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On Location With an 'Obama in 30 Seconds' Crew
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:00pm EDT by Kat Wade, Kevin Poulsen. Photos by Kat Wade
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MoveOn.org is offering television exposure, and $20,000 in video equipment, for the best user-contributed 30-second ad promoting Barack Obama. With the deadline nearing, Wired.com tags along as one team shoots their video on the streets of Oakland.
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Visualizing Viruses
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Ryan Singel
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Internet threats ruin hard drives and clog inboxes. But in the hands of an MIT graduate student, viruses and Trojans become menacing beauties. Art goes viral, really.
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Reviews: M83 Ups the Tempo, X Saves the World, God of War Invades PSP
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT
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Wired.com runs down M83 new album Saturdays=Youth, God of War: Chains of Olympus and Jeff Gordinier manifesto X Saves the World.
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How To Take Your Music Open Source With Ogg Vorbis
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 8:00pm EDT
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Unlike MP3 and AAC, the underdog Vorbis audio format is free of patent restrictions, and full support is only a few downloads away. Visit Wired.com’s How-To Wiki and start rockin’ in the free world.
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Yuri's Night: The Complete World Space Party Users Guide
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:00pm EDT by Wired Science
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We present you with a guide to Yuri's Night, the world's largest party celebrating space and space culture, which is going down this Saturday.
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Music Label's Eternal Ownership Argument is Rubbish
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:10pm EDT by Threat Level
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Music label claims it owns the eternal right to promotional CDs it gives away, and is suing a California man for selling promotional CDs on eBay. Digital rights groups say that is a distortion of copyright law.
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Security Guru Gives Hackers a Taste of Their Own Medicine
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:00pm EDT by Threat Level
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A Swedish researcher discovers a way to hack a computer Trojan horse so that he can get inside the hacker's computer. The counter-hack comes just as the government and security industry warn of increasing danger of such targeted computer attacks.
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Hurricane's Deep Ocean Roar Sounds Its Strength
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 5:00pm EDT by Wired Science
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Scientists determine that the acoustic signature of a hurricane heard through a "hydrophone" deep in the ocean is related to the strength of its winds. It could be a cheaper hurricane measurement system for developing countries.
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That Blissfully Quiet Electric Car Might Just Kill You
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 3:15pm EDT by Autopia
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Congress thinks electric cars are too quiet and pose a threat to pedestrians and cyclists, not to mention all those people with iPods and cell phones surgically attached to their ears. Its solution? Have the Department of Transportation require hybrids and EVs to make more noise.
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Show Us Your Hilarious Shrine to Science
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:30pm EDT by Wired Science
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Desperate scientists built a shockingly geeky shrine to lasers, but we want you to send Wired.com your even nerdier monuments to the science gods.
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Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:05pm EDT by Alexis Madrigal
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Biomedical engineers and food scientists join forces to take vat-grown meat from scientific curiosity to ethical meat consumer option.
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Set-Top Box for BitTorrent to Simplify Downloads
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:00pm EDT by Gadget Lab
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Myka is a set-top box that will download and play BitTorrent files in a wide variety of formats. Company president Dan Lovy explains his plans in Gadget Lab.
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Firefox Logo Spotted in Deep Space
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 1:40pm EDT by Gadget Lab
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The gas cloud surrounding a star that went nova in 2002 looks uncannily like the logo for the popular browser Firefox.
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Ethics Be Hanged: Rupert Murdoch Is In It to Win
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 1:15pm EDT by Jeff Bercovici, Portfolio.com
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Observers puzzled by the media mogul's playing both sides of the street in the current battle between Yahoo and Microsoft shouldn't be surprised: Double-dealing and promise-breaking has been Murdoch's MO since Day One. From Portfolio.com.
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Melting Ice Drains a Chilean Lake; Warming Blamed
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:25am EDT by Associated Press
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Melting ice causes a glacial lake to overflow, then abruptly empty, in a phenomenon scientists say is caused by rising temperatures.
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Winner in Yahoo-Microsoft Battle? How About Google?
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:15am EDT by Associated Press
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The more drawn out Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo becomes -- and all signs point to a protracted battle -- the better for Google, analysts say.
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Targeted Ads, Corporate Snooping Offend Most Web Users
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 10:55am EDT
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Marketers may like targeted ads, and companies like Google and Microsoft certainly like tracking where people have been online, but 59 percent of their adoring public think it stinks.
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Is the U.S. Army Reading Your Blog?
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 10:40am EDT by Danger Room
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The Army freely admits reading the things its soldiers have to say in their personal blogs. But there's also a chance the brass is having a look at what you post, too, Mr. Civilian, if you're blogging about their GIs.
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High Hopes for Pratt & Whitney's New Jet Engine
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 10:35am EDT by Autopia
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The company's next-generation Geared Turbofan, the result of a $1 billion, 20-year project, promises to be both quieter and more efficient. Aircraft manufacturers like what they see.
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Think You Can Design a Car? Prove It
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Autopia
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Think you've got what it takes to stand alongside Walter de'Silva and design a sweet car? There's an automotive startup in Massachusetts that wants to hear from you. Impress them and they might just build it.
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NSFW Gallery: Sex Science From Da Vinci to MRIs
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Randy Dotinga
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A variety of bizarre theories and sex experiments appear in this not-safe-for-work gallery of images from Mary Roach's book Bonk.
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Its Contagious: Quarantine, the Next Viral Movie Craze
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Underwire
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The first viral marketing video for Quarantine, the remake of a Spanish movie, picks up a million views the weekend it surfaces on YouTube. It's the latest in a string of movies to use MySpace and Facebook pages for promotion.