What Ousted Groupon CEO's Battletoads Reference Meant http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

We explain what ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason meant when he referenced "Battletoads" in his farewell letter.



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Groupon CEO Fired as Daily-Deals Biz Bottoms Out http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has been fired after another quarterly earnings whiff from the one-time darling of the daily deals business. It's a business that doesn't really have any darlings now.



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This Electronic Temporary Tattoo Will Soon Be Tracking Your Health http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This stick-on silicon electrode network is wearable technology to the extreme, designed as a non-invasive diagnostic sensor. It bonds to the skin, somewhat like a temporary tattoo, flexing and bending in sync with your skin the way you wish a Band-Aid would.



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Wealth Redistribution Gains Currency Among Digital Elite http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

TED speakers are quoting Marx and talking about extensive new wealth redistribution programs, making the conference for digital elites a surprising hotbed for leftist economic ideas.



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Beneficial Bacteria May Protect Against Pimples http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

If you were plagued by pimples in your teen years, you may have bacteria to blame?but not all of them. Researchers have found that not all strains of the bacteria commonly associated with acne are created equal: Some may cause problem skin, but one appears to protect the skin and keep it healthy.



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Resurrecting the Rainbow Colors of Insect Fossils http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

After smashing, baking, and decaying the colorful outer layers that give some insects their sheen, scientists studying fossilized insects think they're closer to deciphering the original hues of today's dull and dark insect fossils.



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Land Rover Electrifies the Classic Defender http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Land Rover has built the most intriguing EV experiments we've seen in years: an electric Defender that can pull 12 tons up a 13 percent grade and ford water nearly three feet deep.



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You Don't Want Super-High-Speed Internet, Says Time Warner Cable http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you don't really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and other high-speed providers.



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Cablevision to Suspend Repeat Copyright Scofflaws, Comcast to Hijack Browsers http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Comcast is to begin hijacking browsers of its internet subscribers who are detected of repeatedly infringing on public file-sharing networks while Cablevision Systems said it would suspend subscribers for 24 hours after their fifth offense.



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Why Game Creators Prefer iPhone to Android http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

There is no great game on Android which is not also on the iPhone, and that's not changing anytime soon.



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Surface Pro and iPads Are Least Repairable Tablets http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

iFixit publishes a Tablet Repairability list that shows Microsoft's and Apple's offerings are amongst the least fixable.



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Human-Powered Helicopter Attempts Prize-Winning Flight Today http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Gamera II team from the University of Maryland is wrapping up their February with a dedicated effort to finally win the Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter prize. The group of student engineers spent much of yesterday testing, tuning and fixing their four rotor helicopter in an effort to complete the requirements which include flying for at least 60 seconds and achieving a height of at least three meters (9.8 feet).



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The Most Bad-Ass Moons in the Solar System http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Our solar system is full of strange, amazing, gigantic, beautiful, mysterious and truly bad-ass moons. Which is the most bad-ass of them all? You tell us.



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Bradley Manning Takes 'Full Responsibility' for Giving WikiLeaks Huge Government Data Trove http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took "full responsibility" Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic and intelligence cables, videos and documents. In the lengthiest statement to a military tribunal Manning has provided since his ...



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Beyond Apollo Posts on Piloted Mars (And Other Places) Flybys http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The piloted Mars flyby concept was first articulated in detail in 1956 by Italian rocketry pioneer Gaetano Crocco. NASA work on the concept began in 1962, and the space agency devoted as much study effort in the 1960s to piloted Mars flybys as it did to piloted Mars landings. NASA officials even went so far as to announce that they would seek new-start funding for a 1975 manned Mars flyby in the FY 1969 NASA budget. Alas, Congress rejected the proposal in late 1967 in the wake of the Apollo 1 fire. In the wake of yesterday's InspirationMars announcement, space historian David S. F. Portree presents a list of Beyond Apollo blog posts on the piloted Mars/Venus flyby concept.



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How a Robot Is Changing the Game of Antarctic Science http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Science in Antarctica: extreme conditions, long hours, and tedium. Just the job for a robot. Wired Science blogger Jeffrey Marlow has the update on a daring robo-explorer named Yeti.



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Google Expands Universal Search to Include Your Calendar http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google's experimental all-in-one search just got a bit more all in your one, adding support for Google Calendar and natural language queries. Once you opt-in, you can type "What am I doing today?" in the Google search box and the all-knowing one will tell you.



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The Other TED Prize http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This year at TED there?s another measure of success, how high a number you can generate with a brainwave reading helmet on your head and a digital cube floating in front of your face.



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Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Good Eggs launched on Thursday a new web platform that lets users select items from various local vendors and farmers for a single, customized box of food, ready for delivery or pickup.



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Hunting Meteors and Lunch Lines With an Army of iPhones http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

That dinged, scratched iPhone with a cracked screen you've been holding onto can get a new life as a live-streaming portal to the view outside your window, or so says San Francisco startup Koozoo, which made its public debut Thursday.



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Watch the New and Improved Printable Gun Spew Hundreds of Bullets http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Last year, a group of 3-D printing gunsmiths developed a key component for an AR-15 rifle ? that lasted six shots. Now the group is back with a version that fires more than 600 rounds.



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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains Together http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In what they're describing as the world's first brain-to-brain interface, scientists have wired the brain of one rat to another and shown that signals from the first rat's brain can help the second rat solve a problem. "We basically created a computational unit out of two brains," says neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University, who led the study.



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The Worthy Quest to Kill Off Checks in the Next 10 Years http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In the 21st century, what could be more ridiculous than checks? One startup wants to end the absurdity.



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LaserOrigami Turns Your Laser Cutter Into a Folding Factory http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When you own a laser cutter, careful calibration is key. Get the focal length wrong and, instead of a nice clean cut, you end up with a blurry burn pattern. LaserOrigami takes this problem and turns it into a feature. By aiming a de-focused laser at a section of plastic, it can heat it just enough to allow it to bend. By alternating between cutting, bending, and turning the sheet, the application can make remarkably complicated objects.



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Budget Cuts Will Mean Delays for Burials at Arlington Cemetery http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This impending cut to the defense budget isn't abstract: the Army expects looming budget cuts to mean fewer funerals and longer wait times for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.



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Dancing With Manta Rays in Midnight Underwater Photo Shoot http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Shawn Heinrichs and Kristian Schmidt's photos of models swimming with whale sharks were a viral hit last month, helping raise awareness about a species that has been over-fished and killed by poachers harvesting shark fins. Now the pair of photographers are at it again, but this time they're focusing on manta rays.



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Plenty of Rad, But Too Much RTFM http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

With the explosion of wearable POV cameras, it's about time Sony trotted its own horse into the race.



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Microsoft Munches Own Open Source Dog Food http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In recent months, Microsoft has made some enormous strides in this area, letting developers run the open-source Linux operating system atop its Azure cloud service and working to build a new version of the open-source Hadoop number-crunching system that runs on its own Windows operating system. But do businesses and developers really want to run Linux on Azure or Hadoop on Windows? Do these two world really mix?



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Don't Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Jabari Moketsi was a radio talk show host at WVGB until the struggling station was sold to a company that broadcasts classic rock. He had no interest in spinning songs by Boston and Bad Company, so he launched his own station, streaming online, to continue serving the African-American community. He?s built up a national following in ...



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9 Stunning, Next-Gen Airport Designs Cleared for Takeoff http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Few of us will have the chance to visit an office designed by a world-class architect; an even smaller group will enjoy the luxury of living in a home designed by one. But for the price of a coach ticket, we can visit amazing spaces crafted by top designers, and enjoy their work while eating a slightly stale Cinnabon.



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Love, Peace, and Dogfights on The Monitor http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Spring is in the air at The Monitor, so we're talking about love. Burning Love. We're also talking about what is the best supergroup in a long, long while (sorry, Traveling Wilburys!). Also, old videogames.



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Volvo Wants You to Turn On Their New High Beams — Permanently http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Headlights used to be stupid: on or off, high beam or low. Volvo is making them smart with a combination of sensors and cameras that maximize illumination without blinding oncoming drivers.



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Cocktail Time: 5 Drink Recipe Apps http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Shake, stir, shoot, or sip -- regardless of your style, your drinks will be better if you follow these guides.



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Beyond Kickstarter: Why One Site Shouldn't Dominate Crowdfunding http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

One site shouldn't dominate crowdfunding. Let's take it niche.



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Meet the Common Man?s Robot: Headless and Adorable http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Entrepreneur Keller Rinaudo says the Romo, a $150 robot with that needs your iPhone for its head, could finally make home robots ubiquitous. He spoke at the TED conference Tuesday.



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A Death in the Family: Gotham City Claims Another Victim [Spoilers] http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Death comes once more to Gotham City, claiming another member of the Bat-Family. Spoilers follow.



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Watch a Google Hangout With the Quantified Man http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Join Wired Today at 9:30 AM PST for a live video chat on Google+ Hangouts with Chris Dancy, the Quantified Man. Dancy is one of the world's most quantified people. He's hooked up to multiple sensors all the time, and logs everything he does to a Google Calendar. He thinks you'll need as well soon. We profiled Dancy last week and many of you had additional questions for him. Tweet your questions using #quantifiedman.



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Respect the Skills of the Blue Collar Worker http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Most people asking to join Copenhagen Suborbitals expect to spend all their time on academic rocket science-related stuff. They're wrong. The whole point of Copenhagen Suborbitals is to stop staring at a computer screen and go do something, says Wired Science blogger Kristian von Bengtson.



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Samsung Wallet Is Just Like Passbook, But on Android http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Whether you agree with it or not, Samsung gets accused of ripping off Apple just about every time they roll out a new marquee phone or tablet. On Wednesday, the company unveiled Samsung Wallet, a new Android app that looks and works a lot like Apple?s Passbook app for the iPhone. Like Passbook, Wallet is a designed as one central place to store your digital gift certificates, coupons, tickets, travel details and boarding passes.



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Waze Proves the Power of Social Media With Real-Time Map Updates http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Waze, the crowd-sourced traffic mapping app, is one of Gadget Lab's favorite apps for successfully navigating around the morass of Bay Area traffic. Today the app one-ups itself with the ability for trusted community members to update maps in real time.



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Game of Thrones Director: Online Piracy Doesn't Matter — Wait, It Does http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Game of Thrones was 2012's most pirated TV show, something that one of the show's directors seems to have mixed feelings about.



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Digital Comics Publisher Breaks Away From the Print Model by Heading Back to Print http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The innovative digital comics publisher Monkeybrain continues to buck the traditional print publishing model -- this time by bringing its comics back to the world print.



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Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military?s Clean-Energy Revolution http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Navy is tackling problems that freeze Congress solid. What it learns, what it implements, and how it adapts and innovates will drive market changes that could alter the course of the world.



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Apple, Google, Facebook Tell Supreme Court: Gay Marriage Is Good for Business http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The biggest tech companies in the world are standing up for same-sex marriage, but not just as a matter of fairness. In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, they say federal same-sex marriage restrictions hurt their businesses.



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The Internet Needs a Plan B http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Internet and computer pioneer Danny Hillis thinks the internet needs a backup, a Plan B.



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The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

What kills a social network? A group of internet archeologists have picked over the digital bones of Friendster ? the pioneering social networking site that drowned in Facebook?s wake ? and we now have a clearer picture of its epic collapse.



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Video: Disassembling a Solar Airplane in 59 Seconds Flat http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Solar Impulse has arrived in California and started the painstaking process of assembling the solar-powered airplane that will fly across the country at a leisurely 50 mph.



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Army's Demonic Number for Budget Cuts: 6, 6, and 6 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The entire U.S. military is terrified of the impending budget cuts scheduled to hit Friday. But the Army thinks the cuts are demonic.



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Google Glass Will Make You Manly, Says Sergey Brin http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google co-foudner Sergey Brin said smartphones are "socially isolating" and "emasculating" during a talk at the TED conference Wednesday.



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Firefox 20 Beta Brings Better Private Browsing http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Firefox 20, currently in the beta release channel, changes the way Firefox handles so-called "private browsing" sessions. Now it's easy to have private windows right alongside normal windows, very handy for those who, for example, need to log in to two different Gmail accounts simultaneously.



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