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With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment.

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Is it the surface of an asteroid? Alzheimer's-ravaged brain tissue riddled with amyloid plaques? An electron micrograph of Limburger cheese? Answer after the jump.

Animaloscope, cinnomonograph, katoptiikum, lobsterscope, mutoscope, phenakistoscope, vivrescope, xograph�just a few of the turn-of-the-last-century's names for a strange new medium.

An amazing chart traces the routes of a variety of fictional time voyages, from Buck Rogers to Planet of the Apes to the several temporal joyrides found throughout the Star Trek franchise.

Old-fashioned telephone handsets and film cameras: gadgets that redeem the present by way of obsolete technology.

Engineering beneficial computer viruses to protect wireless devices, researchers learn to treat time as a network.

A business-machine brand and icon of twentieth-century design jumps into the tablet race.

A teenager who fell to his death from the wheel well of a Boston-bound airliner furnishes an example of a rarity in our time: a truly outrageous act.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.