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Robots Battle for Students' Future - The First Competition National Championship at the Epcot Center in Florida will feature student teams and their robots in battle. The goal is student excitement about science. [Wired News]
 
Robots Take to the Stage - It may be some time until a robotic thespian develops the sort of charisma that will draw paparazzi, but the mechanical actors are definitely scooting into the spotlight. [Wired News]
 
Roll Your Own Radio - Listen up, music lovers, talk show fans, and radio news junkies. Imagine Radio now allows listeners to program their own Web-based broadcasts. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
 
SF's Burning, Man - The festival, which fled to the Nevada desert after getting cold-shouldered in San Francisco, is staging a kiss-and-make-up love-in with the City by the Bay. By David Cassel. [Wired News]
 
SI Makes You Pay to Play - If you want to see Sports Illustrated's online version of the Swimsuit '98 issue with its two-piece bonus, be prepared to fork over the price of a movie. [Wired News]
 
SWM Seeks SWF, Any Age, Via WWW - The online dating game isn't the saccharine storybook vision presented in the upcoming Tom Hanks flick You've Got Mail. Thankfully, it's a little more random. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
 
SWM Seeks SWF, Any Age, Via WWW - The online dating game isn't the saccharine storybook vision presented in the upcoming Tom Hanks flick You've Got Mail. Thankfully, it's a little more random. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
 
Samples Silence Negativland - The band says its CD manufacturer won't reproduce its latest album for fear of legal reprisals over Negativland's use of unauthorized material. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
 
Satellites and Sand Traps - Golf goes high-tech with computerized carts that can chart a course, offer tips on tough holes, and order a Philly cheese-steak sandwich from the fairway. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
 
Scientology Slips Through the Net - The Church of Scientology won a copyright suit against an electrical engineer from Palo Alto, California, who posted an L. Ron Hubbard document to a newsgroup. Despite the victory, though, the material appears to have escaped into the public realm. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]
 
Screens, Memes, Art Themes - Multimedia artists have installed themselves in a New York art space to examine love, loss, alienation, and physical space. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]
 
Scripting For the Digital Age - Interactive television programming is on the way. But who's going to write it? A writers' panel at the Mill Valley Film Festival talks it over. By Prateek Sarkar. [Wired News]
 
See You, See Me - Sony has devised a fix for its popular NightShot cameras, which have been found to offer peeping-tom views of fully clothed people. But sales of the "defective" model soar. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
 
Seeing the Body Electric - A Southern California fashion show explores how technology and entertainment will merge in our garments. [Wired News]
 
Selling Bottled Newsgroups - Deja News' new service, Discussions, will allow Web sites to include packaged newsgroups from the million-posts-a-day Usenet. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
 
Sex on the Web: The Upgrade - A new site aims to improve the quality of online erotica -- and boost the quality of life for those who write it. [Wired News]
 
Sharing the Fire Online - An educational program called Cradleboard, founded by Buffy Sainte-Marie, matches up Native American and non-Native students to get beyond stereotypes. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
 
Shatner vs. Faulkner - Which William is the better writer? You'd be surprised at the results compiled in Random House's online poll of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. By David Cassel. [Wired News]
 
Shoot 'Em Ups Getting Smarter - Scientists may be advancing artificial intelligence research, but gaming engineers are already having fun with it. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
 
Sierra Gears Up With New Sports Brand - Veteran PC gamemaker winds up its pitch for the growing sports-genre market by combining three popular series and stacking store shelves with a host of new and repackaged games. [Wired News]
 
 

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