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Seven Years After 9/11, Spies Finally Forced to Share

The country's spy agencies famously failed to share information before 9/11. It only took seven years. But now, the nation's spooks and security bureaucrats will have to start swapping data with their peers, if they want to get promoted. Starting...

10.07.08 From Danger Room

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. Yochiro Nambu, Makoto...

10.07.08 From Wired Science

Adap.tv Announces Static Pre-Roll Ads

In the never-ending quest to monetize video without annoying viewers, Adap.tv is today introducing a new low-tech ad format to help eclipse high video production costs: pre-roll title cards. Shortening the length of standard pre-rolls to 5-7 seconds, the new...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

The Superstruct Game

*Superstruct, the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. *I'm one of the judges. *Go play... Link: The Superstruct Game.

10.07.08 From Beyond the Beyond

Apple Takes on School in Latest Trademark Battle

The Victoria School of Business and Technology in Canada has received a cease a desist letter from Apple Inc. citing trademark infringement with its apple logo. While similar in shape (particularly the singular right-leaning leaf), the school’s logo is green,...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

Social-Ad Connector appssavvy Raises $3.1 million

appssavvy, a start-up that specializes in connecting advertisers and publishers in the social media space, has raised $3.1 million in Series A funding. True Ventures led the round, with existing investor Scott Kurnit, founder of About.com, also contributing. Earlier this...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

Accent Test: Is Palin Fakin' It?

Governer Sarah Palin is just a plain old soccer mom who's married to Joe Sixpack and as such, is just chock full of the sort of down home wisdom that can really take it to those Warshington fat cats. How...

10.07.08 From Listening Post

Video: Microsoft PDC Promo Sung by Boy Band

If we didn't know better, we'd swear that some marketing genius at Microsoft came up with the entire premises of The Office, Extras and, hell, probably even grew Rickey Gervais himself in a magic test tube. Such is the mastery...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

Armstrong: It’s Not a Google Ecosystem

Google, fighting hard to complete its search ad deal with Yahoo, wants you to know that it has an institutional commitment to transparency. And a personal one too: Speaking at the SMX East conference today in New York, Google global...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

Neil Gaiman reads The Graveyard Book online

I first heard about Neil Gaiman and his quirky books for kids from my GeekDad colleagues, so I can't believe it's been left to me to cue our readers in to the free online videos of Gaiman reading his newest...

10.07.08 From Geekdad

Western Plane Forced Down in Iran?

Tehran says that a Western plane was "forced to land in Iran after violating" Iranian airpsace. The Mullah mouthpieces over at the Fars news agency called the plane a "Falcon," which entered "from Turkey, flying at low altitude to avoid...

10.07.08 From Danger Room

Google’s Mail Goggles Prevents Drunk Emailing

Google released a useful new Gmail feature yesterday in its labs, which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning. When activated, the program will force a user to solve a series...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

I-Sleep: Laptop Powered Nap Pillow

The i-sleep is a concept pillow for those too tired to leave the desk for a nap, but still awake enough to grab an inflatable pillow, hook its intake up to the fan exhaust of a notebook and choose some...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

Five for Fighting 10/7/08

* India wants GPS-guided "cans of whup ass" * Spain's voice-controlled fighter jet * More Human Terrain dissent * Darpa's submersible airplane * Hard times in "Dungeon Alley" (High five: EM)

10.07.08 From Danger Room

EMI Licenses Lyrics for Clothing

Music industry types have put on their thinking caps and come up with a new way\ to extract another few pennies out of the value of a copyright: licensing lyrics to clothing manufacturers. EMI Music Publishing is the latest to...

10.07.08 From Listening Post

Hulu Goes Live With Presidential Debates

The online video site Hulu will enter the realm of live streaming video for the first time today by broadcasting the remaining presidential debates online. Hulu has added a new election hub, much like many other sites have done lately...

10.07.08 From Epicenter

Bay Area Geeks: Go See Paul & Storm on October 12!

The odds are good that, since you're reading a post on GeekDad, you'll love Paul & Storm. My wife and I went to see them September 26 in Virginia, and I haven't laughed so much without the influence of alcohol...

10.07.08 From Geekdad

Google Street View and Emoji coming to iPhone 2.2

The thing that really wowed onlookers at the launch of the G-1 Googlephone was the live street view, which overlaid Google's street level photographs onto the real world by tracking the position and orientation of the handset. Soon, according to...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

Apple May Already Have Sold 10 Million iPhone 3Gs

We never really know how many of anything Apple has sold until we are told, usually by Steve Jobs as the warm up to a keynote speech. But that doesn't stop people guessing. And some guesses have had a little...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

$1100 Sony Vaio Takes Aim at iMac

Sony has announced the pricing for its iMac-a-like Vaio JS desktops, and they hit Apple's all-in-ones dead on. There are two models, one at $1100 and one at $1500, both featuring 20.1" screens. The easiest way to see how things...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

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

In recent years Nintendo has taken to revamping systems with features that should have very well been integrated from the get-go, and summarily wowing us with their newest flavor of shiny plastic. And, at least with regard to their handheld lineup, the trick has been working. There are gamers out there chomping at the bit to hand the company money for devices that, in one form or another, they already own.

10.07.08 From Geekdad

Dear Akihabara: You're Doing It Wrong

TOKYO -- Akihabara seems to be made up of epic fail this week. Jean Snow and I met up today to do some pre-Tokyo Game Show hanging out in Akihabara, and we kept coming across the weirdest things. For example:...

10.07.08 From Game | Life

Best Buy to Sell MSI Wind

Yesterday, we brought you the news that MSI's Wind would soon be stocked by "a major U.S. retailer". Today, Best Buy has made it official. The little netbook will be sold in its Windows XP Home incarnation, and sit on...

10.07.08 From Gadget Lab

Torchwood Star Barrowman Heats Up Career, Controversy

Currently at work on his BBC1 show's third season, Torchwood's John Barrowman is a talented leading man and a charismatic public figure. He's also someone the British press loves to throw microphones at because he's primed to say something eventually...

10.07.08 From The Underwire

Darpa: Dolphins Stay Alert for 5 Days Straight; Could Soldiers do the Same?

Almost two years ago, I started working on a story on Darpa's plans to make troops stronger, smarter, and tougher to kill. My research was going nowhere. So Sharon graciously offered to submit a Freedom of Information Act request, on...

10.07.08 From Danger Room

Solar Goes From Gardens to Gigabucks

FREMONT, California -- Solar cells have been converting sunlight into electricity for years, but scientists have been much less successful at turning that technology into money. Now, in a staid Bay Area office park, a converted hard-drive factory with a...

10.07.08 From Wired Science

Lots to Play at Microsoft's TGS Lineup

TOKYO -- Microsoft will include plenty of anticipated titles, in playable form, at its Tokyo Game Show booth this week, including Square Enix's Star Ocean: The Last Hope and The Last Remnant, and From Software's "cinematic" action game Ninja Blade....

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Preview: Gears of War 2 Defines 'Hard-core'

Bigger, with an extra helping of badass. An expansive storyline. Plenty of new ways to reorganize enemy internals, and a casual side that's potentially “girlfriend-friendly.†Plenty of promises were made regarding Epic Games' Gears of War 2, sequel to the...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

MadWorld Maker Tries to Stave Off the Censors

With so many legislators and concerned parents waiting for the next Hot Coffee scandal to score a few political points, developers are doing all they can to avoid the censor's scythe. Fallout 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4 both saw...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

MyKey Limits how Teens can Drive YourCar.

Do you suspect that your teenager is only begging you to buy a 2010 Ford Focus as soon as it hits the dealership so he can turn up the radio and flog it on the highway? Ford thinks so, which...

10.06.08 From Autopia

Weezer's New Video Rewrites the Guinness Book

Weezer is one clever band determined to stay relevant in a changing pop culture soundscape. Its earlier video for "Pork and Beans" recruited a gang of YouTube stars, thereby increasing its chances at buzz by about a billion. Its latest...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Video Podcast #5: Rainforests of The World

Rainforests are scattered across the globe from Brazil to Madagascar, but there is one place where you can see them all at once. In the fifth installment of Wired Science's video podcast, we check out the four-story living rainforest at...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

Voodo Envy Sweeter Than Macbook Air, Says Voodoo Founder

It's no surprise that Voodoo founder Rahul Sood is talking up the company's newest 13.3-inch laptop, Voodoo Envy. But he's making some really bold bets. Sood draws interesting comparisons with Apple's Macbook Air. The Envy, he says, is thinner, has...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

Neil Gaiman Gives Away The Graveyard

By Annaliza Savage Goth god and New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman is giving away his new work, The Graveyard Book, one chapter at a time. Gaiman is on a nine-city tour, reading through different chapters of the book...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

"Livin' Large" in a Car that Isn't

In an attempt to convince college students that it's really cool to drop thirteen large on a domestic-branded subcompact hatchback, Chevy has relaunched their "Livin' Large" campaign with a "College Cab" that films students inside a Chevy Aveo5 during a...

10.06.08 From Autopia

Meg Whitman for U.S. Treasury Secretary?

Meg Whitman has a lot to be proud of -- when she joined eBay as CEO, it was a dinky auction site with 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue. By the time she left, the company had 15,000...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Laser Jet's Wingmen: Mirrored Drones?

The military may one day manage to get a modified 747 to blast missiles out of the sky, with a real-life energy cannon. But even if the so-called "Airborne Laser," or ABL, functions as promised, it still won't be all...

10.06.08 From Danger Room

Veloteq's Commander E-Motorbike Is a Cheap E-Date

The search for the best electric bike starts with power. Lack of power leads to angry, stranded riders and minimal riding options, while adequately powered rides allow city commuters to finally ditch their gas-guzzlers. It's the team that gets the...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

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...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Diary Survived Shuttle Accident, Goes On Display

Although only 40 percent of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its contents were recovered, 37 pages of first-time Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon's diary were found mostly intact two months after the 2003 crash. His was the only diary found. Yesterday,...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

Meteor Predicted to Hit Earth's Atmosphere Tonight

A meteoroid around the size of a Smart Car is predicted to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over Sudan tonight, marking the first time scientists have made such a forecast. There's no danger from an object this size, but the...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

Aircraft Emissions Are Bad, But How Bad?

It's become almost a reflex to bash aviation's role in climate change. Passenger planes are big, they emit stuff into the atmosphere, so they must be bad. It's true, but it's not quite that simple. Last week, climate and atmospheric...

10.06.08 From Autopia

Video: The Sea and Cake's Aimless 'Weekend' Rules

"May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan." So go the early words of Don DeLillo's masterful postmodernist novel White Noise. But the desire could easily apply to both The...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Google Isn't Going to Wait Forever For Yahoo

Google reversed course late Friday afternoon when it agreed to "briefly" delay consummation of a search advertising deal with Yahoo to give regulators more time to investigate after putting it off voluntarily for four months. But if the Justice Department...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Paul McCartney's Blistering New Sound

Sir Paul McCartney has some new tricks up his sleeve. His Paulness is readying a third record with dance music producer Youth and former Killing Joke bassist under the moniker The Fireman -- the first collaboration between the two to...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

The Ratings Force Is Strong With Cartoon Network's Clone Wars

Love it or hate it, George Lucas' latest Star Wars iteration is television gold, especially with the kids. The Friday premiere of the CGI-rich series Star Wars: The Clone Wars made the jump to hyperspace right out of the wormhole,...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

Report: Taliban Ready to End War, Break with Qaeda (Update)

Is the Taliban breaking with Al Qaeda -- and negotiating to end its insurgency? "Former Afghanistan presidential advisor Muhammad Sadeq Tashqari says that several senior Taliban officials have participated in drawing up a Saudi-U.K initiative to end the war in...

10.06.08 From Danger Room

Goliath Beats Davids for Pentagon Power Prize

The whole hand-money-to-the-defense-contractor thing wasn't working out. So, last year, the Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize for lightweight, long-lasting wearable power. The idea was to get the entrepreneur, the tinkerer and the garage inventor to come up with radically...

10.06.08 From Danger Room

Silicon Valley Ducks and Covers; Market Crashes and Burns

Silicon Valley can't remain untouched by the financial crisis. As debt and credit markets spiral into chaos, venture capitalists are antsy about their investments and entrepreneurs are anxious about raising cash. "People are definitely scared," says Zach Coelius, co-founder and...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Video: Listening Post Interviews Pandora's Tim Westergren

I spent the end of last week at the Digital Music Forum West conference in Hollywood, California, in part to interview Pandora founder Tim Westergren as part of a keynote address. To hear the latest about the webcasting royalty situation...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Stan Winston's 'Legacy' May Include Green Lantern

Late, great special-effects wizard Stan Winston left behind not only a legacy of indelible moments in movies like Jurassic Park, The Terminator and Iron Man. He also left behind a visual effects company bearing his name. That's changing. Stan Winston...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

Web-Friendly Musical Scores, At Last

Music teachers, students and everyone in between will find something to love about NoteFlight, a flash-based service for composing, editing and sharing musical scores online that's free to use if you sign up for the beta. We already saw a...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Loquat's Red Ballons Deliver Haunting Poptronica

The last time we heard from San Francisco's chilled outfit Loquat, music from its 2005 debut It's Yours to Keep was being preloaded on SanDisk's Sansa player and rotated on the CW's craptastic soap One Tree Hill. This time around,...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

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

A federal judge has issued a secret, interim order blocking the sale of RealNetworks' DVD-copying software, RealDVD, two sources said Monday. In an unusual move, the judge presiding over the MPAA's federal copyright lawsuit against RealNetworks also instructed both parties not to disclose the existence...

10.06.08 From Threat Level

I Am Not a Jerk, Says Stephen Colbert

Some viewers and interviewees have a hard time telling which Stephen Colbert they are witnessing, a fair confusion given that the man has two Wikipedia entries. There's the mild-mannered gentleman actor from South Carolina. And then there's the unrepentant loudmouth...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

Apple's Secrecy, From the Inside Out

Glassdoor.com's employee reviews can be a fascinating lens for looking at any company story. So Glassdoor's lead developer recently used it to make a point about the brouhaha over the strict NDAs that Apple made iPhone app developers sign --...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Director Nolan Re-Upping for Dark Knight Sequel?

Buzz is building toward the likelihood that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan will helm a sequel to his hit Batman flick. Production Weekly listed Nolan as the official director of the sequel, with preproduction beginning in February 2009. A Warner...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

MP3: Kinetic Stereokids - 'Have A Nice Day'

Four childhood friends from Flint, Michigan who started jamming in a basement as an apparent means of seeking refuge from a city with "staggering unemployment and one of the nation's highest crime rates" now comprise the band Kinetic Stereokids, whose...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Nintendo: DSi Software Will be Region-Locked

Software made specifcially for Nintendo's upcoming Nintendo DSi will feature region locking, rendering imported Japanese games useless in American DSi's and vice versa, reports CVG. The inclusion of region locking features in the DSi is directly opposite Nintendo's former stance...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Another Breakthrough in Aircraft Fuel Cell Technology

Europe's aviation establishment continues to push the limits of fuel cell technology. This past week, an Antares motor glider became the first manned aircraft to take off and land using only a fuel cell to power its electric engine. DLR,...

10.06.08 From Autopia

The Cheapest Genome Sequence Ever: For Real?

This story has been updated. A biotech startup company promises to decipher the human genome for $5,000 -- a price tag that could literally change the world, making high-resolution genetic scans available to relatively low-budget laboratories, and literally reshaping the...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

iPhone 3G Second Best-Selling Mobile Phone Among U.S. Consumers

This should warm the hearts of all iPhone fans out there and send a shudder through competitors. The Apple 3G iPhone is now the second best-selling mobile phone among U.S. consumers after the Motorola RAZR V3, says research firm The...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

Videos: Persona 4's Webisodes

Hopefully you're as excited about the holiday release of PlayStation 2 roleplaying title Persona 4 as I am, otherwise this post is going to prove terribly dull for you. Atlus, Persona 4's publisher, has begun releasing "webisodes" for the game,...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

A Is For Alignment: The Geek Alphabet

We've covered geeky ways to introduce your kids to their ABCs. You can teach them their alphabet via the third dimension with ABC3D or you can just let the Outer Gods help them learn their letters. Jared von Hindman, who...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

WowWee's Rovio Surveillance Robot Likely Just Another Geek Toy

WowWee's robots have always been geek favorites, and the latest reviews of its newest product, the Rovio surveillance robot indicate yet another crowd favorite. The $300 Rovio has a Wi-Fi plugged mobile webcam and can be controlled from anywhere using...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

Toy Robot Intended to Save Humans From Evil, Future Bots

When roboticist David Hanson thinks of the future, he fears that man will accidentally create a super-sentient artificial intelligence that is heartless and clinically insane. So to save the world, he formed Hanson Robotics and built Zeno, a 17-inch robot...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

Jeff Bridges Talks Tron Sequel

The time is right for a sequel to Tron, according to actor Jeff Bridges, who played Kevin Flynn in the 1982 sci-fi classic. "When we made Tron there was no internet, no cellphones," Bridges told The Guardian. "But now we...

10.06.08 From The Underwire

Guest Editorial: Life As A Disabled Gamer

A few days ago I received an email from a man named Andrew Monkelban, one of the gamers profiled in the documentary Second Skin. As his inclusion in the documentary would attest, Mr. Monkelban is almost a prototypical gamer, except...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Obama Camp's 'Keating Five' Slam Against McCain Gaining Traction Online

The terms "Keating Five," "Keating Economics," "Charles Keating," and "McCain Keating," hovered among several of the top search terms on Google Monday, as Barack Obama's campaign launched a new 13-minute online video that portrays McCain as someone who hasn't learned from his past bad judgments...

10.06.08 From Threat Level

Watch Cornelius' Sensurround Videos for Free

Of all the world's recording artists, Japan's Cornelius could be the one best-suited to the surround sound format, considering how much sonic information he packs into his songs. The guy must have a million-track mixing desk in his studio for...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

LittleBigPlanet Looks to Go Beyond 2D Platforming

The LittleBigPlanet beta is already demonstrating how users can redefine what it means to be a platformer. Could transforming the 2-D gameplay into first-person be a future option as well? Speaking to EGTV, Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healy explained that...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Tenchu Brings Party Game Play to XBLA

From Software's stealth action series Tenchu is about to make the jump to Xbox Live Arcade in Japan with Tenchu: Shadow Assault. The new downloadable title hits the service this Wednesday, and unlike other games in the series, Shadow Assault...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Marvelous Teases Big Reveal at TGS

If Marvelous Entertainment's tease lives up to the hype, we should expect something big to come out of the publisher on the Tokyo Game Show's opening day this Thursday. According to the company's blog, we can expect a "big announcement...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Rock'n'Roll iPhone Fix Coming This Week

If you've been feeling frustrated with the crash-prone iPhone release of action puzzler Rock'n'Roll -- me included -- a fix is on the way. Tag Games managing director Paul Farley told Wired that an update to address the crashing issue...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Nine Inch Nails-Branded Tap Tap Revenge Coming to iPhone

iPhone rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge is about to get some real music cred, with the announcement that a Nine Inch Nails edition of the game will soon hit the iTunes App Store. The game -- priced at $5 --...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

SingStar Goes Dystopian for TV Ad

In a dark foreboding Gears of War-like future, even little girls can get their eurotrash disco karaoke on, complete with pink mic. Well, they do in a hilarious new TV spot for Dutch gaming retailer Bol.com. It's given me an...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

More 'Worst Album Covers'

Just because the idea of assembling the worst album covers of all time has been done quite a bit over the past few years doesn't mean we can't always use yet another gallery of cringe-worthy covers. The Chicago Tribune is...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Fortunate Cookies

My kids and I love Chinese Buffets, but for different reasons. I just like to eat . The crab legs offer a biology lesson for one son and food for the other. Neither one willingly eats much beyond jello, pudding...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

Exclusive Assets from EA's Eerie Dead Space Ad

Update: EA just sent over news on a contest they are running in conjunction with the NKS site. Full details can be found at the bottom. Chapter 2.2 of Electronic Arts' eerie alternate reality game No Known Survivors launches today,...

10.06.08 From Game | Life

Marketing Professor Adopts Radiohead Business Model for Textbook

Noel Capon, R.C. Kopf Professor of International Marketing at Columbia Business School, is offering his independently published textbook for free online. The catch? At the end of the semester he will ask students to pay what they want based on...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Could Mercenaries Return as Pirate Foes?

The U.S. Navy and its allies don't have enough ships to deter piracy off the coast of Somalia. Edward Pernotto's solution is to use mercenary escorts, instead. He suggests getting an insurer like Lloyd's of London to contract with a...

10.06.08 From Danger Room

Guitar Pedal Manufacturer Goes All Web 2.0

Electro-Harmonix, which makes a wide range of much-loved guitar pedals from the Big Muff to the Memory Man, has revamped its website by incorporating YouTube videos and an integrated blog. The result puts many other gear manufacturers, with their difficult-to-navigate,...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Daily Beast Don't Need No Stinking Advertising — For Now

Tina Brown has found one way around the struggle for winning ad dollars in the middle of a financial meltdown — her new website is ad free. Together with Barry Diller's IAC, today Brown launched The Daily Beast. Named after...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Pirates Hit Six More Ships Off of Somalia

As if seizing a ship-load of tanks and small arms wasn't bad enough. Pirates have attacked six more vessels off the coast of Somalia in just the past week, according to data from NATO. The now-infamous, weapons-clogged MV Faina remains...

10.06.08 From Danger Room

Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked Isn't Quite Lost

This is going to be another one of those "I thought the game was kind of 'meh,' but my kids really got into it" reviews. The game is Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked, the first foray of the existing handheld series...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

Digital Revenue Countering Ad Pages Lost at Top Magazines

Ad pages are continuing to slip at the nation's top magazines, but digital revenue has helped to offset dead tree losses, according to Ad Age's 19th-annual Magazine 300 survey. Magazine 300 ad pages fell 1.3 percent in 2007, with circulation...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Vote for the Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize week kicked off this morning with awards in Medicine given to discoverers of the viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer. Up next: Physics. And if you'd like to test your significance-assessing chops against those snobs at the...

10.06.08 From Wired Science

Some gigantic Los Angeles green marketing whatever

*It's finally happened. A "green" event that's so chi-chi, refined, modiste, New Economy and top-end that I literally can't scan what they're talking about. I always knew this would happen, but I didn't know it would use quite these words....

10.06.08 From Beyond the Beyond

British Musicians Join Forces to Press Artists' Rights

More than sixty British artists, including Radiohead, The Verve and Iron Maiden, have joined forces to create the Featured Artists Coalition, a trade group they say will press for the right of performing artists to control their work and keep...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Netflix Shares Drop After Weak Q4 Predictions

View the full NFLX chart at Wikinvest A report that Netflix’s fourth-quarter revenue and subscriber figures will fall short of expectations has caused shares in the online DVD rental company to drop 10 percent in pre-market trade. Netflix is scheduled...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Amazing Maize (or Corn Mazes)

Fall is well underway and thoughts here in Southwestern Ontario turn to colorful leaves, Thanksgiving (Canadian calendar- it's only a week away), Halloween, snow tires (see the Canadian calendar comment) and... Corn mazes? I'm not sure which came first; crop...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

Remix Sarah Palin

Our favorite hatchet-voiced harpy continues to dominate cable news channels even as the global economy slipped another few hundred notches on Monday morning. There's just something about this lady that we cannot seem to get enough of, no matter what...

10.06.08 From Listening Post

Turn An MSI Wind into a Super Nintendo

Back in the 1990s, portable consoles were expensive, underpowered and came with terrible battery life. That Nintendo’s first generation Game Boy (born 1989) lasted for so long, with its chiptune sounds and monochrome display, is an indictment of the technology...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

EBay To Lay Off 1,000 Employees, Makes Two Acquisitions

View the full EBAY chart at Wikinvest As rumored, eBay is cutting 10 percent of its workforce it announced today. It also announced the acquisition of an online payments business, Bill Me Later, for $820 million in cash and $125...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Cable Ad Manager BlackArrow Raises $20 million

Ad dollars may be dwindling, but the fight against fast forwarding continues. BlackArrow, a company that specializes in unskippable television ads, has raised $20 million in Series C Funding from existing investors. This round brings the well funded cable ad...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Ask.com Amps Up Search Again

Ask.com launched an upgrade to the relevance and speed of its search engine today as well as a new beta Q&A feature that keeps a running list of questions people are asking on a particular topic. The site has gone...

10.06.08 From Epicenter

Review: "The Clone Wars" TV series - Better Than Expected, Still Not Great

I was completely prepared to hate the new "Clone Wars" TV series, but while it's in no danger of making its way onto anyone's list of great sci-fi shows, it's not so bad. I haven't seen the movie the series...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

Sega Getting Back into the Hardware Game

According to the Register, Sega is planning to launch a new handheld console next year, and it won't just play games. The new console, called the Vision, will also play music and movies, have a built in camera, TV-Tuner and...

10.06.08 From Gadget Lab

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Battling Bequellans

This week takes you to otherworldly contests. Remember, email your solutions by 10:00 p.m. EST Thursday to be part of the random selection of correct answers and win a $50 gift code to ThinkGeek! Halloween is coming! All readers who...

10.06.08 From Geekdad

Five for Fighting 10/6/08

* Karzai's brother, heroin kingpin * Russia's biggest bomber back on high alert * Laser cracks "unbreakable" quantum crypto * Robo-towers protect British troops * Army expansion plans at risk? (High five: EM)

10.06.08 From Danger Room
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