This Day In Tech
Oct. 24, 1960: Soviet Rocket Explodes, Killing Top Engineers, Technicians
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Today in Great Tumblrs: Ryan Gosling Disneyland Cats
Ryan Gosling loves Disney (sorta). The internet loves cat blogs (pretty much). So when great-actor-disguised-as-heartthrob Gosling mentioned in an interview that he heard Disneyland might be breeding "commando cats," it was only a matter of time before the web took the weird mix and ran with it.
10.24.11 -
TSA Screener Finds Blogger’s Vibrator, Orders Her to ‘Get Freak On’
Passengers at major airports can expect the Transportation Security Administration to take a snapshot of their naked bodies through their clothes — or, if they’d prefer, to be molested instead. Now they can also expect TSA to make juvenile comments about the contents of their luggage. Well-known blogger Jill Filipovic (full disclosure: a pal) unpacked her [...]
10.24.11 -
WikiLeaks Halts Publication Over Cash Flow Issues
For the second time in two years WikiLeaks announced it was suspending publication of secrets due to financial difficulties.
10.24.11 -
Threat Level’s Kim Zetter Writing the Book on Stuxnet
Wired senior staff writer Kim Zetter won a feature writing award from the Society for Professional Journalists of Northern California last week for her riveting story on how researchers discovered and dissected Stuxnet, a worm intricately programmed to wreak havoc on an Iranian nuclear facility. And in a bit of nice timing, Zetter [...]
10.24.11 -
New Poster Offers Brooding Vision of Jurassic Park
Artist JC Richard serves up a brooding interpretation of the dino-riffic movies in a new tribute poster from Mondo.
10.24.11 -
Addictive iPhone Game Aiko Island Rivals Angry Birds
Aiko Island is a physics-driven iOS puzzle game that challenges your mind almost as much as it exercises your thumbs.
10.24.11 -
Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Climate Change
A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something that's been difficult to do with empirical precision. The debut subject: The Russian heat wave of July 2010, which killed 700 people and was unprecedented since record keeping began in the 19th century. According to the analysis, there's an 80 percent chance that climate change was responsible.
10.24.11 -
Welcome to Copenhagen Suborbitals
Dear reader… My name is Kristian von Bengtson, and I design and build spacecrafts. I have so much to show you and share with you. A little over three years ago my life changed. Everything I have learned, taught myself, loved and wanted to do was suddenly merged together in a split second: building [...]
10.24.11 -
What Rocks: The Week’s Best In the Geoblogosphere
On some Mondays* I pick five posts from??the previous week in??the??geoscience blogosphere that caught my eye. I limit it to just five because I want those who are not already plugged into this [...]
10.24.11 -
Wired Enterprise Welcomes Robert McMillan and Eric Smalley
Wired Enterprise -- Wired.com's newest news blog -- welcomes its newest reporter: Robert McMillan, a nine-year veteran of the IDG News Service who in 2010 was named one of the top security journalists in the country by the SANS Institute.
10.24.11
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Death of a Hero: Live-Action Voltron Short Brings Emotion to Cartoon
What if Voltron fell? Live-action short "Voltron: The End" scales back the special effects to focus on the aftermath of a robot battle we don't get to see. Director Alex Albrecht talks about his DIY sci-fi video.
10.24.11 -
FBI Crime Maps Now ‘Pinpoint’ Average Muslims
It started out as a program to collect and represent data on crime scenes. But over the years, the FBI's "geo-mapping" efforts started to indicate where people live, work, pray, eat and shop, not necessarily where they commit or plan crimes -- especially in U.S. Muslim communities.
10.24.11 -
Much Ado About Joss Whedon Shooting Shakespeare
Actor Nathan Fillion tweets a link to a website promoting the completion of principle photography for a mysterious project called Much Ado About Nothing, which appears to be an adaptation of the Shakespeare play done by the master of the Whedonverse.
10.24.11 -
Opera 12 Swaps Scrolls for Swipes With New ‘Opera Reader’
Opera Software has released an experimental version of its web browser with support for the company's new "paged media" proposal. Opera Reader, as the feature is known, transforms websites into something more akin to books and magazines where you can flip "pages" rather than scrolling.
10.24.11 -
Toddler Treats Military Dad’s Virtual Bedtime Story Like the Real Thing
Well, this is possibly the most heartbreaking scene you’ll see today. This amazing father and deployed military man made some pre-recorded bedtime stories for his 2-year-old daughter while he was away. And from the look of it, she can’t tell. On the one hand, she does seem overjoyed to see her dad ??? [...]
10.24.11 -
Adobe Fixes Flash Privacy Panel so Hackers Can’t Check You Out
Adobe has made changes to a page on an Adobe website that controls Flash user???s security settings???or more specifically, to the Flash .SWF file embedded in the page that opens the Flash website privacy settings panel. The changes are intended to prevent a clickjacking attack that uses the file to activate and access users’ webcams [...]
10.24.11 -
Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New E-Book Format
Amazon’s new full-color Kindle Fire tablet will arrive next month and with it will come a new e-book format that uses web standards to take advantage of the Fire’s new and improved features. The new format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), uses HTML5, CSS 3 formatting rules, embedded custom fonts and SVG graphics to create a richer [...]
10.24.11 -
Dork Tower Monday
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.
10.24.11 -
Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture
A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these lessons down through generations — evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots.
10.24.11 -
Touch-Control Beard Trimmer Take Us Back to the Eighties
I go to great and painstaking lengths to keep my chin covered with 1980s-style “designer stubble.” What’s designer stubble, you ask? Well, normal stubble is what is grown by overweight men in stained wife-beaters whilst they sit around the house drinking light beer and generally not having a job. Designer stubble, on the other hand, is [...]
10.24.11
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Apple Updates MacBook Line With Faster Chips, Better Graphics
Apple has quietly (and quite gently) updated the MacBook Pro lineup. The improvements are solely in the processors and graphics chips, bumping speed slightly, and the smaller models get an increase in storage . Everything else — from screen resolution to memory — remains the same. To see the differences at a glance, take a look [...]
10.24.11 -
How Long Is This Hot Wheels Track?
A YouTube video says a Hot Wheels racetrack is 2,000 feet long. But is it that long, how much time would it take to set up and how much would it cost? Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain investigates.
10.24.11 -
With BMW ConnectedRide, Bikers Will Never Ride Alone
If research at BMW Motorrad progresses as planned, bikers may soon be joined by a few dozen lasers, cameras and short-range WiFi networks — even on long rides out in the country. Adapting technology they’ve developed in the automotive realm, BMW is now testing ConnectedRide, an intelligent transportation system that for the first time integrates motorcycles [...]
10.24.11 -
VueScan Mobile: Use Almost Any Wireless Scanner With Your iOS Device
VueScan Mobile is an iOS app which will let you scan from your wireless scanner direct to your iPhone or iPad, no computer required. The list of supported scanners is huge, and the software works with pretty much every wireless Epson, Canon and HP scanner out there. Hamrick software’s Vuescan desktop app has been around for [...]
10.24.11 -
Call of questions for the next Q&A; with Dr. Shanaka de Silva
Over the last few weeks, a number of you have noted some news from Andean volcanoes that have made it into the mainstream media. The first details the slow but impressive inflation of Uturuncu in Bolivia. This inflation has happened over the course of the last 20 years (at least) at a rate of 1-2 [...]
10.24.11 -
Parents, It’s Time to Engage
I was listening to the radio while taking my daughter to preschool, and heard a discussion about new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding TV and screen time. This topic was already covered in more depth last week on the Wired Science blog, but I think as parents it’s worth considering a few [...]
10.24.11 -
Ten Tales by Ray Bradbury to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
Word association: Say “Halloween,” and I think,”Ray Bradbury.” In a 1993 piece for TV Guide, Bradbury described the deepest experience of his favorite holiday as “tasting darkness, but thrilled by the encounter because we are alive to savor it. It is somewhat similar to leaving the dentist’s after a tooth pull and being unable to keep [...]
10.24.11 -
The False Economy of Cheap Knockoffs – Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
Admit it — at one time or another, you’ve bought something that you knew wasn’t an authentic item, produced by the well-known, original manufacturer, but the price was so good that you figured it was worth the risk. With luck, the gamble pays off, the item is more or less as good as the “real” [...]
10.24.11 -
Tilt, A Wedge-Shaped Multitool For The MacBook Pro
Tilt is a mishmash of notebook accessories, shoved surprisingly neatly into a sleek plastic box. This box then clips onto your MacBook Pro, and provides more functions than you’re likely to need. The first is the most obvious. Tilt will tilt you computer slightly forward. Some say this makes for easier typing, some says that the [...]
10.24.11 -
Genealogy for Geeks, Part 7: Family History on the Go
For those who like to dig deeply into researching their family history, being away from their information can be frustrating. Like those of us who like to look up facts on the internet to prove a point to a friend, or figure out the name of that movie that a particular actor was in, genealogists [...]
10.24.11
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Watch It! Wristwatch-Shaped Post-It Notes
My mother used to tell me and my brother that writing on our hands would give us “blood poisoning.” Years later, I still write on my skin, and I’m still alive (despite also poisoning my blood nightly with whisky). And yet I can’t help the feeling at the back of my mind that my mother [...]
10.24.11 -
Review: Mercury Extreme Pro 3G SSD
One of my favorite computers for working is a 2008 vintage 17-inch MacBook Pro. When I bought it, this was a pretty fabulous machine, but it’s far from cutting edge nowadays. I still use it pretty much daily, but lately it had begun to feel a little pokey. Wandering through the Apple Store and playing [...]
10.24.11 -
Bike Bottle Lock Trades Security for Convenience
Carrying junk in your bike’s water bottle cage instead of filling it with delicious cool, refreshing water is probably as old as the bottle cage itself. Tools, keys and snacks can all be stowed either on an actual water bottle, or a water-bottle sized container. Now, you can so the same with a lock. The Bottle [...]
10.24.11 -
Facing Your Goliath: Interviews With Rania Ajami, and Ashley and David Eckstein
Challenges and obstacles are a normal part of life. We all encounter them. How we deal with those challenges and obstacles can say a lot about the people we are. Some people are able to tackle those problems head-on, without any apparent fear or hesitation. Other people appear to retreat, even if briefly, before they [...]
10.24.11 -
GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Pumpkin Picking Problems
Every year at GeekDad Puzzle Central we grow our own pumpkins. This year we decided 50 pumpkins would be plenty for carving, baking and chunkin’. I was assigned 2 interns, Mike and John, to help with the planting, cultivating, and harvesting. This week’s puzzle is based on the lopsided deal Mike made with [...]
10.24.11 -
Automakers Seek to Curb Drunk Driving With In-Car Alcohol Detection Systems
Stopping drunk drivers is a huge challenge, but automakers have an idea to reduce recidivism: put breathalizers in the cars of people convicted of driving under the influence.
10.24.11 -
The Evolution of the Spacesuit
Like all fashion, the spacesuit is subject to change. Early designs grew out of the pressurized suits worn by trailblazing pilots in hot air balloons and airplanes. Since then, spacesuits have grown into machines of impressive complexity, even becoming miniature spacecraft that fly independently. Spacesuits have allowed people to grab rocks from the lunar surface, make repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, or float through the void while gazing down at the planet below. Here, Wired Science takes a look at the evolution of this sometimes underappreciated garment.
10.24.11 -
Last Nuclear ‘Monster Weapon’ Gets Dismantled
The B53 gravity bomb was the perfect Cold War weapon: dumb and powerful, it vastly outclassed the destructive force of the bombs that vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On Tuesday, the final B53 will be dismantled, bringing to an end a symbol of how close mankind came to obliterating itself.
10.24.11 -
Oct. 24, 1960: Soviet Rocket Explodes, Killing Top Engineers, Technicians
Impatient to get his latest ICBM airborne, the head of Soviet rocket forces orders technicians to fix a problem without bothering to defuel the booster. It's a very bad idea.
10.24.11 -
Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots Is a Pop-Culture Mash-Up
After Angry Birds teamed up with Rio for a movie-themed version of their app, it seems only natural for another app-movie mash-up, this time from our pals at Halfbrick. Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots brings you more of the fruit-slashing fun you’ve come to expect, but with a few other twists. Now, I haven’t seen the [...]
10.24.11
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Little Monsters, Big Bucks: How Pokémon Keeps On Battling
Pokémon's game designers share their methods of creating the killer app games that became a true multimedia sensation.
10.24.11 -
Trick or T-Shirt Week Day 1: Procrastinate
Today kicks off yet another week-long event sponsored by our friends at dorktastic Canadian t-shirt repository 604 Republic. It’s Halloween time, and the folks at 604 are going to be favoring five lucky winners with free holiday-appropriate shirts and gear all week long. Up for grabs today is the delightfully Whovian design “Procrastinate.” It features the [...]
10.24.11 -
Nerf Vortex Blasters Move Past the Foam Dart
Nerf has long shifted its focus to dart guns (“blasters”) away from its classic products like foam footballs — and they’ve put out some great products along the way. With their fall line, they have introduced a series of toys including a premium electrically powered gun that captures a lot of interest??? er, from dads??? [...]
10.24.11 -
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Oct. 24
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
10.24.11 -
How Apple’s A5 Chip and iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Gaming
If the last two weeks of mainstream press coverage are to be believed, the only relevant features in Apple’s new iPhone 4S are??Siri, the phone’s remarkable digital assistant, and the new??8-megapixel camera, which delivers near point-and-shoot image quality to Apple’s mobile platform. But there’s one other feature that’s largely been ignored, even though it too was [...]
10.23.11 -
10 Years Ago Today: Apple Introduces the iPod, Changes Everything
There are some historical moments whose significance is obvious at the moment, where you know it will be remembered and commemorated in years to come. But I suspect most people wouldn’t be able to recall the events in their lives on October 23, 2001, because you would have to have been able to see the [...]
10.23.11 -
Teach Your Geeklings to Sew
My daughter is busy sewing her third quilt in this picture, using her Hello Kitty sewing machine. If you have the ability to sew, it’s a skill you should pass to your kids. If you don’t have the ability, you should learn together. I had a girl first, so we taught her first, but we are [...]
10.23.11 -
10 of the Most Creative Video Game Deaths Ever (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
As a gamer, I play a lot of video games. In playing a lot of video games, I also die a lot. I mean all the freaking time. I think I “fell down” in Call of Duty: World at War at least 20 times last night before finally realizing that I should probably pick my [...]
10.23.11 -
The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Ken, Matt, and Jonathan talk about New York Comic-Con, the Apple iPhone 4S , and more. Enjoy! This episode of The GeekDads was sponsored by Rocksmith, the new XBox/PS3 game from Ubisoft that lets you learn and play great music with a real guitar. For more information, check out Rocksmith online. GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at [...]
10.23.11 -
Skylanders Character Stats Revealed
I’ve been playing Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure quite a bit the last few days (both in videogame and Skylanders Chess form). But it wasn’t until today that I realized the stats published on the official Skylanders site were only for the character cards you use on the web game, rather than the starting stats of the [...]
10.23.11
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Presto Chango Geek to Maverick
If you missed it, this week’s puzzle asked you to use basic physics formulas to transform: Of course, specific steps will vary, but here’s one way to do it: . Unfortunately, there were NO CORRECT ANSWERS to this week’s puzzle, likely because we all spent too much time on CS and not enough time on physics in college. [...]
10.23.11 -
Scathing Report: Polio Eradication “Not… Any Time Soon”
The worldwide polio-eradication initiative has delivered a report on the global effort that is striking for its brutally frank and even frustrated tone. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna breaks down the findings.
10.22.11 -
Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Music
Tired of listening to music on your lonesome? Facebook might have the answer. Here's how to make the most of the "connective tissue" the social network has built to bring music fans together with their friends and their favorite music services.
10.22.11 -
Anonymous and Antisec Attack Law Enforcement Websites
Anonymous and Antisec factions dumped files on the net Friday detailing data from the computer systems of multiple law enforcement agencies and a law enforcement vendor, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Boston Police Patrolmen???s Association and the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in Alabama. Additionally, the groups took down a number of law enforcement [...]
10.22.11 -
Justice Cuts Back on Samples for Hard-Rocking Audio, Video, Disco
The electronic music duo upcoming record is a full-metal assault of sound. Big crunchy guitars, heavy bass, drums for days. But that doesn't stop its creators from calling it a "bedroom record."
10.21.11 -
6 Guys in a Capsule: 520 Days on a Simulated Mars Mission
Are we there yet? Psychologists watch the events inside a "spaceship" on closed-circuit monitors 24/7. Here's what the extreme, extended isolation of a simulated mission to Mars does to the body and mind.
10.21.11 -
Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
On July 13, 2010, a cargo container arrived in Genoa, Italy. It had torrents of radiation coming out of it. No one knew what was inside, and no one knew what to do next.
10.21.11 -
Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music
It's like the Second Coming! A decade ago, Napster's attempt to set music free was crushed by the record labels. Now, Facebook and Spotify (and a host of others) have resurrected the dream.
10.21.11 -
Engineering Replacements for Essential Perfume Ingredients
Many of the ingredients prized by perfume companies are being regulated out of existence. The industry is racing to produce replacements, but will they pass the smell test?
10.21.11 -
How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley
What happens when an outsider beats the Valley's elite venture capitalists at their own game? A controversial money guy invests in every social media powerhouse, getting potentially unlimited access to the most important company to hit the Internet in a decade.
10.21.11
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Self-Help for Nerds: Advice from Comedian Chris Hardwick
Nerds. Once a tortured subrace of humans condemned to hiding in dark corners from the brutal hand of social torment … now captains of industry! The explosive popularity of the Internet, videogames, and smartphone technology has made this formerly feeble cluster of pasty virgins “cool.” But I was a nerd when it wasn’t a buzzword [...]
10.21.11 -
Live ‘Private Cloud’ Spotted in New Jersey Rock Quarry
"We created a hybrid," says NYSE Technologies CEO Stanley Young. "It's a cross between the public cloud and the private cloud." To the average English speaker, this sounds like gibberish. But in the computing world, it makes perfect sense. No, really, it does.
10.21.11 -
Thousands of Penguins Raise Flippers At Microsoft Secure Boot
Microsoft says that Secure Boot, a new technology it's introducing with Windows 8 will protect us from hackers, but nearly 13,000 people have some, shall we say, reservations.
10.21.11 -
The Best Totally-Not-Real Avengers Trailer Yet
It's pretty much a consensus at this point that the first trailer for Marvel's superhero team-up movie is straight-up nerd porn. But what that powerful promo doesn't have is actual porn, or nerds, or superheroes doing blow and 'roids. This one does.
10.21.11 -
Gadget Lab Podcast: Ice Cream Sandwich, Nokia and Apple Updates
?????????????????????? runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1231264838001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); On this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks shop about Google’s recent Android updates, a new Nokia phone and, of course, the obligatory week in Apple news and rumors. First up, staff writer Mike Isaac and product reviews editor Michael Calore kick off the show with tasty news about Ice Cream Sandwich, the [...]
10.21.11 -
25 Dead From Melons: FDA Points to Packing Facility
Federal health authorities have determined responsibility for the vast 26-state outbreak of Listeria in cantaloupes, almost 3 months -- and 123 illnesses, 25 deaths and one miscarriage -- since it began. In a long report released this week, they say they found Listeria not in the fields where the melons were grown, but in the packing and cold storage facilities on the single large farm where they all came from; and, in addition, they identified some practices on the farm that may have caused Listeria contamination or allowed it to multiply.
10.21.11 -
Oxygen Losses Ground Stealth Fighters, Again
F-22 Raptor stealth fighters at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia have been grounded after a pilot experienced oxygen loss in mid-flight. It's the second stand-down this year for the U.S. military's most sophisticated dogfighter, and a foreboding sign for the Pentagon as it struggles to modernize its aerial armada.
10.21.11 -
Comcast No Longer Choking File Sharers’ Connections, Study Says
Comcast appears to be obeying a 2008 FCC decision demanding the ISP stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. Earlier that year, Comcast throttled about half of all BitTorrent traffic. Today, it's about 3 percent, according to a new study.
10.21.11 -
Sherlock Holmes Wears a Dress in New Game of Shadows Trailer
Sherlock Holmes, cross-dresser? Yep. In the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows clip, Robert Downey Jr. plays the Some Like It Hot card as the smooth-talking sleuth hatches a caper with wingman Dr. Watson (played by Jude Law) on a train speeding across Europe.
10.21.11 -
The Tao of SportsNation: ESPN’s Zen Pollsterism
At the bottom of ESPN.com each day, SportsNation runs a poll of the day, such as "How many games will the Boston Red Sox win in September?" Recently, however, the initial upload of the poll occasionally has come without the question at the top. Which has led to a very zen-like approach to sports polling.
10.21.11
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Video: 10 Years of Fires on Earth Seen From Space
Using a pair of Earth-monitoring satellites, NASA has recorded tens of millions of fires that burned throughout the past decade. Wired.com takes you on a video tour.
10.21.11 -
Primal Propensity for Disgust Shapes Political Positions
Conservatives and liberals appear to have different capacities for disgust, one of the most fundamental human emotions. Does this mean partisan divides are intractably biological? Actually, it could provide a much-needed dose of humble appreciation for how our opponents — and our selves — think.
10.21.11 -
Meet ARM’s Cortex A15: The Future of the iPad, and Possibly the Macbook Air
The A15 will go into ARM tablets and some high-end smartphones during the second half of 2012, and it's by far the best candidate for an ARM-based Macbook Air should Apple chose to take this route. Just as importantly, A15 will also go into the coming wave of ARM-based cloud server parts that have yet to be announced.
10.21.11 -
Steve Jobs Bio: Its 6 Most Surprising Reveals
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs doesn't goes on sale until Monday, but advanced copies have been dribbling out telling insights and factoids about Apple's former CEO. Enjoy these surprising peeks into the life and psyche of??the 21st century's most famous, if not celebrated, CEO.
10.21.11 -
Next WoW Expansion Will Be All-Out Panda-Monium
An April Fool's joke comes to life in World of Warcraft's fourth expansion pack, which developer Blizzard announced Friday at its annual BlizzCon convention in Anaheim, California.
10.21.11 -
Tweaking Fairy Tales to Suit Our Troubled Times
New TV series Grimm and Once Upon a Time plunder folklore, then update classic characters like Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood for modern audiences. It's part of a trend to use time-tested fairy tales as source material for movies, art and other 21st-century creations.
10.21.11 -
Researchers Found Way to ID Skype Users Who Also Use BitTorrent
A group of researchers have found a way to tie Skype users to their peer-to-peer networks in order to identify who might be responsible for sharing files on Bit Torrent and other P2P networks. The research looks at how a Skype user’s IP address can be determined without the user knowing and then linked to files [...]
10.21.11 -
HP Amputates Tech Strategy Boss
Shane Robison, the man responsible for HP's corporate and technological strategy, is leaving the company, announcing he'll hang up his spurs on Nov. 1 after 11 years at HP. More interestingly, the company announced, despite its turmoil, that no one will take over the position.
10.21.11 -
The Iraq War Ain’t Over, No Matter What Obama Says
President Obama announced on Friday that all 41,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31. “That is how America’s military efforts in Iraq will end,” he said. Don’t believe him. Now: it’s a big deal that all U.S. troops are coming home. For much of the year, the military, fearful of Iranian [...]
10.21.11 -
Pentagon Launches Offensive Against Puppies, Kittens
On August 31, Army Spc. Kevin Shumaker, died of rabies, making him the first U.S. soldier to die of rabies since the Vietnam War. Now, the military is launching a counterstrike, with a series of outrageous posters warning troops of their new foes. "EVEN KITTENS CAN BE DEADLY!" one warns.
10.21.11
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NSFW Trailer: The ABCs of Death Soaks Victims in Blood, Ketchup
Things get pretty blood pretty fast in this NSFW trailer for The ABCs of Death, which hits viewers over the head with a variety of wildly creative fatalities. There’s plenty of red splatter (although at least some of it is ketchup.) The upcoming anthology movie, slated for 2012 release, will feature horror shorts from 25 hot [...]
10.21.11 -
Sprint Nixes Unlimited 4G Data for Tablets, Hotspots
Effective this November, Sprint customers will have to pay for 3G and 4G data use combined, a departure from the company's previous policy of allowing unlimited 4G data while asking customers to pay only for 3G. Even worse, existing unlimited 4G hotspot data customers won't be grandfathered in.
10.21.11 -
Orionid Meteor Shower Will Put on Celestial Show This Weekend
Turn your attention skyward early this Saturday morning for a gift from Halley???s comet: A stream of up to 15 meteors per hour is predicted for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower.
10.21.11 -
Game|Life Podcast: Waiting For Vita, Missing Blizzcon
Cooperative carnage, the next generation of user-generated content and what's holding back the spread of downloadable content. It's all on this week's Game|Life podcast.
10.21.11 -
Nintendo Adds 3-D Video Capture, Hulu Plus to 3DS
Nintendo will update the Nintendo 3DS firmware with 3-D video shooting capability at the end of November, it said on Friday. In addition to allowing users to shoot up to 10 minutes at a stretch of stereoscopic video, the feature will support stop-motion animation, so users can create their own Robot Chicken-style animations using a 3DS, [...]
10.21.11 -
Win Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Blu-ray
Tell us how the animated series fits into George Lucas' sprawling sci-fi universe and you could win one of five free Blu-ray copies. Plus: See a preview of one of the featurettes from Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season Three.
10.21.11 -
Hints of New Physics Crop Up at LHC
Preliminary findings from CERN's Large Hadron Collider may have uncovered experimental evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Data from the CMS experiment is showing significant excesses of particles known as leptons being created in triplets, a result that could be interpreted as evidence for a theory called supersymmetry.
10.21.11 -
On Facebook, NATO Chief Announces End to Libya War
It's rare that wars actually end these days. But the Libya war is ending with a milestone for social media: NATO's military commander announced the conclusion of the war on his Facebook page, with a complementary tweet.
10.21.11 -
Darpa Robots Will Turn Dead Satellites Into a Zombie Orbital Array
Launching satellites is a risky proposition???costing as much as $10,000 a pound to make orbit and little recourse if a critical piece malfunctions. So, Darpa has devised a system to recycle the $300 billion worth of orbiting dead satellites into a zombie antenna array. The Phoenix system, as it has been dubbed, consists [...]
10.21.11 -
Predator Teamed Up With French Jets to Stop Gadhafi
For the past several years, U.S. Predator drones have been solo hunters, targeting terrorists from the skies above Pakistan. But for the final hours of Moammar Gadhafi's life, they had backup -- from French fighter jets. It might even be the start of a new, multilateral phase in the U.S.' drone wars.
10.21.11
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Solar Weather Forecasting Gets More Reliable
Rather than simply relying on rules of thumb, space weather forecasters have begun running a computer model that actually simulates the development of conditions between the sun and Earth.
10.21.11 -
Exclusive: Halloween Episode of My Little Pony Will Be a Night Mare
When hitting the streets this Halloween, it's likely that among the pirates, robots, Chewbaccas and girls-who-dress-like-slutty-animals you might find a character or two from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. But what will the well-hooved ponies be wearing for their own costumes this Halloween season? That question has remained unanswered. Until now. See an exclusive preview video of the animated show's Halloween special.
10.21.11 -
Vulcan’s View: Eruption News and Volcanoes From Space for October 21, 2011
Volcanologist and blogger Erik Klemetti covers the hottest cinder cones from space in his weekly "Vulcan's Views" update.
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Learning is Like Mountain Climbing
Suppose I was a mountain climbing coach. For the day’s lesson, the mountain climbing class would aim to get to the top of a mountain. Along the way, the terrain varied in climbing difficulty. Some parts were just foot paths, but some parts were quite steep requiring some more technical skills. So here [...]
10.21.11 -
Aging ‘Privacy’ Law Leaves Cloud E-Mail Open to Cops
Twenty-five years ago Friday, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that for the first time provided Americans with sweeping digital-privacy protections. The law came at a time when e-mail was used mostly by nerdy scientists, when phones without wires hardly worked as you stepped out into the backyard, and when??the World Wide Web didn’t exist. Four presidencies [...]
10.21.11 -
9 Essential Geek Books You Must Read Right Now
What are the must-read books that inform our worldview? The first of Wired.com's 9 for 9 series designed to make you a better geek.
10.21.11 -
Video: Air-To-Air With Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Never mind the years of delays, billions of dollars and the long list of issues that plagued Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner program. Just seeing it flying through the sky from close formation, sometimes it’s just nice to watch an airplane fly for the simple pleasure of enjoying airplanes. One of the first things many airplane watchers will [...]
10.21.11 -
Alt Text: UltraViolet Makes Honesty Almost Convenient
By now, you’ve heard about the UltraViolet Alliance, which is not a group of superheroes defending America from space vampires, but rather a consortium of unimaginably gigantic media companies. I got a fax three days ago that claimed to be an early draft of the UltraViolet press release. When contacted, the UltraViolet Alliance denied the draft’s [...]
10.21.11 -
A Tale of Three Sails
A recent study points to bizarre, sail-backed reptiles as the earliest definitive archosaurs -- one of the most successful and important evolutionary dynasties in the history of life on earth.
10.20.11 -
Google Apps Not Cutting It for LA’s Finest
Two years after the City of Los Angeles approved a $7.25 million deal to move its e-mail and productivity infrastructure to Google Apps, the migration has still not been completed because the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies are unsatisfied with Google???s security related to the handling of criminal history data.
10.20.11
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