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Archive for December, 2009

Determining the height of tall objects from a glance doesn’t require a prohibitively large tape measure — just a little math, a sharp eye and a protractor.

It was the decade of the mega-heist! Stolen credit card magstripe tracks became the pork bellies of a new underground marketplace. Eastern European hackers turned malware writing into an art. And a nasty new crop of purpose-driven computer worms struck dread in the heart of America.

From the iPod to the Kindle, the past decade has seen the rise of portable electronics like never before. Wired brings you the top gadgets of each year from 2000 to 2009, charting the rise of the mobile decade.

Wired Science runs down our picks for some of the best science of the year.

For as little as $1, automated sites will see if your virus is detected by any of 22 antivirus products, with a guarantee that the malware won’t be sent to the antivirus community.