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Digital Sculptures Inspired by Atari's Pitfall
As a kid, Shawn Smith spent hours playing the Atari game Pitfall, where players tromp though a forested gauntlet of rolling logs, quicksand, rattlesnakes, and fire. "I'd never been camping, so I thought that's what it was: wrestling croc...
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U.S. Customs Clears HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE for Sale
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have lifted a nearly month long blockade of HTC's two newest smartphones, the One X and the Evo 4G LTE. The two new phones are on the way to retailers.
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$10,000 iPad Prototype Was 'Most Likely' Stolen Property, Says eBay Seller
Selling Apple prototypes is tricky business. There's always the chance that Apple will shut it down and ask for the device back. The seller of the dual-dock iPad prototype knew this when he posted his Ebay auction. "I wasn't expecting th...
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Everything Will Be Illuminated: Artist to Cover Bay Bridge in Programmable LEDs
With apologies to Journey, the lights may not go down in the City By the Bay for quite a while. Not if Leo Villareal, an artist known for his illuminated installations in major museums and at Burning Man, has anything to do with it.
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Learn to Code With Mozilla's 'Thimble' Editor
Catch a sneak peek of Mozilla Thimble, an easy-to-use online code editor. Just type some HTML in the left panel and you'll instantly see the results in the right panel. Thimble also has plenty of hints, tips and suggestions for those jus...
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Galaxy S III On Sale in 28 Countries — But Not the U.S.
Samsung?s Galaxy S III launched in 28 countries on Tuesday, across Europe and the Middle East. But, the Galaxy S still has no U.S. release date.
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Dell Arms Future Servers With iPhone Chips
Dell believes that within four years, twenty percent of servers sold across the world will be driven by chips not unlike the one in your cell phone. And on Tuesday, the company staked its claim to this future market, revealing that it ha...
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Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass
Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass -- but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom wore the specs on his own talk show -- and told Wired al...
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Earth Experiences Back-to-Back Asteroid Close Encounters
Two small asteroids buzzed by the Earth, zooming well within the moon?s orbit, over the last couple days. Neither posed any danger but the events were eagerly captured by amateur astronomers, and the second encounter was a record-setter.
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SoftBank Unveils World's First Phone With Radiation Detection
SoftBank's Pantone 5 107SH is the world's first phone with a built-in geiger counter, capable of measuring radiation levels within 20 percent accuracy.
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Road Train Test Keeps Cars in Line
Google grabs all the headlines when it comes to autonomous vehicles. But self-driving cars may not always go it alone. In order to keep costs in check, a variant of autonomous technology has been under development by the Safe Road Trains...
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Meanwhile, in stodgy, boring, polite and sensible Canada
_____________________________________________________________________ CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 35, NOS 1-2 *** Visit CTHEORY Online: http://www.ctheory.net *** TBC 038 05/25/2012 Edito...
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First Look: Google Updates Chromebook, Introduces Chromebox
Google refreshed its Chromebook hardware Tuesday, introducing a follow-up to last year's Series 5 laptop. But where the Series 5 felt a bit like a proof-of-concept, the Series 5 550 offers improved hardware design, and beefier internal s...
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Is the Cloud Too Risky for Some Purposes?
Most analysts are convinced that companies have moved or are moving to the cloud in a big way, writes Dick Weisinger, noting: "Forrester says that sometime this year we will have reached the point where 50 percent of companies are using ...
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PCI DSS Compliance in the Cloud: Challenges and Tactics
Perhaps the largest point of confusion with regards to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and cloud computing is the question of upon whose shoulders does compliance fall? In 2011, several cloud providers began as...
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Square Enix To Unveil Major Final Fantasy XIV Overhaul at E3
After E3, a summer marketing push will accompany in-game changes that lead directly into Version 2.0 launching this fall.
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iPad Prototype With Dual Dock Connectors Pops Up on eBay
It may not have a Retina display or quad-core graphics. Hell, it?s not even brand new, or even very clean. But it?s a freak of iPad nature, and it just sold on Ebay for $10,200.
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Mexican Cartel Declares War on Cheetos
Arson attacks over the weekend against a Mexican snack chip subsidiary of PepsiCo might be the first time Mexico's drug cartels have targeted a multi-national corporation.
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Google: 'We're Like a Bank for Your Data'
Eran Feigenbaum compares Google Apps to a bank in the days when a bank was a new idea. Just as a bank stores money, Google Apps stores data, and the onus is on Google to convince you and your business that this data is properly protected.
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Occupy the Neolithic: Social Immobility in the Stone Age
Just how early did the 99 percent feel the dominance of the 1 percent? Skeletal remains from prehistoric farming communities suggest that inequality was an early feature going back more than 7,000 years ago.
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The 'Internet Underground Music Archive' Rides Again
Thanks to the efforts of digital preservationists, one of the original sources of the online music revolution is back on the web. Yes, the Internet Underground Music Archive has been resurrected, complete with well over half a million so...
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Precisely Standard Transhumanoid Boilerplate
*Uh, that's getting pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said. http://amormundi.blogspot.it/2012/05/unbearable-stasis-of-accelerating.html Sunday, May 27, 2012 "The Unbearable Stasis of "Accelerating Change" "Also posted at th...
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Twenty-First Century Vegas Gothic
*METROPOLIS has got some top-notch stuff in it. Heck of a mag. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20120511/cities-of-the-imagination (...) " ?What?s going on now in the Gulf has rightly been called the Las Vegas of culture,? says Nez...
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RoboZoo: Wired's Menagerie of Robot Animals
Wired scours the world's laboratories for the coolest and cutest animal robots.
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Rocker Fort Atlantic Releases New Album on Nintendo Cartridges
Jon Black is not your typical rocker. Taking a cue from the the chiptune community, he is releasing his new album in a limited-edition run of hacked Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. The carts, sourced from a used game store and ...
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Kickstarter of the Week: Wire Up Your Doll House
Bettina Chen, Alice Brooks, and Jennifer Kessler all studied math and science in school. But year after year, they noticed a problem. "As we got to higher levels of study, the number of women in our classes continued to decrease," says B...
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Exclusive: This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation
If you're anything like me, you value your life. Which means you've probably avoided motorcycles despite their stellar fuel economy, small footprint and ability to weave through traffic like a snake through grass. But the benefits of rid...
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May 29, 1919: A Major Eclipse, Relatively Speaking
During a total solar eclipse, Sir Arthur Eddington performs the first experimental test of Albert Einstein?s general theory of relativity.
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I Am Comic Director Jordan Brady on Spit-Takes and Shellfish
The guy who turned "Bow-chicka-bow-WOW!" into the signature sound of porn music talks to Wired about the danger of shellfish, the hilarity of trousers and the robocomic that will make us all laugh in the future.
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Optically Controlled Bubble Microrobot
*I dunno if that thing's properly classifiable as a "microbot," but it's a neat-o hack with some interesting implications. via @futuristpaul
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This Rock Could Spy on You for Decades
America is supposed to wind down its war in Afghanistan by 2014. But U.S. forces may continue to track Afghans for years after the conflict is officially done. Palm-sized sensors, developed for the American military, will remain littered...
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 29
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Spime Watch: Trimble acquires Spime
*For a brief while there, three companies existed with the term "spime" in their name, for one reason or another. I think this is the last of them; it's been acquired, so presumably this "spime" name will cease to exist. http://venture...
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Game of Thrones Burns Brightest With Epic Battle of Blackwater
This week's installment of Game of Thrones marked a big change from previous episodes. The books that the show is based on, the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, are full of large-scale battles, but until...
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New Media Festival Los Angeles: call for entries
*Maybe the $30 registration fee is to keep out all the LA special-FX guys who don't wanna buy in to "new media." juried competition click here for registration los angeles center for digital art & downtown film festival los ang...
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The New Yorker science fiction issue
*It's probably pretty good, as sci-fi magazines go. For Immediate Release: May 27, 2012 THE SCIENCE-FICTION ISSUE In the June 4 & 11, 2012, issue of The New Yorker, Jennifer Egan, in her story ?Black Box,? re-imagines one of the ...
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'Flame,' a cyberweapon that makes Stuxnet look cheap
*Okay, given that this has been out in the wild for a couple of years now, what's five times bigger than "Flame" and even less understood? http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2012/Kaspersky_Lab_and_ITU_Research_Reveals_New_Advance...
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Meet "Flame", The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers
A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware named Flame has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
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Alt Text: Diary of a Dino-Smuggler
A Tyrannosaurus skeleton recently sold at auction for just over a million dollars. How did they get the massive piece out of Mongolia? An excerpt from a (fictional) dinosaur smuggler's diary.
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The Euthanization and Funeral of a Navy Destroyer
Photographer Stephen Mallon documents the USS Arthur W. Radford's final voyage. For Mallon, who never outgrew his childhood fascination with big trucks, airplanes and demolition equipment, it was a dream come true.
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May 28, 1987: Teen Tests Soviet Air Defenses
West German teenager Mathias Rust cracks the Iron Curtain with an incredible unauthorized flight from Helsinki to the heart of Moscow ? and lives to tell the tale.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 28
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network
To expose and intimidate dissidents, Gadhafi's spy network tracked every communication in and out of Libya. But the insurgents knew how to fight back.
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Augmented Reality: Ubi
*Gestural interfaces are showing up faster than I can blog them. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/ubi-turns-any-wall-into-a-touchscreen-using-microsofts-kinect/ " "We can turn any surface into a 3D touchscreen," explained Anup ...
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Augmented Reality: Kreek Prototype 2.0, Kinect-controlled interface
*If the infrared beams that power Kinects and Leaps can penetrate that elastic fabric, we've got a very interesting haptic interface here. Imagine this with sub-millimeter accuracy. *In some ways it's even more interesting than a "Corn...
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Augmented Reality: Call for Papers, Indoor Positioning and Navigation Workshop
*Better call LOUDER! That scene's getting really weird really fast! via @cperey Call for Papers: Indoor Positioning and Navigation Workshop at ISMAR2012 November 5, 2012 Deadline for Position papers: June 26, 2012 Submission guideli...
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The GeekDads Episode #115: The Big Purple Elephant in the Room (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Ken, Matt, Doug, and Jonathan do a Maker Faire recap, and talk a bit about the "controversy" surrounding the GeekDad issue of Wired magazine. Enjoy!
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 27
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Kalki's ancestor designed Eiffel Tower
*I don't know why that so funny; of course her ancestor designed the Eiffel Tower, somebody had to do it. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp *I really like Tehelka's culture coverage. Even Tehelka's fluffiest, most crowd-pleasing...
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Augmented Reality: T(ether) from MIT
*Well, the ergonomics of pads and gloves are gonna need a lot of work... At the very least somebody in the AR biz needs to come up with a rubber clip-on pad-holder you can securely slip your hand through, instead of sweatily holding an e...
