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Beginning today, we’re releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream.

To mark our new licensing policy, we’ve compiled this gallery of 50 great pictures from our past stories. Included are portraits of Steve Jobs, Woz, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, Trent Reznor and J...

75-year-old Lewis Crew gets help voting on an iPad in Beaverton, Oregon on Friday. Photo: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

For some, going to the polls and voting in-person is near impossible, and even using mail-in paper ballots can prove difficult. But the state of Oregon has a solution: Pair an iPad with a wireless printer, and use this system to help cast ballots.

Voters in five Oregon counties will get to vote using the iPad this year. Apple even donated five of the tablets to the cause.

“It’s a lot simpler for me. I think it’s a great setup they got,” Lewis Crews, a 75-year-old with severe arthritis, t...