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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/viktor-pleshchuk/">RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 Million Heist</a></h1>
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One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday.
Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution. He received a reduced sentence [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/mass-effect-2-femshep/">How 4 Out of 5 People Play Mass Effect 2 Wrong</a></h1>
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Four out of five gamers play Mass Effect 2 as a man, says BioWare. And that’s a huge mistake.
BioWare executive producer Casey Hudson shared a wide array of Mass Effect 2 gameplay statistics with IGN.com on Monday. The data the company collects tells it all kinds of things about the way people play their games. [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/keita-takahashi/">Report: Katamari Creator Splits Namco Bandai</a></h1>
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The man who made Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy no longer works for Namco Bandai, according to reports this week.
A Namco Bandai spokesperson told Play.tm that Keita Takahashi has parted ways with the company.
Takahashi has long expressed dissatisfaction with the videogame industry. He regularly threatens to abandon games for quirky gigs like playground design. [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/09/page-speed-add-on-headed-to-chrome/">Page Speed Add-on Headed to Chrome</a></h1>
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One of the most useful browser extensions for web development is coming to Chrome.
Google is working on a Chrome version of its Page Speed add-on. Page Speed is an essential tool for testing sites in Firefox. It breaks down all the stuff on your page and shows you how long everything is taking to download, [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/doctor-solar/">Rebooted Doctor Solar Lights Up Dark Horse’s Roster</a></h1>
<p>From villainous jerk Leviathan to insatiable babe Glow, Jim Shooter's delightful reboot of atomic hero <cite>Doctor Solar</cite> only gets better in its second issue, released Wednesday.</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/randy-pitchford-duke-nukem/">Q&A: How Randy Pitchford Saved Duke Nukem Forever</a></h1>
<p>SEATTLE — Think you’re excited about the return of cigar-chomping space marine Duke Nukem? You’ve got nothing on Randy Pitchford.
A year ago, it looked like Duke Nukem Forever was finally dead. The perennial Wired.com Vaporware Awards winner, in the works since April 1997, couldn’t be completed since Dallas-based developer 3D Realms shut its doors [...]</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/threatlevel/2010/09/us-cert/">DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network</a></h1>
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The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government networks, and helps other civil [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/modular-ipad-case/">Modular iPad Case Lets You Tweet From Your Kegerator</a></h1>
<p>The guys behind the new modulR line of iPad cases have a clever idea: Let one case take on multiple identities through a variety of add-ons.
The basic case is a hard plastic shell that protects the iPad in use. Its rubberized edges grip the tablet securely, while little “nubs” on the back give your hand [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/torture-case-tossed/">Citing Obama’s State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case</a></h1>
<p>Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.
Ruling 6-5, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/09/ole-miss-admiral-ackbar/">Ole Miss’ Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles</a></h1>
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It’s a wrap!
After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi’s Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university’s official sports mascot has fizzled.
Indeed, it appears that the long arm of Lucasfilm has quashed any [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/how-to-film-a-23-mile-free-fall/">Video: How to Film a 23-Mile Free Fall</a></h1>
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When Felix Baumgartner attempts to free fall almost 23 miles from the edge of space, he will have what amounts to a flying television studio taking us along for the ride.
Even as the 41-year-old Austrian daredevil trains for the jump, engineers develop the spacesuit he’ll wear and the parachutes he’ll use and Red Bull writes [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/whos-really-responsible-for-afghan-corruption-you/">Who’s Really Responsible For Afghan Corruption? You</a></h1>
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The meltdown of the politically-connected Kabul Bank shows that the rampant corruption of the Afghanistan government is jeopardizing the nine-year U.S. war, alienating the people, and making the Taliban look like good-government reformers. And according to one of Washington’s most prestigious defense wonks, it’s all your fault.
You pay your taxes, right? Well, Anthony Cordesman of [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/asteroid-animation-2/">Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera</a></h1>
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When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 a.m. Mountain time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely controlled a 0.25-meter telescope in Mayhill, New Mexico, through the Global Remote Astronomy Telescope Network. They got four separate exposures of 30 seconds each [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/bruce-vs-frankenstein-to-bring-the-comedyhorror-sugar-baby/">Bruce vs. Frankenstein to Bring the Comedy/Horror Sugar, Baby</a></h1>
<p>The planned sequel to My Name Is Bruce hopes to include actors from many other horror franchises shaking off their recycled characters and having fun with the modern-day King of B Movies, Ash himself, Mr. Bruce Campbell!
The folks over at the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog are running a long interview with the Bruce this [...]</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/rawfile/2010/09/x-ray-pin-up-girls-are-just-pixels/">X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?)</a></h1>
<p>X-ray images of nude models hit the internet earlier this year and caused a storm of link sharing and comments. The images were packaged as a pinup calendar and its oddly titillating play on nudity had nerds ogling and wondering about the images’ origins. Blogs asked “Are these images racy?,” and even, “Is it porn?” [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/toad-vs-ant/">Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion</a></h1>
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After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that???s fighting back.
The common Sulawesi toad turns out to be a prodigious eater of ants, even aggressive invading ones, says Thomas C. Wanger of the University of G??ttingen in Germany and the University of Adelaide in [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/09/esther-vergeer-wheelchair-tennis/">The Best Tennis Player You’ve Never Heard Of</a></h1>
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Who’s been the best tennis player in the world for the last 10 years? Sure, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have had their moments. So have Venus and Serena Williams. But their championships don’t match up to Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands.
If you’re asking who Esther Vergeer is, you’re not alone. But in wheelchair-tennis circles, [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/ios-41-update/">Apple Rolls Out iOS 4.1 Update for iPhone, iPod Touch</a></h1>
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Apple on Wednesday morning released a minor update for its mobile operating system iOS 4, which includes bug fixes and a new photography mode.
Apple last week said iOS 4.1 would address a proximity-sensor issue in the iPhone 4 and sluggish performance on the iPhone 3G, among other flaws.
In terms of features, iOS 4.1 introduces Game [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/underwire/2010/09/american-vampire/">American Vampire Plops Bloodsuckers Into Sin City</a></h1>
<p><cite>American Vampire</cite> is looking for trouble in a greatly depressed 1930s Sin City that's just getting started. But the comic book's exploration of American history through the evolution of vampires, courtesy of co-creator Stephen King, is sucking on the neck of a pop-cultural phenom that, one would think, should be running out of blood right about ... now!</p>
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09.08.10
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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/2010/09/itunes-icon-contest/">Wired.com Contest: Redesign Apple’s Ugly iTunes Icon</a></h1>
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Apple dazzled customers with an armful of shiny new iPods during a press conference last week, but a number of fans groaned at a less pleasing sight: the new iTunes 10 icon (above).
Gone is the legendary icon of a compact disc, replaced by a blue bubble containing a music note. A Wired.com reader even sent [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/2010/09/google-search-update-2/">Google Debuts ‘Instant’ Search (Updated)</a></h1>
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Because nine seconds is an eternity on the internet, now you can conduct a search in a “Google Instant.”
The iconic search site Wednesday unveiled the new feature on Google.com and to a packed auditorium of tech writers in San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art — no doubt doing vanity searches to see how quickly their [...]</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/dangerroom/2010/09/missile-beats-flying-lightsaber-in-crucial-test/">Missile Beats Flying Lightsaber In Crucial Test</a></h1>
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Missile 1, Flying Laser 0. So much for America’s real-life “lightsaber.”
The Missile Defense Agency has spent billions to trick out a Boeing 747 with a laser to shoot down missiles. But the so-called Airborne Laser Test Bed just failed a crucial test that it was expected to pass: shooting down a mock nuclear-armed missile from [...]</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/wiredscience/2010/09/easier-laser-safety/">DIY Laser-Safety Update: There’s an Easier Way</a></h1>
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A few weeks ago we posted a story about how some green laser pointers leak dangerous amounts of eye-damaging infrared light, and outlined a home-brew way to test your own laser pointers.
That test involved balancing the laser pointer on a cup, shining it at a CD and photographing the resulting light patterns with two different [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/2010/09/firefox-4-beta-5-adds-audio-tools-hardware-acceleration/">Firefox 4 Beta 5 Adds Audio Tools, Hardware Acceleration</a></h1>
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Mozilla has released a fifth beta for Firefox 4, adding hardware acceleration in Windows, a new audio API and support for a new security protocol.
You can download Firefox 4 beta 5 from the Mozilla website, or, if you’re currently using beta 4, head to the Check for Updates menu item to update to beta [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/2010/09/could-microsoft-office-go-multi-platform-for-mobile/">Could Microsoft Office Go Multi-Platform For Mobile?</a></h1>
<p>Traditionally, Microsoft has been a software company, leveraging its office suites and operating systems, but selling applications for any compatible hardware and platform. For smartphones in particular, its strategy has been to supply the software and let other companies worry about developing the phones. So why not go all the way and sell its software [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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.webmonkey.com/2010/09/firefox-4-beta-5-adds-audio-tools-hardware-acceleration/">Firefox 4 Beta 5 Adds Audio Tools, Hardware Acceleration</a></h1>
<p>
Mozilla has released a fifth beta for Firefox 4, adding hardware acceleration in Windows, a new audio API and support for a new security protocol.
You can download Firefox 4 beta 5 from the Mozilla website, or, if you’re currently using beta 4, head to the Check for Updates menu item to update to beta [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com">Webmonkey</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/power-plug-concept-fails-to-out-coddle-uk-version/">Power-Plug Concept Fails to Out-Coddle UK Version</a></h1>
<p>
I regularly laugh and snicker at the Great British Power Plug and Socket, a pair of devices so safe, so mollycoddling that they are almost physically wrapped in cotton-wool. But today I will not laugh, at least not at this particular British shame. Today I shall point out that this over-protective system actually solves many [...]</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.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/dont-recycle-your-trash-can-will-tell-on-you/">Don’t Recycle? Your Trash Can Will Tell On You</a></h1>
<p>The long-promised “internet of things” is here — and already, it’s in the trash.
Cleveland is equipping new trash and recycling cans and carts with radio frequency identification (or RFID) chips and bar codes. If you don’t bring your recycling bin to the curb for a few weeks, city workers go through your trash. If they [...]</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.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/modular-cogs-bring-belt-drives-to-any-bike/">Modular Cogs Bring Belt-Drives to Any Bike</a></h1>
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I’m not writing this post only because the company involved has the awesome name of Schlumpf, but it certainly played a big part. The gadget in question is a new kind of belt-drive for bikes, the Advanced Belt Drive System, or ABDS.
The innovation here isn’t in the belts: the drive uses standard 14mm-pitch belts. It’s [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/daimler-car2gether/">Hitchhiking Goes High Tech With Car2gether</a></h1>
<p>Daimler is launching a pilot carpooling project that combines ride sharing with social media. If all goes well, drivers can make sure carpool passengers share their taste in music and pony up for gas.
Called car2gether, the service is an outgrowth of of Daimler’s car2go Smart-sharing program and, according to the company, answers the question of [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/rim-confirms-it-bought-documents-to-go/">RIM Confirms It Bought Documents To Go</a></h1>
<p>With its flagship mobile office suite Documents To Go, software company DataViz makes some of the most popular productivity applications for Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mobile, and Android. Now that RIM has bought the better chunk of DataViz to work for Blackberry, its days as a cross-platform mobile superstar might be numbered.
The deal had been [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/iphone-3g-left-out-of-apples-game-center/">IPhone 3G Left Out of Apple’s Game Center</a></h1>
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If you’re planning on showing off your awesome gaming skills with Apple’s new Game Center, you’d better have a nice new iOS device to play on. Apple has released compatibility details for the fancy high-score table, and you’ll need to have an iPhone 3GS or 4, and second-gen iPod Touch or better.
People who have [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/teaching-kids-computers-part-1/">Teaching Kids Computers, Part 1</a></h1>
<p>If geeks had ranks, I’d be a General or an Admiral, or maybe Grand Vizier. I know things that no mortal should know, arcane minutiae like how to set a proxy server in an .hgrc file or how to program in assembly language.
I don’t want my kids to know most of this stuff. Heck, I [...]</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/dangerroom/2010/09/pakistan-aid-groups-arent-friending-the-u-s-military-online/">Pakistan Aid Groups Route Around U.S. Military for Relief Web</a></h1>
<p>The U.S. military’s efforts to assist the 17 million victims of the Pakistan flood are still pretty tech-lite. So a group of civilian aid workers, Pakistani and international, have home-brewed a series of social media apps to help coordinate relief work — everything from crisis Wikis to crowd-sourced maps to SMS calls for help.
U.S. forces [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/bicycle-obelisk/">California Artists Build Obelisk Out of Bicycles</a></h1>
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Northern California artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector built a 65-foot-tall, 10,000-pound obelisk out of around 340 bicycles — and one tricycle.
The monumental sculpture, called “Cyclisk,” has been installed on a streetcorner in Santa Rosa, California. Perhaps ironically, given its composition, the obelisk is right in the midst of a bunch of auto dealerships.
A tribute [...]</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.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/dork-tower-wednesday-38/">Dork Tower Wednesday</a></h1>
<p>Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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09.08.10
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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/2010/09/top-10-evil-geeks-in-the-movies-geekdad-wayback-machine/">Top 10 Evil Geeks in the Movies (GeekDad Wayback Machine)</a></h1>
<p>Around here, we’re always talking up the positives of geeks. It’s a natural thing because that’s who we are. And while we always want to root for the geek heroes in books and movies, we have to acknowledge there are some bad apples out there. Here are 10 villainous geeks from the movies.
10. Kent (Real [...]</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/geekdad/2010/09/comic-con-tweens-and-teens/">Comic-Con Round-Up: For Tweens and Teens</a></h1>
<p>Following up on my Comic-Con Round-Up for Kids, I have a whole lot of things for older geeklets. There were some hits and some misses, but here are things I thought were worth mentioning, good, bad, or ugly. Some of these I’ll do a more in-depth review later on.
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Physics Quest: Spectra the Laser [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/autopia/2010/09/philadelphia-subway-battery-system/">Philadelphia Subway Returns Power To Grid</a></h1>
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Regenerative braking is common on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and EVs like the Nissan Leaf, and it long has been a source of energy for lights and other functions on trains. Now it’s being used in southeastern Pennsylvania to generate electricity for the grid.
A huge battery will capture kinetic energy generated when trains apply [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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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/geekdad/2010/09/book-review-mini-weapons-of-mass-destruction/">Book Review: Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction</a></h1>
<p>
A fellow Scout Leader gave me this book, by John Austin, as a gift for helping out with the Cub Scouts engineering pin. The book was a fitting gift because there are fun and engaging engineering projects throughout the book that will teach and entertain you and your kids.
The book is divided into sections [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/sounds-of-star-wars/">Exclusive: Sneak Peek at Audio-Embedded Sounds of Star Wars Book</a></h1>
<p>Genuinely ingenious new book <cite>The Sounds of Star Wars</cite> amplifies the concept of interactive show and tell to ear-blasting new heights. Pages of pictures and text come encased in an audio console that produces 256 audio snippets cued to specially marked images.</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/gamelife/2010/09/playstation-move/">Why PlayStation Move Could Give ‘3-D Games’ a Whole New Meaning</a></h1>
<p>Forget about 3-D graphics: With technology like Sony’s PlayStation Move, your whole living room might become a videogame.
At first blush, Sony’s new motion controller for PlayStation 3 seems like a straight-up rip-off of Nintendo’s Wii remote. It’s a one-handed controller with an accelerometer and a gyroscope that you can point and click at your TV [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/geekdad-hiptrax-58/">GeekDad HipTrax #58 (With Bonus CD Giveaway!)</a></h1>
<p>As summer draws to a close and the faintest bite of autumn appears in the air, we at GeekDad choose to reflect. Today, for example, we focus on the waning convention season, beer and Chris Isaak. Y’know, the important stuff!
This edition of GeekDad HipTrax features:
“CONtact” by Mega Ran & K-Murdock
Conventions are serious business, and personal [...]</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/wiredscience/2010/09/microphotos-ordinary-stuff/">Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphotography Winners Revealed</a></h1>
<p>Image courtesy Nikon Small World
See Also:
35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography
6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes
Mini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum
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09.08.10
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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/thisdayintech/2010/09/0908scotch-tape-marketed-3m/">Sept. 8, 1930: Scotch Tape Starts Sticking</a></h1>
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1930: 3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive.
Initially sold by the St. Paul, Minnesota, company as a moisture-proof seal for bakers, grocers and meatpackers, the product quickly got repurposed during the Depression by money-strapped consumers who used the tape [...]</p>
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09.08.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech">This Day In Tech</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/never-let-me-go/">Trailer: Kids Aren’t All Right in Dystopian Never Let Me Go</a></h1>
<p>"Special" students at a cloistered British boarding house face a dismal future in <em>Never Let Me Go</em>, an upcoming science fiction movie with a bit of a <em>Gattaca</em> vibe. </p>
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09.07.10
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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/wiredscience/2010/09/why-alcohol-is-good-for-you/">Why Alcohol Is Good for You</a></h1>
<p>
It???s one of those medical anomalies that nobody can really explain: Longitudinal studies have consistently shown that people who don???t consume any alcohol at all tend to die before people who do. At first glance, this makes little sense. Why would ingesting a psychoactive toxin that increases our risk of cancer, dementia and liver disease [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/2010/09/cell-site-data/">Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking</a></h1>
<p>A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information that mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment.
The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (.pdf) was not, however, an outright Obama administration victory. Lower courts, the three-judge panel wrote, could demand the [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/2010/09/tera-melos-exclusive/">Exclusive: Tera Melos Frees Patagonian Rats From ‘Frozen Zoo’</a></h1>
<p>See "Frozen Zoo," the new video from experimental pop band Tera Melos. The weird visuals by director Behn Fannin explore the bizarro intersection of surrealism and drugs.</p>
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09.07.10
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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/underwire/2010/09/red-light-properties/">Recession Psychedelia Rules Raunchy Red Light Properties</a></h1>
<p>The so-called Great Recession seriously sucks. But it’s even worse for the domestic misfits trying to exorcise Florida’s foreclosure-wrecked property market of paranormal squatters in Dan Goldman’s hilarious online comic Red Light Properties.
The last chapter of Goldman’s self-described “tropical horror” series went live Tuesday, and he was cool enough to exclusively share the best of [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/autopia/2010/09/taxpayers-probably-will-lose-in-gms-ipo/">Taxpayers Probably Will Lose In GM’s IPO</a></h1>
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General Motors is preparing to go public, but Uncle Sam probably won’t make any money in the initial offering and it could be years before taxpayers are made whole on the $50 billion bailout that kept the automaker afloat.
Subsequent sales of the Treasury Department’s holdings in the automaker could be profitable depending upon how investors [...]</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/2010/09/last-days-of-american-crime/">Last Days of American Crime Pairs Sci-Fi Premise With Heist-Movie Grit</a></h1>
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In a last-ditch effort to fight crime and domestic terrorism, the United States has found a solution worthy of Philip K. Dick: The government will broadcast a radio signal that makes it impossible for anyone within its range to break the law.
The feds can’t take such drastic measures without encountering massive resistance, so they’ve distracted [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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.webmonkey.com/2010/09/google-shows-off-its-bouncy-balls/">Google Shows Off Its Bouncy Balls</a></h1>
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If you’ve visited Google’s home page Tuesday, you’ve seen the bouncy ball demo. The Google logo is made of little colored balls that run away from your mouse and jump around furiously when you click on them. The balls will also jiggle from side-to-side if you move your browser window around.
The company did it using [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com">Webmonkey</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/eerie-ukrainian-salt-mines-house-convalescing-asthmatics/">Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics</a></h1>
<p>It might be one of the most unconventional hospital wards on Earth, except that technically it’s not on Earth: It’s hundreds of meters below the surface.
For decades, the tunnels of the Solotvyno Salt Mine in Ukraine have hosted subterranean convalescents. Patients with various bronchial blockages, asthma and breathing problems are sent to the mines by [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/rawfile">Raw File</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/asteroid-double-whammy-near-earth-tomorrow/">Asteroid Double Whammy Near Earth Wednesday</a></h1>
<p>
Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon distance of Earth Wednesday.
The first, asteroid 2010 RX30, will come within 154,100 miles of Earth — about 60 percent of the Earth-moon distance — at 5:51 a.m. EDT (1251 UT). This asteroid is estimated to be about 42 feet across.
The second, 2010 RF12, will [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/2010/09/laptop-border-searches/">ACLU Sues Over Laptop Border Searches</a></h1>
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An Obama administration policy allowing U.S. border officials to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional in federal court Tuesday.
Citing the government’s own figures, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers claim about 6,500 persons had their electronic devices searched [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/gamelife/2010/09/halo-reach-launch/">Microsoft Plans Halo: Reach Launch Events</a></h1>
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Retailers across the country will open at midnight to sell copies of Halo: Reach for the Xbox 360 when Microsoft launches the game on Tuesday.
According to a Microsoft press release, the company has two major late-night launch parties planned. East coast Halo fans can visit Best Buy in Times Square for a major blowout that [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/dangerroom/2010/09/troops-popping-anxiety-depression-meds-like-never-before/">Troops Popping Anxiety, Depression Meds Like Never Before</a></h1>
<p>
An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with?? mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with solid data slowly emerging from the nearly decade-long wars, the severity of the crisis is starting to show.
The [...]</p>
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09.07.10
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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/2010/09/iceberg-houseboat/">Iceberg Houseboat Hides Its Bulk Below The Waves</a></h1>
<p>
Architect Daniel Andersson has created a houseboat inspired by icebergs, one that sits predominantly below the waves with only its rooftop deck exposed to the sun.
From the terrace, a staircase spirals down to a 60-square-meter living space that contains a living room, head, galley, dining room and bedroom. A central atrium provides natural light, and [...]</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/gamelife/2010/09/the-room-newgrounds/">Cult Flick The Room Inspires Point-and-Click Adventure</a></h1>
<p>
Flash game hub Newgrounds launched a retro-styled game inspired by the cult movie The Room on Friday.
The game, created by Newgrounds founder Tom Fulp and artist Jeff Bandelin, allows players to experience the mundane madness of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film as an 8-bit, point-and-click adventure game.
The Room is an indie drama that cost Wiseau [...]</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/autopia/2010/09/mitsubishis-little-ev-gets-bigger-and-fancier/">Mitsubishi’s Little EV Gets Bigger and Fancier</a></h1>
<p>
We’ve driven Mitsubishi’s cute i-MiEV a few times, and although the little EV is a perfectly fine urban runabout, it’s a bit small and slow for American tastes. Never fear — Mitsubishi will give us a bigger, more powerful model when the car goes on sale in the United States next year.
The North American model [...]</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.webmonkey.com/2010/09/tinysrc-shrinks-your-images-for-mobile-browsers/">TinySrc Shrinks Your Images for Mobile Browsers</a></h1>
<p>
If you’ve played around with optimizing your website for small screens, you know one of the big headaches is resizing images. You can set the viewport in your head tags to make sure your main content is the focus on mobile devices, but you can’t easily shrink images.
On many mobile devices, rendering the images [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com">Webmonkey</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/william-gibson-interview/">William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter</a></h1>
<p>From recession-proof military contractors cool-hunting secret, weaponized brands to “gear queers,” viral iPhones and Twitter darknets, William Gibson’s new novel Zero History examines the 21st century’s techno-cultural fetishes with a deceptively simple directive: The future is now.
Gone is the sci-fi pretense of an imagined future, and for good reason.
“All we really have when we pretend [...]</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/dangerroom/2010/09/israel-russia-in-drone-deal-laser-tech-next/">Israel, Russia in Drone Deal; Laser Tech Next?</a></h1>
<p>
First, Israel will beef up Russia’s robotic air force. Down the road, perhaps, Vladimir Putin may return the favor, by equipping Israeli drones with Russian laser tech.
On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, signed a first-of-its kind military agreement between the two countries. It’s the latest step towards cooperation [...]</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/underwire/2010/09/zero-history-excerpt/">Read an Excerpt From William Gibson’s New Novel, Zero History</a></h1>
<p>This is an excerpt from Zero History, William Gibson’s latest novel, which was released Tuesday.
Chapter 10, “Eigenblich”
Milgrim woke, took his medication, showered, shaved, brushed his teeth, dressed, and left the Neo charging but turned on. The U.K. plug-adaptor was larger than the phone’s charger. Keeping the dressmaker’s dummy out of his field of vision, he [...]</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.webmonkey.com/2010/09/yahoo-users-can-now-open-a-google-account-with-openid/">Yahoo Users Can Now Open a Google Account With OpenID</a></h1>
<p>Google is now letting any Yahoo users sign in to Google using OpenID, the company announced Tuesday.
When you’re signing up for a Google account, there’s now a new button you can click on that says “Verify by signing in at Yahoo.com.” Click it, and you’re sent to Yahoo, where you’re asked to allow Google and [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com">Webmonkey</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/yahoo-users-can-now-open-a-google-account-with-openid/">Yahoo Users Can Now Open a Google Account With OpenID</a></h1>
<p>
Google is now letting any Yahoo users sign in to Google using OpenID, the company announced Tuesday.
If you’re a Yahoo user and you want to try Google Docs, Calendar or Reader, this makes the sign-up process easier. Instead of filling out a web form and waiting for a confirmation e-mail when signing up for a [...]</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/wiredscience/2010/09/galactic-cannibals/">Photo: Galactic Cannibals Discovered in Deep Space</a></h1>
<p>
Small galaxies, beware. A new survey caught several distant galaxies ripping up their dwarfish galactic neighbors and devouring them whole.
Astronomers have long thought this sort of intergalactic violence could be the normal way large galaxies grow. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, the two closest and best-known examples of spiral galaxies, are both known [...]</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/sound-of-justin-biebers-data/">The Sound of Justin Bieber’s Data, and Other ‘Hack Day’ Mashups</a></h1>
<p>LONDON ??? Every so often, in cities across the world, a group of digital music professionals get together for a Hack Day, where they’ll cobble together hardware, software, and anything else they can get their hands on into innovative musical mashups.
London’s event took place last weekend, and it was an orgy of creativity, [...]</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/dangerroom/2010/09/with-nato-chiefs-blessing-petraeus-requests-2000-more-troops-for-afghanistan/">Still Surgin’: Petraeus Requests 2000 More Afghanistan Troops</a></h1>
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In a move blessed by NATO’s civilian chief — and sure to worry those who fear that the Obama administration will continue to escalate the Afghanistan war — General David Petraeus is asking for 2000 new troops for Afghanistan. What, you thought the surge was over?
It turns out that Petraeus had an asterisk in mind [...]</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/playbook/2010/09/wheelchair-double-backflip/">Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip</a></h1>
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Double backflips look pretty amazing when done on a bike, but in a wheelchair? Well, that’s never been done before — until now.
Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, recently pulled off the world???s first wheelchair double backflip, after several failed (and painful-looking) attempts at Camp Woodward, just east of State College, Pennsylvania.
Fotheringham, who [...]</p>
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<span class="author">From <a href="http://www.wired.com/playbook">Playbook</a></span>
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<h1><a href="http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/09/nike-app-ditches-dongle-gains-gps/">Nike+ App Ditches Dongle, Gains GPS</a></h1