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Wired News: Technology

added: Sun, 11th September 2005 | 967 views | 5x in favourites
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Wired News, a pioneer in online journalism, has been at the forefront of daily technology news coverage since its launch in 1996. The site\'s mission is to provide an original, lively and timely chronicle of how technology affects our lives, for better or worse.

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Report Warns U.S. Could Lose Space-Spy Dominance

America is becoming so lousy at building spy satellites that "the United States is losing its preeminence in space," a Congressional intelligence report declares. What's worse, the decline comes as "emerging space powers such as Russia, India and China" are getting better and better at snooping from above.

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Geode Tells Firefox Where You Are, What's Nearby

Mozilla has released a new add-on for Firefox called Geode. The plug-in, which is now available to beta testers, will make the browser more location-aware, adding greater relevancy to local search and other location-based web services.

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U.N. Report Frames Biofuels for Rising Food Costs

A new report from the United Nations lays much of the blame for rising fuel costs on biofuels, but the data in the report do not support that assertion. Biofuel production is just one factor among many and does not account for the majority of the cost increases.

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Control BitTorrent Downloads Remotely

So you forgot to record the debates and you're afraid you'll look stupid around the watercooler tomorrow. Here's a solution: Set up your home computer's BitTorrent client for remote control. Set it to download the video from work and it will be waiting for you when you get back. We'll show you how.

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McCain and Obama Campaigns Call For Change In Debate Format

Both the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama are calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to use internet technology to open up the general election debate formats to better reflect the questions on the minds of the electorate.

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Data-Mining for Terrorists Not 'Feasible,' DHS-Funded Study Finds

Searching for terrorists in masses of electronic data doesn't work and will lead to unacceptable privacy invasions, a government-funded commission reported Tuesday. Instead, the government should carefully evaluate how it uses the same technology as book recommendation software, and update the nation's privacy laws.

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Review: 'Sonic Chronicles' Serves Up Best Sonic in Years

Sega's blazing-fast mascot makes an unlikely comeback in BioWare's new role-playing game for Nintendo DS.

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Geode Firefox Add-on Will Tell Browser Where You Are

Mozilla is planning to release a new add-on for Firefox called Geode. The add-on, which will be made available to beta testers Tuesday, will make the browser more location-aware, adding greater relevancy to local search and other location-based web services.

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Google's 'Mail Goggles' Helps Stop Your Drunken E-Mail Rants

A new experimental feature for Google's free e-mail service forces the user to stop and answer simple math questions before sending after-hours messages on Friday and Saturday nights. Curbing your drinking, however, is still up to you.

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Lenovo S10 — The Best Netbook We've Seen All Year

Oh Lord, have mercy, we've seen a lot of netbooks this year: Everything from the good to the bad to the downright confusing. But Lenovo seems to have gotten the precarious balance of price, power and features measured out just right in its newest S10.

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Army Looks to Build World's Strongest Solar Array

The Army says it wants to build what could be the world's most powerful solar power plant, as part of a far-reaching effort to cut back on the service's dependence on fossil fuels. But the military has broken its green promises before.

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Vote for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Who should win the Nobel Prize in chemistry? Cast your vote on the Wired.com Science blog.

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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded: Fair or Foul?

The Nobel Prize committee went off the board yesterday, awarding -- despite Wired Science readers' clear preference for graphene's discoverers -- the prize in physics to three theoretical physicists whose work has illuminated the nature of matter. We didn't see that coming, but now we ask: did the Nobel Prize committee get it right?

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Applying the eBay Model to Music Licensing

Licensing songs to commercials, videogames and even homemade videos could be the next area of music to benefit from the long-tail effect. YouLicense has reduced much of the friction that has been holding this back with its eBay-like market for synchronization licenses.

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Google's 'Mail Goggles' Combats Drunk Emailing

Google releases a useful new Gmail feature which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning.

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5 Reasons Not to Buy a DSi (And Why I Probably Will)

This newly christened DSi is an obvious member of the DS family, with its stylus and minimalist clamshell design, but Nintendo would seemingly like us to believe that it is a wholly different animal. Well, I guess that depends on how these new features stack up. Let’s take a look, shall we?

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Video: Neil Gaiman Gives Away 'The Graveyard'

The Sandman author reads from his new book, about a boy who hangs out with dead people, and posts the clips online for free. Gaiman talks about Graveyard in a video interview with Wired.com.

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Solar Goes From Gardens to Gigabucks

A California company has a billion dollars worth of orders in hand for a new solar product that could soon blanket the tops of flat-roof buildings across the nation.

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Oct. 7, 1959: Luna 3's Images From the Dark Side

1959: The space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the dark side of the moon. The radio-controlled Luna 3 was part of the Soviet Union's highly successful lunar program, which completed 20 missions to the moon between January 1959 and October 1970. Although the United States won the race to land a human on the moon, the Russians achieved a number of their own lunar milestones, including the first flyby (Luna 1), first surface impact (Luna 2), first soft landing (Luna 9) and first lunar orbiter (Luna 10). Luna 3's mission objective was to provide the first photographs from the moon's far side. To achieve this, the probe was equipped with a dual-lens 35mm camera, one a 200mm, f/5.6 aperture, the other a 500mm, f/9.5. The photo sequencing was automatically triggered when Luna 3's photocell detected the sunlit far side, which occurred when the craft was passing about 40,000 miles above the lunar surface. Luna 3's camera took 29 photographs over a 40-minute period, covering roughly 70 percent of the moon's far side. The photographs were developed, fixed and dried by the probe's onboard film processing unit. Seventeen images were successfully scanned and returned to Earth on Oct. 18, when Luna 3 was close enough to begin transmitting. Although the low-resolution images had to be boosted by computer enhancement on Earth, in the end they were good enough to produce a tentative map of the dark side. Among the identifiable features were two seas, named Mare...

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Gallery: Inside Secretive New Solar-Tech Factory

: Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com FREMONT, California -- Solar photovoltaics make up a tiny percentage of the world's power largely because they just cost too much. Burning fossil fuels remains cheaper than even the best solar panels. But Solyndra's new thin-film technology could substantially cut the cost of manufacturing and installing solar electricity, perhaps reaching the cost of standard power within a few years. The venture-backed company, which came out of stealth mode today, gave Wired.com access to their new whirring fab, installed in a former hard-drive factory. Most of the equipment was designed in-house by Solyndra's 500 employees with the aid of more than $600 million in venture capital. "We've put a lot of effort into very sophisticated process control," Kelly Truman, VP of business development told Wired.com. "We design and build all the critical equipment in the factory ourselves." Left: Solyndra's solar modules enter the factory as simple glass tubes a few feet long, seen here awaiting a special cleaning process. : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Designed with automation in mind, the factory's many robots do much of the work in transporting the panels of glass tubes around the floor. : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com The glass tubes are dipped in a series of solutions including coatings of copper indium gallium diselenide, known as CIGS. Here we see finished tubes, which have lost their transparency. : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com As the panels receive...

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Fruits of the Comcast-Plaxo Marriage: Fan Pages

If it wasn't immediately obvious why Comcast forked over a reported $150 million for Plaxo, a social networking site, it may become clearer later this month, when Plaxo officially launches Fan Pages for FanCast, Comcast's online video site. The social features available in beta now let users join fan groups of various TV shows, where they can share episodes and discuss plot developments to their heart's content with fellow obsessives.

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Meteoroid Predicted to Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere Tonight

A small meteoroid is predicted to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over Sudan tonight. This is the first time astronomers have been able to predict when a meteoroid will enter the atmosphere.

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Judge's Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software

A federal judge seals a decision tentatively blocking RealNetwork's sale of DVD-copying software.

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Goliath Beats Davids for Pentagon Power Prize

The Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize to get entrepreneurs and tinkerers to come up with radically new ways to supply power to the all those gadgets a soldier has to lug around. But the winner, the Pentagon declared today, is as traditional as it comes: DuPont, the chemical giant -- and military supplier, since 1802.

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How to Understand the Financial Crisis

There's a lot of hype surrounding the financial crisis, but what does it really mean? To get acquainted with the financial crisis and what it means to you and me, we've pinged several sources on the internet for economic explanations even we could understand.

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Is the Cheapest Genome Sequence Ever for Real?

A biotech company is planning to offer complete personal genome sequences for $5,000, but is it too good to be true?

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Toy Robot Intended to Save Humans From Evil

Zeno, a toy robot that may be available for around $300 in 2010, is designed to fend off future robots that are psychotic and lack sympathy for humans.

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