Afghan warfare gets wired in quest to spare lives

Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Henson goes out on patrol with a computer on his back and a joystick in his holster. He also carries a rifle, but the military is hoping he'll soon have less need for it.

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Internet plays key role in China's latest unrest

The brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in southern China was scarcely covered by state media, but accounts and photos spread quickly via the Internet and became a spark that helped ignite deadly riots thousands of miles away in the Uighur homeland.

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The wired president: Obama creates an e-mail trail

Barack Obama is the first wired president, ready to exchange e-mail with close friends and advisers. When do the rest of us get to read them?

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Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web

If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.

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Power Deregulation Brought Few Bargains

This wasn't supposed to happen with deregulation. Electric bills were supposed to go down. Instead, Ellie Dorchincez can almost see the dollars evaporating every time she turns on the lights or opens the freezer at her small Farm Fresh grocery store.

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Wired News Pulls Freelancer's Stories

Online technology publication Wired News removed three articles from its Web site Wednesday after editors couldn't confirm the authenticity of at least one source.

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Wired Magazine Buying Wired.com for $25M

The publisher of Wired magazine is paying $25 million for the Web site and online news service bearing the same name, reuniting Wired's print and digital operations for the first time since 1998.

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When we beamed our lists of favorite science fiction movies onto the pages of Wired.com, we knew some of our readers would think we were goofier than Jar Jar Binks.

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Seven new glowing mushroom species have been discovered in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico.

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Bats use echolocation to see in the dark, but unfortunately human scientists cannot do the same.

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Maker's are working on a bringing instant computing closer.

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The contest will challenge small teams comprised of children and adults to design, program and construct robots that perform simulated lunar missions similar to those required to win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, a private race to the moon designed to enable commercial ex …

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Imagine a world where you wouldn't need to plug in your electronics to get their power or charged and totally replacing the need of batteries. Well that world might be here...

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Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd.

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So sayeth Brian X. Chen... ...in January of 2009.

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One of the first tricks in Penn and Teller's Las Vegas show begins when Teller—the short, quiet one—strolls onstage with a lit cigarette, inhales, drops it to the floor, and stamps it out. Then he takes another cigarette from his suit pocket and lights it.

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But last October, Reuters closed its bureau, and let its specialized blog lapse. CNET and Wired also developed land in Second Life and both have largely abandoned their efforts (though CNET Japan still has an outpost).

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Thrill-Seekers' Brains May Be Wired Differently Region that affects addictive behavior is linked to risk-taking, too, study finds -- Robert Preidt

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Move over, Atlanta. Seattle, Microsoft and Amazon.com's home base, is now the country's most wired city.

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Trying to hear on your cell in a noisy room can be crazy-making. Neuroscientist Sam Wang, coauthor of Welcome to Your Brain, let us in on a secret: Cover the mouthpiece.

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"President-elect Barack Obama appears to have picked physicist-turned-environmental policy expert John Holdren as his science adviser. The selection, reported Thursday afternoon by Science Insider but unconfirmed by Obama's transition team, comes a week after the president-elect …

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How cool is this?! I love weird space news. Maybe I can play with one of these, and they won't even make me pour liquid nitrogen over it all the time! Cool picture, too, if you take the link.

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When will the job losses stop? The result to the economy is going to be leveraged 10 fold for every dollar each person takes out of the economy as a result of job loses.

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Will The Bleeding Stop? Spin and More Spin....

Dow closes at 8282.86 Wednesday Dow closes at 8835 Thursday Dow at 8663 10:24 Friday

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The president and Obama talked war and financial crisis. Laura Bush and Michelle Obama talked about raising daughters in the nation's most famous house.

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Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly "wired" presidency.

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As if this election weren't exciting enough already, CNN has plans to sex up its coverage with 3-D holographic projections of its correspondents.

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Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.

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Berlin demanded an inquiry Wednesday into why a German government bank transferred 300 million euros ($427 million) to Lehman Brothers just hours before the US bank collapsed amid continuing turmoil on Wall Street.

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More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.

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In 1999, Pentagon-funded researcher Carl Collins claimed that he was able to get a nuclear isomer of Hafnium 178m2 to release an enormous amount of gamma radiation -- despite only putting a relative small bit of energy in.

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