Universal Music is being hit with a federal lawsuit accusing it of abusing copyright law to force YouTube to remove a video of popular hip-hop stars -- including Kanye West -- singing the praises of the popular file-sharing site Megaupload. The suit comes days ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, which many complain gives rights holders too much power to censor websites that promote online infringement.
One of the biggest complaints about tablets is that they are used to consume, not create. Here are some tips and tricks to transform your Kindle Fire into an innovation tool.
Less than two weeks after the Iranians claimed to have captured a U.S. stealth drone, the U.S. Air Force is quietly sending another one to Afghanistan -- and this one is armed. Only you don't need a stealth drone for a country like Afghanistan with undefended skies. Hmm.
A nuke that wrecks New York City is just the beginning of the nightmare in this upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller. Exclusive character-progression stills show the degradation of key characters as radiation sickness, and the rigors of life in a bomb shelter, drive them mad.
If you find yourself in Silicon Valley and you need a laptop, try the library. In a first-of-its-kind pilot project, the Palo Alto, California Library will soon be loaning Google Chromebook computers to library patrons for as long as one week at a time. The program highlights the Chromebook's ability to operate as a kind of "disposable computer," as Google puts it. With the Chromebook, most all data and applications reside on the Web -- not the local machine -- so it can easily be passed from person-to-person. It's a very Googly setup, and the search giant hopes it will reinvent the way businesses use computers.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the head of Nintendo?s game design efforts, sat down with Wired last week to discuss how the company plans to win more fans to its Nintendo 3DS handheld, the remarkable collaboration between developers in Kyoto and Texas that created Mario Kart 7, and another blockbuster franchise that he thinks would be a good fit for East-West cooperation.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and famed aerospace engineer Burt Rutan are teaming up for space once again. This time they are heading to orbit and they are going to bring in Elon Muskof SpaceX to help them get there. The new project, called Stratolaunch Systems, will use an air-launched booster rocket to deliver payloads of cargo and/or people into low earth orbit.
What's more fun than a Dalek Christmas tree? A gift guide that doubles as a giveaway. Peruse this gallery of unusually geeky gifts and enter to win your favorite.
One of the year's best meteor showers has to compete with a nearly full moon, but the show should still be pretty good no matter where you are.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the most expensive weapons system in history, is in even bigger trouble than we thought. A leaked report describes the futuristic jet's design as "unstable" -- and fixing the 13 flaws with the family of stealthy jets could add up to a billion dollars just on the planes already in production. Operational tests could be delayed past 2015, potentially pushing combat readiness beyond 2018.
The latest version of Google's web browser syncs your data between PCs, bringing your bookmarks, apps and history wherever you go. The new profiles feature also means you can easily switch users, sharing your browser with other people or between your own multiple Google profiles.
Like tech geeks lining up for an iPhone, physicists have long been looking forward to the Higgs boson. Now finally, researchers may have gotten their prize with the latest data release from the Large Hadron Collider on Dec. 13, which show 'tantalizing hints' for the Higgs at around 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
Most people assumed a one-way relationship of snakes occasionally harming people. New evidence suggests, however, that snakes being human prey, predator and competitor all at once is steering their evolution in some regions of the world.
Products Editor John Bradley joins host Adam Rogers to chat about the making of Wishlist 2011, this year's product trends and what makes stuff .
One hooked gamer explores why the 2nd best-selling game of the year may be ruining the nation.
Toronto-based artist Evan Penny likes it that his odd, distorted silicone faces and bodies cause our brains to say, ?Does not compute.?
Baba Brinkman—dubbed the hip hop Richard Dawkins—is releasing music videos from his album in hopes that teachers will punch up their science lectures.
Kaggle bills itself an online marketplace for brains. Over 23,000 data scientists are registered with the site, including Ph.D.s spanning 100 countries, 200 universities, and every discipline from computer science, math, and econometrics to physics and biomedical engineering. Companies, governments, and other organizations come to the site with data problems -- problems that involve the analysis of large amounts of information -- and the scientists compete to solve them. Sometimes they compete for prize money, sometimes for pride, and sometimes simply for the trill. "We?re making data science a sport," reads the site's tagline.
Scientific figures and graphs are uncelebrated and utilitarian, a means to an end, unnoticed by graphics gurus and information designers -- but some stand out. They're the scientific world's folk art.
We present nine of Wired.com readers? best suggestions for goals to reach in nine more classic games.
The surgery has never been attempted, and no anesthetic exists to ward off the searing pain of all that cutting. Yet Ephraim McDowell decides to go ahead.
A Chicago-area doc claims he can treat PTSD instantly, with a single injection to the neck. After five years trying to convince Pentagon doctors to give it a shot, they have -- and so far, Danger Room has learned, the Navy thinks his crazy-sounding approach is actually working.
Blueseed says U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of "bold and creative" entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it's building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foot on U.S. soil. The company has given Wired early exclusive access to its mockups of the futuristic incubator.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Motorola is taking another shot at the tablet game with the Droid Xyboard, the company's latest Android device to hit Verizon stores. After getting our hands on one this afternoon, we found that it's a solid, well-performing slate that's easy on the eyes. Too bad it has such a stupid name.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced amendments late Monday to the Stop Online Piracy Act -- changes that dramatically water down the measure's scope. Among the amendments, they include a clarification that "rogue" sites must be foreign, and that rights holders now do not have the power to demand financial institutions and ad networks to stop doing business with infringing sites.
The magical Yellow Submarine app seamlessly blends the old (Beatles music and movies) into something entirely new, serving up the kind of unfettered creativity you'd expect from the Fab Four.