California Shipping Lanes Moved in Attempt to Avoid Killing Whales http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Whales near California¿s largest ports are about to gain a bit more protection from the cargo ships with which they share their marine homes. Changes to the mile-wide shipping lanes that funnel maritime traffic into the San Francisco Bay and to the ports in the Los Angeles area go into effect on June 1, and some of the modifications have been made specifically to reduce the presence of ships in areas whales are known to frequent.



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White House, NASA Celebrate National Day of Hacking http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The White House is hosting a hackathon dedicated to government data. It happens this weekend, and it's just one of the 93 hackathons organized across the U.S. as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, a.k.a. June 3. During the two-day event, participants will work to build software applications that solve problems proposed by local, state and federal government organizations. The data sets and challenges were provided by 22 government organizations in total, including the White House, NASA, and the Peace Corps.



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Tech Time Warp of the Week: America Online, 1995 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

By the early 2000s, the world wide web had sounded the death knell for the world's "online services" -- corporate-controlled creations like America Online and CompuServe that brought computer users online well before the web was created. But there was a brief time when these services were king -- and a company like AOL was powerful enough to purchase a giant like Time Warner for $164 billion.



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Watch Live: Asteroid a Third the Size of the Dinosaur-Killer Flies by Earth http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Watch as an enormous asteroid safely careens past the Earth, giving astronomers an unprecedented view of its surface, during a live show from the Slooh Space Camera team. The program starts at 1:30 p.m. PDT/4:30 p.m. EST.



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Game|Life Podcast Talks E3 Rumors, Nintendo Announcements and PR Disasters http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

What's gonna happen at E3? We have no idea.



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A Green, Ultra-Modern Makeover for America's Busiest Train Station http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

"For us, this isn¿t yet a question of cost. It is a question of our intended values and our collective will," says Roger Duffy, a partner at SOM.



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Here's What to Expect From Apple at WWDC 2013 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

WWDC, Apple¿s yearly developer conference, is just around the corner -- it kicks off on June 10. Following Google's I/O conference earlier this month, both developer and consumer expectations are sky high. Especially because other than a new-ish iPod, there's been nary a product-related peep since Apple's fall media event, which means there's a lot ...



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Shoot the Curl: Catching Fiji's Biggest Waves http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The tiny Fijian island of Tavarua is the site of the annual Fiji Pro surf contest, but televising the event is a gnarly prospect. Uncle Toad's Media Group will stream the contest in June, a feat that requires so much specialized gear, muscle power, and sheer nerve, the competition itself looks like a day at the beach. Here's how they do it.



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Can You Power a Phone With a Capacitor? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Could you replace your phone battery with a capacitor and charge it up in record fast time? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain investigates.



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A Moving, Modern Memorial for Hurricane Sandy Victims http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Disaster memorials can veer towards the macabre or maudlin, but Brooklyn-based designer Joe Doucet managed to thread the needle.



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How Do You Know Which Chicken to Buy? This Kickstarter Might Help. http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

You know those wallet cards and apps that help you make good choices about buying seafood: what's endangered, what's overfished, what's responsible to eat? This Kickstarter effort, BuyingPoultry.com, hopes to do the same for chicken.



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This Week's Most Bizarre Wild Animal Incidents http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.



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Samsung S4 Mini Will Actually Fit in Your Skinny Jeans http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Reversing its march towards creating a phone that requires a wheelbarrow to tote around town, Samsung has announced the 4.3-inch S4 mini.



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How Many Times Has Will Smith's Family Saved the World? A Handy Chart http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

[HTML1] Where would we be without the Smiths? Well, Earth would have been overrun by aliens. Robot squid would have destroyed humanity's last refuge. A steampunk spider mech would have killed Ulysses S. Grant. Bullies would have harmed a young man's self-esteem. And we haven't even gotten to Willow! Sci-fi thriller After Earth hits theaters May ...



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Why International Online Sales Are Still a Huge Headache http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Setting up an online store has gotten exponentially cheaper and easier over the past 15 years, but handling international orders remains stubbornly difficult. That may -- finally -- be changing.



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How a Summer Off the Grid Inspired the Eco-Anarchy of The East http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Back in 2009 filmmakers Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij spent a summer on the road living with collectives. Now they've turned those experiences into the eco-activist thriller The East.



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Spring Camp Day 3--A Bridge Too Far http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Today we went on a hike. A few of us barely made it home in one piece. The Gadget Lab crew reports from Wired Spring Camp.



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Ancient U.S. Weapon Makes a Surprise Reappearance in Syria http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The American military abandoned the M40 recoilless rifle after Vietnam. Yet the weapon keeps showing up in Libya and Syria, decades after its supposed retirement.



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NSA Launches Program to Help Staff Massive Spy Center http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When the NSA's brand-new $2 billion data center goes live in Bluffdale, Utah this fall, the nation's spy agency is going to need a special kind of person to keep the lights on, the networks humming, and the servers from melting down.



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Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

IMSA sits on the outskirts of Chicago, in a little town called Aurora, Illinois. It feels more like a college than a high school. The halls aren¿t lined with lockers. Instead, you find chairs and couches, where students will plop down to type on their laptops ¿ or catch an afternoon nap. U.S. students consistently rank poorly compared to students from other countries international evaluations, but IMSA students are doing work usually reserved for upper division college students or even grad students.



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Mug Shots: Bots Scour Google Maps to Find Faces in the Land http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The psychological tendency to see meaningful images in vague visuals actually has a name¿pareidolia¿and it¿s the basis for a mesmerizing new project.



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Mission Motorcycles Hopes You'll Pay $60K for a Tesla on Two Wheels http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Mission Motorcycles president Mark Seeger wants to do for electric bikes what Tesla did for electric cars: Match the performance and range of gasoline-powered superbikes, but do it with a massive battery pack, an electric motor and zero emissions.



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Netflix Wants Arrested Development Season 5 (And More Original Content) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Netflix is set to increase the amount of money it spends on original content over the next few years... and it wants more Arrested Development.



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Earthquakes, Patterns and Predictions http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Humans love to find patterns, especially in large data sets. Wired Science blogger Erik Klemetti discusses the perils of searching for patterns in earthquake data.



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Radiation Risk for Mars Astronauts Will Be Dangerously High http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Astronauts on a round-trip to Mars would be subject to radiation levels 13 times higher than what a person working at a nuclear power plant would receive in a year, increasing the risk of such a mission.



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The Controversial Topics of Wikipedia http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Can we quantify the topics that are most controversial on Wikipedia? Turns out, yes. Wired Science blogger Samuel Arbesman has the report.



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NY to LA for Free: Tesla Plans Dramatic Expansion of Charger Network http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Buy a Model S and Tesla promises that in six months you'll be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York without paying a dime to top up your batteries.



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Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Using atomic force microscopy, scientists have imaged a molecule at single-atom resolution, caught in the act of rearranging the bonds connecting its 26 carbon atoms.



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Earliest Bird Claim Ruffles Feathers http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A team of scientists claims to have found the earliest known bird. But critics question whether it really is a bird, and some are not entirely convinced that it's an authentic specimen.



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Atheer's Mobile 3-D Interface Is Augmented Reality on Steroids http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A California company has answered a question few people have probably thought to ask: What would happen if you combined the wearability of Google Glass with the gesture-based control of Microsoft Kinect? The answer is a pretty cool wearable interface you can control using your voice or gestures. Mountain View startup Atheer wants to make it ...



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Senator Rand Paul Talks Tech, Civil Liberties, and Keeping the Government Out of Your Email http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

From email privacy to national security, Rand Paul is probably the Senate's premier civil libertarian. As he tours Silicon Valley, he talks about his causes with Wired.



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Apple's Latest Offering: The Summer Selfie iPod Touch http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

After months of nothing, Apple has dropped a new, cheaper summertime fun iPod touch.



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Can You Really Sue Kickstarter for IP Infringement? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When Formlabs raised $2,945,885 on Kickstarter for its high resolution 3-D printer in October 2012, neither company was expecting a lawsuit. Still, 3D Systems, one of the biggest names in 3-D printing, sued both companies, accusing them of patent infringement.



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Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his "20 percent time" building a new version of YouTube just for places for slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained no more than 100 kilobytes of data, so that it could quickly load on machines in developing countries and other places where internet pipes were painfully narrow.



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Army's Fingerprint and Iris Databases Head for the Cloud http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The next place that the Army wants to store the sheafs of biometric data it collects in warzones? The cloud.



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'All Hell Broke Loose': Why MoMA Is Exhibiting Tetris and Pac-Man http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Museum of Modern Art said last November that it had acquired 14 videogames. The collection's curator was not prepared for what happened next.



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Commuters Would Pay More for Better Public Transit Tech, Study Says http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Public transit riders have spoken, and they're expecting technology to make ticketing easier, reduce delays, and improve communication from transit authorities. And most of them are even willing to pay higher ticket prices for the privilege.



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Here's Your First Look at Windows 8.1 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Windows 8.1 is getting real improvements over Windows 8, some of which will please longtime users who found the shift from Windows 7 jarring or uncomfortable. And yet it also goes even farther in the new direction Microsoft is taking.



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How Our Lust for Stuff Is Making the Whole World Your Mall http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Shoppers have a righteous feeling that merchandise should flow as easily around the world as information. And companies are lining up to help build a seamless global shopping network that enables stuff to zip across international borders as smoothly as data packets hurtling down the information superhighway.



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The Pirate Cinema Transforms Film Torrents Into Illicit Interactive Art http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Think file transfers aren't art? Think again.



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MIT Savant Can Predict How Many Re-Tweets You'll Get http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It doesn't matter if you're Justin Bieber or James Baker. On Twitter, the first few minutes tell the whole story. In fact, MIT Sloan Professor Tauhid Zaman has figured out a way to predict how many retweets a Twitter message will receive, just based on what happens in the first few minutes of its life. "If a ...



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Civil War Lovers Can't Leave the Past Behind at Awkward Reenactments http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Some of our favorite photographers are ones that bring a fresh eye to a stale topic, which is what Anderson Scott has done with Civil War re-enactors -- a favorite subject among photographers. In his recent photo book, Whistling Dixie, Scott delves into the American South with a dirty aesthetic and an eye for the strange.



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Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Internet startups sprout all the time promising to send you just about anything via UPS. But one new company has taken the idea a little meta: They'll ship you an empty box.



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Why We Can't Send Humans to Mars Yet (And How We'll Fix That) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

There's been a recent uptick in the idea of a human mission to Mars. While such plans are exciting, they also happen to be technologically impossible right now. Wired Science provides a checklist of all the new technology we'd have to develop in order to actually get humans to Mars.



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How Real Is the Magic in Now You See Me? Here's a Primer http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

How real is the magic in the heist flick Now You See Me? We asked the film's magic consultant David Kwong to break it down.



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For Sale: A Bank Heist, Modeled to Perfection http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Designing the perfect bank robbery is no easy task. To pull off a large-scale heist, it takes meticulous planning, thorough research and ?in the case of Ilona Gaynor? an artistic touch.



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Spring Camp Day Two?Car Rides, Cabins and Carbohydrates http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

We're up in the Northern California hills to test a fresh crop of 2013's outdoor gear. Today's task: assemble all of our hard goods for review, eat a huge meal, and rest for a long hike tomorrow.



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Your Phone Is the Key to the New August Smart Lock http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A new door lock from startup August pairs with smartphones over Bluetooth to grant you -- and whoever you invite through its app -- keyless access to your home.



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Friend of Bradley Manning Drops Lawsuit Against Feds Over Seized Laptop http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A former WikiLeaks' supporter and friend of leaker Bradley Manning who had his laptop seized by the Department of Homeland Security has dropped his federal lawsuit challenging the seizure.



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Are Movie Trailers Too Long? Theater Owners Seek 2-Minute Limit http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When it comes to movie trailers, how much is too much? Would it be better if trailers were 30 seconds shorter and viewers offered less bang for their buck?



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