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Few engineering projects have the scope, costs or risks involved in building a new bridge. San Francisco Bay Area residents got a peek at what's involved, when builders place the first segment of a tower that will soon hold up a brand-new span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Wired captured photos o...
Someday humans and computers will meld to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. Magnusson has hacked a pair of head-mounted display glasses an...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology. The smartphone in your pocket has about 120 times m...
The powerful hormones in birth-control drugs change how lemurs smell, radically altering the subtle chemical cues that guide their attraction and communication. Research on a 2-foot-tall primate shouldn’t be extrapolated directly to humans, but the findings resonate with studies in people, whi...
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The final designs are in for a new museum dedicated to displaying vehicles and other artifacts from the James Bond film series. The Gensler-designed Museum of Bond Vehicles & Espionage is due to open in 2012 in Illinois. Momence, Illinois. The small town (population 3,200) 50 miles south of Chi...
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — Apple’s iPad continues to find a very receptive audience in the aviation community. This week at Airventure, a number of companies are offering applications for the device ranging from simple study guides to weather and navigation tools aimed at pilots. The most inte...
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*Hey, wow. Seiko Mikami will be there. Dear friends of ISEA2010 RUHR, You can count the days until ISEA2010 RUHR’s first exhibition opening. TRUST will open in a few days and we are very much looking forward to this show at the Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity. You are all heartil...
*These pics speak for themselves, and a good thing, too, because I’m speechless. http://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/on-rajnis-robot-enthiran/
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We know Google is building a music service, finally entering the fray where countless other companies have tried to achieve the improbable: making money by distributing music online. We also know that any on-demand aspect of Google Music will require some form of payment, because Google’s musi...
Google’s Chinese web-censorship monitoring page reported Thursday that its unfiltered Chinese search site had been blocked again, prompting eager news organizations, including Reuters, the Associated Press and Wired.com, to report the news widely. Fortunately for Chinese web users, there was n...
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On Monday, I’m getting on a plane at Andrews Air Force Base. A couple days later, I’ll be in Afghanistan for nearly three weeks. It’ll be my first trip back in two years, and my fourth warzone visit since 2006. When I was last in Kabul, Khost and Paktia, there was no troop surge, n...
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s band of futurists at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base think that pilots and flight engineers spend way too much time flipping switches and pressing buttons. In a recent pre-solicitation, the labs made it known they want enterprising engineers to design a pair...
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LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby B...
A webcam scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district expanded Tuesday to include a second student alleging his school-issued laptop secretly snapped images of him. The brouhaha commenced in February, when a student of Lower Merion School District was called into an administrator’s offic...
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In a ruling sure to make Steve Jobs stomp around like an angry Yosemite Sam, complete with steam erupting from his ears making a train-whistle sound, the Library of Congress has ruled that jailbreaking one’s iPhone is perfectly legal. This should, if nothing else, improve conditions in our nat...
SAN DIEGO — Any doubts about Thor, the upcoming movie based on the Norse god comic book character, got seriously hammered Saturday when Marvel Studios showed off a ballsy new trailer at Comic-Con International. The filmmakers set the movie in two distinctively different worlds. In the desert o...
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REDWOOD CITY, California — “I’ve kind of made a habit of taking children’s fairy tales and turning them into dark, twisted content,” says game designer American McGee. He might be understating the case a bit. As creator of American McGee’s Alice and American McGee...
Nintendo posted a rare quarterly loss on Thursday, attempting to put a silver lining on the news by telling Bloomberg that it will unveil the details of its anticipated 3DS in September. The gamemaker lost $289 million over the last three months, which it blamed on a strong yen and a decline in dema...
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