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Vintage Iron Rules the L.A. Auto Show
LOS ANGELES -- The most coveted cars at the L.A. Auto Show were made before your were born. Take, for example, the 1948 Porsche 356 prototype parked between the new Cayman and the new Boxster. It wasn't just any Porsche,...
11.21.08 -
Bay Area Stakes Claim as the "EV Capital of the U.S."
The Mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose got together Thursday afternoon to declare their intention to morph their collective communities into the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the US.” The mayors’ Nine-Point Plan was bolstered by Palo Alto start-up...
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The Crusade to End a Horrific Disease Costs Ten Cents Per Person
In only eight years, a public health campaign has saved more than 6 million people from filarial worms, which cause elephantiasis and other grotesque maladies. That victory was made possible by massive donations from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, explained Eric Ottesen,...
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Interrogation Drugs at Gitmo Alleged
President-elect Obama has re-affirmed his intention to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This will come as a relief to many who have been concerned about some of the ethical issues involved and exactly what has been going...
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iPhone 2.2 Launches, Adds Podcast Downloader and Street View
Apple late Thursday night released a major software update for its iPhone operating system, introducing features such as remote podcast downloading and Google Street View. Remote podcast downloading enables users to download audio and video podcasts onto their iPhones with...
11.21.08 -
Got Strange Wishes? You Might Win Christmas On Mars
To keep the spirit of the holidays somewhat bizarro, Listening Post has teamed up with the Flaming Lips to give away copies of the legendary band's finally completed midnight movie Christmas On Mars. And although we recommend you catch it...
11.20.08 -
Black Friday TV Deals Come Early For Retailers
Judging by the significant drop in price of TVs across the country, it appears the faltering economy is forcing retailers to start their Black Friday deals early. Sony, Samsung, LG and other manufacturers have started bringing down the price of...
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Government's Star Witness Stumbles: MySpace Hoax Was Her Idea, Not Drew's
LOS ANGELES -- The young woman who typed the final, cruel message to 13-year-old Megan Meier the day she killed herself took the stand to testify against her former employer and confidant, Lori Drew, on Thursday. But several moments in 20-year-old Ashley Grills's 80-minutes of...
11.20.08 -
Teen Kills Self on Justin.tv
Justin.tv viewers comment as Florida authorities recover the body of a teen who committed suicide live on the internet. Police in Pembroke Pines, Florida, are investigating the apparent suicide of a 19-year-old whose death was seen on a live Justin.tv feed, a Broward County dispatcher...
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State Can Ban Prescription Data Mining, Appeals Court Rules
Data-mining companies have no constitutional right to buy prescription data in order to help pharmaceutical companies lobby doctors to prescribe their brand-name drugs, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 3-0 decision by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals re-instates New Hampshire's 2006 ban...
11.20.08
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Fake Lunar Photos Sent Astronomers Over the Moon
If you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And...
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iPhone Developer May Be Bribing Reviewers
An iPhone developer appears to have paid people to give its application glowing reviews in an effort to boost sales. The developer of Santa Live, a jokey iPhone app for kids, appears to have posted a listing on Amazon's Mechanical...
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Put Your Hands in the Fire (Or Not) With a Special Ops Glove
A protective glove system that is currently being used in Iraq by the military is now being made available to civilians. Expect plenty of gear heads, wannabe heroes, and disaster preparedness aficionados to add them to their must-get Christmas wish...
11.20.08 -
Coupon Hacker Defeats DMCA Suit
A California online coupon generating company is dropping its Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit against a man sued for posting commands allowing users to print an unlimited number of valid coupons. John Stottlemire was sued last year after posting the commands to his tenbucks.net and...
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Army 'Human Terrain' Contractor Charged with Murder (Updated)
A member of the Army's controversial Human Terrain project has been charged with second degree murder, for an alleged revenge killing in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot Kandahar native Abdul Salam in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala's...
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Bush Admin Rejects NYPD Spying Proposals as Illegal
If you are New York's police commissioner, what does it take to figure out when your city's anti-terrorism squad has gone rogue? Well, if building files on political protesters with high-tech bicycles didn't clue you in, having the Bush administration reject the units' wiretapping plans...
11.20.08 -
Apple Developing Always-On Backlight for iPhone
Apple is devising a method for the iPhone to display status icons even when the handset's screen is turned off. The company this week published a 24-page patent detailing a dual-backlight system, so that in addition to the primary backlight,...
11.20.08 -
The Beatles: The Biggest Bastards on Earth?
Before you reach for your Revolver, let us explain. The title of "Biggest Bastards on Earth" was bestowed on The Beatles by none other than John Lennon in an interview conducted months after the legendary band's 1969 breakup. It has...
11.20.08 -
Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New Universes
The nuclear waste buried beneath Yucca Mountain will be there for millennia, untouchable and lethal. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats would put that time and radioactivity to use by turning the dump into a generator of new universes. His plan is...
11.20.08 -
Watchmen Legal War Escalates From Film to Franchise
The Watchmen trailers, posters and webisodes keep rolling out of Warner Bros., but none of that means you're any closer to seeing the movie in theaters next spring. As the legal war between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. creeps...
11.20.08
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Movies: In Theaters This Week (Nov. 21)
Opening This Weekend Twilight Synopsis: Teenage misfit Bella (Kristen Stewart) moves to her father's house in rainy Washington state, where she falls in love with vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). The unlikely romance triggers a showdown with a rival band of...
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Marines' Swimming Tank: Adapt or Die
It's no secret that the incoming Obama administration will be taking a hard look at big-ticket weapons programs, with the goal of cutting back under-performing or less-relevant programs. The Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle is one system likely to face...
11.20.08 -
Five for Fighting 11/20/08
* The coming Middle East missile war * Arms control art * Drones = cell towers * Mortar launches UAVs * "Shoe-print database sees the soles of criminals" (High five: Sullivan)
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Hairdresser: Drew Thought MySpace Hoax Made a 'Funny Story'
LOS ANGELES -- Shortly after 13-year-old Megan Meier began corresponding with a new MySpace friend called "Josh Evans," Lori Drew walked into a hair salon with a "funny story" about the unfolding hoax, Drew's hair dresser testified Thursday. In the first full day of testimony...
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NASA's Robot Smarts Give Wall-E a Ration of Realism
To give trash-compacting hero Wall-E a more realistic feel, Pixar Animation Studios turned to real NASA robots for inspiration. Early on, director Andrew Stanton and his team wanted insight into how robots move, think and learn. To get the info,...
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Easyjet Bans Stem Cell Research
In a bizarre story that combines two of the most controversial topics of the modern era -- stem cell research and airport security guidelines -- the BBC reports that a pioneering trachea transplant nearly didn't take place because of some...
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Wolfgang's Vault Sells Musical Moments
Loyola University professor George Howard, who interviewed SoundExchange head Jon Simson in an entertaining video back in August, tells us he's been working on a new project: helping Wolfgang's Vault digitize and sell live concert recordings from the MC5 and...
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True Norwegian Black Metal Lands in Los Angeles
Peter Beste's human bestiary is hitting the road, and landing in Hollyweird for one torturous month. So if you weren't enthralled by the fearsome agents of musical evil in his photo book True Norwegian Black Metal, then maybe seeing them...
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Kidnapped Hacker Found in Turkey, Arrested
A Turkish computer hacker and informant who'd been allegedly kidnapped and tortured by a notorious ATM swindler was arrested this week, according to a report from the Turkish press. Turkish police arrested Mert Ortac on computer hacking charges on Tuesday, reports Haber 7. Ortac, known...
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AP Could Lose 10 Percent of Staff in 2009
Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley told employees at a company wide staff meeting Thursday that the organization could lose up to 10 percent of its staff next year. “The AP, which recently instituted a strategic hiring freeze, may...
11.20.08
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Military USB Ban Meant to Stop 'Adversary Attacks'
The military isn't banning the use of "thumb" drives, CDs, and other data storage media just because of a simple, troublesome worm. It's banning the disks and drives because this worm demonstrates how vulnerable the armed force's networks are to...
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It's Official: Online Spending Stalls in Third Quarter
Online ad revenues ground to a virtual a halt in Q3, with quarter-over-quarter gains of only 2 percent, according to according Price Waterhouse Cooper and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Revenues for the first nine months of 2008 totaled $17.3 billion,...
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Video: Army Destroys RPG in Mid-Flight
The "Quick Kill" active protection system being developed for the Army's Future Combat Systems is supposed to be the Next Big Thing in vehicle protection: it will be able to shoot down anti-tank rounds in flight. The Raytheon-designed system has...
11.20.08 -
Lo Riders To Be Made To Order
BMW says it will make customizing the Lo Rider concept easy as Toaster Strudel if the bike ever reaches the market. The new Lo Rider concept is a totally bitch'n bike revealed in Milan earlier this month. It's leading the...
11.20.08 -
Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars
Giant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new...
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Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals
The clothes may make the man, but if a University at Buffalo professor has his way, the shoes will nab the criminal. Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores...
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Recession? What Recession? Bentley Debuts Its Most Opulent Car Ever
LOS ANGELES -- The economy has tanked, no one's buying cars anymore and the entire auto industry is in a tail-spin. But such things don't matter when you build cars that cost more than your neighbor's house, and Bentley's pulled...
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Europe's Answer to Google Book Search Crashes on Day 1
Europe's answer to Google Book Search officially launched Thursday after two years of prep -- and promptly crashed. Europeana hosts about 3 million digital objects: film materials, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from the past...
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Punkin Chunkin Hits the Small Screen
Last week I posted on the splendor of Punkin Chunkin. For those that were unable to make it but would like to see what all the fuss is about, I have good news. The Science Channel is doing a full...
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And the Green Car of the Year Is...
LOS ANGELES -- The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was named Green Car of the Year Thursday, the first time a diesel has won the award. The 41-mpg TDI beat out a pair of hybrids, a sporty clean-diesel sedan, and the...
11.20.08
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Poll: Can Our Coworker Rap?
I discovered during a recent office party for Wired.com's east coast bureau that we have some homegrown talent on the premises: CondeNet office manager Jason Dees, who raps under the name "Mr. FP." First, take a listen to two of...
11.20.08 -
Wrath of the Lich King Tops PC Sales Records
The latest World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first day of availability, making it the fastest selling PC game in history. The previous single day record of 2.4 million...
11.20.08 -
L'Internet des objets
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/11/19/ces-appareils-qui-communiquent_1120361_651865.html#ens_id=1120369 Link: Ces appareils qui communiquent - Technologies - Le Monde.fr. Objets intelligents, communicants, le monde du sans fil ouvre aujourd'hui les portes de "l'Internet des objets". Derrière cette curieuse appellation, une volonté des constructeurs, mais aussi un projet bien...
11.20.08 -
Make Your Own Edible Lego
Are you drooling yet? Well fear not, the web now provides for your confectionery dreams by delivering step-by-step instructions on how to make your own gummy lego blocks. Now, this does require the creation of a silicon candy molds, but...
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Exclusive: Sony's Portable Audio Plans for 2009
At Sony's annual executive roundtable in New York on Thursday morning, Sony Electronics' president and COO Stan Glasgow told reporters gathered there about the company's forecast for the holiday (grim but not disastrous), how the imploding electronics retail market is...
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Video: The Fatalities of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Either you're a Mortal Kombat fan who already plans to pick up Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe or you're still scratching your head wondering who came up with the insane idea to pit the MK fighters against DC's iconic heroes....
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YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos
YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week. The new format could be a big move...
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Thingiverse.com Launches A Library of Printable Objects
Just like Flickr is a resource of Community Commons artwork, Thingiverse -- a new website by NYCR cats Bre Pettis and Zach "Hoeken" Smith -- aims to become the resource for individuals looking for objects to create with their RepRap...
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GTA IV DLC Shifts Focus Away from Niko
The first downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV leaves protagonist Niko Bellic behind, instead focusing on "Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City biker gang The Lost," reports USA Today. The add-on, dubbed "Lost and Damned," comes to the...
11.20.08 -
Bungie Warns Against Installing Halo 3
Halo 3 players should avoid using the "install game to hard drive" feature of the just-released New Xbox Experience, warns Bungie. One boon in installing games is a promise of decreased load times, but according to the development house installing...
11.20.08
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We Are All Patent Reviewers
There are many areas of government over which President-election Barack Obama has pledged to wave the magic wand of reform. And given the severity of the current economic crisis, fixing the system by which the US awards patents and trademarks...
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Hands-On With The Feature-Free Vodafone 226
When a pro gadget writer needs a new phone, which one does he buy? Something packed with gizmos perhaps, a Nokia N96, or the bleeding-edge T-Mobile G1? Or, given that he uses a Mac and an iPod Touch, perhaps an...
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Capcom Wins Dawn of the Dead Lawsuit
The suit filed against Capcom by film production group MKR claiming that the gaming company blatantly ripped off George Romero's classic zombie flick Dawn of the Dead for 2006's Xbox 360 title Dead Rising has been dismissed, according to Gamespot's...
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Counterinsurgency Guru Joins Obama's 'Farm Team'
David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency guru, is joining a think tank that is likely to punch above its weight in shaping national security policy during the next administration. In December, Kilcullen leaves his current post at the U.S. Department of...
11.20.08 -
Majesco Responds to PETA's Cooking Mama Parody
On Monday we told you about a Flash game designed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to parody the virtual cruelty the company saw in Majesco's Cooking Mama gaming series. Capitalizing on the opportunity for free press, Majesco...
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Dead Teen's Mother Testifies about Daughter's Vulnerability in MySpace Suicide Case -- Update
LOS ANGELES -- Two months before she committed suicide in 2006, a 13-year-old girl at the center of a landmark cyberbullying case was the happiest her parents had seen her in a long time. Tina Meier, testifying in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles...
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Employees Sue Over Half-Hour Boot Times
Man, we thought we were picky when it came to the tiny details of machines, but we have nothing on lawyers. According to the National Law Journal, lawyers have found a new way to make money from crappy gadgets: Lawyers...
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John McCain to Jackson Browne: You're Welcome
John McCain has two words for Jackson Browne: You're welcome. That's the gist of a response to Browne's lawsuit that the McCain campaign's sampling of his classic (or, as they put it, "long-ago published") "Running on Empty" implied that the...
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HeavyInk - The Best Place for Comics on the Web
I love comic books. More than that, I love comic book shops - the tactile experience of browsing the shelves, seeing what new comics have come in each week, and finding a hidden gem I've been looking for. Unfortunately, I've...
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Google's iPhone App Bamboozled by British Accent
Britain contains a huge range of accents. Move just a few tens of miles in any direction and you'll encounter more diverse speech patterns than you'll find in the whole of the US. So, for a Brit like me it's...
11.20.08
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An Ex-Spook Hustles in Kurdistan
Over at Mother Jones, Laura Rozen tells the story of Shlomi Michaels, a former Israeli commando trying his damnedest to hustle business in Iraqi Kurdistan. In Rozen's telling, Michaels has "a habit of popping up, Zelig-like, at the nexus of...
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Epson Announces Netbook: Middle Managers Do High-Fives
There's a certain glamour to the netbook. They come in bright, flighty colors and offer the promise of fun, of computing on the go. Nobody ever thinks of slipping a netbook into a briefcase. Its natural home is a purse...
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Name the Next Mars Rover
Back in 2003, NASA partnered with LEGO and The Planetary Society in asking children to name the two Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. This time around the space agency has teamed up with WALL-E (a natural choice) to invite...
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Apple TV Update Adds Support for Any Remote, AirTunes Streaming
Apple has issued an update to the "hobby" that is the Apple TV. It's a software update but it adds a couple of interesting hardware features, one of which should have been in there all along. Apple seems to have...
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Dead Media Beat: Lively goes deadly
(((Somehow this chimes with Jamais Cascio's much-repeated assertion that futurists should never talk about Second Life again.))) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-kills-lively/ Link: Google Kills Lively . Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its...
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The Wind Cries Cloud Computing
*When the cloud owns the music business. And how long does the cloud last? Ten years, maybe? Should I be generous -- fifteen? *It seems the point is to get aging hippies to buy their music all over again. Buy...
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NumberKey Turns iPhone into Numeric Keypad
While it's certainly of limited utility, NumberKey is just cute enough to stand out in a mountain of remote control applications for the iPhone. It does just one thing: It's a numeric keypad for you computer. Sit it down next...
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Nissan's Amazing Z Just Keeps Getting Better
LOS ANGELES -- The venerable Z has been an icon for more than 35 years, and Nissan's rethought and redesigned nearly every part of it to make the the sixth-generation Z the most powerful one yet. The 370Z revealed for...
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Being the Leader of Pack Isn’t Always a Drag
It makes sense, right? The car in the lead cuts through the air creating less resistance for anyone who follows. Birds do it, cyclists do it—even some hypermilers give it a try. According to Daytona 500 lore, the phenomenon called...
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Review: The BlackBerry Storm
Whew! I just churned out almost a thousand words about the latest iPhone killer. But this is no mere half hearted attempt at making a touch compatible device. RIM's BlackBerry Storm seeks to be just as good and even improve...
11.20.08
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Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Launches on MySpace
Fans can now, finally, officially, legally hear all of the new Guns N' Roses record Chinese Democracy. The record is the first original release from the group since 1991's twin releases, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II....
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New Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, Louder
LOS ANGELES, California -- Director J.J. Abrams continued the worldwide roll-out of his new Star Trek prequel Wednesday, showing four extended preview clips to a capacity crowd of stars, executives, press, crew, studio employees and their various entourages at the...
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J.J. Abrams and His Stars Talk Trek at Clip Show
LOS ANGELES, California -- The stars trekked to an invite-only Star Trek preview Wednesday on the Paramount Pictures studio lot. During the 45-minute session, director J.J. Abrams introduced four clips from his 2009 prequel to the classic sci-fi series and...
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McCartney Album Launched on NPR, Can't Debut on MySpace
Paul McCartney and Youth's upcoming album, Electric Arguments, will not launch on MySpace as is being reported by Reuters. NPR posted the exclusive stream Tuesday night and we posted our review of the album based on that stream Wednesday morning....
11.19.08 -
Toyota Builds a Hybrid For T. Boone Pickens
LOS ANGELES - T. Boone Pickens, your car is ready. Toyota rolled into the Los Angeles Auto Show with what it says is the world's first and only compressed natural gas hybrid vehicle, a car that gets 33 mpg and,...
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Video: Beach House 'Used to Be' Awake
After taking an informal poll of the Listening Post readership, we weren't alone in thinking that Beach House released one of the most hypnotic releases of 2008 in Devotion. But the duo is still hard at work, releasing the single...
11.19.08 -
Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial
Defense attorney William DuBois and Hans Reiser confer during Reiser's murder trial. Sketch: Norman Quebedeau. Hans Reiser wants a trial do-over. Reiser is the Linux guru who in April was convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife. He's the same defendant who, in...
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Video: Secret Machines' Spastic 'Atomic Heels'
"You keep telling me everything’s got to be real," The Secret Machines' front man Brandon Curtis sings on "Atomic Heels." Taking a look at the recently aired video for the tune, directed by music photographer Brantley Gutierrez, everything is real....
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The Jersey Turnpike is No Match for the Roadster
After a large coffee at the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of Boulevard and Main in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, I was ready for anything. When the Tesla Roadster (cue the archangels) pulled into the DD parking lot, though, I could...
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Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks
Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on external displays. Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital...
11.19.08
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Marvel Digital Remixes the Holidays, Wolverine and More
Santa battles the Illuminati, Skrulls invade chimneys and werewolves defend Christmas in this year's Marvel Digital Holiday Special, which debuted Wednesday. And that's just the start of the mayhem that Marvel Comics will unleash online this year, according to John...
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Prosecutor: Lori Drew Intended to 'Prey' on Girl's Psyche
LOS ANGELES -- The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then committed suicide, "fully intended to hurt and prey on Megan Meier's psyche," a prosecutor charged Wednesday, as opening statements began in the first...
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Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks, USB Drives
The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices from their nets, to try...
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Genome Hacking Could Reverse-Engineer Extinct Woolly Mammoth
It might not make sense to pull woolly mammoths from the Ice Age into an age of global warming, but resurrecting that lost species just became a bit less far-fetched. Using hair from 20,000-year-old specimens preserved in Siberian tundra, an...
11.19.08 -
Fed Fright
Anyone looking for solace in the minutes of the Federal Reserve's most recent policymaking committee was sorely disappointed today. Before the Federal Open Market Committee announced a half-percentage point rate cut on October 29, its staff economists had lowered their...
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Physicists Find Dark Matter, or Something Even More Strange
A new experiment may have found the first direct evidence of dark matter particles, a discovery that could begin to unravel one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Theorists believe that dark matter, made up of of weakly-interacting massive particles,...
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The Threat Level Rewards Program
These are tough times for web journalism, which is why we admire the innovative "webathon" approach announced today by the National Review Online. Explains NRO editor Kathryn Jean Lopez: "Donations of $1,000 or more include new opportunities for access to our editors and writers." I'm...
11.19.08 -
Start Saving Now for Your Mini-E EV
LOS ANGELES — The only thing surprising about the full-electric Mini-E that BMW unveiled weeks after we'd already shown it to you is how much it'll cost to put one in your driveway — $850 a month. That's how much...
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Vin Diesel's Wheelman Coming in February
Despite numerous delays, Midway's Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC racer Wheelman finally has an official release date: February 16, 2009. The game, a collaboration between Midway Studios Newcastle Ltd. and Vin Diesel's own game development house Tigon Studios, casts...
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Honda's Still Pimping Hydrogen, This Time in a Cool Car
LOS ANGELES -- Honda surprised everyone here at the L.A. Auto Show today when it rolled out a radical three-seat supercar concept vehicle that runs on hydrogen, a fuel fast becoming a footnote in automotive history. Honda stands almost alone...