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- Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT
2010-03-10T05:01:00Z - 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!
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
2010-03-10T05:00:00Z - The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
- Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-10T01:00:00Z - 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
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-10T01:00:00Z - 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
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-10T01:00:00Z - 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
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-10T01:00:00Z - 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'
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
2010-03-09T22:32:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT
2010-03-09T22:30:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:00 GMT
2010-03-09T22:15:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT
2010-03-09T22:10:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT
2010-03-09T21:46:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:00 GMT
2010-03-09T21:40:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:00 GMT
2010-03-09T21:39:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
2010-03-09T20:34:00Z - 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.
- Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT
2010-03-09T20:15:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T19:00:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
2010-03-09T18:30:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT
2010-03-09T16:10:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
2010-03-09T15:25:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T13:00:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T05:00:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T05:00:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T01:00:00Z - 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
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T01:00:00Z - There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
- A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:45:00 GMT
2010-03-09T00:45:00Z - Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
- Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
2010-03-09T00:00:00Z - 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.
- Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year
- Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:40:00 GMT
2010-03-08T23:40:00Z - Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It’s bound to happen soon if not this year.
- Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway
- Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:37:00 GMT
2010-03-08T23:37:00Z - 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.
- Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
- Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:34:00 GMT
2010-03-08T23:34:00Z - The Justice Department is moving to break up an alleged electronic voting-machine monopoly. The authorities say Election Systems & Software has a 70 percent market share of voting equipment in the United States.
- Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic
- Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT
2010-03-08T22:00:00Z - In a study of patients with osteoarthritis, people who reported feeling more pain shared a genetic variant.
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- Jury urges death penalty for former 'Bachelor No. 1'
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:14:28 EST - A California jury recommended Tuesday that a man who once appeared on "The Dating Game" be executed for the murders of four women and a child.
- U.S.: 'Jihad Jane' backed terrorists
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:46 EST - A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department said.
- Ex-doc sentenced for wife's poisoning
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:21:08 EST - A former Ohio doctor was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago. The judge lamented that she could not hand down a stiffer sentence.
- Missing executive's body found in river
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:01:47 EST - The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, police said.
- Police: Ohio State shooter killed himself
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:10:24 EST - A gunman apparently angry over a poor evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building today, killing a manager and then himself, police said.
- Oscar interrupter: I was wronged
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:29 EST - A documentary producer who interrupted a director's Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night says she was the one who was "big-footed" on stage.
- China may ban eating dogs, cats
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:23:03 EST - Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
- Jobless benefit bill moves forward
- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:56:25 EST - A nearly $140 billion bill to extend unemployment benefits and a host of expiring tax cuts cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday in the Senate on a vote of 66-34, setting up passage of the bill possibly later in the day.
- Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:46 EST - Today is the first day same-sex weddings will be performed in the District of Columbia.
- Man pleads guilty in N.J. airport scare
- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:42:49 EST - A New Jersey man who breached security to give his girlfriend a kiss, causing scores of flight delays, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defiant trespass, his lawyer said.