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WiredTech: For two years now, Islamic extremist websites mysteriously have gone down as Sept. 11 approached. Many suspect the U.S. government. Will it happen again? The National Broadcasting Company is established. The network would dominate radio during that medium's Golden Age and become the foundation of a massive media empire that to this day just keeps growing. In his new book The Perfection Point, Sport Science host John Brenkus explains how we can push and predict the limits in athletic feats. If you follow emerging automotive technology like electric cars and hybrids, you're no doubt excited about the Automotive X-Prize. The contest, which started three years ago, promises $10 million to the best production-capable car that can achieve 100 mpg or the energy equivalent. The winner will be announced Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C. What's so special about this puzzle? It's a crossword so excessive that no single page can contain it. When you reach the edge, simply turn the page over and keep writing. No, really, it'll work! When it came to resurrecting the MIA videogame, Randy Pitchford faced a task that was part suicide run, part debt of honor. The Gearbox Software CEO serves up the inside story on the improbable rescue of one of gaming's most beloved (and most obnoxious) franchises. The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal. Citing the Obama administration's evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court is dismissing a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured. After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university's official sports mascot has fizzled. When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him. Maybe you always remember where you parked. Maybe you never get parking tickets either. For the rest of us, some tools to alert us when our parking meter is about to expire or give us directions back to our car would be mighty handy. When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 am local Italian time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely controlled a 0.25-meter telescope in Mayhill, New Mexico through the Global Remote Astronomy Telescope Network. They got four separate exposures of 30 seconds each and stitched them together to make this animation. After a set of sexy X-rays hit the web earlier this year, viewers were left to wonder if they were real. Now we have the answer. After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that's fighting back. Esther Vergeer is the best tennis player you've never heard of. Vergeer, who hails from Holland, hasn't lost a wheelchair tennis match since 2003 — that's nearly 400 victories in a row. Microsoft's upgrade/redo, the Xbox 360 S, is packed with a lot of the extras that used to be sold separately, but the most dramatic change takes place under the hood. A late entry into the pocket-camcorder field, Sony's Bloggie is overdesigned and underfunctional. The swiveling lens offers flexibility, but the slow and unintuitive controls make it a tough sell. A lot of people seem to think the iTunes 10 icon is hideous, so why not design your own? Wired.com invites readers to make a better iTunes icon than Apple's and submit it for a chance to win an iPod Shuffle. The U.S. military's efforts to assist the 17 million victims of the Pakistan flood are still pretty tech-lite. So a group of civilian aid workers, Pakistani and international, have home-brewed a series of social media apps to help coordinate relief work — everything from crisis Wikis to crowd-sourced maps to SMS calls for help. Daimler uses social media and smartphones to help people find carpool buddies who don't suck. Genuinely ingenious new book The Sounds of Star Wars amplifies the concept of interactive show and tell to ear-blasting new heights. In this exclusive video about the making of the book, legendary sound designer Ben Burtt and others involved in the sci-fi saga tell how they came up with such memorable noises. Sony's upcoming motion controller is more than just a Wiimote clone. Thanks to its player-facing camera and its powerfully precise targeting, it offers a peek at what full-fledged augmented reality will look like. Nikon's Small World microscope photography winners are revealed today. This gallery features some of the most interesting winning images of ordinary stuff like snowflakes and banana leaves. Vote for your favorites and help choose the popular-vote winner. 3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive. Computer lab manager Don Hodges knows why Pac-Man, at level 256, suddenly turns into a hideous mess of ASCII letters and graphics. The Gravity Balans from Variér Furniture is far less nefarious and cranium-cracking than it looks. We'd heard a great deal about its ergonomic benefits and decided to give it a spin in our quest to find the perfect marathon gaming/lounging chair. Porsche panache comes to the carpool lane, and Mercedes Benz makes burning rubber with kids in the back seat comfy for everyone! None of your fantasies about multi-touchscreen smartphones can be realized until someone makes a dual-core chip that would know what to do with multiple screens. But Samsung's new Orion 1-GHz dual-core ARM microprocessor could make those kinky dreams come true. Google revamped its iconic search site Wednesday, unveiling what it calls Instant Search, which loads search results as soon as you finish typing a word, packing your screen quickly with results as soon as you start with the 'd' in dog. |