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The Eternal Value of Privacy
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age
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How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand
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June 16, 1884: Roller Coasters -- A Technology With Plenty of Ups and Downs
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Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change
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Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
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Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping
Shortages are reaching crisis proportions in even the most highly developed regions, and they're quickly becoming commonplace in our own backyard.
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Hydrogen Cars Won't Make a Difference for 40 Years
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May 12, 1941: Fog of War Shrouds Computer Advance
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The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
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Strong Laws, Smart Tech Can Stop Abusive 'Data Reuse'
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Hey, Do You Think We're Just Playing Games Here?
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Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood on WoW
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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
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Wired 10.01: Turn of the Century
The process of standardization is always a political struggle, with winners and losers. Had the screw not been standardized, the entire course of the American economy might look different.
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Wired 4.04: The Human Macro-organism as Fungus
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The Book Stops Here
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Want to Piss Off a CEO?
The way big IT companies are acting in the marketplace is accelerating the commoditization of their products and services. Commoditization lies at the very heart of their competitive stra...
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The New Multiple Personality Disorder
Why, then, are the credit reporting agencies reviled, while systems like eBay are widely admired? The answer has to do with the architecture in which our digital doubles roam.
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing,
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Geeks in Toyland
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Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War
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Dream Machines
The Internet has morphed what we used to think of as a fancy calculator into a fancy telephone with email, chat groups, IM, and blogs. It turns out that we don't use computers to enhance ...
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How France Is Saving Civilization
French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers.
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Open Source Everywhere
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What If They Gave a War...?
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Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
The important people on the Web are not necessarily the people with the most explicit links (back to their sites), but the people who cause epidemics in blog networks.
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How to Win $20 Million
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Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory
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Wired 13.08: We Are the Web
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23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
For the moment, 23andMe and Navigenics offer genotyping: the strategic scanning of your DNA for several hundred thousand of the telltale variations that make one human different from the ...
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Wired 15.03: Herding the Mob
On the Web, we let strangers tell us who to trust, what to read, and where to go. Which means your good name can be worth real money. And reputation hacking can be big business.
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Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn
A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies,
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Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project essentially reverses the combustion process, recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons. They can then be used to synthesize liquid fuels like ...
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How the Next President Can End Our Oil Addiction
Sandalow drew upon his government experience, dozens of interviews and reams of documents -- the 272-page book includes 42 pages of footnotes -- in crafting a six-point plan for our next ...
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Wired 11.04: The Green Wall Of China
Chinese officials predicted that the effort will "terminate expansion of new desertification caused by human factors" within a decade. By 2050, they claim, much of the arid land can be re...
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Wired 13.06: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea
The oceans are the biggest solar collector on Earth, and there's enough energy in them to supply a thousand times the world's needs. If you want to depend on nature, the oceans are the on...
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Nordhaus and Shellenberger: Two Environmentalists Anger Their Brethren
With the October publication of their first book, Break Through: From "The Death of Environmentalism" to the Politics of Possibility, they are going to face the full fury of enraged envir...
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Wired News Q&A: Green Guru Paul Hawken
With no leader, center, organizing system or ideology, the movement Hawken identifies in Blessed Unrest grows organically, crossing borders, class and ethnic differences. It's driven most...
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Q&A: Author Nicholas Carr on the Terrifying Future of Computing
Carr's new book, The Big Switch, targets the emerging "World Wide Computer" — dummy PCs tied to massive server farms way up in the data cloud. We asked Carr why he finds the future of c...
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Sensitive Guantanamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web.
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Wired 14.04: You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!
To run a large one, a guild master must be adept at many skills: attracting, evaluating, and recruiting new members; creating apprenticeship programs; orchestrating group strategy; and ad...
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Q&A: All We Are Saying Is, Give (Clean) Coal a Chance
[Jeremy Carl] spoke on the phone with Wired News to discuss China, the holy grail of clean coal and how many coal plants he'd trade for Kyoto's accomplishments.
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Map Reveals Airstream Potential
If turbines were set up in all these regions, they would generate 72 terawatts of electricity, according to the researchers.
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TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says
We are so ego-centric. We think of ourselves as the center of the universe. We need to do a flip and see us as a player in a vast evolutionary process, which we're not in control of.
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What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
I understand crowdsourcing as kind of an industrial age, corporatist framing of a cultural phenomenon. There's human energy being expended here.
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Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks
ecognizing that librarians need to know how to participate in the new media mix if libraries are to remain relevant, Blowers challenged her 550 staffers to become more web savvy.
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Get Wiki With It - Wired 14.09: START
Scientific papers will be living documents with data published on Web pages – commented on, linked to, and mirrored by labs doing the same work 6,000 miles away. Every research effort w...
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Clive Thompson on Why the Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind
The good news is that scholars are holding conferences to hash out legal positions. But we'll need a broad public debate about it, too.
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Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin -- Way Beyond
"Man is the one who's undergoing this incredible evolution now," Woese said. "We see some in the insects, but the social processes by which man is evolving are creating a whole new level ...
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Wired 14.10: The Information Factories
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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
Great article from Wired on the birth of the iPhone.
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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
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MySpace Avoidance Fails Miserably
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MySpace, Now With Random Crap
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Michael Nesmith: Grinding the Organ
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Suddenly, the Paranoids Don't Seem So Paranoid Anymore
Pot? Meet Kettle. (P.S. He's Black.) And for those who are confused, this completely backwards article is a joke. Public photography, no matter WHO is doing it, is completely legal, and ...
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Be Kind Rewind Director Michel Gondry Forgoes Dreamy Plots for Straight-Up Comedy
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Audio Forensics Experts Reveal (Some) Secrets
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Flight of the Extreme UAVs, From Smallest to Deadliest
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Wired Geekipedia: Im in ur ___, ___ing ur ___z
A present-tense equivalent to the hacker insult, pwned, this geek-slang declaration of victory means, "Guess what? I'm humiliating you and you don't even know it.
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Oct. 18, 1945: Red Spy Steals U.S. Atom Bomb Secrets
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
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