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Minister of Truth: Meet Britain's Top Data Cop
The U.K. Statistics Authority's Richard Alldritt is an expert in how governments fudge the numbers. He and his math-police squad are rooting out the truth, whether it's to reveal the real gender pay gap or the actual rate of knife crime.

March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style
A Connecticut telephone company starts the first local, public packet-switching network. It paves the way for the always-on internet access we know today.

Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show
Street Fighter gets bendy. Ms. Pac-Man hops a tandem bike. And plenty of other classic characters get similarly strange treatments in Giant Robot's videogame-inspired exhibit.

Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?"

Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics
With its heady mix of heavy themes and technology, The Dark Side of the Moon remains the best concept album ever, even 37 years after its release. Plus: 10 more concept albums in Dark Side's shadow that deserve a slice of the spotlight.

'Galactica: Sabotage' Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup
A YouTube artist whips up a precise, shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze's amazing music video using clips from the late, great Battlestar Galactica.

European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord
European Parliament is coming out in opposition to a U.S.-backed intellectual property treaty accord, and is demanding the treaty's secret text become public.

Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.

Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes
The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple?s downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before.

Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon'
Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.

No-Fly List Includes the Dead
Even though people might be dying to get off the government's no-fly list, it includes names of the dead on purpose. Following the "Underwear Bomber" incident Christmas day the list has ballooned.

Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous
Hear a track from Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between the late Sparklehorse leader, David Lynch and Danger Mouse. Also on the podcast: more music from The Ferocious Few, Flying Lotus and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.

Big Designers Find Satisfaction in Small Games
Moving away from high-budget blockbusters to scaled-down treasures built by small teams proves enticing to veteran videogame developers. Part of the appeal: A nostalgic remembrance of the early days of game development.

Brain Scans Depict Damage From Gulf War Syndrome
A massive effort to understand Gulf War Syndrome finds physiological differences in the brains of healthy veterans and those suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.

Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Identity
Funky chickens that are half male and half female reveal a different biological system for gender determination.

Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound
Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality.

IPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year
Microprocessor company ARM says there will be more than 50 new tablets launching worldwide to compete with the iPad.

MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles
Strange name. Sexy bike. And it's headed for the racetrack.

Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider?s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.

10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D
Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They?re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.

Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google)
Google's announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant "Pick me! Pick ME!"

Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.

March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.

Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.

Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.

Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.

10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here?s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.

Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.

Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.

Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.