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While you're curled up comfy in your bed each night, the crew of the International Space Station is getting unrivaled views of our planet. For anyone wishing they could see what the astronauts see, here are recent videos of the Earth at night taken from space.

Two recent Google Wallet hacks have brought the long-term viability of the platform into question.

Yahoo is hoping to build a facility in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, where it will assemble its own servers and ship them to data centers it operates across the country, according to lawmakers and officials in the Midwestern state. These lawmakers have proposed a bill that would provide this facility with tax breaks, and though Yahoo has discussed its plans in full, the Nebraska bill opens another window onto how the web's biggest names juggle the massive amounts of servers needed to run their myriad online services.

Intel and the New York Attorney General's office have agreed to settle a 2009 lawsuit that accused the chip giant of violating federal and state antitrust laws. As part of the settlement, Intel has agreed to pay $6.5 million dollars to account for some of the court costs, but it has not admitted wrongdoing.

Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.

Traveling into the danger zone? Worried that a hacker or a less... democratically inclined government may attempt to seize your data? Follow these tips to keep your data secure abroad.

After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.

Tesla Motors continues its relentless push into the mainstream with an uber-practical crossover utility that builds in the Model S sedan.

Congress had its budgetary knives out for the Electronic Railgun, the Navy's futuristic cannon that fires bullets at hypersonic speeds with a burst of electricity. But the railgun survived -- that is, unless continuing technical hurdles doom it. And it's not the only high-tech weapon the Navy's moving forward with.

The integration Prime offers across Amazon's product lines is simply too important to the company's whole business.

You wouldn't think that old saw, "practice makes perfect" would apply to, say, tracking a baseball as it comes toward you at 95 mph. Nike says it does, and wants to prove it.

Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo's astronauts have previously enjoyed.

When he was 16 years old, Safe House director Daniel Espinosa had a lot of fun hot-wiring cars and taking them for joyrides around his childhood home in Sweden. Now 34, the filmmaker told Wired that he'd look for cars made in the mid-1980s -- the kind he could get started in two minutes -- then take them for a ride and abandon them afterward.

As someone who had a 'GDrive' set up years back now, I am split on how to react to the news that Google will soon launch a cloud storage service called just "Drive."

George Lucas is now saying he has changed the original Star Wars to "clarify" things, but we know better.

3D doesn't add much to the first Star Wars prequel, but seeing it on the big screen may be worth it for the family.