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Autodesk Purchases, Revives 3-D Design App Tinkercad

On Saturday, Autodesk announced it is purchasing Tinkercad and reinstating the service. The move comes in time to prevent the previously announced shutdown of any accounts or services, and users can start creating new accounts immediately.

Dropping Jaws (And Slowpokes) on Cervelo's $10,000 Racing Bike

As one of just a few hundred limited-edition bikes produced by Cerv?lo's Project California division, the RCA is a neatly packaged compendium of its creator's two-decades-deep body of engineering knowledge.

Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Wheels

How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was captured in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The Strange Story of Marie Antoinette's Watch

It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.

New Efforts to Overhaul Psychiatric Diagnoses Spurred by DSM Turmoil

Tomorrow marks the official release of the DSM-5, a hugely influential diagnostic guide that defines disorders of the mind. Many experts say it's fundamentally flawed, and efforts to develop a better alternative have begun.

Trailer Face-Off: The New emPacific Rim/em vs. the emAtlantic Rim/em Knockoff

So, there's a new trailer for director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. However, on another YouTube channel not so far away, there's also a new, not as sleek but equally entertaining trailer for Atlantic Rim ? the mockbuster by The Asylum. How do they stack up? Let's find out.

emStar Trek Into Darkness/em Updates Federation Fashion by Returning to the '60s

Star Trek Into Darkness costume designer Michael Kaplan readily admits that he wasn?t a Star Trek fan prior to being hired for the 2009 reboot.

The Fiftieth Anniversary of Chaos

Edward Lorenz wasn't planning to spark a scientific revolution when he published his famous paper on weather models in 1963. But the unexpected behavior of his equations opened the door to an entirely new field: chaos theory.

The Strangest Ways Wild Animals Crossed Paths With Humans This Week

A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

What We Supposedly Learned About Technology From 1995's emEvolver/em

Today's dubious lesson in technology as explained by movies: 1995's Evolver in which a teenage videogame fan wins an indestructible military robot in a contest and it works out pretty much exactly as you expect.