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LG Pulls Out the Big Guns With Dual-Core Android Phone

LG's G2x Android smartphone is running on Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual-core 1-GHz processor. Are two cores better than one? We sure think so.

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Let's Get Small: HP's Tiny WebOS Smartphone

When you first see the Veer's miniscule keyboard, you think, "Oh man, this is never going to work." But it's actually not that bad at all.

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Lenovo's Wedgetop Burns Twice as Bright, Half as Long

With the ThinkPad X1, Lenovo may have its most eye-catching laptop to date. And, battery life aside, it's a hot performer.

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HP All-in-One Desktop: 'Scuse Me While I Touch This Guy

Specs can sometimes speak for themselves, and any computer would be lucky to have all of the stuff HP's new TouchSmart is packing under the hood. But the PC in question is not a high-test gaming...

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Curvy, Slim Xperia Arc Is Leggy Supermodel of Smartphones

Despite some rough edges, Sony Ericsson's new Android phone is worth taking a look at for its great design, beautiful display and excellent camera.

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Tivoli Audio Dives Into Digital to Celebrate 10th Anniversary

Instead of the analog controls common to other Tivoli radios, the Model 10 is all digital. Like other Tivoli radios, it sounds fantastic.

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Dual-Boot Tablet Is a Double Dose of Disaster

ViewSonic's 10-inch, dual-booting Windows/Android tablet has a lot of heart and lofty goals, and is an utter failure on nearly every front.

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Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone

Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived. And while it's a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play, big is beautiful.

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Calling All Stalkers: Video-Recording Glasses Are Eye-Spy Wear

These stealthy shades, with their built-in video camera and microphone, capture everything you see and hear.

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Lincoln Loosens Its Bow Tie With This Luxury Crossover

Lincoln's plush people-mover is an example of a car where designers were freed by new technology to pen a car that could not have otherwise existed.

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What Would You Do With 80 Million Pixels?

The Phase One IQ180 boasts an 80-megapixel sensor, the highest-resolution sensor the company has ever offered. And the camera costs almost $50,000.    

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Found: Rehab Center From the Future

photo: Photo: Daniel Salo Click on the thumbnails below for a closer look at rehabilitation in the year 2019. What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? We need your help...

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Playlist: The Elements, Atlas Sound, Star Wars in Concert

: For a document that organizes the building blocks of everything in the universe, the periodic table is awfully dull. Enter science writer Theodore Gray. He spent years collecting and photographing...

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Gallery: Top 10 Wired.com Sleep Photos, Decided by You

: The submissions for our sleep photo contest were all across the board, but none of them made us bored. Thank you to all who contributed. Here are 10 of the highest-scoring photos based on reader...

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Editors' Picks for the Wired.com Sleep Photo Contest

: Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our sleep photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think...

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Mysterious Fossil Bonebed Hints at Ancient Possum Behavior

The discovery of a rare collection of fossil possums buried together in the same place is giving scientists some ideas about the animals' social behavior.    

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June 3, 1979: The First Great Gulf Oil Disaster

Technical malfunctions allow uncontrollable pressure to build in Ixtoc 1, an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout preventer fails, the wellhead explodes, and oil starts gushing. It's 1979, not...

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Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Square Roots

A new form of biological computing uses up to 130 different types of DNA molecules to do math. The system is so flexible that it's also possible to use compilers and include debugging circuitry.    

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30 Years of AIDS: How It Began

On the 30th anniversary of the first notice of HIV-AIDS, we look back at the beginnings in this three-part book excerpt from Beating Back the Devil by Superbug's Maryn Mckenna.    

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Red Market: Exposing India's Blood Farmers

Learn about India's illegal blood market by following author Scott Carney to the heart of the blood-farming scene in this excerpt from his new book, The Red Market.    

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June 6, 1933: A Car, a Movie, Some Popcorn and Thou

The drive-in movie theater debuts, and car-crazy America suddenly has a new way to kill time.    

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Two Ultraheavy Elements Added to Periodic Table

A committee of international chemists and physicists has officially added two new elements to the periodic table: the ultraweighty elements 114 and 116.    

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Spontaneity of Basketball and Jazz Based on Hard Work

The speed and spontaneity of basketball and jazz are often mistaken as evidence that these forms of entertainment are simple and facile. Nothing could be further from the truth, says neuroscientist and...

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Waste Slime Turns Jellyfish Into Ecological Vampires

That waste is useful is one of the animal kingdom's cardinal principles. One creature's discards are another's dinner, and so continues the circle of life. But jellyfish, it would seem, bend the rule.    

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June 7, 1975: Before Digital, Before VHS ... There Was Betamax

Sony's video technology was probably superior to VHS, but the Betamax machine was hard to use, and the tapes were too short to record movies.    

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