Wired: Top Stories (8 unread)
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Kick Out the Summer Jams!
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 4:30pm EDT by Listening Post
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Listening Post puts together a formative stack of summer jams. What are you looping into your laps, pods, phones and/or consoles to help you sweat these toasty months away? Tell us and we'll sift through the suggestions and add more to the Listening Post jams.
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Free Speech Rights Not Guaranteed in 'Public' Online Spaces
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 4:30pm EDT by Associated Press
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You can generally rant all you want in a public park without being ejected by a police officer. But say it on the internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.
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Terra Awarded Olympic Internet rights
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 1:30pm EDT by Associated Press
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Internet company Terra is awarded Internet and mobile rights to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Latin America.
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Star Trek: The Experience Closing in Vegas
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 1:30pm EDT by Underwire
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Offering a sad commentary on the state of the Star Trek franchise, the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas will shut down Star Trek: The Experience this fall.
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Tea, Tennis, Faceless Aliens at Wimbledon
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT by Underwire
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As the 2008 Wimbledon fortnight plays itself out, the event offers all of its traditional trappings -- immaculately mown grass, clean yellow tennis balls, breakfasts of strawberries and creme and well-dressed faceless alien androids.
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Bereaved Dad Creates Bomb-Defusing Robot
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT by Associated Press
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After the death of his 20-year-old son in Iraq, Brian Hart founds a company that develops rugged, relatively inexpensive robotic vehicles, resembling small dune buggies, to disable car bombs and roadside explosives before they detonate in hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Tweets, Twits, Whatever. We Got 'Em
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 12:30am EDT by Listening Post
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Listening Post sets up a Twitter feed to keep you abreast of music-related news and tech in bite-sized pieces called Post Tweets.
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The Microwave Scream Inside Your Skull
Posted: July 6th, 2008, 12:30am EDT by Danger Room
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The U.S. military bankrolls early development of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. But in the end, the gadget may be just as likely to wind up in shopping malls as on battlefields.