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What's In A Search, If You Don't Hit the Search Button?

Wired Magazine - 3 hours 6 min ago
Searches used to be easy to count. You would wait for someone to type words into a search box and then hit enter. Call that a search. That made it easy for outside analysts like ComScore to know how to figure out which search engine was tops. All of that got a lot more confusing with the introduction of Google’s 'Instant Search,' which starts showing you search results as soon as you type the first letter into its search box.


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How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping

Wired Magazine - 3 hours 19 min ago
The key to the next generation of TV is likely to be search, and the biggest drag on search is going to be text entry. If Google TV is really going to be the 'one screen to rule them all,' it has to solve that problem.


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Smartphone chip battle heats up

BBC Technology - 4 hours 1 min ago
Intel is to launch its first chip with built-in graphics, while established phone chipmaker ARM releases a fast new chip.
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This Sept. 11, Will Terror Sites Get Hacked Again?

Wired Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago
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?


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Sept. 9, 1926: RCA Creates a Radio Network

Wired Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago
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.


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Quantifying the Boundaries of Athletic Achievement

Wired Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago
In his new book The Perfection Point, Sport Science host John Brenkus explains how we can push and predict the limits in athletic feats.


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Dyno-Testing the Automotive X Prize Finalists

Wired Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago
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.


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Do This Page-Turner Puzzle

Wired Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago
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!


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European police in pirate raids

BBC Technology - 8 hours 44 min ago
Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown
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Broadband speed gets laser boost

BBC Technology - 10 hours 8 min ago
A kind of "auto-tune for data" developed by a European team may help increase the capacities of long-haul fibre optic cables.
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RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 Million Heist

Wired Magazine - 18 hours 5 min ago
A mastermind behind the RBS WorldPay hack gets a suspended sentence in Russia and 4 years probation.


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Google's new web search changes

BBC Technology - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 23:55
Google revamps search system with launch of 'Instant'
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Google unveils 'instant' searches

BBC Technology - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 22:09
Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product called Instant that displays results as soon as users type in queries.
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Gamemaker's Secret Mission: Save <cite>Duke Nukem Forever</cite>

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 21:52
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.


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DHS Cyber Division Misses 1,085 Holes on Own Network

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 21:45
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.


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Hyundai's Land Yacht Should Have Luxury Automakers Quaking

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 21:30
Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal.


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Citing Obama's State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 21:03
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.


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Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 21:00
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.


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Video: How to Film a 23-Mile Free Fall

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 20:09
When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him.


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Hack Your Parking

Wired Magazine - Wed, 08/09/2010 - 20:00
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.


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