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A crowd of 700 attend Startup School '08, a day-long conference at Stanford University for entrepreneurial wannabes hoping to be the next Sergey and Larry.

At a conference at Yale University, 18 states sign a declaration committing themselves to take action to fight climate change. In his speech at the meeting, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts that an international deadlock over how to deal with global warming will end once President Bush leaves office.

ISPs, including Earthlink, that seek to make money from customers' mistyped URLs put the entire internet at risk from hackers that steal passwords, a security researcher reveals Saturday. While the immediate vulnerability is fixed, the practice of returning ads instead of error messages raises ongoing security, Net Neutrality and security concerns.

Facebook is getting a global boost from users around the world, who are translating its visible framework into nearly two dozen languages for free. The move is generating mounting criticism online, where some users question whether amateurs can produce good translations.

Google's stock soars 20 percent for a record one-day gain on Friday following news of its stellar first-quarter results.

The psychedelic images created by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand are made by setting off dangerous chemical reactions.

Helium is used for more than balloons and sounding like a chipmunk. Here are a few facts you should know about this noble gas.

The mercenary tactics of pre-med students can be tremendously annoying, but these students may be victims of a broken system. The standards for medical school admissions are so stringent that scholars must nearly abandon their individuality and give up everything but ceaseless study.

Wired.com's Leander Kahney talks about his latest book, Inside Steve's Brain.

It's never too early to back up your photos: Wired.com's How-To Wiki shows to you how to back 'em up using the slick Flickrfs.

A Canadian security firm says the TSA and federal air marshals are a joke and the only way to safeguard air travel is to make passengers wear bracelets capable of scrambling their central nervous system.

The Ocean Conservancy announced this week that their volunteers found six million pounds of trash on the world's beaches in a single day; now, they've released their data to Wired.com for your perusal.

Superheroes like Batman will square off against freaky, death-dealing ninjas like Scorpion in an upcoming installment of the videogame franchise.

Responding to a user backlash, Apple has redesigned Mac OS X's Software Update system so that it no longer installs unwanted applications automatically. But some users have already ditched the auto-updater, a move which may affect future interoperability with Apple's consumer devices like the iPod and iPhone.

Technocentric terms like mashup and googling make up an essentially new language, according to a European retailer.

After the credits roll each week, animator Jerry Hultsch's short clips show Ronald D. Moore and David Eick mutilating each others' bodies in brutally ingenious ways. Blink and you'll miss Battlestar's funny bits.

Three lawmakers -- all members of the House telecommunications subcommittee -- have been doing some Google bashing lately. Coincidentally or not, all three have received campaign contributions from telephone and cable interests hostile to Google.

Solo video journalist Kevin Sites talks about parachuting in to disaster sites and war zones. After years of filming in "Hot Zones," he's helping to set up a sewing circle in the Congo.

The one sour note in Google's otherwise stellar Q1 report this week was its acknowledged failure in making money from social networking.

Get ready to bang your head, as a British heavy metal classic comes to the game in all its twin-guitar glory. Next up? Records from The Pixies and The Cars.