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Tesla's Roadster Sport Zips the Light Fantastic

3 hours 12 min ago
Zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. 80 mph feels more like 50. Grips roads like a junkie to a crack pipe. This is what it's like to drive the Tesla Sport Roadster.


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Bad Magic Comic <cite>Mysterius</cite> Makes Good Tech Satire

3 hours 42 min ago
Magic and tech in the 21st century combine in Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler's hilarious comic Mysterius, released this week as a paperback collection from DC's Wildstorm imprint.


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Artists Get Their Geek On to Celebrate Yuri's Night

3 hours 42 min ago
A group of Washington, D.C., artists create outer space-inspired art in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut.


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Lenovo Ultralight Combines High-Grade Looks, Low-Octane Performance

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 10:00pm
It takes a lot to build a thin and light notebook with such a low price tag. The only sacrifice the X100e makes is executive-level power.


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SXSW: Scenes From a Musical Madhouse

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:55pm
Thousands of shows turn Austin into a giant musical maelstrom each year during the South by Southwest festival. See photos of bands that performed Thursday, including Ringo Deathstarr, Weekend and The Happy Hollows.


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6 Cars So Alluring They're in an Art Museum

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:40pm
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta launches an exhibition celebrating the beauty of the automobile.


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iPad Developers Code Their Apps in the Dark

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:10pm
Apple's iPad is set to launch April 3, but most developers making apps for the device haven't even touched it.


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Rich Get Richer in 'Hot News' Stock-Tip Fight

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:07pm
The rich are getting richer by a federal judge ruling that a financial news site must delay broadcasting buy-and-sell research to enable the major banks and their wealthy clients to profit from that research.


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Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really)

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:00pm
Two coprolites, the scientific name for fossilized feces, have been discovered with shark bite marks in them. How'd that happen? Scientists think they've got an answer.


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Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:00pm
The Large Hadron Collider broke its own energy record in the wee hours of the morning in Switzerland today.


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Lucasfilm's 'The Clone Wars' Best Political Cartoon Ever?

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 6:50pm
The dark second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars wraps with a three-week stand starting Friday night.


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Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 5:17pm
Prosecutors dispute a defense claim that 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez suffers from Asperger's disorder, and ask federal judges to throw the book at the former Secret Service informant turned mass identity thief.


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Scenarios: What's Next for Google's Operations in China?

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 2:22pm
Two months after Google shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two sides refuse to back down. Following are the possible paths the world’s largest search company could take -- and the possible reactions from Beijing.


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The Jackson 5 Appear at SXSW ... as an iPhone App

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 2:09pm
Zooz Mobile's new $5 app comes with remixable stems for five of the band's classic songs. Bonus: Buyers can win up to $1,500 in a remix contest.


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SXSW: 'Reverse Karaoke' App Turns Bad Singing Into Good Songs

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 11:00am
LaDiDa takes even the worst vocal performance and sweetens it, then instantly creates full-band backing tracks in a variety of musical styles. The end result is a batch of DIY songs that sound pretty amazing.


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Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 4:48am
The transportation secretary makes it clear when he says, "This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."


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March 19, 1979: House Proceedings Air Live on C-SPAN

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 4:00am
A new cable network creates transparency in the House of Representatives' proceedings, broadcasting to 3.5 million households.


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How I Survived My SXSW Keynote Interview

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:00am
Twitter has taken out South by Southwest presenters in the past, leading to very public — and very embarrassing — onstage meltdowns. Here's how you can avoid a similar disaster.


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Alt Text: 'Final Fantasy,' Then and Now

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:00am
What's new in the latest installment of the venerable RPG franchise? Oh, only just about everything. A look back at Final Fantasy's fantastic roots and the current state of affairs in Pulse and Cocoon.


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Review: Squishy 'Repo Men' Sticks Shiv in Organ-Extraction Action

Thu, 18/03/2010 - 10:02pm
Even with Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and a perfect sci-fi setup, this movie sputters a bit in the middle, and the whole bloody affair suffers from a lack of black humor. But that's one hell of a knife fight that first-time director Miguel Sapochnik pulls out of his bag of tricks.


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