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Vanish! How Wired Readers Caught Our Fugitive Writer
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In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility.
Shaggy to Bald: Evan's Daily Costume Change
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While on the run, Evan Ratliff snapped a self-portrait each day to document his constantly evolving appearance.
Stories From the Hunt for Evan Ratliff
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After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Why were they drawn to the hunt, what did they do and what did they learn?
Wired Tests Writer With Series of Bold Challenges
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With a week remaining in the hunt for Evan Ratliff, Wired decided to up the stakes with of five challenges hidden in New York Times crossword puzzles.
Delete Browser Cookies, Clean Up Your Trail of Crumbs
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The web is watching you, and it’s doing it using browser cookies — small snippets of tracking code. Do away with them to be free of watchers, and annoy the heck out of Big Brother too.
YouTube Blocks Non-Partner Device Syabas as Allegations Fly
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YouTube has begun enforcing a 16-month-old change in its terms of service that requires device manufacturers to become "strategy partners" in order to display YouTube videos on televisions.
Prosecutors Drop Plans to Appeal Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case
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Prosecutors have dropped any plans to appeal the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy criminal case.
World's Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
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A new 2-million-square-foot terminal at an Istanbul airport is the largest building in the world to sit on high-tech seismic isolators designed to help the building survive earthquakes intact.
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
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Dan Glickman, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, is complaining to Congress that those who don't support a proposed international intellectual-property treaty are "hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide."
Review: Angst-and-Fangs Formula Lacks Bite in 'New Moon'
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Action takes a back seat to moping in this Twilight sequel, a throwaway teen flick that gives vampire movies a bad name. Aside from the brooding bloodsuckers, New Moon also delivers a lousy message to fangirls swooning over the supernatural love story.
A Retro Design and Thoughtful Shots for Artsy Photographers
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Packaged in a brushed and polished metal casing, the Olympus E-P1 camera screams both brawn and retro chic. Overlook the lo-res LCD and instead appreciate this cam's top-notch stabilization abilities and tidy images.
Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS
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Google has some ambitious goals with its open source PC operating system Chrome OS. But we're not convinced consumers will be thrilled with the way the browser-based OS is being presented, so we make a modest proposal.
Make an Independent Movie on the Cheap
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Anyone with a camera phone and poor impulse control can be a YouTube star for 15 seconds. But what does it take to make a feature film that will get noticed by Hollywood?
Listen to 'World's First Twitter Album'
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Digital music students create a crowdsourced album within the 140-character confines of Twitter by writing short strings of code that can be translated into songs.
Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
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Malaria has begun showing troubling signs of developing resistance to artemisinin, which is currently the best available treatment for the disease.
VW Builds the World's Coolest SUV
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You need a tough truck to take on Dakar. VW delivers.
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
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A trove of e-mails stolen from a leading climate-research group in Britain has sparked an online debate over global warming data. Bloggers claim the e-mails reveal that scientists colluded and manipulated data to support global warming theories.
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
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Using DNA barcoding, scientists tested tuna at 31 sushi restaurants and discovered many of the restaurants were selling endangered species, or fish that wasn't tuna at all.
Wired Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize
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Nothing has done a better job of circumventing censorship, spreading democratic thought and promoting understanding between nations than the internet. Join Wired's global campaign to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to our beloved series of tubes.
IR Image Shows Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast
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Using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, astronomers have peered through the thick dust of the Centaurus A galaxy to reveal the leftovers of another galaxy it consumed.
10 Geeky Things to Be Thankful For
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While you are giving thanks for the important things in your life next Thursday, mull these 10 geeky things for which we all have reason to be grateful.
Military Video System Is Like YouTube With Artillery
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Making footage shareable and searchable online has sparked a revolution in the cute animal, stupid human and delicious tamale communities. New software just might mean a similar upgrade for military video intelligence: Think of it as a real-time YouTube with heavy artillery.
Nov. 20: 1984: SETI Seekers Find a Home
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The founding of the SETI Institute helps solidify the search for intelligent life in the universe.
How LED Tattoos Could Change Face of Humanity
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In Ray Bradbury’s book, The Illustrated Man, the title character is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story. New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course).
When Good Rockets Go Bad
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Watch video of six of the most spectacular and costly rocket explosions in history.
Microsoft Still Chasing the Competition With IE9
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Microsoft is touting advances due in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, answering the challenge of Firefox and Chrome. Sadly, IE9 doesn't look very competitive.
Flip Mino Wannabe Is a Catastrophe
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Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Not when that imitation takes horrific video with terrible sound. Meet the Memorex Mini camcorder, a pale and warped copy of the Flip Mino.
Hi-Def DSLRs May Be Cheap, But Talent Is Priceless
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Whatever happened to that indie film revolution the new generation of DSLRs was supposed to start? Turns out even cheap filmmaking isn't as easy as it looks.
Feds Charge 3 With Comcast.net Hijacking
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Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. As one of the culprits said last year, "This is going to be really bad."
Dung Fungus Prompts Rethinking of Mammoth Extinction
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Scientists studied a fungus that lived in the dung of mammoths and other large mammals to try to determine what caused them to go extinct 13,000 years ago.
