BowBlade Makes Your iPhone a Badass Exercise Tool http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Channel your inner Katniss Everdeen, Hawkweye, or Robin Hood with an ingenious archery-based iOS accessory called the Bowblade, on display at this year's Macworld conference in San Francisco.



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How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When Paul Larsen decided to sail faster than physics would allow, he had only one choice: reinvent the boat.



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Is PlayStation 4 Nearly Here? Sony Plans Mysterious Feb. 20 Press Conference http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Is the next next-generation console almost here? Wired just received an invitation to "PlayStation Meeting 2013," a press briefing to be held in New York City on Feb. 20, beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern time.



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Tolkien's Estate Countersued in Legal Battle Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

J.R.R. Tolkien's estate is suing the producers of the Lord of the Rings movies over merchandise that they believe damages the books' reputation and goodwill -- including slot machines.



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Apple Loses Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Nexus http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones will remain on store shelves now that a judge has shot down Apple's bid to ban sales of the iPhone competitor.



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German Activists Punch Out Big Brother's Eyes http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It's being called Grand Theft Auto for the surveillance generation, only instead of being played out in the digital world, it's played out in the real world. And the object of the game isn't to steal cars or pull off other underworld pranks but to take out Big Brother's eyes by destroying CCTV surveillance cameras spread across the city.



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Incredible Images Show Huge Saturn Storm Destroy Itself by Eating Its Own Tail http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

One of the largest storms ever seen on Saturn may have been a victim of its own success, choking when it ate its own tail.



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Facebook Launches a Baffling Gift Card http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Facebook's new Facebook Card is a confusing mess.



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Amazon.com Goes Down, Takes Half-Hour Break From Retail Biz http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Amazon hosted a new kind of online door-crasher sale on Thursday. That is to say, its front door crashed.



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Apple's Automotive Invasion Continues as Honda Embraces Siri http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Apple's automotive invasion continues, with Honda's announcement that Siri Eyes Free will come to three models this year. That follows Chevrolet's integration of Apple's virtual assistant last fall, a trend that will continue throughout the year as seven more automakers look to Cupertino for help.



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A Pseudo-Scientific Analysis of Warm Bodies and the Zombie Tropes It Defies http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Zombie love story Warm Bodies breaks with a lot of conventional undead tropes -- but that may not be a bad thing.



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'City' Camouflage Restores Lost Views http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Artist and designer Roeland Otten has gradually been transforming Rotterdam's overlooked architectural eyesores into mesmerizing public installations using novel camouflage techniques.



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It's (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways. The particles aren't truly alive -- but they're not far off, either.



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Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2012 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Thousands of words would spill out of these visualizations, the winners of the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. From glowing corals to spiky seeds to neural networks on a chip, these images speak more clearly than any report ever could.



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The Shifting Tides of the New Space Age http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The current era of spaceflight has seen a lot of uncertainty and upheaval. NASA is drifting without a clear purpose, torn between encouraging start-ups to build new rockets and wanting to produce a large and capable spacecraft of its own. New players have entered the arena, offering cheaper access to space and audacious plans to mine asteroids and settle Mars. We talk to space policy expert John Logsdon about all this tumult, what it means for spaceflight, and just when the heck we are finally going to Mars.



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Chuck Hagel Says He's Just Like Obama's Previous Pentagon Chiefs http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Want to know how Chuck Hagel will run the Pentagon? If you listen to his remarks to the Senate for his confirmation hearing, he'll be a lot like Obama's previous defense secretaries.



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Microsoft Simplifies Internet Explorer Testing With 'Modern.IE' http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Microsoft has launched Modern.IE, a new website to help developers with the sometimes arduous task of getting websites to work in older versions of Internet Explorer.



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World of Warcraft Movie Coming From Source Code Director Duncan Jones http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

With two critically acclaimed, small-to-medium budget sci-fi movies under his belt, Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon) is seemingly headed to the big-time with the announcement that he will be directing Legendary Pictures' big-budget live-action adaptation of the popular MMO game World of Warcraft.



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Live Chat: The Science of Gun Violence http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Each year, roughly 30,000 people in the United States die of firearm-related homicides and suicides. When President Barack Obama recently unveiled his ambitious gun control agenda, he called the death toll ?a public health crisis? and ended a 17-year freeze on federally funded gun violence research. What are the risk factors for gun violence? How can we prevent it? And who should study these questions? Join us for a live chat at 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 31, on this page with two scientists who are asking big questions about gun violence in the United States.



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'Sound Maps' May Help Pigeons Navigate http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A new study proposes that birds use infrasound -- low-level background noise in our atmosphere -- to fly by "images" they hear. These acoustical maps may also explain how other creatures steer.



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Venmo Touch Is Facebook Connect for Mobile Payment Info http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Venmo and its parent Braintree, an e-commerce payment company, have come up with a solution called Venmo Touch. It's basically Facebook Connect for your credit card information.



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Amazon's Future Is Not in Selling Stuff — And That's a Good Thing http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

During Amazon's wonkish earnings call this week, Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak revealed a number that offered a surprising glimpse into the company's ambitious future -- a future where Amazon doesn't sell stuff. At least not directly.



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How Mobile Kills the Console But Advances the Gaming Industry http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It?s not just that games are moving to mobile, but that gaming has slowly and inexorably become central to the mobile device industry. This suggests a cloudy future for gaming consoles as a separate hardware platform. And it represents the first time in computing history where games have played so central a role on a general computing platform. The gaming industry can't afford to stick to its traditional business model.



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Microsoft, Yahoo Among Open Source 'Rookies of the Year' http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Each year, Black Duck unveils what it calls the Rookie Open Source Projects of the Year. The California company sells software for managing open source projects, and its annual list is a way of promoting both itself and the wider open source software community. But the list is also good reading.



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Portable, But Not That Potent http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It's a full-blown computer jammed into a teeny, tiny frame. How does Acer do this? Through sacrifices.



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Even Without a Government Ban, Game Consoles Won't Fly in China http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Those with knowledge of the Chinese game market told Wired that they believe the ban on game consoles will remain in place, and that little would change in China even if it were lifted, in part because the ban is largely ignored.



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Explore the Grand Canyon With Google Street View http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Google Maps team went to the Grand Canyon and snapped more than 9,500 images to create a Street View map of the national park. After four months of stitching all those high-resolution pics together, the company?s Street View maps of the Canyon are live and ready to be clicked through.



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It's Nerd Time at The Monitor (Again) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Not that it ever isn't, when you really think about it. But this week especially revels in nerdly obsessions -- from celebrating nerds themselves on TV, to musical nerd-outs over a new vinyl reissue series, to videogames.



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Forget Formal Authority. It's Time to Hack Democracy http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Formal authority is a 20th-century model, a relic of the age when power was vested in institutions rather than people. Despite the negative connotation of the word hacker, society is in the process of making itself more hackable. Instead of doing business as usual, expecting that our systems and data are impregnable, we have to play differently.



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Peeling a City Apart to Show How Structures Survive Disasters http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

If you've ever stared at the sidewalk and wondered what lay buried below, Science Channel's new series Strip the City will indulge your curiosities in grand, city-sized form.



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Plan Ahead With These Calendar and Scheduling Apps http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Our lives are booked up with office holiday parties, flash mobs, and virtual hangouts. Luckily, keeping track of events has never been easier.



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7 Big Defense Companies With Big Transparency Problems http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The combination of tons of cash from advanced military projects and excessive secrecy is a dangerous one ? it fuels corruption and graft in defense industries around the world. Here are seven of the most secret defense companies.



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The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say.



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Glossy Operating Room Photos Undergo Tonal Plastic Surgery http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Cluttered rooms. Terrible ambient light. Cramped working spaces. For most photographers those are a series of photographic nightmares, but for Dimitris Poupalos it's where he thrives. He likes the challenge of walking into a complicated situation and turning chaos into a symphony.



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New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Allegedly by Chinese http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper's network for at least four months, stealing the passwords of reporters in an apparent attempt to identify sources and gather other intelligence about stories related to the family of China's prime minister. The hackers breached ...



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Kim Dotcom's Mega Gets Third-Party Search Engine http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The file-sharing site Mega, introduced two weeks ago by infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom, just became a lot more useful to content pirates, thanks to a community-fed search engine of links to content hosted on Mega's servers.



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RIM's BlackBerry Rebranding Is Much More Than a Name Change http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

It's out with the old and in with the new as RIM rebrands itself with a new name, a new operating system and a new phone. It's a bold step for a company that made several missteps after ruling the smartphone segment and believes it must start over from scratch with new products and a new brand.



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Boeing's Batteries Draw Criticism as Dreamliner Probe Continues http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Boeing's chief executive said the company is working around the clock investigating a battery problem that has grounded 787 Dreamliners worldwide, saying the company "will get to the bottom of it."



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There's No Place for Fear When Riding a 100-Foot Wave http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Garrett McNamara felt many things as the monster wave approached. Excitement. Awe. Joy. The one thing he did not feel, however, is fear.



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Disney's Innovative Animated Hybrid Paperman Debuts Online http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

For those who didn't catch it in theaters when it accompanied Wreck-It Ralph at the tail end of last year, Disney's innovative and Oscar-nominated Paperman animated short film is now online.



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Air Force Wants You to Design Its Next-Gen Sensors (For Cheap) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Want to design the next generation of Air Force sensors and imaging tools? Yeah, they're not going to pay you much.



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Facebook Grows Revenue 40 Percent on Mobile Ad Spike http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Facebook posted fourth-quarter earnings up 18 percent over the year-ago period, excluding required accounting charges for employee stock awards. Revenues grew more than 40 percent to $1.6 billion.



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Activists Flood Government Agencies With FOIA Requests in Tribute to Aaron Swartz http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In honor of the transparency fights that coder and internet activist Aaron Swartz led while alive, an online records processing service has submitted 153 public records requests on behalf of members of the public.



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The Few Who Bought PlayBooks Can Look Forward to BlackBerry 10 Update http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

For the few of you who actually bought a BlackBerry PlayBook, you can now look forward to a BlackBerry 10 update coming to the tablet soon.



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Game of Thrones Fans Create Spectacular Minecraft Version of King's Landing http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The fine folks of WesterosCraft have completed their latest piece of the Game of Thrones universe in Minecraft -- King's Landing.



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Did the DirecTV Genie Delete Your Stuff? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Have you seen DirecTV's new commercial for their new Genie DVR service? A little math shows how they are either misleading, or the Genie will be deleting your content.



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Skip the Lists for a More Accessible Web http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Long ago it was decided that website menus shall be marked up with HTML list elements. But that was long ago; now we have the new elements in HTML5. Developer Chris Coyier argues its time to ditch the lists and simplify your menu code.



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Court Upholds Conviction in Dead Sea Scrolls E-Mail Impersonation Case http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A New York appeals panel is upholding the e-mail impersonation conviction of the son of a famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar -- setting aside contentions that the e-mails were constitutionally protected satiric hoaxes or pranks.



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Microsoft Cradles Linus Torvalds' (Other) Baby http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Microsoft is still playing catchup in the world of open source software, but it turned a corner on Wednesday, announcing that its Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 developer tools will both support Git, the version control system widely used by open source projects.



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Next Pentagon Chief Doesn't Want to Get Sucked Into France's Mali War http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Something the next Pentagon chief really, really doesn't want to do: deepen the U.S. involvement in France's war in Mali.



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