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Telstar 1: The Little Satellite That Created the Modern World 50 Years Ago
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Offers to Surrender to the FBI, At a Price
Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload associates are seeking to break the legal impasse between him and the FBI, by offering to fly to the United States without an extradition hearing in New Zealand. In return, Dotcom demands a fair trial guarantee and return of money to support their families to and to pay legal fees [...]
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Incompetent or Shrewd? 7 Tech Companies That Leaked Their Own Secrets
Not only inside sources leak secret information to the press. Oftentimes companies themselves -- and sometimes their partners -- will unwittingly reveal secret product launches through their own digital slip-ups. Here are some egregious examples from the last year.
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Hands-On: A First Look With Google+ iPad App
Just a few weeks after Google introduced its slick new Google+ app for Android phones, Android tablets, and the iPhone, the app is now available for iPad users, too. The Google+ iPad app has some limitations, but in general, it's a very pleasant experience.
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Patton Oswalt Spars With This American Life on Twitter
Patton Oswalt's gentle jab at the whimsical nature of This American Life's news stories has turned into a full-fledged Twitter fight, with hundreds of tweeting spectators joining the fray.
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How Apple’s iTravel Patent Could Threaten Android’s NFC Future
There's no end in sight for the smartphone patent wars. Apple was awarded a notable patent in the burgeoning field of NFC, but if wielded against competitors, consumers are the ones who lose out. Today, Apple was granted a patent for travel-related check-ins using near-field communications technology.
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Why the GUI Will Never Kill the Sacred Command Line
He called himself "MSP," and he appeared out of nowhere, launching a one-man flame war against a sacred cow of hardcore computing: the command line. The venue was TuxRadar, a news and reviews site that shines a spotlight on the Linux operating system and other open source software. The site had just published....
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Twitter Rolls Out New Mobile Apps for iOS and Android
Twitter released new mobile apps for Android and iOS Tuesday. Main features include "expanded tweets," better search, more fine-grained push notifications, and enhanced event support. In short, the update adds a lot more multimedia support, and more quickly delivers the information that's truly important to you.
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Wired Welcomes Mat Honan — And Now Your Gadget Lab Team Is Complete
Clear out the gutters on your Internet pipes, technology fans. Gadget Lab is now operating at full strength with the addition of Mat Honan as our new senior writer.
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Is Google Finally Getting That Design Matters? First Look at the 2012 Android Development Kit
You may think of Android as an OS for phones and tablets, but Google's ambitions run deeper. They're pitching it as a platform that could run on all kinds of devices. To get developers on board with that plan, the company announced an update to the Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK) 2012 at Google I/O.
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Exclusive: Top General Proposed Corruption Probe He’s Accused of Blocking
The allegations seemed simple: One of the Army's most promising officers covered up a corruption probe to curry favor with the White House. But internal correspondence between two of the leading U.S. generals in Afghanistan paints a more complicated picture.
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Gone in 3 Minutes: Keyless BMWs a Boon to Hacker Thieves
You've recently spent $64,000 on your flash new BMW with keyless entry. But when you wake up one morning, you discover, in a flash, that it's gone, stolen by hacker thieves who used the car's keyless feature to pinch your luxury ride.
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Stealth Fighter Jet Chokes Yet Another Pilot
The Air Force swears it's working like mad to figure out why its premiere stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, is choking its pilots. They better: just on Friday, another Raptor pilot experienced shortness of breath while flying his aircraft over Hawaii.
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FTC’s $22M Privacy Settlement With Google Is Just Puppet Waving
Google has reportedly agreed to pay a record $22.5 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that it violated a privacy consent decree it signed with the agency, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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No Strollers In Panel Rooms At Comic-Con 2012
Just announced: No strollers in programming rooms at Comic-Con 2012
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Salesforce Outage Again Highlights Weak Link: Power
What do they say about the weakest link? Forget the focus on the cloud and five-nines -- let's focus for a second on the power delivery system in the U.S.
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Markets: Knives Come Out as RIM CEO Pledges Future for BlackBerry
If there's one thing tech-business obsessives seem to love more than a good success story, it's a good failure story. The social media schadenfreude commenced Tuesday morning as Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins tried to convince shareholders at the company's annual meeting that the BlackBerry had a future.
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Motorola Atrix HD Packs High-End Specs Into a $100 Phone
Mid-range smartphones are getting better -- on paper at least. On Tuesday, Motorola introduced the Atrix HD, a $100 phone packed with high-end specs.
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Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past
Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described by Mitt Romney as an example of the White House's "crony capitalism." Now Prabhakar has a new job, this one in the Obama administration: running the Pentagon's most important research agency. But being the geek-in-chief requires investing billions on risky, high-tech bets that aren't so different from Solyndra.
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Telstar 1: The Little Satellite That Created the Modern World 50 Years Ago
A look back at the way that the Telstar 1 satellite -- the world's first active communication satellite -- shaped the modern world.
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Chrome Drops OS X 10.5, Adds New Video and Gaming Tools
Bad news for those with older Macs, Google's Chrome web browser is dropping support for OS X 10.5. But Chrome 21, the last version to support older Macs, does have some nice new tricks up its sleeve, including the ability to grab video from your device's camera and play web-based games with a real game controller.
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July Cloudchat: How Can Cloud Drive Sustainability?
By??Katie Keating UPDATED: Two panelists added for Thursday???s chat. Check out additional bios and Twitter handles below. It???s a well known fact that cloud computing drives efficient IT operations and business innovation. But the benefits don???t stop there, as efficient operations lead to more sustainable practices throughout the organization. This month???s #cloudchat, taking place??Thursday, July [...]
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Magnetic Cells Give Sense of Direction to Fish
Scientists have isolated magnetic cells in the fish that respond to Earth's geomagnetic fields. The advance may help researchers get to the root of magnetic sensing in a variety of creatures, including birds.
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Pentagon???s Mega Stun Gun Could Blast You Unconscious
Imagine a stun gun that doesn't just drop you to the floor, but renders you unconscious for several minutes. This tech is called a "nano-second electrical pulse," and the Pentagon believes it could be used in a gun that would hit targets with high voltages of electricity for an amazingly short amount of time ??? we're talking billionths of seconds here. That would make the enemy an easy capture. But today's stun guns are already linked to dozens, if not hundreds, of abusive incidents. What happens if they become even more powerful?
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Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, Then Beats Them
A computer scientist has detailed how artificial intelligence systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.
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Steely Dan and the Ancient Near East
Many of you have heard of the band Steely Dan. But have you ever wondered what Ancient Near Eastern scholars think of this rock group? You probably haven’t. Well, I’m still not sure if they think of this band, but I did study the Ancient Near East in college. Therefore, this is what I think [...]
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Game Review: Lego City Alarm
The Lego City Alarm game pits good guys against bad guys on a micro-scale board. As the robbers, players try to collect enough money to win the game. The police work to capture the robbers and put them in jail.
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Smart Summer Fun: 30 Ideas For Your Geeklets
Keep brains active 30 ways this summer.
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Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
I was wearing my newest Tesla t-shirt when a guy on the street stopped me to say "Tesla? Didn't he invent, like, everything?" Yes. Yes, he did. Today marks Tesla's birthday. Please join me today in celebrating the life of Nikola Tesla! Alright class, gather around as we go over some of his many many accomplishments and then I'll give you some assigned reading to take home.
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Dark Matters Returns to Science Channel
If you liked Science Channel's always bizarre and often morbid science history show Dark Matters: Twisted But True when it aired last summer, you'll be happy to know it's back for another six-episode season.
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Bring Out Your Cosplay: A Doctor Who Competition
Dress up as the Eleventh Doctor and win some Whoniverse goodies from BBCAmerica.
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Welcome Back Reading Rainbow, We Missed You!
When I was in school, Reading Rainbow was one of my favorite TV shows. The signature theme song would get stuck in my head for most of the day after watching whichever episode my teacher put on for us. Levar Burton felt like a friend I had met in the library and I looked forward to the books he would use in each episode. The thing I really liked about Levar was how excited and eager he was to read each book. I feel like his enthusiasm to read rubbed of on me a little bit.
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Ahoy, Scallywags, Give Us Yer Loot
Avast, me hearties! We've got our pile of booty and now we have to divvy it up ??? but we're pirates, after all. Who wants to be fair? Scallywags is a quick-playing family game of "pirates and plund-arrr" from Gamewright. And while we're at it, I'll throw in a review of Loot, another Gamewright pirate game (with the same artist, Gary Locke).
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The Ins and Outs of Community Supported Fisheries
When it comes to food, I make an effort to buy local items as often as possible. Part of it is to financially support my state, if not my county, and part of it is to minimize the pollution required to transport products exported from far away. When faced with seafood choices however, my wannabe-environmentalist mind feels racked with guilt and confusion. Is wild seafood really always better than farmed? How do I know if it was harvested in a sustainable way When, where and how was the seafood caught? Sarah Rathbone from Santa Barbara Community Seafood answers by burning questions!
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The 100 Games Everyone Should Play
I recently attended the 9th Annual Games for Change Festival in New York City. Prior to and during the conference, Games for Change and ESI Designs polled the attendees and crowdsourced the 100 Games Everyone Should Play.
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MLB 12 The Show Predicts National League Win in Midsummer Classic
In anticipation of tonight's All Star Game, Sony Computer Entertainment America simulated the Midsummer Classic on the Playstation 3. Using the game, MLB 12 The Show, SCEA predicted that the National League will be victorious by a close score of 3-2, pushing the NL's streak to three straight.
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A Start Up Trek – Global Scale
There is a lot more to research about the globe option. How many projectors will I need? If I only illuminate around the equator then then the top and bottom of the globe will see little light. How will I coordinate the projectors from a single image? What sort of distorting lens will I need? And most importantly, will I be able to find enough uses for the globe to justify the expense? I could go on, but its time to medicate again. Besides, I think maybe Phineas and Ferb built one of these before. Maybe I can get some hints.
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Google Remakes Online Empire With ‘Colossus’
More than a decade ago, Google built a new foundation for its search engine. It was called the Google File System ??? GFS, for short. But Google no longer uses GFS. Two years ago, the company moved its search to a new software foundation based on a revamped file system known as Colossus, and Urs H??lzle ??? the man who oversees Google???s worldwide network of data centers ??? tells Wired that Colossus now underpins virtually all of Google???s web services.
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Ouya: The $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console
TV videogames are due for a disruption. Is a $99 console called Ouya the device that could do it?
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Silver-Screen Tinkering: 10 Badass Makers From Classic Movies
Holy handicraft, Batman! As summer's blockbusters pass through megaplexes faster than speeding bullets, we've noticed a trend: superheroes are the greatest designers, inventors, and scrappy do-it-yourselfers we know. Many of our pop-culture icons and sci-fi madcaps achieved greatness not by magic or mutant powers, but with brains and bandsaws. Here's our top 10 list of the most badass makers in film, who've inspired mere mortals everywhere to follow in their footsteps.
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Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anonymous
One fine day, Sony called Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot to use a song of his in a commercial. Little did they think that the request to use the anthem extolling Anonymous and Bradley Manning would turn into an event, bringing Empire and Sony's longtime foe Anonymous together. Wired brings Empire and a handful of Anons together for a free-wheeling online chat.
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New Comic The Inventor Electrifies Nikola Tesla’s Mad Genius
The action in upcoming comic book The Inventor is fueled by the fascinating life and amazing inventions of Nikola Tesla, the 19th-century physicist and electrical engineer who helped create our 21st-century future before dying penniless.
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Social: Why You???re Not Friends With Your Neighbors
Nextdoor and Topix, two online community networks, hope virtual fences will translate to real businesses.
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July 10, 1962: Swedes Set to Belt Us All … Safely
Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder, vehicle safety belt.
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Nokia 808 PureView: Awesome Camera, Agonizing Everything Else
The Nokia 808 PureView is captivating because of one feature, and one feature alone: the on-board 41-megapixel camera. Everything else about it is a disaster.
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Exclusive: Wired Test-Drives Boeing’s New 787 Dreamliner
It's not often that you find yourself on the flight deck of the world's most advanced passenger aircraft. But that's where I am, flying west over Missouri, sitting in the right seat next to Boeing test pilot Randy Neville aboard the all-new 787 Dreamliner.
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Geek Diversity Is at the Heart of Imagine Cup
The overall winners of the 2012 Imagine Cup being held in Sydney will be announced on Tuesday. But, in the meantime it is worth reflecting on the breadth of the value of this world wide program. I have been hanging out and meeting students and participants in Sydney the last few days, and what has struck me is the diversity of the existing and emerging developer community.
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Batman’s Bio: How Two Crime-Fighting Legends Led to One Dark Knight
Everyone knows the story: After young Bruce Wayne saw his parents murdered in a mugging gone awry, a sonar-deficient bat flew in the window of his mansion, prompting him to become a living embodiment of vengeance and/or the night. But the real-life inspiration for Batman can be found in two other crime-fighting characters.
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The Expanse, Book 2: Caliban’s War Review
Book 2 in The Expanse Trilogy continues the story of life in the near future where humans have expanded out into our solar system. But humans will be humans, and they've brought the good and the bad with them. Caliban's War continues the story of how Earth, Mars, and the new Outer Planet Alliance will try to make peace and live together... or die trying.
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A Geek’s Dream: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live Radio Show Touring the UK
I had the pleasure of catching the Hitchhiker's Live radio show that is currently touring theaters in the United Kingdom. I thought fans who can???t be in the UK for the tour might like to hear a little about it.
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Watch Out, Attenborough! Children Narrate Planet Earth
My children have grown up with David Attenborough documentaries as their staple screen-based activity. It like muesli for television. But, I love what the BBC have done here with this Planet Earth series promo.
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Programmable Cardboard Robotic Arm Hits Kickstarter
Ken Ihara got started playing with robots during his time as an assistant in the Harvard Robotics Lab. Ken recently started a kickstarter for his latest creation The Cardboard Robotic Arm. With a reach just shy of six feet this is a work of cardboard engineering art.
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How This Landlubber’s Blog Became the Navy’s Ideas Machine
Raymond Pritchett is an IT consultant with no military experience whatsoever. Yet he's become one of the naval community's most influential figures, thanks to his ultra-nerdy blog on all things Navy.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 10
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Next Star Trek Villain Unveiled! (We Hope…)
Has the next Star Trek villain been revealed, or is this just a fake trail to lead us off the scent?
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Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Postponed Until March 2013
The United States' court case against Megaupload founders Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk for alleged copyright infringement was dealt another setback Tuesday, after the New Zealand extradition hearing for the four was moved to March 2013.
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Review: Lenovo IdeaPad U310 Ultrabook
Barely seven months ago, Lenovo released its excellent IdeaPad U300s, the company’s consumer-friendly entry to the ultrabook market. Now Lenovo is back with an update, the U310. To the casual eye, not a lot appears to have changed. It’s still a 13.3-inch aluminum slab of a laptop with a 1366×768-pixel resolution screen. The island keyboard [...]
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iPhone Coding Language Now World’s Third Most Popular
Objective-C -- the programming language used to build applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad -- is now the third most popular language on Earth, according to a new study.
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Gadget Lab Show: Roomba, App Store Woes and Nokia 808 PureView
This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang takes a look at the new Roomba, chats about problems in the Apple App Store this week, and goes hands-on with a 41-megapixel Nokia smartphone.
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Review: Nokia 808 PureView
The Nokia 808 PureView is the most exciting smartphone on the market that you shouldn’t buy. The phone generated a ton of buzz at February’s Mobile World Congress, not because it sports a stunning display or has the latest software features — in fact, the 808 PureView runs on Symbian, an outdated operating system Nokia [...]
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Open Source Darling GitHub Takes $100M From VC King
GitHub -- the darling of the software development world that for so many years refused to take a dime of venture capital funding -- is taking a serious helping of venture funding: $100 million, to be exact.
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I Need to See You Again: Missed Connections Street Art
You know Craigslist's Missed Connections, right? The personals page where you log a brief interaction with a stranger who you hope to see again? The posts are a candid, wistful, often hilarious look at interactions -- or the lack thereof -- between people in the digital age, and beg the question, "Have we become so used to interacting online that we can't say 'hi' in person?"
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Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in BitTorrent Lawsuits
A handful of pornography producers are being accused of racketeering, fraud, defamation and other charges in connection to their BitTorrent online litigation trolling strategies.
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Fiery Image Shows Life and Death of Stars in Vela C
Two nebulous blue orbs stand out against a wispy red background in this image of the Vela C region. Vela C is one of four regions in what is called the Vela Molecular Ridge, a vast complex of gas and dust located 2,300 light-years from Earth and weighing approximately 500,000 times the mass of our sun. Vela C contains more material than any other part of the molecular cloud.
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Anonymous Group Says It Gave Syrian E-mails to WikiLeaks
Days after WikiLeaks began releasing a trove of more than 2 million emails stolen from Syrian officials, ministries and companies, members of an Anonymous group have claimed responsibility for the hacks and document dump to Wikileaks.
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Twitter App for iOS to Receive Major Overhaul, According to iOS 6 Beta
The Twitter iOS app could be getting a major facelift in the near future, according to leaked information in iOS 6 beta's redesigned App Store.
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Cloud Said to Create Silver Lining for IT
Global spending on IT may grow faster than forecast -- at a 3 percent pace to $3.6 trillion this year -- the research firm Gartner said on Monday, with spending on public cloud services expected to increase from $91 billion last year to $109 billion this year. Meanwhile, another report finds CIOs are warming to the cloud. Is the cloud itself a silver lining in an otherwise weak IT environment?
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Inside Brooklyn’s DIY Spacesuit Startup
A Brooklyn-based startup called Final Frontier Design is building spacesuits. Get an exclusive look inside their workshop.
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He Killed Uncle Ben! An Interview with Amazing Spider-Man’s Leif Gantvoort
For a math whiz who spent high school avoiding farm chores by participating in school theater productions, the chance to play any role in a major comic book film is pretty cool. But for Leif Gantvoort, an actor with serious creds as both a comic book fan and geeky dad, the opportunity to play a part in the newly released The Amazing Spider-Man was, well, amazing
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Prometheus Actor Fassbender to Star in Assassin’s Creed Flick
Ubisoft wants Assassin's Creed to be its next property to hit the silver screen.
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Instead of Upgrading Helicopters, Army Wants to Upgrade Pilots
The Army has found a solution to fixing its aging helicopter fleet. It doesn't even require upgrading the helicopters, or designing new and more modern ones. Indeed, the helicopters will remain largely the same. It's the pilots who are getting upgraded.
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Firefox Developer: ‘Everybody Hates Firefox Updates’
A Mozilla developer says what Firefox users already know: Firefox updates are out of control. You know what's cooler than updating your software every six weeks? Pretty much everything.
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Big Tech: Microsoft Strengthens Patent Arsenal With Purchase of Perceptive Pixel
Microsoft is buying Perceptive Pixel for its touchscreen expertise and a few patents, just in case Apple decides to throw a lawsuit at the Surface tablet.
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Traditional Sexual Values Challenged in Classic Animal Study
From peacock tails to stag antlers, the idea that animal evolution is shaped by males boasting and fighting to win female favor is a central biological dogma. Under closer scrutiny, however, the dogma doesn't seem to hold. A new replication of a foundational mid-20th century mate-choice study by English geneticist Angus Bateman came to very different conclusions than the original.
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Observation Deck: Science vs. Politics Edition
Which is more important: The presidential election or the discovery of the Higgs boson? I suppose the answer depends on what we mean by "important," and individual temperament. In this week's Observation Deck, I try to figure out the answer, by way of some thinking about the differences between science journalism and political journalism as I've practiced them.
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Small Revolution: Cloud Levels the Playing Field
A new class of web-based business apps has emerged to level the playing field, giving equal advantage to solo and small businesses, writes Clio's Jack Newton.
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Eruption Update for July 9, 2012: Nyiragongo and Etna Seen From Space
So, we made it back to Ohio only to find that the neutral line from the pole in front of our house is broken. Now, we wait for AEP Ohio to get someone to fix the line, which could be a few days to a week. So much for getting back to normal! Anyway, I [...]
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Physics Shows Batman’s Cape Is Suicide Machine
Physicists have revealed that the impact of the Batman's plunge back to Earth after a little lofty cape-gliding would be the equivalent of being hit by a car at 50 mph.
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New Opera 12.50 Dons WebKit Disguise
Opera Software has released an early preview of Opera 12.50, notable for its controversial decision to support a CSS prefix meant only for WebKit browsers.
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Google Open Sources Coding Kit That Lives Online
Google doesn't want Collide, a tool that lets programmers collaborate on coding projects via their web browsers. But you can have it.
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Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.The companies said they were working around the clock and charging millions in fees to keep up with ever-growing demands. At least one of the carriers urged Congress to clarify the law on when probable-cause warrants were required to divulge customer data.
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Big Tech: Father of Australian Internet Warns of Address Crunch
Deprived of TV as a kid, Geoff Huston read a lot of books, which led to a love of words that, oddly enough, led to the internet in Australia. Now Huston says the openness he prizes in the internet is under threat.
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South Pole Neutron Detectors Could Forecast Solar Storms
Solar storms are notoriously difficult to predict, but a new application of the South Pole's neutron sensors could help humanity take shelter.
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Do You Have an Outlet I Might Use?
The African wild seems like an impossible place to get around with an electric vehicle, but one team triumphed. Astrobiologist, exploration fan and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow describes what the 3,000-mile journey took to complete.
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75 Million and Counting…Is ComiXology the Bridge to a New Age of Comics?
When DC Comics announced their New 52 initiative last fall, the part that struck me as the most revolutionary was not about content. It was about their choice to make their weekly print comics available as digital comics for the same price on the same day through ComiXology. The direct market of local comic book shops has long been the only was to distribute weekly comics. It can be an oasis for the long-time comic fan and yet also a barrier to new readers. Some local stores are wonderful, others are clubby and less welcoming to newcomers and some people are not close enough to have access to a shop at all.
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Could the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Fly?
In the movie The Avengers, an aircraft carrier turns into an airship. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain explores just how big the aircraft's rotors would have to be.
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17 Year Old Author Talks About Lego Heavy Weapons
Jack Streat was just 16 years old when No Starch Press spotted his automated Lego weapons on YouTube and approached him about writing the book that would ultimately become Lego Heavy Weapons. Jack became a published author at the age of 17 when the book was released in May.
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Geeking Out in Orlando: EPCOT
Welcome to my Geeking Out in Orlando mini-series! Earlier this week we looked at Disney's Animal Kingdom and today we move on over to EPCOT. EPCOT (previous known as EPCOT Center) is in my opinion, not only one of the geekiest theme parks in the world, but simply one of the geekiest places in the world.
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HUGE Airventure Giveaway to Celebrate Red Tails on Home Video!
The Lucasfilm-produced film Red Tails came out on DVD and Blu-ray in May, but you can get the chance to celebrate the release later this month in style! Lucasfilm is sponsoring the giveaway of a trip to the OshKosh Airventure in Wisconsin for one winner, and it comes with all sorts of awesome side benefits.
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A Race With Prosthetics at the London Olympics
Once again Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, challenges able bodied runners, this time in the Olympics.
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Poster + Movie Sneak Peek at SDCC: Pacific Rim
Sounds like Warner Bros. will offer a sneak peek of its aliens vs. robots flick, Pacific Rim, to San Diego Comic Con attendees next week.
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Photog Trades Dignity for Recognition With Awful Studio Portraits
It's difficult to get noticed in the world photography. Meetings, handshakes, business cards, portfolio reviews, follow-up e-mails and thank-you cards create a fog of noise that's almost impossible to cut through. That's why photographer and adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy Gordon Stettinius developed his own idiosyncratic way of staying in the memory ??? by sending intentionally bad 8x10s of himself, in character, as follow-ups to industry professionals.
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5 Ways to Stop National Security Leaks (But Do You Really Want To?)
The Senate and House intelligence committees are mad as hell about national security programs leaking to the press, and they're mulling measures that would penalize leaking. Just one problem: what they're considering won't stop leaks; they'll just make routine journalism harder. The measures that actually would making leaking harder would give politicians, journalists and citizens pause. (Hint: one of them is an alcohol ban.)
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Social: Cleaning Up the Seedy World of Apps, Facebook Style
Facebook is leading the charge against corrupting app-store leaderboards from Apple and Google.
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Who Has the Highest Ranking?
Which stinks more, a circus tent or a canoe? Which would you take to a lonely deserted island, a phonograph or a potted flower? However you answer the question, you want to rise as high as you can in the ranks ??? but if you're too obvious, then you'll be found out. Ranking is a fun party game of opinions and bluffing.
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Mac or PC? There’s a Camp For That
Apple Stores and Microsoft Stores across the country are offering free summer camps for kids ages 8-13.
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Alt Text: After the Higgs Boson, Science Seeks ‘Gosh Particles’
The Higgs boson has finally been located, but several theoretical particles remain unconfirmed by physicists. Discovering one of these "gosh particles" would mean a surefire Nobel prize for some lucky scientist.
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Armor on the Field: The NFL???s Headlong Race to Build the Unbreakable Linebacker
Rob Vito is the charismatic CEO of Unequal Technologies, a Philadelphia company that manufactures military-grade Kevlar padding for sports equipment. Since 2010, Vito has been touting Kevlar as the best shock-suppression material in the world and boasting that his patented ???EXO Skeleton CRT??? -- CRT for ???concussion reduction technology??? -- absorbs as much as a quarter of the force a player takes to the head or chest, significantly reducing the risk of injury. But in the rush to make their players unbreakable, pro teams aren???t asking many questions of Vito beyond how quickly he can do the job.
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Alexander Outland: Space Pirate Review — Gotta Love a Scoundrel
Review of Alexander Outland: Space Pirate, a new book from G. J. Koch. The crew of the Sixty-Nine find themselves under fire from a mysterious fleet of ships that chase them to Herion, a dangerous planet that may make them wish they'd stayed and fought it out in space.
07.09.12 -
RHA Headphones: Lightweight But Solid
Last time I wrote a headphone review, I swore off doing more, given that I'd used up what I had to say about headphones. But RHA (a division Reid Heath Ltd.) intrigued me, especially as they were a small company and they're located in the UK. I wondered if there would be any serious design differences between United States and British companies.
07.09.12 -
Tips for a Great Trip to Disney World
Want to visit Disney World for a family vacation? Here are some tips and recommendations that might make your trip more fun.
07.09.12
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