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Prior Restraint Lives: Newspaper Blocked From Publishing Photo of Murder Suspect

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 22:45
A California appeals court delays a ruling on whether to allow a prior restraint on the Los Angeles Times. The move leaves intact a lower-court decision prohibiting the paper from publishing photos of a quadruple-murder defendant lawfully taken in the courtroom -- with the judge's permission.


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DJ-Producer Rusko Goes One Dubstep Beyond

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 21:40
The raucous din of blaring car alarms, shattering glass and videogame sound effects layered atop heavy dubstep wasn’t enough for DJ-producer Rusko. On his debut full-length album, O.M.G.!, he’s invited a who’s who of guest artists.


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Child-porn hoax lands angry employee in hot water (Christopher Null)

Yahoo! Tech - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 21:39
Christopher Null - Here’s how not to get revenge on your boss.
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NHL Franchise Lets Fans Name Their Own Price

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 21:35
In a bold move, the NHL's Florida Panthers are allowing fans (for 10 days only) to name their own price for season tickets. Team officials will let them know within 24 hours if their "bid" has been accepted.


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Dells Streak Tablet Is Priced Like a Phone

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 21:30
After a false start last month, Dell's Streak will finally be available to U.S. consumers this weekend. Though billed as a tablet, the device looks — and is priced — like a phone.


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BlackBerry Torch Is More Evolution Than Revolution for RIM

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 21:27
The Torch might keep BlackBerry users content, but it still has a ways to go before catching up with the iPhone and Android.


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Troves, Caches and Suitcases: Famous Lost Photographs Discovered

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:27
The alleged Ansel Adams "Lost Negatives" have ignited the imagination of photo fans, but Raw File has four better stories of authentic lost archive recovery.


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Shuffler Channels Blogosphere into Simple Music Stations

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:24
We know — you’re not exactly hurting for new ways to listen to music right now. Nonetheless, an upcoming service called Shuffler will try to win you over next Tuesday when it will offer an easy way to distill thousands of music blogs into simple music stations.


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Video: Inside the $7 Billion Bay Bridge Construction Project

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:20
Take a look on, inside and underneath the world's largest self-anchored suspension bridge in this exclusive Wired.com video.


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What's on Our Robot Overlord's iPod? Autolux

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:09
With its stunning new album Transit Transit, the Los Angeles band delivers a powerful mix of music, machines and introspective lyrics about life during the technocultural revolution. It's the perfect soundtrack for "the golden age of feeling nothing."


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Video: Climb Pikes Peak With The Monster

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:00
Ride along as Nobuhiro Tajima wins the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb a fifth consecutive time. It's a wild ride.


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New Find Pushes Age of Stone Tools Back A Million Years

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:00
Large fossilized animal bones with ends shattered for sucking out marrow and cut marks deliberately made with sharp stone tools have been found near a previously uncovered Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, which pushes the first tool use back nearly a million years.


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Meet Treesaver, a New HTML Magazine App

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:00
New York-based startup Treesaver has developed a slick presentation framework digital magazines that runs in the browser. It has many of the features you’d expect from a clean, reader-friendly content wrapper, but it couples that functionality with a way-cool user interface.


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Darpa Turns to Canadian Tobacco to Fight Viral Terror

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 18:17
The Pentagon’s after a faster, more reliable way to fight pandemics and viral terror threats by mass producing vaccines. So it's handing out $21 million to Canadian a biotech firm to grow flu vaccine out of tobacco. Cough! Cough!


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The Drunk, Injured and Bizarre World of Air Rage

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 18:00
Why we love Taiwanese news shows: hilarious re-enactments of things like Steven Slater's (alleged) meltdown. See it here.


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Wii Sells 30 Million in US, Signals the End of the Geek

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 17:40
Nintendo’s Wii, the console that it couldn’t even keep in stores for most of its life, has sold 30 million units. It's a clear sign that specs and performance don't matter any more -- ease of use and clean design do.


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Video: 'Battlestar' Composer Kicks Up 'SOCOM 4' Soundtrack With Taiko, Gamelan

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 17:32
Bear McCreary, who provided the powerful sonic background for the Battlestar Galactica reboot, weaves a compelling musical tapestry for the upcoming war game.


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Firefox 4 Beta Adds Multi-touch Support [VIDEOS] (Mashable)

Yahoo! Tech - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 17:12
Mashable - Mozilla has released the newest version of the Firefox 4 Beta, which not only includes hundreds of bug fixes, but also adds long-awaited multi-touch functionality to the browser.
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Mystery of Honeycomb-Cloud Formation Solved

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 17:00
Easily spotted by their honeycomb shape, open-cell clouds are one of the most common cloud formations, yet they are among the more mysterious cloud formations known, and rules guiding the formation of open-cell clouds have not been quantified -- until now.


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Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws

Wired - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 17:00
What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe.


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