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Soldiers in the Bad Voodoo platoon stationed in Iraq carry high-def videocameras and shoot the raw footage for a new documentary, Bad Voodoo's War, by director Deborah Scranton. The film airs Tuesday on PBS' Frontline.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders' 15-minute video is taken offline by LiveLeaks after garnering more than 3 million views. The website cites "threats to our staff of a very serious nature."

Plug-in hybrids are coming to the heartland, thanks to bureaucrats in California.

In what might be the first physical attack over the internet, hackers bombard an epileptic patient forum with images intended to trigger seizures.

Who knew getting medieval on a bunch of monsters could be so much fun? Viking: Battle for Asgard isn't the best game ever, but it's easy to get hooked by the action.

The open-source music player built on Mozilla code was already stable. Now it's just better than ever, with new features and bug fixes included in the latest version.

Eckart Wintzen, who founded European software consultancy BSO Origin and socially-conscious venture firm Ex'tent, has died.

The I Can Has Cheezburger? crew puts out the call for bar graphs and pie charts that take a whack at pop culture.

Why spend thousands on a pre-built frag machine when you can assemble your own for much less? Wired.com's How-To Wiki offers advice on building a killer sub-$1,000 PC ready for some front-line action.

As Mozilla prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on Monday, March 31st, Wired.com spoke with one of the browser maker's longest-term employees. Community development director Asa Dotzler tells us how Firefox was born, how the tough decisions about adding features get made, and what Firefox 3 will bring to the table.

Here's the top 10 tech-related tricks to pull on friends and co-workers on April Fools' Day.

Another group has joined the ranks of academics and ethicists who want to save our society from blood-thirsty armed drones that are preparing to gun down our puppies and children. Too bad they don't exist outside of science fiction.

Like a couple of rival hometown newspapers, the competition between Engadget and Gizmodo has developed into a full-blown feud, complete with ridicule, charges of malfeasance and sabotage.

A new YouTube tracking tool, called "Insight," is supposed to show you where your video is most popular, as well as who is watching your clip and when. But the info is so broad -- how useful is it, really? From Portfolio.com.

Countless Googlers have fled the company in search of new challenges (and fortunes).

The country's largest mobile phone company begins trials next week of its next-generation standard. Companies look at the potential market and salivate.

President Raul Castro's government is lifting the ban on private cellphone ownership, a move many hope is the beginning of a general relaxation of laws affecting personal freedoms on the island.

The California Air Resources Board doesn't kill the electric car, but it tells the auto industry it can build a whole lot less of them. That break for automakers comes with the requirement that they produce nearly 60,000 plug-in hybrids by 2014.

Even the best web-enabled gadgets can't make web-browsing comfortable. But developers of some products have a new approach: Instead of offering full-fledged web access, they tap the net selectively to power particular functions. Welcome to the invisible internet.