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Artifacts From the Future: Child Safety Device

We'll continue to create a new Artifacts From the Future in each upcoming issue of Wired magazine, but we'd like to see your prognostications, too. What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? Each month, we'll propose a scenario ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, Wired,  25 Mar 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

Editor's note: This article will appear in Wired magazine's April issue, on sale March 24, 2009. It is being published online now because the subject of the story, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was released from prison in Belgium this week. Leonardo ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, Wired,  11 Mar 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  Rolex

Atari Founder's Bistro Swaps Touchscreens for Waiters (Sort Of)

I scan the room. No arcade games. No man-sized rats in ball caps. This restaurant isn't what I expected from a Nolan Bushnell eatery. In fact, uWink—the latest dining concept from the man who founded both Chuck E. Cheese's and Atari—is filled with ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, Wired,  10 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Nolan Bushnell,  Google Inc.

Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web

In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, Wired,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Darth Vader,  Michael Flatley,  Microsoft Corporation

Six Arrested in Metro Farecard Scam

The suspects are accused of trading in counterfeit paper farecards to Metro farecare machines in order to receive legitimate ones, or adding the phony amounts to SmarTrip cards. The cards would then be resold, with the scammers earning at least $16,000. ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, DCist,  18 Jul 2008

Metro to Stay Open Until 3 a.m. on July 4th After All

Keep in mind though that on July 4, the Smithsonian station will be closed for security reasons, and bicycles will also be banned on the system all day. There will also be changes in line routing for the entire day. The Yellow line will be shortened to ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, DCist,  1 Jul 2008

Dump the Pump and Win a $100 SmarTrip Card

Metro is celebrating National Dump the Pump Day, which is this Thursday, June 19, by giving away one $100 SmartTrip card to the lucky person who can guess how many people will use the Metrorail system that day. Metro's also created another YouTube ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, DCist,  16 Jun 2008

Getting to Andrews Air Show Won't be Easy

The annual Andrews Air Force Base Joint Service Open House and Air Show starts today and runs through Sunday. Metro says they're ready for the large crowds: they plan to use 190 free shuttle buses to ferry attendants to and from the base, which is ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, DCist,  16 May 2008

15th Anniversary: Underwater-Robot-Building MIT-Defeating High Schoolers Grow Up

Since these high school kids trounced MIT in a national underwater robot contest ("La Vida Robot," April 2005), they've been wined and dined in Beverly Hills — Salma Hayek is producing a movie based on their story — and courted by top universities. But ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, Wired,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Salma Hayek

MetroPerforms! Auditions Return

MetroPerforms!, the city's solution to the perceived scourge of subway busking, is once again seeking District of Columbia-based performers for a second year of the program, which hires local singers, dancers, musicians, poets and other performers to ...

From JOSHUA DAVIS, DCist,  22 Apr 2008

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