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Apple, Google To Clash In Music Space By Christmas
Google is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Top 10 Greentech IPO Candidates
Recent greentech IPOs have had mixed and less than stellar results. Here are some wild prognostications of ten potential greentech IPOs coming in late 2010 through 2012. These companies have real products, serious revenue and the prospect of profits in high-growth markets.
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The Ink of War: Afghanistan Air Base's Best Tattoos
Tattooing, an aggressive and intimidating mixture of endurance and art, is as old as warfare itself. But each generation, and each war, yields its own warrior body art. In Afghanistan, America's longest war, troop tats have matured alongside the culture's growing acceptance of ink.
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Take Heed, Tech Giants: Edison's Failed Plot to Hijack Hollywood
Take heed, tech giants of today. Some of your companies or services aren’t much older than the Edison Trust Studios was when it collapsed. How much of your current business strategy is based on offering new and original products, and how much of it is based on laws, courts, and the fact that you got there first?
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In Defense of Google, Or Why Consumer Watchdog is Full of It
While there’s plenty of reasons to keep a critical eye focused on Google, Consumer Watchdog’s ad is a dishonest, factually inaccurate joke that shamefully got plenty of uncritical media attention. In the simplest terms possible, Consumer Watchdog is just wrong.
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Censored! Craigslist Adult Services Blocked in U.S.
The “Adult Services” listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word 'censored.' The change comes as the service faces growing pressure in the U.S. over sex services advertised on its classifieds network, as well as allegations that it abets in human sex trafficking.
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NASA Footage Sets Scene for <cite>Quantum Quest</cite> Movie
Footage from seven ongoing NASA space missions provide hyper-realistic scenery for the 3-D animated film, while the voices of multiple Captain Kirks and Darth Vaders play the parts of space explorers.
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'Earth-like' Exoplanet Could Have a Comet's Tail
When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it's more like a comet.
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<cite>Duke Nukem Forever</cite> Lives Again at PAX
The presumed-dead videogame makes a splash appearance at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
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Hands-On With HDR Photos in the Next iPhone Update
A first look at iOS 4.1 Gold Master, the latest release of Apple's mobile operating system due out next week. A developer sent me a copy and I have it installed on my iPhone 4. Major new features are the HDR photo mode and Game Center.
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Very Few Bones to Pick With Samsung's Big, Beautiful Phone
Just say "no" to be being an iClone. Get a device with an open OS, lightning-fast data connectivity and a network that won't drop calls every five minutes.
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Smart Gear for the School Year
Don't hit the books without getting the right gear. We've got all the kit you need from taking scrupulous notes, to working off campus, to being the most popular kid in your dorm.
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Hot Helping of Rapid Wi-Fi Anywhere You Go? Yes, Please
If you're even thinking of working off-campus without taking this Wi-Fi-spewing wonder card, you'll need to be fitted for a straight jacket.
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Glint of Starlight Could Reveal Liquid Oceans on Exoplanets
The sparkle of starlight off water could be the clincher for finding oceans on extrasolar planets. And it could be observable with the tech that will be deployed in the next generation of space telescopes.
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Cruising Across Campus? Get This Cozy Commuter
Unless you're majoring in spandex and minoring in too-cool-for-school at Steephill State, you may not need a road, fixed-gear or a mountain bike. Consider REI's Novara Fusion commuter. Sure this hybrid 8-speed won't get you anywhere in a mega-hurry, but you'll likely enjoy getting there.
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Digital Pen Gives Boring Note-Taking a Modern Kick
Don't you wish there was a way to take notes with a pen and upload them to your computer? And don't you wish that pen had an infrared camera, a built-in speaker and mic? There is such a thing, and it's called the Livescribe Echo Smartpen.
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Behind the Scenes at IndyCar
As we go backstage at the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma, we ponder what's more important to fans -- the drivers' skill, or the cars' technology?
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By Losing Weight, Tennis Pro Quickly Gains Ground
By losing 30 pounds in less than a year, tennis pro Mardy Fish has quickly become one of the top Americans to advance at this year’s US Open in New York. Fish opens up on how he pulled it off and revitalized his career.
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Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not 'Suck'
While winding down from Wednesday’s iPod announcements, Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have taken some time to respond to an e-mail criticizing the new look of the iTunes icon.
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NASA Flies First Drone Over Hurricane
In addition to the usual cadre of satellites, NASA is using a small fleet of unmanned aircraft into, over and around the hurricane as it tracks north from the Caribbean. While flying into a hurricane is nothing new, Earl is the first hurricane that NASA has observed using their unmanned Global Hawk observation aircraft.
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Video: Monster Truck Makes Monster Crash
Joe Sylvester wants to set a new record for longest jump by a monster truck. Clearly he's still got some work to do.
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Travelling Around the World in a Gadget-Filled Ford Fiesta
Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is driving around the world in a Ford Fiesta. Along the way, he'll be testing gadgets from some of the most extreme — and amazing — locations.
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EA Simulates 2010 NFL Season, Predicts Super Bowl Champs
EA Sports, publisher of the Madden NFL videogame franchise, has taken its latest game iteration, Madden NFL 11, and run through the upcoming 2010 NFL season, offering at least a simulated insight into who’ll be celebrating in Arlington, Texas, after Super Bowl XLV.
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Six Apart Shuts Down Vox
Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to another free blog publishing service like Six Apart's TypePad. After that, Vox will be gone.
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Gadget Lab Podcast: iPods, Apple TV and Samsung's Galaxy Tab
This week's episode of the Gadget Lab podcast is heavy on fruits. High on vitamin A, Dylan Tweney gushes over the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid, while Brian X. Chen dishes out this week's announcements of brand new Apple gear. They also share our impressions of Samsung's iPad rival, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab.
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Baby Lion Cam Launches
This morning, the Smithsonian National Zoo launched a live webcam of the zoo's four new baby African lion cubs and their mother. The cubs were born during the late evening and early morning between Aug. 30 and 31 and will remain inside until late fall.
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How Sheep Determined the Size of Your Gadgets
It's easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They're all about the size of paperback books. But why are paperbacks that size? It all has to do with the sheep.
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Feds Push 'Active Transportation' to Build Healthier Communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to promote walking, cycling and mass transit in an effort to build healthier communities.
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Best Exploitation Flicks: 'Machete' and Its Over-the-Top Ancestors
From bad girls and zombies to circus freaks and killer cars, the shock-and-awful recipe for grindhouse movies' tasty cinematic sausage never fails to satisfy. As Robert Rodriguez's timely homage hits screens, we look back at several decades of surprisingly influential B movies.
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From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons of Diesel
Craig Henderson achieved 119.1 mpg in a car he designed in 1984.
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Alt Text: Make a Nasty World Nice With Virtual Rewards
Using Foursquare to stamp out sexually transmitted diseases is just the beginning of a brave new war on bothersome reality. Just think of all the amazing problems we can solve with the proper mix of badges, exclusive offers and unbridled optimism.
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Sept. 3, 1976: Viking 2 Lands on Mars
Viking 2, the second mission to Mars, lands on the planet and begins transmitting pictures and soil analyses.
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Jargon Watch: Synthia, Teabonics, Flash Crash
Learn the nickname for the first synthetic organism and a derisive term for ungrammatical Tea Party signs.
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'Impossible' Soccer Kick Leads to New Physics Equation
A group of French scientists have come up with a new physics equation to help explain how Brazilian soccer star Roberto Carlos scored his "impossible" kick in 1998.
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New Circuit Unveiled for U.S. Grand Prix
With long straights, fast turns and tight chicanes, it looks like an exciting track. Now they've just gotta build it.
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One Ring Zero Reboots Holst's <cite>Planets</cite>, Keeps Pluto in Mix
A modern take on Gustav Holst's orchestral suite uses theremins, accordions and other unusual instruments to make a musical statement. Who's listening? For starters, the director of Hayden Planetarium.
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Molecular Pantry: Ingredients From the Kitchen of the Future
See what your food could be composed of in the most future-forward kitchens.
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Shopping Site 'Thefind' Finds Its Facebook Way, Carefully
The increasingly popular online shopping site Thefind has finally found a way to connect with Facebook, without being creepy. It’s not a technical breakthrough — plenty of sites now work with Facebook to let users log-in — but Thefind has been grappling with how to integrate with Facebook in a way that’s relevant and privacy-respectful.
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New ARG Has You Track Down Mythical Canadian Creatures
The Gods' Lake is an alternate-reality game designed to explore aboriginal Canadian legends through a contemporary setting. The game launched at the Toronto Fan Expo with a presentation by one of the game's characters and a scavenger hunt for QR codes hidden throughout the Expo.
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Murdoch Reporters' Phone Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted. The British Prime Minister's current media adviser is accused of having encouraged the hacking.
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Win Your Fantasy Football League
If it's September, it's football season — which also means it's time for millions of fantasy football drafts around the world to commence. Maximize your in-season points while dealing with the setbacks that are bound to occur by following our guide.
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Video Artist Transforms YouTube's TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare
The video site's ever-evolving terms of service drive an observer mad in this arty clip by Carlo Zanni. No charge for the 1984 references.
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Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
This week’s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV’s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney — owner of ABC — perfectly illustrates this digital divide.
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Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
Unlike infectious disease and information, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it.
"There has been a lot of theory about the difference between information and behavior spreading," said economic sociologist Damon Centola of MIT and author of the study published Sept. 3 in Science. "We've assumed that they are the same, but you can imagine that behavior is not really like that, that you need to be convinced."
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Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released, and we've gathered some of the best in the gallery.
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Evil Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy
A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt driving an ice cream truck is being displayed on a Times Square jumbotron and on YouTube. The video was produced by a consumer group targeting the search giant for its data collection practices.
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Exoplanet Shows Gas Giants Start as Dusty Behemoths
The atmosphere of a young exoplanet didn't fit any of our existing models for what gas giants should look like. But when astronomers added huge dust clouds, it was a perfect fit, perhaps revealing a larger truth about gas giants.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa.
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Mobile Devices Need Custom Maps
Development Seed is engineering tools to create custom maps that work in a wider variety of situations such as natural disasters and in the developing world.
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First Look: Official Twitter App for iPad Feels Smooth as Butter
The official Twitter app for iPad is finally here, and star developer Loren Brichter has polished yet another gem. Twitter for iPad sports a really elegant interface that's significantly faster and more intuitive than competing Twitter clients we've tested (such as Twitterific and Tweetdeck).
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Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution's existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life's preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.
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Fujitsu ScanSnap Counts Quality Over Quantity
Fujitsu's scanner is your new (albeit bulky) buddy if you want high-quality images. The sturdy document feeder gets pages in straight, so you get them out right.
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Chrome 6 Arrives, Just in Time for Cake
Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of Chrome 6. Among the new features are an updated user interface, auto-fill for web forms, extension syncing, increased speed and numerous bug fixes.
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How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that's a losing battle. So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a new set top box. He's actually created a whole new media ecosystem built around the mobile phone.
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Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
It looks like a motorcycle, it performs like a Lotus and it's racing around the world.
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String Theory Finally Does Something Useful
String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.
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Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer
Chemical analysis of the bones of an ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2,000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis — likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet to support that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
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Samsung Introduces Its 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad
Samsung has announced the launch of a tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad.
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'Earth One' Reboots Superman's Roots for the iGeneration
Superman is a surly noob searching for reality in the digital age in J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis' update of the superhero's origin story. Who knew the Man of Steel would miss the musty Daily Planet more than the rest of us?
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Heavy European Snowfall Caused by 'Weather Collision'
The uncharacteristically snowy weather that hit Northern Europe and North America in the winter of 2009 to 2010 was caused by a rare combination of two separate weather oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific, claim meteorologists.
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Blackjack Whiz Riffs on Fantasy Sports, Statgeeks and Yahoo
A Q&A with Jeff Ma, the former leader of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-'90s. Now a successful entrepreneur and author, Ma talks about his love of fantasy sports, selling his company Citizen Sports to Yahoo (and why he didn't join them), and how young statgeeks can make their way in a sports industry dominated by traditionalists.
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Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress
Two psychiatric experts think the way to treat troops returning home with PTSD: Have them
undergo intensive psychotherapy while they're rolling on ecstasy.
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Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars
Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation’s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.
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FaceTime Lets You Share Your Point of View
Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see.
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Electric Kettles Are Steeped in the Future
Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.
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Exclusive Gallery: 1983 Nintendo Family Computer Teardown
In 1983 Nintendo released the Famicon console. Now 26 years later we tear it apart to see what makes it tick.
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Google Testing Out Full-Featured Google Apps
There's a sign of hope for frustrated Google Apps users who feel left out of getting all the cool toys regular Google users get: Google is inviting select users this week to test out Apps with all the bells and whistles.
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Best Sci-Fi Books for Kick-Starting Your Brain Fry
Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren't sure where to begin? This introductory sci-fi literature syllabus is just for you.
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Furor Erupts Over the Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution
A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson's latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution.
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5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring.
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Sink a Putt
While it can take a mere one or two strokes to hit the green, every golfer knows the torture of a four or five-putt adventure once they get there. So whether you're trying to get your golf game back on track or trying to become a Putt-putt superstar, head for the practice green.
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Apple Redefines Remote Control — Now, It's Your Cellphone
There's a lot to say about the new Apple TV that Steve Jobs presented today. But I'm not going to talk about the tiny little box. I'm not going to talk about your TV, either ... much. Instead, I’m going to talk about that remote.
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Apple's Ping Network Is Already Too Big to Fail
Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network — one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of Ping, a music-centered community that exists only within iTunes, they are probably right — and then some.
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Networking, Geo Tracking Come to Ski Slopes
EpicMix, a new RFID-based app for skiers, combines performance tracking with real-time, location-based social networking functionality. (Think Nike+ meets Foursquare.) It'll go live at several Colorado ski resorts in November, and we've got an early look.
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FCC Delays Net Neutrality Over Google-Verizon Proposal
Federal regulators are putting off efforts to regain authority over the nation’s internet providers while they seek renewed public input on net neutrality.
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Hands-On With New Apple iPods
Apple has refreshed its family of iPod products. The iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle all received some compelling makeovers that should help Apple stay in the lead in the portable media-player market.
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'Futurama' Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes
As the recently resurrected sci-fi cartoon hits the century mark, executive producer David X. Cohen and voice actors Billy West, Lauren Tom and David Herman look back on their favorite moments.
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Hands-On With New $100 Apple TV
When Steve Jobs was preparing to introduce the Apple TV, he called it "one more hobby," and based on our first impressions, that's a safe choice of words. The new Apple TV is a major hardware revamp — one quarter the size of its predecessor.
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Firearms, Boots and Dirty Cars as Canvases
On this leg of his around-the-world drive, our man at the wheel discovers the Wild West is still wild.
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Apple Takes Aim at Cable With Tiny New Apple TV
The new Apple TV, which will go on sale at the end of September for $100, is a puny box just one-quarter the size of the previous model. It has an HDMI port, a built-in power supply, an optical audio port, an ethernet jack, and built-in Wi-Fi.
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Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery
Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life could exist in the universe.
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Aston Martin's Cygnet Microcar Headed to America
Aston reportedly will offer the gussied-up Toyota iQ in the United States, presumably to help it meet tightening CAFE regs.
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Attorney: Army Disabled Manning's Weapon Prior to Leaks
The Army was so concerned about the mental health of alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning that, prior to the alleged leaks, supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, thereby disabling it.
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Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing Muscle Fibers
The unexpected emergence of complex patterns in an apparently unremarkable dish of muscle cells may give researchers a valuable tool for studying self-organizing systems.
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Ugly Vegas Carpets Want You to Keep Playing
A photo series on Las Vegas casino carpets shows how eye-rending the environments there really are.
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Pakistan Flood-Relief Efforts Stuck at 1.0
The U.S. response to the disaster pales in comparison to Haiti, and that could be a huge problem given Pakistan's strategic importance.
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New Image of Superwind-Blowing Starburst Galaxy
A new image of a superwind-blowing galaxy shows a particularly intense fit of star formation.
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Live Blog: Apple's iPod, Music Event
Apple is likely introducing a family of new iPods (and maybe a revamped Apple TV) today at its annual music event in San Francisco. Refresh this post for live updates as the event unravels.
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Aviation Thinks Outside the Black Box
Fifteen months after Air France Flight 447 went down over the Atlantic, there's still no sign of the plane's black box recorders. That has the industry wondering if it's time to update the technology with a satellite-based system.
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Sept. 1, 1974: New York to London in Less Than 2 Hours
On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between the two cities.
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Astronaut's Eye View: Time-Lapse Videos of Earth
An astronaut took over 85 time-lapse videos of Earth from the International Space Station. We have some of the best here, including an aurora and a satellite launch.
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Investing in Wind Power Is Smart — But Not How We're Doing It
Wind farms are popping up in rural areas that can't use that electricity — could the promising form of alt energy be labeled another boondoggle for farm states?
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Found: The Future of Playgrounds
A bungee jungle gym! A 10-g merry-go-round! A rocket swing! It's 2024, and this is no ordinary playground (just make sure you sign the waiver on your way in).
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Found Photoshop Contest: Retirement Homes of the Future
As all the baby boomers age (dare we say it!?), they must be considering what retirement homes will look like a decade from now. But what about many decades from now? Will nursebots and flying Rascals be a part of the plan?
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Hostage-Taker Besieges Discovery Channel, Posts Demands on Web
Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Apple to Livestream Press Conference — to Apple Customers Only
Breaking with a longstanding but unstated policy, Apple has decided to publish a live video stream of Wednesday's press conference. The stream will be optimized for Mac, iPhone and iPad users only.
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New Technique Finds Gaseous Metals in Exoplanet Atmospheres
Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium in the atmospheres of two hot Jupiters more than 190 light-years from Earth.
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Sea Creatures Hint at Recent Trans-Antarctic Seaway
The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now-solid Antarctic ice sheet — 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick — points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago. The new evidence adds to geologic clues indicating the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has collapsed at least once in the last million years, and could do so again in a warmer climate. The complete collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise global sea level by 11 to 16 feet.
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GM Wants to Trademark 'Range Anxiety'
General Motors provides a glimpse at how it might market the Chevrolet Volt against other EVs.
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Memristors Take Big Step Towards Faster, Low-Power Memory
A new circuit element called a memristor, or "memory resistor," could usher in extremely efficient data storage that could eventually make instant-on, low-power PCs a reality. HP is just three years away from bringing the memristor to market as a new product called ReRAM, for Resistive Random Access Memory.
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Apple, Google To Clash In Music Space By Christmas