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Seminal 70s Environmental TV Series Now Online	3/17/2010 2:10 PM
The first television series with an "environmentalist" bent, Our Vanishing Wilderness, is available online in all its strange, groovy, apocalyptic glory.
GM Makes Your Entire Windshield a Head-Up Display	3/17/2010 1:21 PM
The General's latest science project makes the entire windshield a monitor and you a safer driver.
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely	3/17/2010 12:52 PM
A former employee of an Austin, Texas, auto dealership is charged with computer intrusion, after a web-based vehicle-immobilization system is used to kill at least 100 cars and trigger their horns honking out of control.
Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook 'Beacon' Accord	3/17/2010 12:18 PM
A federal judge is approving a $9.5 million settlement requiring Facebook to spend more than $6 million funding online privacy studies amid accusations its now-defunct "Beacon" program illegally publicized video rentals and other purchases made by Facebook's millions of members. Lawyers who brought the case stand to earn about $3 million.
Quantum Physics Used to Control Mechanical System	3/17/2010 11:11 AM
Quantum physics is always being demonstrated at the atomic level; but what about making it work in something that's visible to the naked eye? Now scientists have.
Google's Traffic Is Giant, Which Is Why It Should be Your ISP	3/17/2010 8:17 AM
Everybody knows Google is one of the net’s big kids, but how big is it exactly? Well, as Arbor Networks measures it, if Google were an ISP it would be the third largest in the world and the fastest growing — if you are measuring the amount of traffic passed from its network to another.
SXSauced: Sinfully Good Cocktails at Péché	3/17/2010 5:00 AM
At the Austin absinthe bar, drinks come with a tasty back story.
Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras	3/16/2010 10:57 PM
The Pentagon's risk-taking research agency wants a "smart camera" that can report back on war-zone activity with the same detail a trained human operative could offer.
March 17, 1953: The Black Box Is Born	3/16/2010 10:00 PM
An Australian researcher invents an essential tool for identifying the causes of an airplane crash.
How to Get on a Reality Show	3/16/2010 10:00 PM
The casting director of Amazing Grace and Survivor tells Wired what it takes to get a role in reality TV.