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Thomas Friedman RSS- Want the Good News First? July 27, 2010The Gulf Coast doesn’t look so bad on the surface. But it’s the unknowns that nobody is talking about.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- We’re Gonna Be Sorry July 24, 2010Congress’s failure to pass an energy/climate bill is bad news for all of us.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- What 7 Republicans Could Do for America July 21, 2010The stakes are high for getting an energy bill passed this year. What will it take for a compromise?By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- Can We Talk? July 18, 2010When CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs, we lost the voice of someone who knows the nuances of the region.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
- The Spies Who Loved Us July 14, 2010The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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- July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon July 29, 2010President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Tony Long
- Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle July 29, 2010Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales.Steven Levy
- Photoshop of Horrors: Readers Show BP How It's Done July 29, 2010We asked for your help to show BP how to improve upon their terribly Photoshopped oil-cleanup images, and you delivered some awesome images.Betsy Mason
- U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons July 29, 2010The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't AK-47s or grenades -- they're roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. Here’s how the U.S. military is fighting back.Adam Higginbotham
- Let the Little Guys Get In on Pre-IPO July 29, 2010The rich are adding to their millions with pre-IPO stock, but today's internet stock rockets are social networks built by their members -- so shouldn’t Regular Joes get a cut, too?Paul Boutin
- Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring July 28, 2010The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real-time -- and says it uses that information to predict the future.Noah Shachtman
- What's the Fastest and Best ISP in Your City? Look It Up Here July 28, 2010Rankings of the best and fastest ISPs in U.S. cities are now available, thanks to stats from Speedtest.net. And while the country is far from leading the world, the nation's tubes aren't nearly as bad as many suspect.Ryan Singel
- W3C's Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once July 28, 2010Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously.Michael Calore
- Court Says Privacy Advocate May Publish Social Security Numbers July 28, 2010A federal appeals court orders Virginia's attorney general to back away from threats of suing a woman for posting elected officials' Social Security numbers. The reason: The government published the private data first.David Kravets
- Making of a Meme: The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With Legs July 28, 2010A storm of Star Wars-themed jokes hit Twitter, mimicking WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of U.S. military memos. Only this stuff is funny. Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo shares techniques he used to get the #wookieeleaks hashtag to take off.Lewis Wallace
- Porsche Greenlights 918 Hybrid Supercar July 28, 2010With a zero-to-60 time around 3 seconds, a top speed of 198 mph and 78 mpg, it'll be the coolest hybrid none of us will ever drive.Chuck Squatriglia
- Wired.com Video: Is Comic-Con Still a Comic-Book Convention? July 28, 2010This year's Comic-Con International in San Diego marks the 41st year of a comic-book convention gone pop. Originally, Comic-Con consisted of a few nerds swapping comics, but now it's a multimillion-dollar event. Wired.com asks Grant Morrison, Thomas Jane and others how the convention has changed over the years.Wired.com Video
- Warming Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life July 28, 2010In two separate studies, researchers find that warming oceans lead to a massive decline in the amount of plant life in the sea over the last century. They say temperature is tightly linked to global patterns of marine biodiversity.Jess McNally
- Marsupial DNA Redraws Family Tree July 28, 2010Genetic evidence shows that a South American ancestor gave rise to all Australian marsupials, and that the South American opossums were the earliest group to branch off from the other six marsupial clans.Gwyneth Dickey
- Dark Dust Trails Form When Whirlwinds Suck Sand Grains Clean July 28, 2010The ephemeral dark trails left in desert sand by dust devils are produced when the whirlwinds blow tiny particles of lighter-colored silt and dust off larger sand grains, a new study shows.Sid Perkins
- Apple Updates Safari, Turns on Extensions July 28, 2010Safari 5.0.1 has been released. This version updates support for lightweight extensions, and Apple has launched a gallery featuring over 100 of them created by third parties.Michael Calore
- Wii Air Force: Will Gamer Gloves Help Fly Combat Jets? July 28, 2010Flipping switches and pulling throttles is so old. The Air Forces wants its new pilots to fly jets with electronics-packed gloves.Spencer Ackerman
- Letter From Silicon Valley: Doing the Math on Android vs. Apple July 28, 2010The fight between Google and Apple is not over phones: It's a software-platform war. The trouble with this horse race is that one horse's progress is measured in meters and the other in yards. The comparison between Android and the iPhone is meaningless.Fred Vogelstein
- High Performing Laptop Is Stuck Squarely in the Past July 28, 2010Meet the Ava Direct gaming rig, a notebook computer with modern components but with mid '00s styling and heft.Christopher Null
- @Twitter Users #Fail as Branding Automatons July 28, 2010Just about everything people say on Twitter is public, offering marketers a rare chance to listen in on what folks are saying about their brands, and to trumpet their messages to the masses. But Twitter users fail spectacularly when it comes to disseminating branding messages to each other.Eliot Van Buskirk
- July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon July 29, 2010
