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Now GPS Can Tell You Where the Cops Are
via Wired Top Stories by Autopia on May 06, 2008
Thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0 and Google Maps, your navigation system can tell you where Johnny Law and those infernal traffic cameras are hiding.
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NASA Offers $5,000 a Month for You to Lie in Bed
via Wired Top Stories by Wired Science on May 06, 2008
In an effort to study the effects of near-zero gravity on the human body, NASA is seeking volunteers for an experiment in which participants will lie down for 90 straight days.
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Author: Microsoft is Still Here, Dammit!
via Wired Top Stories by Betsy Schiffman on May 07, 2008
... industry watchers are hesitant about Ballmer right now, partly due to the botched Yahoo deal and a bumpy Windows Vista release. Still, Mary Jo Foley, a ZDNet blogger who has covered Microsoft since Bill Gates first emerged from puberty, believes the company has a big future ahead of it.We chewed the fat with Foley about the release of her book Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Rele...
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch
via Wired Top Stories by Gadget Lab on May 07, 2008
: The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last year). In addition to 2-megapixel shots and recording video, it can also video share -- send live...
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Iphone Coming to Latin America
via Wired Top Stories by Associated Press on May 07, 2008
Latin America's top mobile provider says it has a deal to bring the iPhone south of the border. Mexico City-based America Movil, which has 159.2 million subscribers in 16 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, didn't give any details -- including whether it would have an exclusive.
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Stream Your iTunes Playlists on Facebook
via Wired Top Stories by Listening Post on May 07, 2008
Melodeo's nuTsie app makes it easy to embed most of your favorite songs on your Facebook page.
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Papa John's Sells $1 Billion in Pizza Online
via Wired Top Stories by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by EricaJoy I contributed to about $50 million of this. Honestly though, PJ's is the college kid favorite and the kids, they love those internets so this isn't too surprising.Papa John's says it has sold more than $1 billion worth of pizza online in the seven years since it has taken orders over the web. In the fierce battle for click orders the nation's third-largest...
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Tricky Exposes His Roots, Crowdsources Remixes
via Wired Top Stories by Listening Post on May 10, 2008
Adrian Thaws, better known as Tricky, has come a long way from his days in Massive Attack with a successful solo career and film career. His next CD, Knowle West Boy, explores his roots in a "white ghetto" with a post-punk, Two-Tone, dancehall sound. Fans can remix the single "Council Estate."
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China to Make Its Own Jumbo Jets
via Wired Top Stories by Associated Press on May 10, 2008
State media reports Sunday that the Chinese central government and the Shanghai government are major shareholders in a homegrown company that will make passenger jumbo jets. The idea is that China Commercial Aircraft will make the country less dependent on Boeing and Airbus.
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May 12, 1941: Fog of War Shrouds Computer Advance
via Wired Top Stories by Tony Long on May 11, 2008
1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer.Because Zuse designed and built his computer inside Nazi Germany, which was already at war, his achievement went unnoticed outside Germany until after the Third Reich's collapse. In the meantime, the Harvard Mark 1, a computer produced by an American team, appeared...
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