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IPod Gray Market Booms in India
It's not easy to buy an Apple music player in India legally. But the trade in smuggled iPods is going gangbusters. Scott Carney reports from Chennai, India.
Stop-Motion Competition
Wired News Blog » See Centipede re-enacted with cupcakes, and Pac- Man in pizza form in the short animated film Game Over. Plus: Homestar Runner turns 10. In Table of Malcontents.
Quattrone Beats the Rap
Two trials (and one conviction) later, the slate is wiped clean for the former dot-com investment banker accused of impeding federal investigations into his business practices. Not only does Frank Quattrone get off scot-free, he is free to resume his career with no restrictions.
Bob Dylan: Technology Sucks
The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway.
Russian: 'Nyet' to Math Prize
Saying he feels disconnected from his mathematics colleagues and has no desire to be anybody's "figurehead," a reclusive Russian turns down math's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
EPA Stop and Go on Hybrids
Wired News Blog » Hydraulic hybrid technology could have been saving millions of barrels of oil annually if not for the plug being pulled in 2001. In Autopia.
3-D TV That Actually Works
With a new line of LCD and plasma monitors from Philips, viewers see three-dimensional objects without having to wear glasses. By Seán Captain.
IPod Factories: No Unions
Cult of Macintosh » Apple's investigation of its Chinese iPod factories isn't a whitewash, but the most important issue isn't even mentioned: the ability of workers to organize. Commentary by Leander Kahney.
DIY Nuke Detector Patrols SF Bay
Volunteer researchers develop a mobile radiation scanner that can pick out a nuclear bomb in a container ship at sea. Mark Rutherford reports from San Francisco.
Perpetual Motion Claim Probed
History offers a discouraging guide for an Irish company hoping to demonstrate an exception to the first law of thermodynamics. Can cleverly positioned magnets create more than hot air? By John Borland.
Korea Casts an Eye Heavenward
Keen to be the 35th nation to put a citizen into space, South Korea is searching for its first astronaut. No experience required, except a willingness to eat experimental space kimchi. James Card reports from Daejeon, South Korea.
This Global Warming Fix Stinks
A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
Screwed for Sure
Listening Post » Why Microsoft's new Zune digital music player will force the next sale of Napster. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.