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SpaceX Ready to Launch First Dragon to the International Space Station This Morning

Startup rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (we all know them as SpaceX) is set to launch their Dragon capsule to the International Space Station early in the morning (3:44am EDT!) on Tuesday. SpaceX will be webcasting the launch on their website, SpaceX.com, starting at 3:00am Eastern Time. You can also follow along as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posts live updates to Twitter from Mission Control! Read more...

Wired Top Stories, Yesterday, 12:45am

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 22

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, Yesterday, 12:01am

As Seen on YouTube! Orabrush Reinvents the Infomercial

We've all spent a sleepless night?channel surfing at 3 a.m. Flicking around at that hour, you're sure to come across an infomercial for a Revolutionary Floor Cleaner or an Abs-of-Steel Machine urging you to be one of the first 500 callers and get a free set of steak knives. Bolstered by breathless, off-their-meds hosts, these feature-length commercials are wildly profitable.?Now Orabrush, a 20-person company based in Utah, is using that formula to become the QVC of YouTube. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 8:14pm

Google-Supported Autonomous-Car Legislation Passes California Senate

California Senate Bill 1298 passed the State Senate today in a unanimous, bipartisan vote of 37-0, paving the way for safety and performance standards that cover autonomous vehicles operating on the state's roads and highways.

The bill, authored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), is on its way to the State Assembly for consideration, and it's expected ... Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:52pm

Windows Now Welcome to the GitHub Hacker Party

The cool and popular GitHub source-code sharing site just got a little easier to use. On Monday, GitHub released its first client for Windows, giving users an easier way to set up a Git source-code repository on their PC that can then be shared with the GitHub website. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:46pm

Gesture Controls Get a Huge Boost with New 'Leap' Interaction System

From the Wii Remote to the Microsoft Kinect, gesture-based controls have been about gaming. The Leap brings the technology to computers with an impressive amount of accuracy. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:42pm

Star Wars Supercuts: The Best of R2-D2, Blasters, the Force and Chewie's 'Dialog'

Everyone has their reasons for loving Star Wars (or not) -- some live for Stormtroopers, others are fans of Luke Skywalker, and still others just really like Wookies. Now, thanks to the glories of video editing, it's possible to watch just the things any particular fan wants to see. Or some of them, at least. The folks at the Cussing Channel -- who previously brought you all the gear-shifting in the Fast and the Furious flicks -- have now compiled eight supercuts from Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 5:42pm

BitTorrent Inc. Sues Germany's BitTorrent Co. for Infringement

BitTorrent Inc. of San Francisco, the developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, claims in a federal lawsuit that a German company is ripping off its intellectual property. BitTorrent file sharing, aka torrenting, is a protocol often used by online pirates to obtain free music, games and software. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 5:38pm

Many Foolish Characters Mar This Week's Game of Thrones

In this week's episode, Brienne undertakes a cross-country road trip, Arya gives Jaqen the name of her third and final victim, and Cersei tries to use Tyrion's whoring ways against him. But mostly we get a bunch of characters who don't act quite as smart as they do in the George R. R. Martin books upon which the HBO series is based. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 5:23pm

The Future of Stuff: Vending Machine That Prints in 3-D

No matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. The Chinese live crab dispenser and Art-O-Mat are old news, but the machine of the moment is the DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Matics that sit behind glass and 3-D prints your tchotchke of choice. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 4:09pm

Looking for a Coding Job? Better a Ninja Than a Brogrammer

Companies are looking for ninjas, Jedi's, and rock stars, but nobody wants a brogrammer. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 4:07pm

Bi-Liquid Success at Copenhagen Suborbitals

Over the weekend a do-it-yourself space program called Copenhagen Suborbitals successfully test-fired the largest amateur-built bi-liquid rocket engine in the world. Co-founder and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengtson reports. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 3:54pm

Gadget Lab Show: Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LaserSaber and Raspberry Pi

This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang checks out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet, Wicked Lasers' Laser Saber, and the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 3:20pm

U.S. Customs Approves Some HTC Phones for Sale, But Blockade Continues

HTC says that some of its phones delayed for delivery by U.S. Customs have been released and are shipping to retailers. But HTC didn't say which phone models were approved, how many handsets were released, or when the issue would be resolved. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 3:00pm

Will Today's Coders Embrace Microsoft's Cloud?

With word that Microsoft is going after Amazon with a big cloud move the first week of June, the question on this cloud watcher's mind is: Even if Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud goes, as it has recently teased to analysts, big on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), supports Linux (as is expected to be the big deal about ... Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:58pm

Microsoft Drops 'Aero Glass' User Interface in Windows 8

Microsoft announced on Friday that it is dropping its Aero UI in the final version of Windows 8. Instead, the new user interface will adopt a cleaner, flatter look and feel. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:47pm

Review: Diablo III Was Worth 12 Years of Hell

Diablo III is a video game. A pretty, well-designed, acoustically impressive video game that makes 12 years seem worth the wait. I?d say that by those standards, Diablo III is pretty great. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:47pm

'Battle-Kites' Eyed for Afghan Spy Duty

The latest addition to the U.S. military's blimp arsenal could be a "battle-kite" of war. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:40pm

High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The announcement is a win for the Obama administration, which like its predecessor, argues that government wiretapping programs and laws can't be challenged in court. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:39pm

Former Apple Employee Explains Origins of Upside-Down Logo

Those new to the cult of Mac may not realize it, but there once was a time when that iconic logo that shines from the top of Apple notebooks used to be positioned, well, upside down. But now we know exactly why Apple opted for its original logo positioning. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:38pm

Time-Lapse Video of Incredible Annular Solar Eclipse

Watch a time-lapse video of yesterday's incredible annular solar eclipse. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:37pm

How One Faulty Nitrogen-Purge Valve Forced SpaceX to Abort

SpaceX engineers were able to trace the high-pressure problem that caused Saturday's launch to be aborted to a valve that controls the flow of nitrogen used to purge the engine before ignition. Wired aerospace reporter Jason Paur explains exactly what went wrong. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:16pm

The Eephus League Magazine: Pitch-Perfect Web Design

The Eephus League Magazine gives baseball nerds something to do between games, but it also proves, along with Ian Coyle's Edits Quarterly (which inspired its design), that you can make an online magazine that doesn't suck. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 1:59pm

Sony: Vita's 'Real Battle' Begins Now

Establishing the PlayStation Vita platform is Sony's "top priority," said Japan's game chief Hiroshi Kawano in a recently-published interview with Famitsu magazine. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 1:53pm

Supreme Court Lets Stand $675,000 File-Sharing Verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing verdict that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 11:06am

Alt Text: 5 Horrifying Combo Monsters for Syfy Creature Features

It's been nearly two years since Sharktopus premiered, which I think you'll agree is too long. In hopes of inspiring Syfy to pick up the pace and go beyond the upcoming hybrid horror Piranhaconda, I present the following six movie ideas. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads

Scott Widdowson is a specialist, one of 10 reverse-engineers working?full time?for a stealthy company?funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson.?Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a?single-minded mission: It examines successful?products, like routers and?smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products?infringe?on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks

Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in aviation history. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

5 Nuclear Sites That Could Launch War With Iran

This week, the U.S. and its allies will sit down with some of their arch-nemeses: the Iranians. Big, unresolved questions persist about Iran's nuclear program, which Iran swears exists just to produce peaceful nuclear energy. In particular, those questions primarily concern five installations that concern the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world's nuclear watchdog. And unless you're a nuclear wonk, you probably don't understand them. Here's a crib sheet. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

7 Social Networking Apps for When Facebook Jumps the Shark

Facebook fever is everywhere. If you need to escape, here are seven social networking apps you can use to fill the void. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

Nexus Smartphones: Who Wins, Who Loses if Google Launches Android 5.0 in Multiple Handsets?

This fall, Google is expected to release not one, but five Android 5.0 flagship phones, each running a pure, unadulterated version of the new OS. Who wins -- and who loses -- if this bold shift in policy comes to pass? Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

Laser Levels and Motion Capture Show Everything You Know About Bike Fit Is Wrong

Even from 20 yards away, Eddie Borysewicz knew from the arch of the rider?s back that his position was off. The famed coach, who led the U.S. squad to nine Olympic medals in 1984, ending a 72-year drought, didn?t need to take any measurements. He didn?t need any tools. He didn?t even need the rider ... Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 6:30am

GeekDad 2012 Father's Day Gift Guide

An Original Everlasting Gobstopper

One of two known to exist, this target of Slugworth's confectionary espionage is up on the auction block this summer. This Gobstopper was the sample given to Veruca Salt and comes with a notarized letter that certifies its authenticity. The sweet is from the collection of Julie Dawn Cole, who played Veruca, and is just one of many objects in this Willy Wonka specific auction.

Estimated cost: $20,000-30,000. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 2:59am

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 21

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 12:01am

Kevin Smith Riffs on Spoilers, His New Show for Movie Geeks

Kevin Smith likes to talk. He'll riff for hours on pretty much anything -- comics, farting, hockey, Bruce Willis, the general state of the internet -- but mostly he likes to talk about movies. A lot. With people. And with his new Hulu series, that's pretty much all he has to do. The master of the Star Wars reference talks at length about Spoilers, fandom and how the internet changed everything. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 21, 12:01am

Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Creates Ring of Fire

Join Wired Science for some live feeds of the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible today over eastern Asia and western North America. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 20, 5:30pm

A former pony-tailed student communist leading a rag-tag band of ex-Trotskyists, Maoists, champagne socialists and greens

*Given the state of things, it's a wonder that European "extremists" aren't a whole lot extremer than the likes of this guy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras

"I don't believe in heroes or saviours," says Alexis Tsipras, "but I do believe in fighting for rights ? no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of ... Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 20, 10:06am

The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator.

*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there's some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts.

*That's really a beautiful example of "cheap complexity" in 3d manufacturing.

The DIWire Bender
by PENSA! 2 weeks 3 days ago

"The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal ... Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 20, 5:36am

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 20

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 20, 12:01am

Stop the Tarbosaurus Auction!

A Tyrannosaur fossil suspected to have been smuggled from Mongolia is set to be auctioned May 20. Scientists want the fossil to be donated to science and say the sale would further fuel illegal looting of fossils. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 19, 1:01pm

Which of These Insane Stunt Crews Will Be the Jackass of the Future?

The trio of films from the Jackass crew has grossed more than $334 million globally (emphasis on grossed). But they haven't cornered the global market on smart-stupid stunts. There are plenty of insane clown posses eager for fame. Who's got the goods? Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 19, 8:30am

SpaceX Launch Aborted As Engine Ignition Begins

This morning?s scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed with less than a second remaining on the countdown clock due to higher-than-expected pressure in one of the rocket?s engines. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 19, 7:49am

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 19

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 19, 12:01am

Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again

The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 18, 8:08pm

Kickstarter of the Week: A Portable Scanner for Smartphones

Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isn't. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then there's the flash: on, it's too bright and washed out; off, it's dark and blurry. Read more...

Wired Top Stories, May 18, 8:05pm