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  Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source font family

  By Vlad Savov on August 3, 2012 04:45 am + 16 comments

  Over on the Adobe Type Team Blog, Paul Hunt has penned an introduction to Source Sans Pro, a new Continue reading…

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  The Mars missions that failed

  By Kimber Streams on August 2, 2012 05:33 pm + 25 comments

  The Mars rover Curiosity is set to land this weekend, and in honor of the event, Wired is taking a Continue reading…

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  The headless man and other 19th-century trick photographs

  By Adi Robertson on August 2, 2012 04:03 pm + 2 comments

  Before Photoshop, there were costumes and trick photography, and early artists made the most of Continue reading…

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  What will it take to prevent power failures on the aging US grid?

  By Kimber Streams on August 2, 2012 02:29 pm + 30 comments

  In light of India's recent two-day power failure that left more than 600 million people in the Continue reading…

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  How patent drawings became dull: a brief history

  By Aaron Souppouris on August 2, 2012 08:43 am + 13 comments

  Wired's Alexandra Chang has taken a look at how patent drawings have changed over the past 200 years, Continue reading…

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  BERG converts The Guardian into a 'newspaper that looks back at you'

  By Louis Goddard on August 2, 2012 04:49 am + 6 comments

  BERG, the London-based design agency responsible for projects such as the Little Printer, has Continue reading…

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  How big business swapped focus groups for Facebook apps

  By Louis Goddard on August 1, 2012 11:02 am + 8 comments

  The New York Times published an illuminating feature earlier this week, revealing how big consumer Continue reading…

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  Twitter, RIM, or Sprint: who should Apple buy?

  By Andrew Webster on July 31, 2012 11:18 am + 210 comments

  If you had a few billion in the bank, what would you buy? That's the question New York Times Continue reading…

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  Directional LED lights help transform San Francisco's Bay Bridge

  By Andrew Webster on July 31, 2012 08:53 am + 8 comments

  The Bay Bridge in San Francisco has been outfitted with $18 million worth of LED lights, but it's Continue reading…

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  RadioShack's 2002 catalog: CueCats, thermal fax paper, and the Nokia 5185i

  By Justin Rubio on July 30, 2012 05:51 pm + 15 comments

  Ten years doesn't seem like a long time, but at lot of things can happen in the world of consumer Continue reading…