments that are only going to see their importance and budgets swell as they wage a war of words to secure long-term and lucrative cloud customer contracts.
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Social: Women Explain Why Google+ Is All Dudes
Women tell Google its social network is too clunky and nerdy.
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A Singing Tribute to Independence Day: 1776
Sure, there???s always Independence Day, or The Patriot, but why go for world-destroying aliens and Mel Gibson with a ponytail when you can have (the far more family-friendly) Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World as that most famous founding father from Massachusetts, John Adams?
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Eruptions Update – Summer Storm Edition
Well, this summer has gone a bit sideways here on Eruptions. For those of you following the news, central Ohio (where I am based) was hit by a “derecho” – a strong string of thunderstorms. The storms, when they reached Granville, were moving ~60 knots easterly and packing winds that were as high as 128 [...]
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Kickstarter: Hone Means No More Searching For Keys
There's nothing quite as frustrating as getting ready to leave the house in the morning and not being able to find your keys. This is usually more likely to happen on a day when you're already running late or you overslept and can't see straight or your kids are missing a shoe, or a glove or their school bags. It's one of those moments of parenting hell that we've all endured. Lucky for all of us, the days of searching the house for our keys are soon to disappear thanks to the folks behind Hone.
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Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store Energy Anywhere
A team of mechanical engineers has published a paper demonstrating its latest invention -- spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient, energy conversion-storage devices.
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Why GeekMom Exists
Why does GeekMom exist? In a large part, to provide absolute proof that GeekMoms themselves exist.
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Travel Week: Always Take Care of Your Tires
I take very good care of my car. I don't know much about cars, or care to, but I rely on my car on a daily basis. Especially now that I'm a single mom, I don't have any backup. So I take my car in for every scheduled maintenance, and check out every drip or weird noise.
07.02.12
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Dork Tower Monday
Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic. It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin.
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Pop Music Is Boring
Even political commentary set to music can surpass snooze music. I mean, pop music.
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Would This Meteor Make a Huge Crater?
A viral promotion for a new TV show shows a large asteroid smacking into London, but the only damage is to a single car. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain calculates how energetic the impact actually would have been.
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Protect Your Kid’s Ears This Fourth of July
When you think of Independence Day, you may think of cookouts, family fun and fireworks. However, it's important to keep in mind that fireworks can be dangerous and should be treated with care.
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Gallery: The Tattooed, Undead Planes of the Air Force ‘Boneyard’
Where do Air Force planes go when they die? To a scrap-metal cemetery in Arizona. But before they fade away completely, some of them decide they need some new ink.
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25 Percent of Troop Deaths Were ‘Potentially Survivable,’ Study Says
With better medical care and equipment, one in every four troops who died of their wounds in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars could have been saved, according to an unpublished study from the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research.
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How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics
The announcement of the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson may happen on July 4, marking a major achievement and something to celebrate. Or maybe not. Some scientists fear the Higgs won't be all they hoped it would be and its discovery could head physics into a crisis.
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Markets: Milestones of Failure Line RIM???s Path to Disintegration
Barack Obama may have come out as a BlackBerry addict, but it hasn't been just Tea Partiers who have defected from the president's preferred mobile platform in the years since he took office. The Waterloo, Canada-based smartphone maker has lost customers across the political spectrum, erecting multiple milestones of failure along its path toward disintegration.
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Marian Call European Adventure Quest!!!
The lovely and talented Marian Call is embarking on a tour of Europe and you can help shape the adventure. Even if you're not actually in Europe there are plenty of good reasons to participate in the Kickstarter, not the least of which is a live album.
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Steam Punk Remakes Power Grid With Compressed Air
After graduating college at the age of 17, Danielle Fong has built a startup atop an idea that's as unorthodox as her education. Lightsail Energy aims to store the world's excess energy in giants tanks of compressed air. The goal is to plug these tanks into wind and solar farms, so that they can squirrel away energy for times when it's most needed, much like reservoirs store rain water. The wind and the sun are prime sources of renewable energy, but they generate power unpredictably. LightSail's compressed air tanks, Fong and company say, will make them that much more efficient -- and ultimately make the world a greener place.
07.02.12
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