This is outrageous. Officers in London, Ontario approached this fight this Thursday with the hope of stopping it. The response was to tase the youth in the face. In what world is that appropriate? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nghUyUSxZsk/police-officer-tases-teenager-in-the-face-to-stop-a-fight Monika Kramlik Moon Bloodgood Mýa

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed in an unauthorized biography published Thursday that an Icelandic member of his team hacked into a journalist’s computer last year to retrieve a database of documents he had given to the reporter. Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/unauthorized-assange-memoir/ Pink Piper Perabo Poppy Montgomery

Facebook users were hit with a major update on Wednesday. The News Feed that displays other users’ status updates has been altered to a real-time news ticker. It is now tailored to how often a user visits the site. Updates are now ranked by factors that allow users to mark certain posts as top stories instead of simply displaying the most recent news. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73332.html Padma Lakshmi Paige Butcher Pamela Anderson

The way we walk could be used as an accurate way of identifying us, according to an international team of bioengineers who analyzed the foot pressure patterns created by 104 subjects. They found they were able to identify individuals with a 99.6 percent accuracy. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/walking-biometric-identification/ Shannyn Sossamon Shiri Appleby Sienna Guillory

Version 5.3 of Skype for Windows has just been released, with the main emphasis of the new release being improved call quality, and the quality of video received by mobile Skype users. Presumably one party of the video call must be using Skype for Windows 5.3, though. Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. You can now see your friends’ presence icons when contact cards are collapsed, and the topic editing button is now [...]

The most devastating impact of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could be on soldiers’ brains, and many of the injured likely don’t even know it. At least not yet. As I describe in the new issue of Nature, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that these injured troops, who could easily number in [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/troops-dementia/ Teri Hatcher Teri Polo Tessie Santiago

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from anywhere you’ve got Internet access. Well, as long as your app supports Cloud Print as well — like Gmail and [...]

The 3 Monkeys Orangutan does what all good guitar amps do: It makes you believe that you cannot live without it. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/09/3monkeys/ The Pussycat Dolls Thora Birch Tila Tequila

Facebook has been revamping with the speed and intensity of a traditional revamping master, in its constant battle to beat out Google for “total number of users pissed off by free services.” It’s not hard to irritate people on a social media site, of course. The two easiest ways to do it are: 1. Change something. 2. Don’t [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/alt-text-facebook-google/ Monica Keena Monica Potter Monika Kramlik

As several of you noted in the comments to our post asking for cross-platform iOS/Android games, Words With Friends for Android does not provide the smoothest gaming experience… and that’s being rather charitable. You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up. Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have [...]