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Watch Live: Hunt for Scar Left by Biggest Moon Explosion Ever Seen

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 18:50
Get up close and personal with the gibbous moon in a search for the impact crater left behind by the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the lunar surface. This live show starts comes via the Slooh Space Camera and begins tonight at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST.
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Tesla Pays Off All $465M in Federal Loans 9 Years Early

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 15:36
Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule.
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Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 by Accident. Oops.

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 15:11
For the first time, the Obama administration has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes -- three of whom were killed accidentally.
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Confusion Ruled the Day at Microsoft's Xbox One Reveal Event

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:38
Everyone was putting on a cheery face and plenty of back-slapping was going around, but there was no mistaking the feeling that the company was about to take a big gamble.
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Someone Paid $36,000 for Luke Skywalker's Pants

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:29
For most, Star Wars was about a band of rebels standing up to a totalitarian regime, but for others it was all about Luke Skywalker's pants, apparently.
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Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 13:36
Twitter just announced that it?s launched two-factor authentication for accounts.
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Watch 3-D Printed Shotgun Slugs Blow Away Their Targets

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:55
Everyone knows about 3-D printed guns. Now a hobbyist from Tennessee has created 3-D printed shotgun slugs. Then his friend blasted away.
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Q&A: Microsoft Veep Phil Harrison Talks Xbox One, Used Games, Always-On, and More

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:42
Wired sat down with Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison to get some answers about Xbox One's still-murky feature set.
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Navy's High-Flying Spy Drone Completes Its First Flight

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:21
This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once.
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Adorably Chubby Mini-Spider Species Discovered in China

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 11:36
Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a mm long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and were described on May 21 in the journal ZooKeys.
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General Zod Threatens Earth's Annihilation in Latest <em>Man of Steel</em> Trailer

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:53
With just a few weeks to go until the release of Man of Steel, Warner Bros. has unleashed an action-packed new trailer to hype their Superman summer flick.
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Zite Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:00
For those of you bemoaning the demise of Google Reader, fear not. Zite, the personalized news app, has stepped up to fill its place. At least partially.
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FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bomb Suspect

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 07:48
An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a deadly and unclear turn early this morning.
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How Disney and Threadless Built a 200K-Person Design Team

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 07:30
Designers love creating homages to their favorite Disney characters (e.g., turning the iconic princesses into zombies and hipsters), but if they ever tried to sell those designs they would be faced with a foe scarier than Cruella de Vil ? Disney's legal department.
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New York Can Fight Airbnb and Uber, But the Sharing Economy Is Here to Stay

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 07:30
Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment on Airbnb was violating the state's occupancy code. The decision isn't the first time that city and state laws in New York have stymied the so-called sharing economy.
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<em>Arrested Development</em> Creator on the Future of TV and Bringing Back the Bluths

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 04:30
Wired talked with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz about how bringing the Bluths to Netflix allowed him to do things that never would have been possible on network TV.
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The Funny, Occasionally Dirty, Hidden Messages in Your Favorite Games

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 04:30
Many a game designer has left messages etched permanently in the data of our games, buried deep within the code and not intended to be seen by us.
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This Thrift Shop Junky Wears Your Grandpa's Clothes

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 04:30
Caleb Cole loves used clothing. His mom used to take him to thrift shops and yard sales long before Brooklyn hipsters and Macklemore made it cool. Over the years he's come across some amazing vintage goods and always wondered about the original owners. Who were they? What did their lives look like?
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Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 04:30
You can think of it as an ATM for Bitcoins. For a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, the Robocoin machine dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world's most popular digital currency. The two brothers who built the thing -- Mark and John Russell, of Las Vegas -- are still trying to figure out what to do with this contraption. But one thing's certain: They don't want to operate it on their own. Mark Russell isn't even sure if it's legal.
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The Braver, Better Movie That <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em> Could Have Been

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 04:30
By all rights, Star Trek Into Darkness should be a really good movie. The acting is superb. The core cast established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in 2009, and they've only gotten better. Unfortunately, Into Darkness is wrestling with way, way too much story for one movie.
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