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  • Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
    This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider’s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.


  • 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D
    Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.


  • Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google)
    Google's announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant "Pick me! Pick ME!"


  • Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
    With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.


  • March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
    The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.


  • Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
    The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.


  • Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
    Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.


  • Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
    Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.


  • 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
    The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.


  • Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
    Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.


  • Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
    You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.


  • Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
    It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.


  • Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
    It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.


  • Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
    From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.


  • Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
    Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.


  • Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
    Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.


  • Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
    The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.


  • Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had
    A new book lovingly collects and presents the unexpectedly gorgeous advertisements of early, pre-Apollo space companies. The author of "Another Science Fiction" explains this fascinating, forgotten world of unbounded possibility, countercultural space exploration, and what it all means for human spaceflight today in this exclusive interview with Wired.com.


  • Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
    Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.


  • Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
    Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.


  • Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
    Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.


  • Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
    For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.


  • Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
    Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.


  • Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
    Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.


  • Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
    The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.


  • March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
    Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.


  • Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio
    Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.


  • Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2
    There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.


  • Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
    We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.


  • Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway
    Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music's most innovative forces, and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a Miles-branded iPod and Monster Miles Davis Tribute high-performance headphones.