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New Hope for Earthquake Detection With Airborne Radar

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California — The looming terror of an almost-certain catastrophic earthquake is simply a reality in many parts of the world – our hometown of San Francisco, for example. Scientists tell us it’s not a matter of if, but when. ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: NASA

Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 In Review

LAS VEGAS — Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other “computer enthusiasts” took over the Riviera last weekend for the world’s largest hacking ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network

If you're not yet registered with Wired.com, join now so you can share your thoughts and opinions. Password must be at least 6 characters. Please send me occasional e-mail updates about new features and special offers from Wired. Please send occasional ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  4 Aug 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

Hacking the DefCon 17 Badges

Several of the Defcon badges shown with an iPhone for scale. LAS VEGAS — For the last four years DefCon’s badges have been designed with circuit boards that attendees have been encouraged to hack as part of a contest. This year, the badge hackers were ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  4 Aug 2009

Defcon 17 Mystery Challenge

LAS VEGAS — One of the main tenants of hacking, to explore and understand complex systems, is the basis for one of Defcon’s most popular and difficult contests: The Defcon Mystery Challenge. For the last four years, Ryan “LostboY” Clarke has spent ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  4 Aug 2009

Exclusive Peek Inside Defcon’s High-Tech Badge

LAS VEGAS — Thousands of hackers, script-kiddies, feds and security professionals will be gathering at the Riviera Hotel and Casino this weekend for DefCon, the world’s largest hacker convention and they’ll all have one thing in common: Joe “Kingpin” ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Jeff Moss

Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover

PASADENA - Getting stuck is never fun, especially when you’re over 30 million miles from Earth. NASA’s Spirit rover is mired in dirt on Mars and now scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working hard to free the over-worked robot. Spirit ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  28 Jul 2009
Related Topics: NASA

Space 2.X: The Private Rocket Race Takes Off

HAWTHORNE, California – Building a successful startup in Silicon Valley is hard, but it’s not rocket science. Unless you’re SpaceX. Eschewing the traditional startup trappings of two college grads eating ramen, watching Adult Swim and coding until the ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  2 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Adult Swim,  Elon Musk,  WIRED Magazine,  NASA,  Google Inc.

Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Laser Light

LIVERMORE, California – It may look like one of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this mass of machinery could soon be the birthplace of a baby star right here on Earth. Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters, ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  5 May 2009
Related Topics: CERN,  WIRED Magazine

Blazing Bands, High Temps: Coachella 2009 in Pictures

Morrissey whips his microphone cable during his set at the Coachella music festival Friday. Photo: Dave Bullock (eecue)/Wired.com INDIO, California — Talk about a melting pot: Hipsters, goths, ex-hippies, punks and pretty much every other stereotypical ...

From DAVE BULLOCK, Wired,  21 Apr 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  The Killers (musician),  Leonard Cohen,  Henry Rollins,  Travis Barker

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