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Tesla Pays Off All $465M in Federal Loans 9 Years Early
Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule.
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Special Feature | Confusion Ruled the Day at Microsoft’s Xbox One Reveal Event
Everyone was putting on a cheery face and plenty of back-slapping was going around, but there was no mistaking the feeling that the company was about to take a big gamble.
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Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account
Twitter just announced that it’s launched two-factor authentication for accounts. Two-factor authentication uses your password and an additional method to verify your identity. Google’s two-factor authentication, launched in 2010, texts a code to your mobile number when a new device ...
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Watch 3-D Printed Shotgun Slugs Blow Away Their Targets
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Review: Phorus Play-Fi Wireless Speaker System
This new 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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Special Feature | Q&A: Microsoft Veep Phil Harrison Talks Xbox One, Used Games, Always-On and...
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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Navy's High-Flying Spy Drone Completes Its First Flight
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Zite Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader
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Adorably Chubby Mini-Spider Species Discovered in China
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Zite App Update Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader
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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How Disney and Threadless Built a 200K-Person Design Team
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FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bomb Suspect
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Special Feature | The Funny, Occasionally Dirty, Hidden Messages in Your Favorite Games
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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What’s Inside: Golf Balls
Cis-1,4-Polybutadiene It’s rubber with a memory. This polymer’s chain of repeating units are cis-linked-connected on the same side of a carbon-carbon double bond. Once molded into a shape (like a ball), the material returns to that shape whenever it gets ...
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New Speaker Lets You Stream ‘Play-Fi’ Wireless Audio From Android
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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New Speaker Lets You Stream 'Play-Fi' Wireless Audio From Android
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BMW Guggenheim Lab Maps the Trends Shaping Our Cities
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4 Questions Obama's Big National Security Speech Should Answer
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This Thrift Shop Junky Wears Your Grandpa's Clothes
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Congress Smashes Pentagon's New Den of Spies
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Steven Spielberg Working on Live-Action Halo Series for Xbox
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After Apple's Tax Grilling, It's Time for Tech to Shape Up
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Pump Up the Jams With NuForce's Mobile Music Pump
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