Wired: Top Stories (12 unread)
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What's Inside: This Exterior Latex Paint Coats Walls, Fights Diarrhea
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 9:00pm EST by Patrick Di Justo
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Find out some of the most common ingredients that go into paint, from water used as a base to minerals mixed in for their pigment.
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March 6, 1937: Birth of a Soviet Hero, First Woman Into Space
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 9:00pm EST by Tony Long
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Ideologically pure and physically tough, Valentina Tereshkova is the perfect candidate for the Soviet Union's goal of being first to put a woman into orbit.
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Bruce Schneier's Security Matters: The Myth of the 'Transparent Society'
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 9:00pm EST by Bruce Schneier
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Can you neutralize the harm caused by excessive government surveillance just by watching the watchers? No, actually.
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A New Automaker Is in Hot Pursuit -- of the Perfect Police Car
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 9:00pm EST by Matthew Phenix
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Atlanta-based Carbon Motors develops a car meant specifically for police use, and has a prototype coming down the pike.
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'I in the Sky' Broadcasts Your Face Above Times Square
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 9:00pm EST by Glenn Gamboa
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Step into Raul Vincent Enriquez's sci-fi-styled photo booth for a 30-second session, and your 50-foot animated face will light up midtown Manhattan.
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Apple Set to Reveal Road to Third-Party iPhone Apps
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 8:30pm EST by Bryan Gardiner
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Apple is set to release details about the widely-anticipated software development kit, or SDK, for the iPhone on Thursday.
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How to Speed Up Your Mac
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 8:00pm EST by How-To Wiki
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When your hard drive fills up and your apps get sluggish, don't panic or curse Steve Jobs. Bring your slow Mac back to life by following our guide on Wired's How-To Wiki.
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Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 6:40pm EST by Brandon Keim
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A new brain-imaging technique can predict, with great accuracy, what pictures subjects are looking at.
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Redesign the Wired.com Logo, Dungeons & Dragons-Style
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 6:20pm EST by Underwire
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To pay tribute to Gary Gygax, the recently deceased father of D&D, we broke out the graph paper and whipped our logo into a dungeon. Get out your +1 magic pencils and cast a Spell of Conjuring -- or create your own Wired.com dungeon.
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DIY Robotics: The Rise of Open Source Hardware
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 6:00pm EST by Ryan Singel
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A new wave of open source hardware is coming, and was on display at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this week.
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Why Wii Shovelware Is a Good Thing
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 4:00pm EST by Game|Life
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Garbage games might seem like nothing but a sap on the old wallet. In reality, the glut of lame, cheap-o titles will pay off for gamers.
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Whistleblower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 4:00pm EST by Threat Level
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An unnamed U.S. carrier maintains a DS-3 line to a mysterious facility in Quantico, Virginia, according to a computer security expert who worked for the company as a contractor in 2003. Customer voice calls, data packets and billing records are all allegedly exposed.