For most, Star Wars was about a band of rebels standing up to a totalitarian regime, but for others it was all about Luke Skywalker's pants, apparently.
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Twitter just announced that it?s launched two-factor authentication for accounts.
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Everyone knows about 3-D printed guns. Now a hobbyist from Tennessee has created 3-D printed shotgun slugs. Then his friend blasted away.
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Wired sat down with Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison to get some answers about Xbox One's still-murky feature set.
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This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once.
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Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a mm long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and were described on May 21 in the journal ZooKeys.
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With just a few weeks to go until the release of Man of Steel, Warner Bros. has unleashed an action-packed new trailer to hype their Superman summer flick.
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For those of you bemoaning the demise of Google Reader, fear not. Zite, the personalized news app, has stepped up to fill its place. At least partially.
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An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a deadly and unclear turn early this morning.
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Designers love creating homages to their favorite Disney characters (e.g., turning the iconic princesses into zombies and hipsters), but if they ever tried to sell those designs they would be faced with a foe scarier than Cruella de Vil ? Disney's legal department.
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Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment on Airbnb was violating the state's occupancy code. The decision isn't the first time that city and state laws in New York have stymied the so-called sharing economy.
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The new Phorus speaker system provides multi-room wireless audio streaming over Wi-Fi. It uses the new Android-based Play-Fi lossless streaming protocol.
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Wired talked with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz about how bringing the Bluths to Netflix allowed him to do things that never would have been possible on network TV.
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You can think of it as an ATM for Bitcoins. For a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, the Robocoin machine dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world's most popular digital currency. The two brothers who built the thing -- Mark and John Russell, of Las Vegas -- are still trying to figure out what to do with this contraption. But one thing's certain: They don't want to operate it on their own. Mark Russell isn't even sure if it's legal.
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By all rights, Star Trek Into Darkness should be a really good movie. The acting is superb. The core cast established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in 2009, and they've only gotten better. Unfortunately, Into Darkness is wrestling with way, way too much story for one movie.
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Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.
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Many a game designer has left messages etched permanently in the data of our games, buried deep within the code and not intended to be seen by us.
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The BMW Guggenheim Lab released today their full list of urban trends gleaned from almost six months' worth of workshops held in Mumbai, Berlin, and New York City.
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Caleb Cole loves used clothing. His mom used to take him to thrift shops and yard sales long before Brooklyn hipsters and Macklemore made it cool. Over the years he's come across some amazing vintage goods and always wondered about the original owners. Who were they? What did their lives look like?
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If the Pentagon's not careful, it's going to find its new network of spies rolled up by Congress.
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If you're looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won't cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce's new Mobile Music Pump.
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Apple's senate testimony on tax avoidance shows that tech companies are being held to a higher standard. They have only themselves to blame.
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During today's unveiling of the new Xbox One, Microsoft announced that legendary director Steven Spielberg would be working on a new live-action Halo show.
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San Francisco serves, in Star Trek?s fictional universe, as the site of Starfleet Command ? the headquarters of the good guys ? and despite all the time they spend boldly going where no one has gone before, the Enterprise and its sister ships make it back home surprisingly often.
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Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards.
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