1. Qaeda Leader Targeted in Syria Raid: Report

    The primary target of the U.S. raid into Syria was a "senior leader" of Al Qaeda in Iraq's "extensive network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash" into the country, according to the Long War Journal. U.S. special operations hunter-killer...

    10.27.08 From Danger Room

  2. Former Game|Life Staffer Crafts Text Adventure

    To celebrate Halloween this year, former Game|Life contributor Susan Arendt has written a text adventure game, dubbed Phantom of the Arcade. As usual with the classic genre, the majority of the gameplay is essentially reading reams of text, though the...

    10.27.08 From Game | Life

  3. Obama Campaign Streams Closing Argument Online

    With just over a week left until Election Day, both presidential candidates are campaigning across the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania Monday, with Barack Obama scheduled to deliver what his campaign is labeling his "closing argument" in Canton, Ohio this morning. According to excerpts...

    10.27.08 From Threat Level

  4. The Awesome Cultural Power of WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART

    *This is scary. On my FlickR set, there are NINE (9) eager views of a snapshot of Regine Debatty *before I can even type a caption for her photograph.* How does she do that?

    10.27.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  5. Psychologist Warns Against Blaming Games

    Citing games as the key cause of childhood psychological dysfunction ignores larger, more pressing issues, according to Harvard psychologist Dr. Lawrence Kutner. "If you have a child doing anything obsessively, chances are there is something else going on," Kutner told...

    10.27.08 From Game | Life

  6. Not Everyone at IAC On Board With The Daily Beast

    Unlike most online publishers, Tina Brown's Daily Beast has the luxury of a huge backer willing to let her site find its voice before having to worry about pesky things like turning a profit. But today, in a profile of...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  7. Video: Gametrailers' Fallout Retrospective

    I'm quickly becoming a big fan of Gametrailers' retrospectives on classic gaming series, and this latest installment -- a timely look back on the Fallout series -- demonstrates exactly why. Not only does the clip detail all the reasons why...

    10.27.08 From Game | Life

  8. Kosmopolis Interview: Bruce Sterling

    ttp://www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/blog/?p=135 Link: Kosmopolis blog » Blog Archive » Entrevista - Interview: Bruce Sterling. Bruce Sterling, escriptor i editor i un dels pares del moviment cyberpunk, impartirà una conferència diumenge 26 d’octubre a les 18.30h al Hall Proteu titulada “Quan allò...

    10.27.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. 20 Killed in Deadly U.S. Drone Strike

    The U.S. military has been using killer drones to take out enemies for years. But those strikes have ordinarily targeted small groups, or lone individuals. Last night, an American pilotless plane reportedly killed 20 people during an attack on a...

    10.27.08 From Danger Room

  10. Study: Streaming Video Becoming More Mainstream

    The number of women and older adults streaming online video has increased significantly over the past six months, according to a new study from the global survey-based market research company Ipsos MediaCT. Since December 2007, the percentage of female Internet...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  1. Video: Facial Twitching Appears to Make Music

    Tokyo programmer, artist and turntablist Daito Manabe attaches electric controls to the face to trigger music samples using facial expressions, as shown by the video to the right. Some commenters on YouTube claim it's fake, but I'm buying it partly...

    10.27.08 From Listening Post

  2. Dell Mini Inspiron 12: Cheap, MacBook Air-Sized Netbook

    Dell has announced its new 12 inch netbook, the Inspiron Mini 12, and has promptly thrown into confusion the whole definition of the netbook. The not-so-Mini 12 is a curious machine: The size is very similar to that of Apple's...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  3. Microsoft May Get Out of the Advertising Business by 2010, Say Cowen Analysts

    If Microsoft doesn't purchase all of Yahoo or at least their search business by 2010, they'll be getting out of the online ad business, according to analysts at Cowen and Company. In a research note released today, analysts Kevin Kopelman...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  4. IPhone Apps Could Be the New MySpace Page

    Artists and labels have a new way to strengthen ties to fans and make them buy more music: mobile phone apps, which could be the new MySpace page. An iPhone app might seem like an awkward way to distribute music...

    10.27.08 From Listening Post

  5. Adam Koford Has a LOLCats Book Coming Out!

    We love the LOLCats, Adam Koford's wonderful cartoons where depression-era hobo felines act out the ridiculous memes of our post web 2.0 culture. And now, they're hitting the big time! The LOLCats Sell Out will be hitting the (virtual) bookshelves...

    10.27.08 From Geekdad

  6. Blackwater 2.0: Hired Guns on the High Seas

    Blackwater Worldwide President and CEO Erik Prince hit the talk show circuit yesterday to pitch his company's pirate-fighting expertise. The waters off the coast of Somalia have seen a surge in piracy, and Prince said Blackwater is now in 'active...

    10.27.08 From Danger Room

  7. Five for Fighting 10/27/08

    * Chanel gun heel * Spies heart Obama? * NASA scientists turning to India * Israeli Navy's new missile shield * Five weapons = extra $206 billion (High five: PJB)

    10.27.08 From Danger Room

  8. Germany Says "Nein" to Full Body Scanners

    In a pique of common sense, a German ministry spokeswoman has ridiculed EU plans to put full body scanners in European airports. At a press conference, she said this: I can tell you in all clarity that we will not...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Ad Network Martini Media Secures Series A Funding

    Martini Media, an ad network geared toward affluent consumers, has secured a first round of funding and scored a new CEO, Skip Brand. Brand comes to Martini Media from Pudding Media, where he was chief revenue officer. He also held...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  10. GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Monster Match

    This week the creatures of the night cut loose. Remember, email your solutions by 10:00 p.m. EST Thursday to be part of the random selection of correct answers and win a $50 gift code to ThinkGeek! All readers who check...

    10.27.08 From Geekdad

  1. Netflix Rolls Out ‘Watch Instantly’ for Macs

    A select few will now be able to watch Netflix movies instantly on their Macs using a new video player featuring Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The second generation player is initially only being rolled out to a small percentage of users...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  2. Jewel-Like Luxe MP3 Player Pairs With Cellphones

    Right now, it's almost pointless to go up against the iPod with any regular kind of MP3 player, which is why even Philips has decided to follow the novelty route. The Luxe looks like a piece of Kryptonite, as imagined...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  3. World Markets Tumble on Last Monday in October

    Last week was an ugly on stock markets, but not as terrifying it might have been. Still, none of the factors driving the sell-off has changed, and markets in Asia and Europe tumbled again today. U.S. stock index futures are...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  4. Start-Ups Slow Down to Survive the Downturn

    With the economy faltering and ad dollars shrinking, more and more companies are going into survival mode, hoping that preemptive cutbacks now will prevent systemic implosions later, according to The New York Times. Worried about the prospects of raising funding...

    10.27.08 From Epicenter

  5. GeekDad Pumpkin Contest Prizes

    The other day we announced the next GeekDad contest. Today we bring you the prizes. First Prize - a print edition of Kobold Quarterly, Uncle Milton's Space Explorer Pack (Solar System in my Room), a Magic the Gathering book and...

    10.27.08 From Geekdad

  6. Australian Perpetual Motion Machine Runs on Snake Oil

    The perfect start to the week -- watch the reporters at Sky News Australia being gratefully hoodwinked by a rather earnest chap with an old motor and a few magnets. This is yet another take on the perpetual motion engine,...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  7. Netflix Movie Streaming Arrives on Macs

    Netflix' "Watch Instantly" service has – at last – come to the Mac. What has taken so long? DRM. The "second generation" of the movie streaming service, which has begun a very slow rollout to some customers, uses Microsoft's Silverlight...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  8. Google Earth Comes to the iPhone

    Google Earth. On the iPhone. That is, I would imagine, all you need to know to send you careening off to the App Store, from where you can grab the free download of Google's Aerial Opus. What's surprising about this...

    10.27.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Werewolf of London, or Just Missed Out on the Darwin Award

    I'm not sure whether to file this one under Bad Dad or Halloween, but it pretty much works with either. Just don't try this at home and leave it at that. I was flipping through some old photo albums and...

    10.27.08 From Geekdad

  10. Nottingham, World Design Capital

    (((I applaud Nottingham's gusto here, but my immediate response is a thought of weird parody where Robin Hood runs a guerrilla-marketing Web 2.1 startup and clads all his merrie men in Lincoln green lycra.))) http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g16127.html Link: Nottingham Aspires to Be...

    10.27.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Wheels up on the tarmac

    *Leaving Barcelona, bound for Amsterdam. *I have a positive feeling after doing KOSMOPOLIS, I feel like sitting in a solemn, thoughtful corner and absorbing literary classics. It sure beats watching the former masters of the universe immolating their global holdings...

    10.27.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  2. 'Children in Need' to Reveal Who Xmas Special

    British sci-fi fans are going to get two Doctors for Christmas as David Tennant's Doctor Who incarnation #10 meets an 11th in the BBC Christmas special, "The Next Doctor." This year's Children in Need telethon will feature the first two...

    10.27.08 From The Underwire

  3. Car Choice Predicts Presidential Preference

    Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another way of predicting what might happen less than nine days from today, last week Kelley Blue Book (KBB) Marketing Research announced a poll of car-owning likely voters. If rising sales of...

    10.26.08 From Autopia

  4. 'They Saved Hitler's Brain' for a Musical

    You may think you have everything you need what with your iPhone and your hybrid and your hula-hoops. But you have yet to receive the pleasure only a staged musical based on the 1963 cinematic masterpiece, They Saved Hitler's Brain...

    10.26.08 From The Underwire

  5. U.S. Stages Raid Inside Syria?

    The Syrian press is claiming U.S. forces launched a helicopter raid inside Syrian territory today. Ruh roh! SANA, the country's state-run news agency, said four US military helicopters 'violated Syrian airspace' at 4:45 p.m. local time. The report further claims...

    10.26.08 From Danger Room

  6. Guitar Hero World Tour Unboxing Pictures

    Perhaps the biggest sign of an all-geek family: we had GH4, aka Guitar Hero World Tour, pre-ordered; and it was the GeekMom who was the impetus behind it. Indeed, it was she who went down to GameStop at 9am this...

    10.26.08 From Geekdad

  7. Video: Guitar Hero Drafts Kobe, Hawk, Arod, Phelps

    Activision's world-beating music social Guitar Hero needs no powerhouse celebrities to lip-sync its virtues. But the gamer empire is probably so flush with cash these days that signing Kobe Bryant, Tony Hawk, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Phelps to spread its...

    10.26.08 From Listening Post

  8. Awesomely Bad Defense Trinkets, Part II

    Earlier this week, I posted a few excellent pieces of defense swag, including a Hawaiian shirt with an AH-64 Apache helicopter motif; a cuddly hand puppet advertising mine-resistant vehicles; and a mug from the government's top-secret Mount Weather facility. DANGER...

    10.26.08 From Danger Room

  9. Halloween + Air & Space Museum = Awesome!

    One of my kids' favorite museums is the National Air & Space Museum's annex near Dulles Airport. And, like most kids in the U.S. under 15, one of their favorite holidays is Halloween. Last night, at an annual event called...

    10.26.08 From Geekdad

  10. One month after Ike

    *Stoically limping back into business. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/12/1012ikemonth.html Link: One month after Ike, Texas still has signs of destruction, but recovery moving forward. GALVESTON — A month later, piles of sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in this island...

    10.26.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Great World Wide Star Count

    Do you live in a heavily populated area? Have your kids ever seen the Milky Way? A project to map the amount of light pollution around the world is asking "citizen scientists" to step outside and count the stars. The...

    10.26.08 From Geekdad

  2. Meanwhile, in Ljubljana

    Festival / HAIP 08 / / hack / act / interact / progress / 3rd International Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies November 3rd - 11th, 2008 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.haip.cc/ From November 3rd until 11th 2008 the third biennal festival HAIP...

    10.26.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  3. Buckypaper

    http://www.technologyreview.com/wire/21580/?nlid=1441&a;=f Link: Technology Review: Future planes, cars may be made of 'buckypaper'. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could...

    10.26.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  4. Gadget Lab Podcast #51: Apple Takes a Bite Out of the Industry With New Macbooks and Deep Pockets

    In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Audio Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Brian Chen, and I talk about the lightning fast and sexy-looking new Macbooks, as well as Apple's surprising financial quarterly report. In addition, we put the seemingly tepid launch of...

    10.26.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. Brainy Robots To Lead To Longer Unemployment Lines?

    Robot lovers and outsourcing opponents could soon have something in common: the fear that their jobs are at stake. In the future robots will take over many tasks performed by American workers today potentially leading to increased unemployment, says Marshall...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  6. October Rocks: R.I.P. Gravediggaz

    Listening Post is back with scary Halloween sonics for your inner ear. This time, we bow down to Gravediggaz, the underrated supergroup featuring Wu-Tang Clan architect RZA, legendary producer Prince Paul and fearsome rappers Frukwan and the late Too Poetic....

    10.25.08 From Listening Post

  7. Expectation of Machine Intelligence Could Change Social Behavior, Says Economist

    As computers get smarter machines could become more intelligent than humans within a few decades, leading to an event dubbed the Singularity. Technologists are still debating the possibility but what if just enough people believed it is likely? Whether the...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  8. Manual labor as manual leisure, or, the street finds its own uses for things

    http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2008/10/reflections-on.html Link: Relevant History: Reflections on tinkering. (...) Tinkering isn't so much a specific set of technical skills: there tends to be a pretty instrumental view of knowledge. You pick up just enough knowledge about electronics, textiles, metals, programming, or...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. Space Is The Next Frontier for Esther Dyson

    If you have a couple million dollars, are a technology visionary and wondering what your next challenge will be? Consider a chance to take a spin around the earth. Technology heavyweights are fast queuing up for an opportunity to blast...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  10. Rock Daddy Rock Giveaway Reminder

    This is just a gentle reminder that we'll be giving away two free copies of Rock Daddy Rock's silly short songs for silly short people to a pair of GeekDad readers. To enter, simply add a comment to the album...

    10.25.08 From Geekdad

  1. Spy Pigeons Circle the World

    This week's report that Iran had found "spy pigeons" near one of its nuclear faculties looked ridiculous. The very idea of using pigeons for intelligence gathering is obviously crazy. But is it crazy enough to be true? Attaching instrumentation to...

    10.25.08 From Danger Room

  2. Five for Fighting 10/25/08

    * Navy officer guilty of illegal laser sales * Killer robot fashion * NSA spy report buried * Yemen's secret dungeons * "Marrying a pirate is every girl's dream"

    10.25.08 From Danger Room

  3. Astonishing Pictures of Saturn's Moon Enceladus

    The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for several years, and in that time has had a number of close flybys of Enceladus, one of Saturn's many moons. Boston.com published 26 amazing photographs taken during these flybys, and some of...

    10.25.08 From Geekdad

  4. Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature

    Haeckel_Kunstformen_100.jpg Originally uploaded by EricGjerde *Wow, looks like the guy put the entire book in FlickR. Terrific resource.

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  5. Bison Return to Iowa

    (((Perhaps they'll outlive the endangered American voter.))) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2008/2008-10-20-095.asp Link: Bison Return to Iowa's Native Prairie. (...) "These animals will be in the corral for the first week, then in the west half of the trap pasture, then have access to...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  6. Richard Garriott back from outer space, fresh and ready to go

    http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/EU_Russia_US_Space.html Link: Russians, plus American tourist, return from space. Russians, plus American tourist, return from space By STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press Writer MOSCOW — Soon after he touched down Friday, American space tourist Richard Garriott got a pat on the...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  7. Click On Nothing, Get a Worm Anyway

    (((It's been a while since we had a real bust-down-the-house kind of global worm, but a nonclickable worm oughta do it.))) TOP OF THE NEWS --Microsoft Issues Out-of-Cycle Patch (October 22 & 23, 2008) Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle patch...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  8. Meanwhile, at the Evangelical Vatican

    http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2008/10/Praying-for-Sarah-Palin.html "Colorado Springs is what Sarah Palin would call one of the "pro-American areas of the nation." This mile-high city in the shadow of Pike's Peak is home to several key military sites, including the US Air Force Academy and...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. Doctor Who Comics Make Comeback in Print, DVDs

    Doctor Who comics of the past, present and future are making a comeback. (He's a time traveler. He can do that sort of thing.) Throughout the show's 45 year history, Doctor Who has been a powerful multimedia presence. Whether appearing...

    10.25.08 From The Underwire

  10. EMI Badly Wounded, Bleeds Over a Billion

    If Radiohead, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and other popular artists hadn't already left it for dead, we'd almost feel bad for EMI, one of Earth's four major labels left alive. In truth, EMI might have asked for it, after...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  1. MadWorld's Box Art: Hot or Not?

    Here's the box art for Sega's upcoming ultraviolent Wii game, MadWorld. What do you think -- a perfect representation of the game's stark visual style? Or is it just a bit too literal? Plenty violent, or not violent enough? MadWorld...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  2. Video: How to Prepare for Analog-TV Doomsday

    About a week ago we reported on a survey that said 10 million U.S. households are not properly equipped for the full transition to digital TV. The hilarious video above seems to be targeted at those very people. That's a...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  3. Nextar Previews New GPS System at Las Vegas Auto Gear Show

    While most people will be glued to the television on November 4th to finally figure out the end result of the crazy U.S. election (after voting, of course), auto aficionados will be checking out the latest car gear at the...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  4. Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter

    Everything in our universe is made of matter, but a century of physics has revealed that at the beginning of time, an exactly equal amount of antimatter existed. Then, two seconds after the Big Bang, something changed and suddenly there...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  5. YouTube Co-Founder Opposes Ratings System

    Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, doesn't want the responsibility of babysitting other people's children online. Asked by the Times of London about the lack of "prior warning" small children receive before potentially accessing violent or sexual content, Hurley argued that...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  6. Olfactory Hack Tricks Worms Into Living Longer

    It's the ultimate fad diet: smell less to live longer! The possibility is raised by new research on roundworms who lived extra-long when deprived of their sense of smell. The longevity benefit was comparable to that produced by caloric restriction,...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  7. Hypnosis Lets Regular People See Numbers as Colors

    Psychologists have used hypnosis to give people the ability to see numbers as colors. That form of synesthesia is naturally possessed by roughly one in 1,000 people, among them such historical luminaries as physicist Richard Feynman and writer Vladimir Nabokov,...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  8. Fed Blotter: Pedophile's Online Sock Puppets Included Fake Johnny Depp

    A 46-year-old man who posed online as Johnny Depp and three other people in the hope of seducing a 14-year-old girl will live out the next quarter-century under a new, fifth identity: federal inmate number 09073-030. Using the persona Modelman_Matthew2006, a handsome 19-year-old male, Graeme...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  9. Wisconsin Court Rejects Lawsuit Challenging New Voters; AG Vows to Appeal

    A lawsuit filed in Wisconsin against a state board that oversees elections was dismissed by a circuit judge on Thursday. But the state's attorney general who filed the suit vowed to appeal and may take the case to the state Supreme Court. The suit, filed...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  10. 'Father of the MP3' Teaches Machines to Parse Music

    Mufin, the latest music-recommendation engine, is going to tell you what to listen to, and it doesn't care what you think. Computers have been telling us what to listen to for years -- at least since Amazon first told us...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  1. The Watch List is Short, But Is It Useful?

    There are 250 Americans on the No-Fly list. That's the good news. The bad news? There's 250 people in America who the federal government believes are too dangerous to let onto a plane, but who aren't dangerous enough to arrest. There are fewer than 20,000...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  2. Hellgate: London Closing in January

    Hellgate: London, Namco Bandai's troubled MMO, will be closing its doors on January 31, 2009. Until that time, the firm will offer "server support free of charge to all fans and players of the game." This closure follows a string...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  3. Product Reviews: 40-inch TVs You Need To Know About Now

    Sony Bravia KDL-46W4100 Sony's LCD 46er aced our processing-evaluation gauntlet, cleanly displaying all SD and HD video we fed it — even film-style 24-frame-per-second sources. Toss in stunning, accurate color and this LCD rendered our test Blu-ray — Spider-Man 3...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  4. Geek Proposes With iPhone, Succeeds

    Antelope, California resident Dan Deeble proposed to his girlfriend with an iPhone this week -- and it worked. As dorky as that may sound, it wasn't something impersonal like sending a text message or lame like writing an e-mail. According...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. E For All 2009 Officially Canceled

    To the surprise of very few, the E For All gaming conference will not return next year, and may be permanently canceled. "Unfortunately, E for All will not be occurring in 2009, as our focus now turns to E3," a...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  6. Trophies Coming to Grand Theft Auto IV

    An upcoming update for the PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV will add support for Trophies, Sony's iteration of the Xbox 360's Achievement system. The update, which will hit the PlayStation Network on October 27, will bring with...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  7. Disposable Phone Maker Hops on to Google Android

    Just days after the first Google-powered handset hit stores, disposable phone maker Hop-on announced its Android phone is on the way, too. Scarce with details, Hop-on said in a press release that it expects to launch its Android-powered phone at...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  8. Johnny Cash Surgically Remixed by Snoop, More

    The Man in Black was a badass for sure. But can he withstand sonic recombination from the likes of Snoop Dogg? We'll find out in January 2009, when Johnny Cash Remixed drops. Featuring several Cash classics squeezed through the various...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  9. Dutch Teens Sentenced for Virtual Theft

    Two teens have been convicted by a Dutch court of coercing a younger boy into transferring items to their account within the Runescape virtual world, reports the Associated Press. "These virtual goods are goods (under Dutch law), so this is...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  10. Takei Takes a Swat at Shatner's YouTube 'Silliness'

    Star Trek actor George Takei describes as "silliness" William Shatner's recent YouTube clip claiming a snub over a wedding invitation. "It is absolutely baffling to us, because, in fact, we did invite Bill, and we didn't hear from him," Takei...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  1. Spy Cam Hides Inside an ID Card

    Brando's Spy Pass Card Micro Camera can capture still images, video and audio -- and while it looks pretty sneaky, the part that reads "ID CARD" might give you away. I don't know about you, but I've never received an...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  2. Blu-ray Is Winning Over the Ladies

    Blu-ray is mostly a guy thing, but the high-definition DVD format is making inroads with women, mainly because they're more susceptible to in-store sales pitches, according to NPD, a market research firm (via VideoBusiness.com). "Salespeople are apparently doing a better...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  3. No One Knows How Many Iraqis are On Duty

    In 2004 and 2005, the Bush administration caught hell for their constantly-changing figures of how many Iraqi cops and soldiers could be counted on to share the burden with U.S. forces. "Over the past 18 months," the Christian Science Monitor...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  4. Scorned Gamer Jailed After Vengeful Deletion

    A 43-year-old Japanese woman was arrested after deleting her virtual ex-husband's Maple Story avatar in an apparent act of retaliation following the couple's online divorce. The unnamed woman faces hacking charges and if convicted could serve a prison term of...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  5. YouTube Ventures Offline For First Live Event

    YouTube's most popular content creators are going offline -- for an evening of musical acts, comedy sketches and screenings. Dubbed YouTube Live, the one-night only showcase will feature performances by rapper Soulja Boy, Sarah Palin-spoofing vlogger LisaNova, masked martial artist...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  6. Review: Addictive Spelunking in Master of the Monster Lair

    Sometimes the most ill-fitting, quirky themes make for the most enjoyable games. Take Master of the Monster Lair, for instance. This is a Nintendo DS game in which you're tasked with digging elaborate holes in the ground and filling them...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  7. Saw's Gory Gadgets Catapult Creator Into Director's Chair

    Even though he hails from Canada, the land of polite people, Toronto-based filmmaker David Hackl says: "I'm not that nice." Which would explain the former child inventor's weird genius for devising deadly traps used in the grisly Saw horror flicks....

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  8. New Cheap Wii Accessories Land Near an Economy-Crippled Home Near You

    Two new Wii accessories are being released this month that are sure to end up in hundreds of Santa wish lists this Christmas, one a glowing jedi-like saber attachment and the other a jolly gun trigger. So when the kids...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Judge Rejects 'Making Available' Defense, Orders Teen File Sharer to Pay RIAA $7,400

    A federal judge is ordering a Texas college student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $7,400 to settle copyright infringement allegations involving her use of the peer-to-peer file sharing network Kazaa when she was a juvenile. The decision contradicts last month's mistrial ruling...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  10. How AT&T; Became Apple's Lap Dog

    It's hard to believe that AT&T; was once the largest, most powerful telephone company in the world. Now it's basically a glorified wireless carrier whose future depends on a precious, niche customer base. Not that it's a bad business. Last...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  1. Tweets Give Race-Baiting Hoaxster a 'B' for Effort

    Thanks to an unattended Twitter widget, a website intended to promote the work of 50 young Republican volunteers became an unwitting showcase for the mockery of one group member Friday, when it emerged that the volunteer faked a macabre attack on herself and tried to...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  2. Superbowl Ads Sacked by the Economy

    The television ad market in 2008 was buoyed by ad spend during the Olympics and in the lead up to the presidential election, but marquee events in 2009 aren't looking so dependable. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has already seen a...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  3. Robots Hunt 'Non-Cooperative Humans' in Army Plan

    Pagey calls it "trouser-moisteningly terrifying news." The Army is looking to develop software and hardware that will let packs of robots chase down "non-cooperative human subject[s]." The machine team would be 3-5 'bots, each about 220 pounds, led by a...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  4. Bethesda Expects New Fallout in 3 Years

    Bethesda's Fallout 3 isn't even out yet, and already there's talk of when a sequel could show up -- and it's sooner than you think. Fallout executive producer Todd Howard told Reuters that "it's good for people to miss things,"...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  5. Downloadable Card Games, The Latest Console Craze

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    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  6. Sticker Picture Girls Pack Heat in Japan

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    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  7. Kindle Is Oprah’s 'New Favorite Thing in the World'

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    10.24.08 From Epicenter

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    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Atari's Phil Harrison: Game Development Should Be Cheaper

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    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  10. Dragon Quest IX Playable at 'Jump Festa' Event

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    10.24.08 From Game | Life
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