Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google) Google's announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant "Pick me! Pick ME!"
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
(Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT)
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
(Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT)
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
(Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT)
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT)
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT)
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT)
Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had A new book lovingly collects and presents the unexpectedly gorgeous advertisements of early, pre-Apollo space companies. The author of "Another Science Fiction" explains this fascinating, forgotten world of unbounded possibility, countercultural space exploration, and what it all means for human spaceflight today in this exclusive interview with Wired.com.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:00 GMT)
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT)
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT)
Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT)
Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT)
March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:45:00 GMT)
Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.
(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT)
Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music's most innovative forces, and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a Miles-branded iPod and Monster Miles Davis Tribute high-performance headphones.
(Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:37:00 GMT)
Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly The Justice Department is moving to break up an alleged electronic voting-machine monopoly. The authorities say Election Systems & Software has a 70 percent market share of voting equipment in the United States.
