Tour de Tweet: Follow Lance and the Boys Online The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 4, in Monaco. Here's how to follow the three-week bike race using streaming audio and video, Twitter, Google Earth and other online tools.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:30:00 GMT)
Penguin Parents Won't Chip In to Help Handicapped Spouse Penguins, famous for the lengths they go to to protect their eggs and rear their young, may not be the most supportive couples around. When one member of a penguin couple is handicapped, the other doesn't step in to pick up the slack.
Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun producing high-resolution and wide-angle images of the moon's surface.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT)
We Drive BMW's Electric Mini E Sticking a battery and a motor in the Mini makes it a sweet little EV we could live with if it weren't for the stratospheric price tag.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:28:00 GMT)
Why You Can't Keep Your Foot Out of Your Mouth When your brain is overloaded, it will often get stuck on exactly the thing you are trying to avoid thinking about, leading you to blurt out things you never meant to share.
$4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:16:00 GMT)
Astrophysicists Discover New Class of Black Hole Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one. Until now.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:21:00 GMT)
Video: Roast Weenies With Infrared Grill, Wireless Meat Thermometer To celebrate Independence Day, Wired.com editors Danny Dumas and Steven Leckhart roast dogs with 14,000 Btu of infrared heating power. They review the an infrared portable grill and a wireless meat thermometer.
Hot Gear for a Cool Summer Want to make your summer really sizzle? Make sure you've got the right gear first. Wired highlights the best tech for fishing, golfing, beach reading and uh, whittling. Why? Because warm weather comes but once a year.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT)
Featherweight Olympus Is a Fine Entry-Level DSLR The Olympus E-620 is an inexpensive digital single-lens reflex camera that won't weigh your shoulder down, is easy to use and takes fine pictures in a wide variety of conditions. And it's
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT)
Explosions in the Sky: Take Better Fireworks Photos When those great balls of fire appear in the sky above you this Independence Day, grab some impressive shots — no matter what kind of camera you own. Follow this advice from Wired’s How-to Wiki.
(Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT)
Pirate Bay 2.0: Pay Pirates to Become Consumers The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of account-deletion requests.
Congress Probes Defunct Airport Security Fast-Lane Company Lawmakers want to know what's going to happen to traveler data after the best known airline fast-lane company shut down last week, while holding onto sensitive data of 165,000 fliers.
Insider Trading Suspected in Pirate Bay Sale Securities regulators are investigating potential insider trading of Global Gaming Factory before it announced plans to purchase The Pirate Bay for $7.7 million. Yo ho ho.
(Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT)
Bing Snags Small Gain From Google Bing grabs a percentage point in the search wars, stealing a sliver of the search market from Google. Is it the beginning of a long march or just the product of an ad campaign?
(Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:42:00 GMT)
Michael Jackson First to Hit 1 Million Downloads in Single Week The king is dead, long live the king: Michael Jackson becomes the first artist to sell over a million downloads in a single week. It's a reminder of his dominance in the '80s, a heyday the music industry isn't likely to see again.
(Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:29:00 GMT)
Salamander Discovery Holds Clues to Human Limb Regeneration Some salamanders can regrow limbs without cells reverting all the way back to embryonic-like stem cells. Instead, the cells take a smaller step back to slightly less mature versions of themselves before growing into the many kinds of mature cells in the limb.
