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  • Gamemaker's Secret Mission: Save citeDuke Nukem Forever/cite
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qFrCsF-2Sn2oIzkPuh3cmfVbz0g/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qFrCsF-2Sn2oIzkPuh3cmfVbz0g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qFrCsF-2Sn2oIzkPuh3cmfVbz0g/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qFrCsF-2Sn2oIzkPuh3cmfVbz0g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/9i-A7zughQo" height="1" width="1"/

  • DHS Cyber Division Misses 1,085 Holes on Own Network
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vrhzTH--mSf1Y6hvug2exmsaq3w/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vrhzTH--mSf1Y6hvug2exmsaq3w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vrhzTH--mSf1Y6hvug2exmsaq3w/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vrhzTH--mSf1Y6hvug2exmsaq3w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/TXQ6ymWnn68" height="1" width="1"/

  • Hyundai's Land Yacht Should Have Luxury Automakers Quaking
    Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QfeanHFK2I8BU6sad1MGx8M3-WY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QfeanHFK2I8BU6sad1MGx8M3-WY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QfeanHFK2I8BU6sad1MGx8M3-WY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QfeanHFK2I8BU6sad1MGx8M3-WY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/Ny161EZhxQY" height="1" width="1"/

  • Citing Obama's State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gfV7ANm9ozGUhRWPX7anUSCcptY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gfV7ANm9ozGUhRWPX7anUSCcptY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gfV7ANm9ozGUhRWPX7anUSCcptY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gfV7ANm9ozGUhRWPX7anUSCcptY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/yoLfYGA1-fo" height="1" width="1"/

  • Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles
    After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install emReturn of the Jedi/em'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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ouxdLjkGQAgp6D9AssOh-Z_7XSc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ouxdLjkGQAgp6D9AssOh-Z_7XSc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ouxdLjkGQAgp6D9AssOh-Z_7XSc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ouxdLjkGQAgp6D9AssOh-Z_7XSc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/m_HXxC4Dxes" height="1" width="1"/

  • Video: How to Film a 23-Mile Free Fall
    When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2HxWMqKl4vdcyAcIrRjWWIjmYw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2HxWMqKl4vdcyAcIrRjWWIjmYw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2HxWMqKl4vdcyAcIrRjWWIjmYw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2HxWMqKl4vdcyAcIrRjWWIjmYw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/i2X79KmJgxo" height="1" width="1"/

  • Hack Your Parking
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uY2tAwL51ZdnyvWjUq1tHPFKGyU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uY2tAwL51ZdnyvWjUq1tHPFKGyU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uY2tAwL51ZdnyvWjUq1tHPFKGyU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uY2tAwL51ZdnyvWjUq1tHPFKGyU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/WQ4b-3E1ksU" height="1" width="1"/

  • Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nSjJxsAGvQSzSTVYFGo6AGzBLv4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nSjJxsAGvQSzSTVYFGo6AGzBLv4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nSjJxsAGvQSzSTVYFGo6AGzBLv4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nSjJxsAGvQSzSTVYFGo6AGzBLv4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/zx_uJYfJEY0" height="1" width="1"/

  • X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?)
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aWW-AvWthPvcp8RIh5J7C4DHW1Y/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aWW-AvWthPvcp8RIh5J7C4DHW1Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aWW-AvWthPvcp8RIh5J7C4DHW1Y/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aWW-AvWthPvcp8RIh5J7C4DHW1Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/KxoPOqEwcvo" height="1" width="1"/

  • Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion
    After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that's fighting back. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TRAK-Kvl8Q2wLtFeR8NhEeimzhg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TRAK-Kvl8Q2wLtFeR8NhEeimzhg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TRAK-Kvl8Q2wLtFeR8NhEeimzhg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TRAK-Kvl8Q2wLtFeR8NhEeimzhg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/lpaW-YcpDKU" height="1" width="1"/

  • The Best Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of
    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 mdash; that's nearly 400 victories in a row. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zMLTehWBAr456_Dt54C0pQO28Kg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zMLTehWBAr456_Dt54C0pQO28Kg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zMLTehWBAr456_Dt54C0pQO28Kg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zMLTehWBAr456_Dt54C0pQO28Kg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/gJxK9PAahiQ" height="1" width="1"/

  • Xbox 360 Slim Is Leaner, Meaner, Quieter Machine
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5xIhrfkcx6n0VKRVExoDgTDtzdM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5xIhrfkcx6n0VKRVExoDgTDtzdM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5xIhrfkcx6n0VKRVExoDgTDtzdM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5xIhrfkcx6n0VKRVExoDgTDtzdM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/2BddNGf1iQI" height="1" width="1"/

  • Swivel Camcorder Features Flat Footage
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XlLwTOC6jIVqBTufAkLaO4pGOJI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XlLwTOC6jIVqBTufAkLaO4pGOJI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XlLwTOC6jIVqBTufAkLaO4pGOJI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XlLwTOC6jIVqBTufAkLaO4pGOJI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/4UC_Qt168F8" height="1" width="1"/

  • Wired.com Contest: Redesign Apple's Ugly iTunes Icon
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQiPob9jkQ87DIxC_6XDCEU9EPw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQiPob9jkQ87DIxC_6XDCEU9EPw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQiPob9jkQ87DIxC_6XDCEU9EPw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQiPob9jkQ87DIxC_6XDCEU9EPw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/UJ-9TvgeR2E" height="1" width="1"/

  • Pakistan Aid Groups Route Around U.S. Military for Relief Web
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TcDBNh2FiuNtwz5kbAv6TvUkPLI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TcDBNh2FiuNtwz5kbAv6TvUkPLI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TcDBNh2FiuNtwz5kbAv6TvUkPLI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TcDBNh2FiuNtwz5kbAv6TvUkPLI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/XqG8LjBlmns" height="1" width="1"/

  • Hitchhiking Goes High-Tech With Car2gether
    Daimler uses social media and smartphones to help people find carpool buddies who don't suck. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IJfC-2fMHF47sdjQQN5gP7o49S8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IJfC-2fMHF47sdjQQN5gP7o49S8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IJfC-2fMHF47sdjQQN5gP7o49S8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IJfC-2fMHF47sdjQQN5gP7o49S8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/v5vjLaHLkFg" height="1" width="1"/

  • Exclusive: Sneak Peek at Audio-Embedded citeSounds of Star Wars/cite Book
    Genuinely ingenious new book citeThe Sounds of Star Wars/cite 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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lQj_mZGRx2Uqakvp2PFvGcjTAk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lQj_mZGRx2Uqakvp2PFvGcjTAk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lQj_mZGRx2Uqakvp2PFvGcjTAk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lQj_mZGRx2Uqakvp2PFvGcjTAk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/wAhrQyGqcaU" height="1" width="1"/

  • Why PlayStation Move Could Give '3-D Games' a Whole New Meaning
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k4gYSUzLd2nc32V1zu1p-azBncw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k4gYSUzLd2nc32V1zu1p-azBncw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k4gYSUzLd2nc32V1zu1p-azBncw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k4gYSUzLd2nc32V1zu1p-azBncw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/63nD7cOJry8" height="1" width="1"/

  • Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphoto Winners Revealed
    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. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3rLxFB0wS1QIZmXz3bHMIxXnGms/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3rLxFB0wS1QIZmXz3bHMIxXnGms/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3rLxFB0wS1QIZmXz3bHMIxXnGms/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3rLxFB0wS1QIZmXz3bHMIxXnGms/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/HrooTYr_Gqk" height="1" width="1"/

  • Sept. 8, 1930: Scotch Tape Starts Sticking
    3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_qCzn7a9pDjS6yIOGpI0HyIjnss/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_qCzn7a9pDjS6yIOGpI0HyIjnss/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_qCzn7a9pDjS6yIOGpI0HyIjnss/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_qCzn7a9pDjS6yIOGpI0HyIjnss/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/uMWZv2lAtmg" height="1" width="1"/


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