Wired: Top Stories (16 unread)
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Four Online Telescopes Serve the Stars to Interstellar Paparazzi
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Patrick di Justo
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Four high-tech telescopes allow you access them online and play paparazzi with your favorite stars of the night skies.
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A One-Man Film Studio Delivers Hi-Def Footage to Indie Auteurs Everywhere
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Ben Paynter
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Cinematographer Richard Welnowski is a one-man mobile film studio, delivering affordable hi-def footage to indie auteurs across the country.
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March 18, 1662: The Bus Starts Here ... in Paris
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Randy Alfred
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A French savant famed for many successes comes up with an idea centuries ahead of its time.
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Intel Prepares a Quad-Core Notebook Chip
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 7:30pm EDT by Bryan Gardiner
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It will be expensive, power-hungry and overkill for most applications -- but a quad-core processor for notebooks is coming from Intel this fall.
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'Pervasive' Recession Won't Repeat Dot-Com Bust, Experts Say
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 7:00pm EDT by Betsy Schiffman
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Economists see few parallels between the one kicked off by the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the one brewing today.
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Why Doesn't Cable News Cover Science?
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 6:30pm EDT by Wired Science
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A new study finds that cable television news programs dedicate a mere six minutes per five hours of programming.
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Video: Capcom Upgrades Arcade Classics
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:40pm EDT by Game|Life
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The videogame company brings titles like 1942 and Street Fighter II into the high-def era.
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New Trial Ordered for Ex-Qwest CEO Nacchio
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:00pm EDT by Associated Press
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Joe Nacchio, convicted last year of insider trading, receives a new trial because the judge wrongly excluded testimony important to his defense.
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Investor Eric Janszen Says Clean Tech Is Collapsing Economy's Only Hope
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:00pm EDT by Alexis Madrigal
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Angel investor and iTulip.com founder Eric Janszen explains how the U.S. economy needs to restructure itself away from finance, insurance and real estate, and towards a new "green" technology infrastructure.
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LimeWire Launches DRM-Free Online Music Store
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 4:00pm EDT by Listening Post
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Downloader, can you spare a dime? Or maybe three? Popular P2P service LimeWire peddles legal MP3s for as low as 27 cents apiece.
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Bear Stearns: Will the Rescue Work?
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 3:50pm EDT by Jeffrey Cane, Portfolio.com
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Whether the Fed's unprecedented backing of the Bear Stearns fire sale will steady a skittish market in the long run is hard to predict. Early signs point to things going either way.
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Potty Mouths: Nine of the Nastiest Trash-Talking Toys
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 3:15pm EDT by Gadget Lab
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When manufacturers make talking toys, they skimp on audio quality -- which means it sometimes sounds like little Elmo is saying something very, very naughty.
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A New Type of Game Turns Web Surfing Into All-Out Information Warfare
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 12:00pm EDT by Mary Jane Irwin
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If playing World of Warcraft is too much for your schedule, try racking up experience points and slaying enemies during your daily browsing. PMOGs (passively multiplayer online games) are designed by blogfather Justin Hall for busy gamers. Wired asks Hall to describe a PMOG experience.
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YouTube May Feed Your Ego, but Not Your Pocketbook
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 11:35am EDT by Associated Press
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Despite the popularity of video sharing sites like YouTube, advertisers are not exactly flocking for a presence there. The reason? Fear of having an ad appear alongside tasteless or questionable content.
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Radiohead Pulls a Reznor, Solicits Fan Animations
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 10:00am EDT by Listening Post
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The band launches a DIY video contest just days after Nine Inch Nails' similar promotion starts, and you don't necessarily need animation skills to compete.
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'Nerdcore Rising' Charts Geek Rap's Ascent
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 10:00am EDT by Underwire
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The new documentary by Negin Farsad follows MC Frontalot and his fellow nerdcore pioneers as they mash coder lingo with hip-hop beats, winning loyal fans in the process.