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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon
President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle
Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales.
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Photoshop of Horrors: Readers Show BP How It's Done
We asked for your help to show BP how to improve upon their terribly Photoshopped oil-cleanup images, and you delivered some awesome images.
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U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons
The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't AK-47s or grenades -- they're roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. Here’s how the U.S. military is fighting back.
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Let the Little Guys Get In on Pre-IPO
The rich are adding to their millions with pre-IPO stock, but today's internet stock rockets are social networks built by their members -- so shouldn’t Regular Joes get a cut, too?
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Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real-time -- and says it uses that information to predict the future.
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What's the Fastest and Best ISP in Your City? Look It Up Here
Rankings of the best and fastest ISPs in U.S. cities are now available, thanks to stats from Speedtest.net. And while the country is far from leading the world, the nation's tubes aren't nearly as bad as many suspect.
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W3C's Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once
Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously.
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Court Says Privacy Advocate May Publish Social Security Numbers
A federal appeals court orders Virginia's attorney general to back away from threats of suing a woman for posting elected officials' Social Security numbers. The reason: The government published the private data first.
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Making of a Meme: The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With Legs
A storm of Star Wars-themed jokes hit Twitter, mimicking WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of U.S. military memos. Only this stuff is funny. Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo shares techniques he used to get the #wookieeleaks hashtag to take off.
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Porsche Greenlights 918 Hybrid Supercar
With a zero-to-60 time around 3 seconds, a top speed of 198 mph and 78 mpg, it'll be the coolest hybrid none of us will ever drive.
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Wired.com Video: Is Comic-Con Still a Comic-Book Convention?
This year's Comic-Con International in San Diego marks the 41st year of a comic-book convention gone pop. Originally, Comic-Con consisted of a few nerds swapping comics, but now it's a multimillion-dollar event. Wired.com asks Grant Morrison, Thomas Jane and others how the convention has changed over the years.
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Warming Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life
In two separate studies, researchers find that warming oceans lead to a massive decline in the amount of plant life in the sea over the last century. They say temperature is tightly linked to global patterns of marine biodiversity.
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Marsupial DNA Redraws Family Tree
Genetic evidence shows that a South American ancestor gave rise to all Australian marsupials, and that the South American opossums were the earliest group to branch off from the other six marsupial clans.
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Dark Dust Trails Form When Whirlwinds Suck Sand Grains Clean
The ephemeral dark trails left in desert sand by dust devils are produced when the whirlwinds blow tiny particles of lighter-colored silt and dust off larger sand grains, a new study shows.
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Apple Updates Safari, Turns on Extensions
Safari 5.0.1 has been released. This version updates support for lightweight extensions, and Apple has launched a gallery featuring over 100 of them created by third parties.
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Wii Air Force: Will Gamer Gloves Help Fly Combat Jets?
Flipping switches and pulling throttles is so old. The Air Forces wants its new pilots to fly jets with electronics-packed gloves.
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Letter From Silicon Valley: Doing the Math on Android vs. Apple
The fight between Google and Apple is not over phones: It's a software-platform war. The trouble with this horse race is that one horse's progress is measured in meters and the other in yards. The comparison between Android and the iPhone is meaningless.
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High Performing Laptop Is Stuck Squarely in the Past
Meet the Ava Direct gaming rig, a notebook computer with modern components but with mid '00s styling and heft.
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@Twitter Users #Fail as Branding Automatons
Just about everything people say on Twitter is public, offering marketers a rare chance to listen in on what folks are saying about their brands, and to trumpet their messages to the masses. But Twitter users fail spectacularly when it comes to disseminating branding messages to each other.
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