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If you're a MacBook Pro owner, then here's another reason to smile. Apple has designed the beautiful LED Cinema Display especially for you, complete with an extra 24 inches of viewing space, spare controls and striking performance.
Hardware
MacBook Pro
Apple
Kevin Baker digs up haunting historical scenarios for his mind-bending graphic novel. Loaded with vivid artwork and literary power, it's one of the year's best.
Other
A federal appeals court tosses a civil rights lawsuit brought by a Kentucky man who claims he became the victim of a "round-the-clock" government surveillance program after he dropped the "bomb" word to a Southwest Airlines ticket agent.
Other
Adults are fooled by a visual size illusion, but children see right through it, revealing that the brain develops the ability to understand visual context later.
Other
Your first line of defense against hackers is your password, so are you going to use the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage? Try something a little harder to break instead. After all, your accounts are only as secure as your passwords.
Other
Scientists have created a better code to send into space in hopes of reaching aliens. This time, they tried to make something the aliens might actually be able to interpret.
Other
Last year, the Pentagon's premiere research arm gave IBM nearly $5 million to make electronics that mimic the "function, size and power consumption" of a cat's brain. Now, a leading neuroscientist is blasting the result as a "scam" and a "hoax."
Hardware
IBM
The e-Power International Series joins MotoGP and other top-tier events on the FIM calendar next year.
Other
A new internet service provides instant online solar quotes, organizing would-be solar buyers into groups who get a collective bargain. The site addresses the soft, mushy costs of doing business that help make distributed solar power more expensive than fossil fuel power plants.
Other
The Epson Workforce is a printer and then some, quickly cranking out color prints, plus scanning and faxing with reliability. Bonus: networking features galore.
Hardware
Epson
A winning mix of fantastic settings and addictive play keeps Blizzard's ever-evolving online game at the top of the role-playing heap. With millions of players and a cataclysmic expansion coming in 2010, WoW 's future looks brighter than ever.
Gaming
World of Warcraft
Blizzard
A biologist researching trees in Africa discovers a new species of chameleon, thanks to a clumsy snake.
Other
In a stunning piece of astronomical news, the planet Sol III — better known as 'Earth' — has been completely obliterated. In connection with this sudden catastrophe, authorities have questioned a resident of neighboring planet Sol IV (Mars), who is known to have made threats against Earth in the ...
Other
News Corp hopes to delete its news articles from Google's search engine and put them on Microsoft's search engines instead, in return for payment. Although this represents a new option for funding journalism, the effort seems doomed to fail before it even gets off the ground.
Other
Microsoft
A second iPhone worm is in the wild, and unlike the jokey Australian worm authored by hacker prankster Ikee two weeks ago, this one is dangerous.
Other
Every geek knows of the 'international' standard known as the Smoot, but here are 11 other ways we measure things. And, believe me, we measure lots of things.
Other
You'll get different opinions on how many people fill a concert hall or attend a protest, depending who you ask. If you want to know the real number, you can calculate it yourself with some simple math.
Other
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.
