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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/chime/">Charity Puzzle Game Chime Rings a Familiar Bell</a></h1>
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Chime, a downloadable musical puzzle game for the Xbox 360, feels like the love child of Tetris and Lumines.
With only five playable levels, the game feels a little light on content. But since publisher OneBigGame is a non-profit dedicated to making games that benefit children’s charities, the lack of variety is more than forgivable. [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/heroes/">So Long, Heroes. We’ll (Perhaps) Miss You</a></h1>
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That giant sucking sound you hear in Hollywood is the last bit of oxygen being inhaled by Heroes, before it exhales in Monday night’s Aldous Huxley-fied season finale, “Brave New World.” Perhaps for the last time.
The persistent rumor is that “Brave New World” could be the show’s final episode, but for many viewers, there’s little [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/barnes-nobles-nook-e-reader-to-hit-stores/">Barnes & Noble’s Nook E-Reader To Hit Stores</a></h1>
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble said Monday that its Nook electronic reader would be available in most of its physical stores as of Wednesday, ahead of Valentine’s Day, ending weeks of delays.
The Nook e-reader, which Barnes & Noble launched in October and competes with devices such as Amazon.com’s Kindle, had previously only been [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/boeing-747-8-first-flight/">Boeing’s Biggest Bird Leaves the Nest</a></h1>
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EVERETT, Washington — Boeing’s biggest commercial airplane took off for the first time today, one day short of the 41st anniversary of the maiden flight of the first 747.
The 747-8, airframe No. RC501, taxied onto runway 34L at Paine Field, then sped down the runway and into the air at 12:39 p.m. It quickly vanished [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/2011-ford-shelby-gt500/">Ford Shelby GT500: Too Much Is Just Enough</a></h1>
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There’s no replacement for displacement, and although Carroll Shelby didn’t coin the phrase, he sure believes in it. He’s been spreading that gospel since back in the day when he was shoehorning Ford V8s into ACs and Sunbeams and literally making Ford’s Mustang live up to its pony car name.
Ol’ Shel is at it again, [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/canon-hd-cameras/">Canon Announces New HD-Shooting Cameras</a></h1>
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Still pictures? That’s so 20th century.
Camera makers must figure by now that if they don’t have high-definition video, they don’t have squat, and Canon’s latest models are no exception.
Canon added to the pile of pre-PMA 2010 announcements on Monday with its newest low-end SLR, the EOS Rebel T2i. This camera has a new 18-megapixel sensor, [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/alice-super-bowl-trailer/">Tim Burton’s Alice Leads Super Bowl Trailer Hit Parade</a></h1>
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Tim Burton took his new Alice in Wonderland teaser down the rabbit hole in front of 106 million Super Bowl viewers Sunday and emerged with the most memorable trailer of the day.
The Alice clip (embedded above), which zeroed in on the hyper-jolly Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp) and the living pig stool for [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/dantes-inferno-super-bowl/">EA ‘Doubles Down’ With Dante’s Inferno Super Bowl Ad</a></h1>
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Electronic Arts bet big on the Super Bowl this weekend, forking over millions to run an ad for Dante’s Inferno during the big game.
Nielsen Co.’s ratings for Super Bowl XLIV show it as the most-watched program in television history, with about 106 million viewers. That beats the previous record, set by the season finale [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/how-to-smuggle-secret-information-with-voip/">How To: Smuggle Secret Information with VOIP</a></h1>
<p>In the 5th Century BCE, the Greek tyrant Histiaeus devised a clever new way to send hidden messages. He shaved the head of one of his servants, tattooed the missive on his head, and waited for his hair to grow back before sending the messenger out. When the courier arrive, his head was [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/better-place-israel/">Electric Cars, And Chargers, Poised to Flood Israel</a></h1>
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Shai Agassi boldly predicts one-third of Israel’s cars will run on electricity within five years. It would be an outlandish claim if the entrepreneur hadn’t lined up a sweet plan to jump-start the country’s adoption of EVs.
Agassi’s Silicon Valley startup Better Place has signed a deal under which 92 corporate fleet owners will replace their [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/video-take-a-ride-on-the-death-swing/">Video: Take a Ride on the Swing of Death</a></h1>
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I have done a great many stupid things in my life: hiking deep in the Canadian Rockies without a map, drinking a large bottle of Robotussin in one swig, eating six hot dogs right before my SATs. But I have never done anything even remotely as dumb as these Aussie cliff-swingers. Ladies and germs, I [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/BitDOTly_Pro_Makes_it_Dead_Simple_to_Create_Your_Own_URL_Shortener">Bit.ly Pro Makes it Dead Simple to Create Your Own URL Shortener</a></h1>
<p>Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL.
The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows you to set up a short domain and then point that domain to the Bit.ly servers. From there Bit.ly Pro works [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/we-love-xkcd/">Geek Heroes Sing ‘We Love Xkcd‘</a></h1>
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Geek stars including Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton bring to life an xkcd webcomic in a new video (embedded above).
Produced by Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle, the video is a live-action version of “I Love xkcd,” an animated clip by Noam Raby. Both videos are based on the xkcd strip “Xkcd Loves the [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-sales/">Apple Might Slash iPad Prices If Initial Sales Are Slow</a></h1>
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The iPad’s $500 starting price was lower than people expected, but Apple could still make price cuts if the device fails to gain traction among consumers, says an analyst.
Recounting his meeting with Apple executives, Bill Shope of Credit Suisse said Apple indicated it would consider lowering prices if initial demand appears to be slow.
???While it [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/farewell-william-tenn-and-thanks/">Farewell, William Tenn. And, Thanks</a></h1>
<p>Fans of classic science fiction will be saddened to hear that one of its most imaginative writers has passed. In the 1950s and 1960s, William Tenn stood with pioneers like Theodore Sturgeon in creating vivid scenarios of mind-blowing alien worlds in novels and stories that illuminated emotional, political and ethical issues of good old humanity. [...]</p>
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02.08.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/art-floppy-disks/">Artist Conjures Paintings Out of Floppy Disks</a></h1>
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Artists frequently turn to technology for inspiration or commentary, utilizing components such as chips, ink cartridges and disk drives to make their art. Remember the Mona Lisa created from motherboard bits or the motorcycle from old hard drives?
Now, London artist Nick Gentry has turned forgotten floppy disk drives into art by using them as a [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Weave_May_Let_You_Keep_Firefox_and_Your_iPhone_in_Sync">Weave May Let You Keep Firefox and Your iPhone in Sync</a></h1>
<p>Want to see all your open Firefox tabs on your iPhone? There may soon be an app for that.
There’s already a demo app and a code library that will let someone build an app for that, thanks to Mozilla’s recent efforts to extend Weave, its syncing tool for Firefox, to devices like the [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/first-volt-rolls-off-the-line-nov-1/">First Chevrolet Volt Rolls Off The Line Nov. 1</a></h1>
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Mark your calendars — General Motors fires up the Volt assembly line on Nov. 1.
Lyle Dennis over at GM-Volt.com got his hands on the 2011 model year ordering guide the brass sent to dealers, and it says that’s the day GM plans to begin building production models of the Chevrolet Volt. The General always has [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/five-for-fighting-2810/">Five for Fighting 2/8/10</a></h1>
<p>* Gates: tighten the screws on Tehran
* Iran ramps up drone production
* Water at Kandahar Air Field tests positive for malaria, hepatitis
* Trojan spoofs NSA, targets .mil, .gov computers
* Meltdown in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province
[High five: DL]
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02.08.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/live-tweeting-the-haiti-rebuild/">Live-Tweeting the Haiti Rebuild</a></h1>
<p>If you’re not following the Danger Room Twitter feed yet, now’s the time to sign up. Nathan Hodge is on the ground in Port-au-Price, and live-Tweeting often-nutty scene there, in addition to his blogging. Sample: “#1 hit song: ‘we are sleeping in the streets, [Haitian President] Preval is passed out drunk.’”
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02.08.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/macbookpro/">Clues Hint at Possible MacBook Pro With Core i7 Chip</a></h1>
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Computer geeks over the weekend had a dorkgasm at the sight of a report hinting at an upcoming MacBook Pro equipped with Intel’s latest mobile processor.
Readers of MacRumors.com spotted Geekbench benchmark results for what appears to be a MacBook Pro featuring a 2.66GHz Core i7 M620, a high-end dual core processor featuring Intel’s Hyperthreading and [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/review-bioshock-2/">Review: Daddy-Daughter Killing Sprees Power BioShock 2</a></h1>
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The rusting ruins of a dead underwater paradise, built on the desperate dreams of a madman; the survivors, drugged into insanity; the decaying corpses of those who hung themselves rather than live another day in Rapture.
Ah, BioShock’s watery hell remains just as I remember it. You can go home again, after all.
That nightmarish setting was [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife">GameLife</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/googles-real-time-voice-translator-could-make-any-language-lingua-franca/">Google’s Real-Time Voice Translator Could Make Any Language Lingua Franca</a></h1>
<p>Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android smartphones to convert one language into another quickly enough to allow speakers without a common language to communicate with one another in near real time.
We’ve seen a few stabs at this concept, like a 63,000-word real-time translator and a cute 400-phrase iPhone app, both of [...]</p>
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02.08.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/boy-scouts-at-100-years/">After 100 Years, Are The Boy Scouts Still Relevant?</a></h1>
<p>Today, February 8th, marks the centennial of Boy Scouts in America. Over the past century, more than 110 million boys, young men, moms and dads have been members of the BSA. However, with such a momentous celebration at-hand, the Boy Scouts, in many ways, are a struggling organization. At a time when shows like “Man [...]</p>
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02.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/boeings-new-747-8-ready-for-first-flight-today/">Boeing’s New 747-8 Ready For First Flight Today</a></h1>
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It’s official. For the second time in less than two months, a new Boeing design will make its first flight today. Currently the weather at Paine Field in Everett is looking good for the scheduled 10am first flight of the 747-8 (airframe RC501).
The new freighter version of Boeing’s classic 747 is the largest airliner the [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/the-geekdad-space-report-for-february-8-2010/">The GeekDad Space Report for February 8, 2010</a></h1>
<p>Hello all from the Hoth-like D.C. Metro area! We are all digging out here but space exploration marches on!
The launch of a Progress supply ship went off on time this past week and rendezvoused with the ISS on Thursday. Meanwhile, at the Kennedy Space Center, the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour was delayed from Sunday [...]</p>
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02.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/dork-tower-monday-7/">Dork Tower Monday</a></h1>
<p>Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
Find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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02.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/review-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter/">Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter</a></h1>
<p>After the surprise success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith is following up his New York Times best-seller with the history/vampire mashup, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Graham-Smith’s publisher sent a galley copy of the book (due for release on March 2, 2010) and we’re pleased to bring you the GeekDad take on this [...]</p>
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02.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/10-ways-to-a-geeky-girls-heart/">10 Ways to a Geeky Girl’s Heart</a></h1>
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Image by qthomasbower via Flickr*
If you’re a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been with her forever or if she’s a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won’t always work. Flowers can be construed as boring, since they’ll just die. Chocolates are tasty, but tend to add [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/slugging-it-out-slug-wars-for-iphone/">Slugging It Out: Slug Wars for iPhone</a></h1>
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Down in the garden there is a war being fought … slowly. Two armies of slugs face each other across the battlefield, each determined to break into the opponent’s base. Armed with acorn guns and salt shakers, they race???er, trudge???into the fray.
Slug Wars is a new real-time strategy game for the iPhone and iPod touch, [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/geekdad-puzzle-of-the-week-haflings-and-whole-pints/">GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Hafling’s and Whole Pints</a></h1>
<p>It’s closing time at the Prancing Pony and the inn keeper is trying to get his last two customers to go home. Merry and Pippin refuse to go without one last drink. If they weren’t such good friends of Gandalf they would be out on their little hobbit butts. To avoid any trouble [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/no-country-for-old-men/">21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men</a></h1>
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We’re breaking into an elevated enemy base surrounded by jungle. We have the benefit of cover, lush overgrowth and ancient ruins. But the enemy has the advantage. The approach to their base becomes Hamburger Hill. I die over and over, sniped by a hundred unseen gunmen, trying to push my way toward the goal. The [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/ad-network-vets-now-trying-to-clean-up-their-act/">Ad Network Vets Now Trying to Clean Up Their Acts</a></h1>
<p>Consumers who have been misled by advertisements into buying expensive products or services — or who are just plain irked to be confronted by yet another cheesy ad about working at home — might wonder where those ads are coming from, and why they appear on otherwise respectable websites. The answer is complicated, but becoming [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/googles-super-bowl-ad-a-romance-in-search/">Google’s Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search (Updated)</a></h1>
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Google ??? a big advertising company that doesn’t advertise ??? debuted at the Super Bowl Sunday. Their ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man who finds love after a simple plan to study abroad in Paris turns [...]</p>
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02.07.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/rewiring-haiti-patience-wears-thin-in-port-au-prince/">Rewiring Haiti: Patience Wears Thin in Port-au-Prince</a></h1>
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — In a soccer field near the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, rows of green canvas tents are arranged neatly on the pitch, ready to receive new arrivals. This small encampment, built in recent days by Marines of Combat Logistics Battalion 24, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., represents a transition of sorts: It will [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/how-scott-brown-friended-tweeted-and-loled-his-way-into-the-senate/">How Scott Brown Friended, Tweeted and LOLed His Way Into The Senate</a></h1>
<p>
The swearing-in this week of Republican Scott Brown as the junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts caps a dramatic, come-from-way-behind election campaign that owes much, though not everything, to a shrewd use of online information technology and social networking.
Brown himself, even in his campaigns as a state senator from Wrentham, was an early and enthusiastic adopter [...]</p>
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02.07.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/when-life-gives-you-snow-make-some-snow-ice-cream/">When Life Gives You Snow, Make Some Snow Ice Cream</a></h1>
<p>
Frank Zappa’s famous warning is wise, but don’t let it scare you off from eating the good, white stuff.
Snow ice cream is ??a great recipe for kids: cheap ingredients, no cooking, big payoff at the end, long-lasting memories. (I remember having some circa 1975.)
You can look around on the Web for a recipe if you [...]</p>
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02.07.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad">GeekDad</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/super-bowl-geeks-how-much-action-is-there-really-in-an-nfl-football-game/">Super Bowl Geeks: How Much Action Is There Really In An NFL Football Game?</a></h1>
<p>
(This post originally ran on December 8, 2008)
Sunday afternoon was cold and gray, the weekend was drawing to a close and all I wanted to do was veg out in front of the television and enjoy the roaring fire in the fireplace. I asked my son if he???d like to watch a football game with [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad">GeekDad</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/super-bowl-snack-stadium/">Super Bowl ‘Snack Stadium’ Built From 50 Kinds of Junk Food</a></h1>
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Call it a decadent exercise in conspicuous consumption or a stunning feat of flour, salt and sugar-based architecture.
Either way, three junk-food sculptors honored Sunday’s Super Bowl by crafting a 7-foot replica of Miami’s Sun Life Stadium out of Twinkies, Slim Jims, Doritos and four dozen other snacks totaling 110,428 calories.
Break.com’s making-of video, embedded right, [...]</p>
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02.07.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/chewie-says-lots-of-snowwwwrrggh/">Chewie Says: “Lots of Snowwwwrrggh!”</a></h1>
<p>Centimeters v. inches? Meters v. feet?
Come on, we’re GeekDads. We measure snow a little differently. May I present the soon-to-be-galactically-adopted Giant Vintage Kenner Chewbacca Scale.
Chewie reported to his post around 9:00 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 5, when the above photo was taken. (For the record, there was virtually no snow on the ground Friday morning.)
At [...]</p>
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02.06.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad">GeekDad</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/carly-fiorinas-demon-sheep-haunts-senate-race-in-california/">Carly Fiorina’s ‘Demon Sheep’ Haunts Senate Race in California</a></h1>
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bizarre campaign ad by Senate candidate Carly Fiorina featuring what has been dubbed a “Demon Sheep” has transcended California politics to become an Internet sensation, but analysts wonder if it was such a good idea.
The Internet video, which features a man in a sheep costume with glowing red eyes crawling [...]</p>
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02.06.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/kinetica-art-fair/">Sound, Lights, Robots Invade London’s Kinetica Art Fair</a></h1>
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Geek artists are taking it to hilt this weekend in a massive concrete bunker where London’s Kinetica Art Fair is holding its second annual robot-palooza. There, one artist tattooed his calves with sound-wave patterns. Another rejiggered Leonardo DaVinci’s drawing contraption as a robot-powered 3-D scanner.
And a science-minded design collective created a musical installation from [...]</p>
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02.06.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/gesture-cube-responds-to-waving-your-hand/">Gesture Cube Responds To Waving Your Hand</a></h1>
<p>
Could gesture recognition become the successor to touchscreen? And if it does, what would it be like to use it to interact with our gadgets.
A prototype design shows a cube-shaped device that can be used to access music, look up recipes and flick through photos.
The idea called Gesture Cube senses hand movements made close to [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/micro-sim-business/">Apple iPad’s Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You</a></h1>
<p>The decision to use an unusually small SIM card in the iPad means current iPhone customers can’t just use their iPhone’s SIM in an iPad, as we reported last week.
It appears increasingly likely that this decision was driven not by space considerations (after all, the iPad is much larger than the iPhone), but rather [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/quantum-logic-atomic-clock/">Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Trumps Old Atomic Clock</a></h1>
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Scientists have built a clock which is 37 times more precise than the existing international standard.
The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect the slowing of time predicted by Einstein’s [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience">Wired Science</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/authors-guild-to-riaa-or-not-to-riaa/">Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’</a></h1>
<p>There’s equal reason to support or object to the proposed Google Books settlement.
Creating a digital catalog of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment.
Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rights-holders’ consent — which the Justice Department and others contend is a complete and fundamental alteration [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel">Threat Level</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/people-vs-george-lucas/">The People vs. George Lucas Is Really a Twisted Love Letter</a></h1>
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There’s a fine line between love and hate, and some Star Wars fanatics have crossed that flimsy divide with blasters a-blazin’ when it comes to George Lucas, the visionary filmmaker who dreamed up the franchise.
The upcoming movie The People vs. George Lucas gives disgruntled Star Wars fans a chance to vent their frustrations about the [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/electric-charge-can-change-the-freezing-point-of-water/">Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water</a></h1>
<p>
A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes.
A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under certain conditions, water can even freeze as it heats up.
???We are very, very surprised by [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience">Wired Science</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/apple-allows-location-based-ads-in-apps-with-beneficial-uses/">Apple Allows Location-Based Ads in Apps with ‘Beneficial’ Uses</a></h1>
<p>Apple clarified rules for iPhone app developers on Friday, allowing them to serve advertising to users based on location ??? but only if the app uses the same location data to “provide beneficial information.”
This is good news for the advertiser community, because it means they’ll have some access to iPhone apps. It’s also good news [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/uk-company-launches-itablet/">UK Company Launches iTablet</a></h1>
<p>Now that Apple has chosen the famously awkward name “iPad” for its tablet, the most obvious candidate “iTablet” is up for grabs. Sure enough, a UK company is leaping at the opportunity.
X2 is happy to announce it’s “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch” with the iTablet, which will run Windows 7 and [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/dont-expect-profits-from-tesla-anytime-soon/">Don’t Expect Profits From Tesla Anytime Soon</a></h1>
<p>
Tesla Motors, which has teetered on the brink of collapse before, has landed a fat federal loan and hopes to score $100 million from an IPO, but the financial picture will get worse before it gets better.
We already knew the Silicon Valley automaker lost $31.5 million in the first nine months of 2009. Although the [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/repo-men-release-date/">Repo Men: Perfect Metaphor for Econopocalypse?</a></h1>
<p>With the Dow Jones industrial average plunging beneath its economic recovery benchmark of 10,000, Universal Pictures has moved up the release date for its once-buried sci-fi film Repo Men.
Coincidence? Whatever helps you sleep at night, cyborgs.
Formerly known as Repossession Mambo and obviously trafficking on the title of Alex Cox’s cult classic Repo Man, Repo [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/robotic-spider-melds-legos-and-3-d-printing/">Robotic Spider Melds Legos and 3-D Printing</a></h1>
<p>
Lego’s programmable robotics set Mindstorms is a fun toy for computing enthusiasts but if you really want to take it to the next level, check out Mark Weller’s project.
Weller, a machinist and technician at the McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University, combined milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/ray_lahood_distracted_driving/">Transportation Boss Fears More In-Car Gadgetry</a></h1>
<p>
Everyone is connected to everything these days and gadgets rule our lives. This is increasingly true of our cars as automakers bring everything from navigation to Internet access to our dashboards. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood thinks this is a problem and wants it to stop.
The nation’s top transportation official worries the proliferation of in-car gadgetry [...]</p>
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<span class="wiredItemTimeStamp">
02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/alice-in-wonderland-bandersnatch/">First Look: A Drooling Alice in Wonderland Beast</a></h1>
<p>
Direct from Tim Burton’s twisted take on Alice in Wonderland come new images of the beauty — Anne Hathaway’s White Queen — and the beast, aka Bandersnatch (pictured). Described by Disney as a “disgusting, drooling, foul-smelling creature with a big filthy body and the squashed, teeth-baring face of a rabid bulldog,” Bandersnatch shreds characters with [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/panacea-or-poison-pill-who-gets-to-decide-about-the-10-e-book/">Panacea or Poison Pill: Who Gets to Decide About $10 E-Books?</a></h1>
<p>
Hachette has become the third major publisher to publicly denounce Amazon.com’s $10 e-book model. It joins Macmillan and HarperCollins in what seems now like the death blow to a price point that had less to do with the inherent value of the content than it did with finding a magic number readers could not resist [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter">Epicenter</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/state-of-game-development/">Developers Flee Wii, Embrace iPhone, Study Says</a></h1>
<p>
A survey of 800 videogame developers showed that support for iPhone games is growing, while dedication to the Wii is dropping off.
The Game Developer magazine study released Friday showed major growth in the mobile space, due partly to Apple’s iPhone. 25 percent of all game developers said they were creating content for mobile phones — [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife">GameLife</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/iphone-apps-not-allowed-to-use-geolocation-just-for-ads/">iPhone App Devs Not Allowed to Use Geolocation Just for Ads</a></h1>
<p>
Apple has posted a news bulletin for iPhone developers, informing them they may not use the phone’s geolocation features primarily for delivering targeted ads.
What that means is if you’re playing a game that doesn’t use geolocation for gameplay, and all it’s doing is tracking your location to serve location-based ads, it’ll get rejected. (Many media [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/gis-slain-in-pakistan-psyop-sergeant-two-nation-builders/">G.I.s Slain in Pakistan: Psyop Sergeant, Two Nation-Builders</a></h1>
<p>A psychological operations sergeant and two military nation-builders have been identified as the soldiers killed earlier this week by a roadside bomb in Pakistan.
39 year-old Staff Sergeant Mark Alan Stets, Jr. (pictured) was assigned to Alpha Company of the 8th Psychological Operations Battalion out of Fort Bragg, N.C. This was his second deployment to the [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/apple-is-now-the-third-largest-smartphone-maker/">Apple is Now the Third Largest Smartphone Maker</a></h1>
<p>
Apple, which launched its first iPhone barely three years ago, has already become the third largest smartphone maker worldwide, according to an IDC ranking of the top five mobile device companies.
Apple ranked third in terms of market share in smartphones for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the entire year, behind Nokia and BlackBerry maker [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/protoscar-lampo2/">You Can’t Unsee This Ugly EV</a></h1>
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To hear the specs, the Lampo2 electric vehicle is sexy as hell: prodigious power, tremendous torque and respectable range. But it all goes bad quickly when you actually see the car.
Seriously. Just look at this thing. Swiss EV dabblers Protoscar took the reasonably attractive, if somewhat quirky, Lampo EV concept we drove and made it [...]</p>
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<span class="wiredItemTimeStamp">
02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/xbox-live/">Microsoft Discontinues Online Play for Original Xbox</a></h1>
<p>
Microsoft announced Friday that it would discontinue online service for all original Xbox games, even those playable on the Xbox 360 or available as a digital Xbox Originals download, on April 15.
Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live, assured gamers in an open letter to the community that the decision was not “made lightly.” But, [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife">GameLife</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/last-airbender-super-bowl/">Last Airbender’s Super Bowl Ad Unleashes Elemental Fun</a></h1>
<p>
An epic new trailer for M. Night Shymalan’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, viewable above, is set to air during the Super Bowl. But will the film do justice to the phenomenal animated series, which was one of the best of the decade?
Super Bowl Mania:
See Harry Potter Theme Park’s Super Bowl Ad Now
New [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/New_Firebug_Lite_Adds_Web_Dev_Tools_to_Any_Browser">New Firebug Lite Adds Web Dev Tools to Any Browser</a></h1>
<p>The developers of Firebug, the popular Firefox add-on for web developers, have released a new beta of Firebug Lite, the lightweight version of Firebug that works in any browser.
This new version is a significant update to Firebug Lite. While the full power of Firebug still requires Firefox (see our coverage of the recently released Firebug [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog">Webmonkey</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/siri-voice-recognition-iphone/">Siri Launches Voice-Powered iPhone ‘Assistant’</a></h1>
<p>A new app invites you to command your iPhone in the same way that Captain Kirk addressed the Enterprise’s computer.
Siri, an artificial intelligence-based voice-recognition startup, launched an iPhone app incorporating its technology on Friday. With the app running, you can address requests to your phone verbally, asking it things like, “Will it rain today?” or [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab">Gadget Lab</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/danger-room-in-haiti-the-two-worlds-of-port-au-prince/">Danger Room in Haiti: The Two Worlds of Port-au-Prince</a></h1>
<p>
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — The embassy grounds and the adjoining lots are swarming with uniforms: Marines in dusty digital-pattern camo, Navy personnel in their snazzy new blue utility suits, paratroopers of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, Foreign Service officers in Patagonia hiking boots, contractors in 5.11 gear, members of the National Disaster Management Agency in matching [...]</p>
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02.05.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom">Danger Room</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/volvo-pv36/">High Society Swedish Beauty Turns 75</a></h1>
<p>
Volvo is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the streamlined PV36 sedan, a high-end automobile that signified a departure from Volvo’s previous indestructible, utilitarian designs. The car only sold 500 units, so for the next few decades Volvo went back to what they did best: building the automotive equivalent of James Garner.
Designed by Ivan ??rnberg, the [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-looks-to-breed-immortal-synthetic-organisms-molecular-kill-switch-included/">Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included</a></h1>
<p>
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next year, [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/crossbreed-cycles-alfabeast/">Your Harley’s Got Nothin’ On This</a></h1>
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If there’s one thing we love more than Italian cars, it’s motorcycles. Or maybe it’s the other way around. No matter, because this wild machine joins our two passions in an Alfa Romeo-powered custom named, appropriately, Alfabeast.
This insanity is the work of Chris Barber, who we describe with utmost respect and admiration as a raving [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia">Autopia</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/darth-vader-helmet/">Darth Vader Helmet Captures Sith Lord’s ‘Sinister Essence’</a></h1>
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Limited-edition Darth Vader helmets, based on vintage production illustrations made during development of Star Wars, show the Dark Lord of the Sith in all his menacing glory.
Digital sculptor Jay Kushwara “captured the true sinister essence of the Darth Vader that Ralph McQuarrie envisioned in his original sketch,??? said Bryan Ono, president of eFX, the company [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire">Underwire</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/looped-leaf-networks/">Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Branched</a></h1>
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Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new study finds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas and channel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni Katifori of the Rockefeller University in New York City.
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/lost-split-frame/">Split-Frame Video Synchs Lost Season 1, Season 6 Opening Scenes</a></h1>
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Plenty of Lost fans understood why they experienced d??j?? vu while watching the opening scene from Tuesday’s season premiere, but only Neil Pomerleau took the time to whip up a side-by-side YouTube comparison.
Played in parallel, the clips demonstrate that the dialogue, gestures, haircuts and costuming in Season 6 opener “LA X: Part 1” represent a [...]</p>
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