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Why Microsoft Is Pushing a Touch-Based Web of TomorrowThe web has been relegated to second-class status with the rise of apps, but it's still very much alive. Companies like Microsoft, Google and Firefox are investing heavily in their web browsers to keep them relevant and make the web experience more like, well, an app.
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Time-Share Opportunity: Near-Earth Orbit for Only $250 per WeekThese tiny satellites will be available to snap photos from space and conduct simple experiments for $250 per week.
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The Queen's New Gambit: Chess as a Great American Spectator SportEngineered from childhood to be a grand master, Susan Polgar is trying to engineer an unlikely chess resurgence in the US.
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Nvidia Answers Apple Spaceship With Triangle TempleChip-maker Nvidia has released artist renditions of its new Santa Clara, California, headquarters, set to open up in July 2015.
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Space Tourist to Announce Daring Manned Mars Voyage for 2018The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito is planning to launch a manned mission to Mars in January 2018 on a round-trip journey lasting 501 days.
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Sony Announces PlayStation 4, Doesn't Show ItSony is set to announce the future of PlayStation at a gala event in New York City today. Follow Wired's live coverage here.
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After Sandy's Wrath, MTA May Reopen Old South Ferry StationThe MTA is considering reopening the Old South Ferry Station to serve passengers during the long rebuilding process of the newer station, a first in the subway's history.
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Curiosity Rover Ready to Analyze Martian Time Capsule From Inside of RockAfter a long and careful hole drilling operation, NASA's Curiosity rover has collecting powdered rock representing the first sample ever acquired from the interior of Mars.
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Darpa Wants to Help You Survive a Nuclear DisasterIf you're near a nuclear disaster -- either a detonated bomb or a malfunctioning reactor -- you are probably going to die, and die unpleasantly. Unless the Pentagon's mad scientists have anything to say about it.
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Google Shows Off Glass UI, Asks What You'd Do #IfIHadGlassIf you have an extra $1,500 laying around, are totally cool with looking like Geordi La Forge, and you want to get in on testing out a gadget that could end up being a trailblazer into our inevitable wearable computing future, then Google wants to hear from you.
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Dolphins May Call Each Other by NameWhat might dolphins be saying with all those clicks and squeaks? Each others' names, suggests a new study of the so-called signature whistles that dolphins use to identify themselves.
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How Batwoman's Big Decision Fits Into the History of Gay Superheroes [Spoilers]There's big, spoilery news for Batwoman in the latest issue of her comic. Here's why it's important.
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Even Jack Dorsey Can't Convince You to Give Up Grimy Dollar BillsTwitter inventor Jack Dorsey convinced celebrities, world leaders and you that 140 characters were an essential new form of human expression. But he still has a long way to go to persuade the world to stop paying with cash.
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<cite>007</cite> Publisher Activision Backs Away From Licensed GamesActivision Blizzard says it's drawing down its licensed games business, meaning that franchises like James Bond might need a new home.
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Homebrew Hardware Intersects With Sweet Sounds at Music Hack Day San FranciscoMusic Hack Day San Francisco took over the offices of tokbox this past weekend for two days of getting creative with digital music. The results, as always with Music Hack Days, were a mix of the practical and the absurd.
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Record-Breaking Exoplanet Is Just Barely Bigger Than the MoonNASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted a rocky exoplanet tinier than Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system. Named Kepler-37b, the record-breaking planet is nearly half the size of the previous titleholder for smallest known exoplanet and is only about 10 percent larger than Earth's moon. The object orbits a star that is slightly smaller and cooler than our own sun and is located 215 light-years away.
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