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WIRED- Minister of Truth: Meet Britain's Top Data Cop March 11, 2010The U.K. Statistics Authority's Richard Alldritt is an expert in how governments fudge the numbers. He and his math-police squad are rooting out the truth, whether it's to reveal the real gender pay gap or the actual rate of knife crime.Mathew Honan
- March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style March 11, 2010A Connecticut telephone company starts the first local, public packet-switching network. It paves the way for the always-on internet access we know today.Ryan Singel
- Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show March 11, 2010Street Fighter gets bendy. Ms. Pac-Man hops a tandem bike. And plenty of other classic characters get similarly strange treatments in Giant Robot's videogame-inspired exhibit.Gus Mastrapa
- Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit March 10, 2010Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?"Ryan Singel
- Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics March 10, 2010With its heady mix of heavy themes and technology, The Dark Side of the Moon remains the best concept album ever, even 37 years after its release. Plus: 10 more concept albums in Dark Side's shadow that deserve a slice of the spotlight.Scott Thill
- 'Galactica: Sabotage' Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup March 10, 2010A YouTube artist whips up a precise, shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze's amazing music video using clips from the late, great Battlestar Galactica.Eliot Van Buskirk
- European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord March 10, 2010European Parliament is coming out in opposition to a U.S.-backed intellectual property treaty accord, and is demanding the treaty's secret text become public.David Kravets
- Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps March 10, 2010App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.Michael Calore
- Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes March 10, 2010The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple’s downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before.Eliot Van Buskirk
- Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon' March 10, 2010Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.John C Abell
- No-Fly List Includes the Dead March 10, 2010Even though people might be dying to get off the government's no-fly list, it includes names of the dead on purpose. Following the "Underwear Bomber" incident Christmas day the list has ballooned.Kim Zetter
- Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous March 10, 2010Hear a track from Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between the late Sparklehorse leader, David Lynch and Danger Mouse. Also on the podcast: more music from The Ferocious Few, Flying Lotus and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.Nick Veronin
- Big Designers Find Satisfaction in Small Games March 10, 2010Moving away from high-budget blockbusters to scaled-down treasures built by small teams proves enticing to veteran videogame developers. Part of the appeal: A nostalgic remembrance of the early days of game development.Chris Kohler
- Brain Scans Depict Damage From Gulf War Syndrome March 10, 2010A massive effort to understand Gulf War Syndrome finds physiological differences in the brains of healthy veterans and those suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.Janet Raloff, Science News
- Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Identity March 10, 2010Funky chickens that are half male and half female reveal a different biological system for gender determination.Brandon Keim
- Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound March 10, 2010Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality.Missy Schwartz
- iPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year March 10, 2010Microprocessor company ARM says there will be more than 50 new tablets launching worldwide to compete with the iPad.Brian X. Chen
- MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles March 10, 2010Strange name. Sexy bike. And it's headed for the racetrack.Dave Eyvazzadeh
- Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time? March 10, 2010This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider’s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.Nathan Hodge
- 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D March 10, 2010Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.Matt Blum
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- It’s Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck. March 10, 2010The elections were a good step forward, but now Iraq must prove that it wants a more democratic future.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- Dreaming the Possible Dream March 7, 2010Two innovators have defied the recession to shepherd clean-tech start-ups with the potential to be disruptive game changers.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- A Word From the Wise March 3, 2010A talk with the chief of Intel suggests that the U.S. needs to focus more on competitiveness in the global marketplace.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- How the G.O.P. Goes Green February 28, 2010Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is courageous in his stance on the country’s energy policy.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- OP-ED COLUMNIST; Iraq's Known Unknowns, Still Unknown February 24, 2010From the very beginning of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the effort to build some kind of democracy there, a simple but gnawing question has lurked in the background: Was Iraq the way Iraq was (a dictatorship) because Saddam was the way Saddam was, or was Saddam the way Saddam was because Iraq was the way Iraq was -- a collection of warring sects incapab […]By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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