A new video offers intriguing glimpses into Trent Reznor's latest musical project, but it's not a new Nine Inch Nails album: It's theme music for upcoming videogame .
Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new start-up in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.
How do you top the most powerful and realistic superhero movie ever made? By crafting a film that's bigger, bolder and better than its predecessor. How does the final act of Christopher Nolan's bat-trilogy stack up?
In its final hours Syria's crumbling government unleashes a chemical barrage -- and some analysts certainly think that's possible -- the regime will probably rely on an arsenal of gas- or nerve agent-tipped ballistic missiles purchased from Iran and North Korea. But precisely how many and what mix of missiles President Bashar Al Assad controls, and therefore how deadly a chemical strike might be, both remain unclear.
A new technique depicts the 12-hour history of cooling and heating at a particular spot on the sun. In addition to being scientifically useful, the images produced are visually striking, reminiscent of a Van Gogh painting.
The photographs of Fritz Goro highlight the beautiful, strange, amusing and poignant within the realm of science. The German-born Goro spent four decades as a photographer for magazine. He invented macrophotography and many other techniques to capture his unique subjects.
Online photo-sharing site Flickr has responded to criticism in kind: with a single-serving site.
To promote TNT's latest mystery show, Preception, Brooklyn-based design agency Breakfast took the classic electromagnet dot technology of the mechanical sign -- think train station -- and souped it up as interactive street art.
It took the departure of a dictator, but the U.S. military is once again hooking up Yemen's military with special ops hardware, ostensibly to fight al-Qaida's local branch. Over $100 million worth of night vision tools, Glocks, drones, rifles, patrol craft and more is heading to the U.S.' undeclared war.
A just-surfaced patent application from Research in Motion (RIM) details a smartphone feature that determines a sender's emotional state while texting. It all keys into accelerometers, cameras and galvanic skin-response sensors.
The W3C, the group that helps create web standards, is hard at work on CSS Media Queries level 4, which gives developers several handy new tools for building responsive websites.
Intel rules the data center, but it?s getting some competition from ARM, the company that?s best known for designing the chips that power your iPhone Wired Enterprise's Robert McMillan reports.On Wednesday a handful of server companies, led by Hewlett-Packard, Canonical and server-chip startup Calxeda, unveiled a new software testbed where developers can try OpenStack cloud ...
An Oregon man was cleared of indecent exposure charges Wednesday when a local judge said his protest of Transportation Security Administration screening procedures was constitutionally protected speech under state law.
For spy tools, drones are pretty easy to spot. And hear, because they're as loud as a gut-busting rock concert. But now the intelligence community's research division, Iarpa, plans to start designing a silent drone inspired by quiet, creeping, flying owls.
A childhood game gets turned to 11, then adds distortion and a wah pedal.
You'll find it inside the top-secret data centers that run Google. It provides extra speed at Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, and countless other operations across the web. And now, Amazon is offering it up to the rest of the world via its massively popular cloud service, letting you slip it under your own online applications -- without actually installing it in your own data center. What is it? It's flash -- the super-fast storage hardware that's gradually replacing traditional hard disks across the web and beyond.
At various points in Earth's history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world.
Firefox 14 is here and it brings with it some welcome security improvements to keep your data safe from would-be snoops.
What do a hummingbird and an elephant have in common? According to a new study, the answer may be one of biology?s most fundamental traits. Astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow explains.
A behind-the-scenes look at how a San Francisco viral video studio engineered one of the most ambitious web vids of the year.
Both entrepreneurs and government staffers would benefit from learning more about the other, and developing a more meaningful working relationship.
Every automaker works with outside suppliers to develop and produce anything from window switches to alternator pulleys. It's how modern automobiles are made. And that same relationship extends into your dashboard. So it's not completely surprising that Honda has partnered with Harman ??makers of the for iOS and Android ? to plump streaming content into its next-generation HondaLink infotainment system, starting with the 2013 Honda Accord.
Summer camp used to be about sailing, learning first aid, and hanging out with other kids your age. And about suffering. If the bug bites, soggy weather, and foul latrine didn't make you appreciate coming home to Mom and Dad, you were at the wrong summer camp.
We love making stuff here at Wired Design, and the projects we geek-out on most tend to include some electronic element. Marrying gadgetry with off-the-shelf materials can be tricky, but is also highly satisfying to pull off. Contributor Jan Halvarson, co-founder and editor of maker blog Poppytalk, put together this roundup of 10 rad DIY projects with a techie twist.
The surprise announcement this week that Yahoo had tapped Google geekstar Marissa Mayer as its new CEO got a lot of people talking about the troubled web portal. But would any of them actually want to work there?
Steve Jobs may have dissed 7-inch tablets, but now isn't just a good time for Apple to launch an iPad mini -- it's the perfect time. Here's why.
Over the last several decades, researchers have shown that many dolphin and whale species are extraordinarily intelligent and social creatures, with complex cultures and rich inner lives. They are, in a word, persons -- and now animal advocates are challenging society to follow science to its logical conclusion and give legal rights to cetaceans. If they're successful, a dolphin could conceivably become the first non-human ever considered a legal person.
For two decades Jacqueline Hassink has been documenting the seats of power. Literally. Her photos of corporate board rooms from across the world give viewers a rare glimpse into the places where the most important players in the global economy hold court.
With internet connectivity coming to more vehicles, a new era of in-car entertainment is about to begin ? much to the alarm of Luddites, government regulators and distracted-driving advocates. But looking back at how we got here, crying wolf about car tech is as old as the first radio.
We're back from Comic-Con International, and we've got a story to tell. After four days of crowds, cosplay and coming attractions -- and comics, of course -- we have a loooong list of favorite things.
wiredmikey writes "Back in May of this year, Internet security firm Bitdefender launched 'Clueful,' an iOS App that helps identify potentially intrusive applications and show users what they do behind their back, and giving users an inside look at all the information app developers can gather about a user. Seems legit, right? Apple doesn't think so. Or at least they have an issue with something behind the App that sparked them to pull it from the App Store. After initially reviewing and approving the App that was released on May 22, Apple has had a change of heart and has just removed the App from the AppStore. It's unclear [why it was yanked], and Bitdefender told SecurityWeek that the company is under NDA as far as explanations for the removal. Interestingly, Bitdefender did share some data that they gathered based on Clueful's analysis of more than 65,000 iOS apps so far, including the fact that 41.4 percent of apps were shown to track a user's location unbeknownst to them."
dstates writes "An industry has grown up around patents guaranteeing exclusive access to testing of mutations in specific genes, but recently the Supreme Court rejected a biotechnology patent saying laws of nature cannot be patented, and threw the issue of patents on genes back to the lower courts. The Court of Appeals is now preparing to hear arguments on whether genes can be patented. The results will have major implications. On the one hand, restricting access to whole regions of the human genome will stifle scientific progress. On the other, companies like Myriad Genetics and Optimal Medicine use the patents to protect years of work invested in research, but this also means preventing other companies from offering diagnostics based on competing faster and lower cost technologies to analyze mutations in these genes."
benfrog writes "In what likely isn't that much of a surprise, a study has shown that political ideology shapes how we perceive temperature changes (but not drought/flooding conditions). (An abstract of the study is here. 8,000 individuals were asked about temperatures and drought/flood events in recent years, then their political leanings. Answers regarding drought/flood events tended to follow the actual changes in conditions, while answers regarding temperature tended to follow people's political beliefs."
hypnosec writes "Google has released the full SDK for its latest edition of Android, Jelly Bean, which was unveiled during Google I/O. Google has already released the source code of Jelly Bean earlier. Google announced through a blog post that developers can develop application against the API level 16 using the new Jelly Bean APIs. Developers would be able to develop apps that will run on Nexus 7 tablets. Jelly Bean is touted as one of the best from Google and it promises a smoother and more responsive UI across the system."
netbuzz writes "Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting Microsoft's HyperV virtualization environment. In that code, the magic constant passed through to the hypervisor reads '0xB16B00B5,' or a slightly camouflaged 'BIG BOOBS.' After Linux developer/blogger Matthew Garrett criticized Microsoft for the stunt, the predictable debate over sexism in the technology world ensued. Microsoft issued a statement to Network World apologizing and added, 'We have submitted a patch to fix this issue and the change will be published in a future release of the kernel.'"
Last week you asked Joseph Palaia, Chief Operating Officer & Director of research laboratory Earthrise Space, Inc. about living on Mars one day and building moon machines with students. Below you'll find his answers to your inquiries.
The North Carolina data center that Apple has touted as especially earth-friendly (for having biogas-fueled generators, for one thing) will soon have a smaller companion; Apple is expanding its presence, according to filings reported over at Slash DataCenter, with another 21,000-plus square foot facility at the same site. "Apple also plans to build a hydrogen fuel-cell facility in the area, at least based on other filed permits. That would complement the solar-array installations under construction. Apple has claimed that some 60 percent of the data center facility’s power will be generated onsite. As it stands now, the Maiden facility already incorporates energy-efficient design elements, including real-time energy monitoring and analytics."
nk497 writes "Canonical has revealed a system to make web apps behave more like native applications in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu WebApps feature will 'allow applications that normally run in the web browser to have some functionality outside that browser, within the Ubuntu desktop,' product manager Pete Goddall said. Basically, sites can be pinned to the launcher — which sounds a bit like IE9's pinning system, but WebApps can also interact with the OS, displaying notifications for new messages in Gmail, interacting with Last.FM via Ubuntu's sound controls, and when right clicking on photos, including Facebook as an upload option. WebApps will land in 12.10 in October, but there will also be an add-on version for people staying on long-term support version 12.04."
It seems like less than an hour since Slashdot ran a Report From HOPE: The State of Community Fabrication. Now we have a video about a Massachusetts mother and son team we met at HOPE that had so much trouble with commercial RepRap machines that they designed their own and started marketing it under the name Robison Industries, a company they seem to be starting on the fly that uses their local hackerspace as its manufacturing location. Interested in RepRap? Maybe not yet, but as devotees of the concept point out, nobody outside a small circle of geeks was interested in personal computers at first, but they're ubiquitous today. Will we all have 3D printers on our desks in a few years? Good question. round us up in 2020 or 2025 at our local hackerspace and we may have an answer for you.
OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a motion in court yesterday regarding the court's ignored year-old ruling on EPIC vs. DHS. EPIC is asking the court to require DHS to start taking public comment within 60 days or, as an alternative, forbid DHS from using body scanners in primary airport screening altogether. If the court orders the latter, that would give EPIC what it originally sought in its lawsuit. Meanwhile, for what it's worth, the related petition on whitehouse.gov has a little more than half the signatures it needs to get an official 'response.' The signing period ends on August 9."
joaommp writes "So, my team has started a project to convert an SUV into an hybrid diesel-electric vehicle — basically, an electric vehicle with a diesel engine working as a range extender. We've now setup a campaign on Indiegogo to help with the project costs (we are a non-profit team) and later we'd like to, if the project is successful, be able to provide conversion kits and additional kits for elements of the transformation, like the HUD, for example. Why an SUV conversion? Because a lot of people like SUVs (sense of safety, overcompensation, etc) but they're un-economic and environment unfriendly. I'd like to ask all slashdotters if they have any advice or tips for this project. We already have the project well defined but more input is greatly appreciated before we begin tearing apart the beast. So, if you could help providing additional advice and information, it would be awesome."
sfcrazy writes "The general tendency within the open source community is to a whole new wheel to push your own cart. A majority of open source projects are suffering from duplication. Luckily, we just noticed a great example of such collaboration (or using resources by different competing projects) within the distro community. Ubuntu's popular Unity shell is being ported to Fedora (the distro which leads the development of Gnome shell and its also the breeding ground of many latest technologies which are used by the rest of the GNU/Linux world). Interestingly developers users openSUSE's build service to create this port. openSUSE leads the development of Gnome and KDE along with LibreOffice." Calling Unity "popular" seems like a stretch, but it's certainly where a lot of Ubuntu work has been lavished; the cooperation that open source code fosters at least lets whoever wants to use or develop it do so.
Hugh Pickens writes "Rebecca Greenfield writes that Google's Nexus tablet with its taped sides and fussy plastic takes effort to open, eliciting what some would call 'wrap rage,' the linguist-approved word for the anger associated with opening a factory sealed product, and as a montage of frustrated Google Nexus 7 owners struggling to open their new tablets' packaging proves there is at least one thing Apple gets that Google does not: boxes. In comparison to the minutes-long process that it takes to get to Google's well-reviewed tablet, opening an iPad takes a simple slide of a cover — a lid that 'comes off easily, but not too easily,' as Random Tech's Anthony Kay puts it. Apple boxes aren't beloved by accident. The company thinks about the way a box informs a product and takes boxing seriously for a reason. 'Not only does the box give people warm and fuzzy associations with the product from the get-go, but also, people form emotional attachments to the actual pieces of cardboard. Instead of tossing them like the trash that they are, people have been known to keep their iBoxes,' writes Greenfield. 'Instead of forgotten in a dump or recycling facility, the boxes sit on shelves serving as a constant reminder of the beauty within.'"