A federal probe into Google's search results could soon end with a settlement that largely keeps the U.S. government out of its business. But one of the search giant's most vocal critics says that however toothless the potential deal, Google will not have escaped untouched just yet.
NASA's moon-mapping GRAIL spacecraft will crash into a mountain near the lunar north pole at approximately 2:28 p.m. PT. The space agency will broadcast live commentary during the impact sequence, beginning at 2 p.m., from the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Feeds will be available on NASA TV and UStream.
None of the proposed fixes are fool-proof. Each of them comes with the potential to seriously backfire. But after Sandy Hook, it's time to a take a fresh look at the state of America's firearms market.
When a corporate vendor "deprecates" an API we've built on, it's really hard to shrug it off. So why not declare API's like Flickr's a National Historic Landmark? That's how neighborhoods in the physical world protect their character from corporate wrecking balls.
Today Instagram unleashed brand-new terms of service that has rubbed many of its loyal users the wrong way. Instagram can sell your photos to third parties for ads without telling you.
The National Rifle Association appears to have gone into social media lockdown mode.
The University of Chicago has figured out how they got that mystery journal intended for Indiana Jones. And it's a tale worthy of the movies.
Research test pilots at NASA recently completed a series of tests aimed at reducing fuel consumption in airplanes by fine tuning the software that controls fly-by-wire system.
Raspberry Pi, the low-cost, credit-card-sized linux computer platform that hit the market nine months ago, just reached a new milestone with today's launch of the Rasperry Pi Store. The online marketplace, available directly on the computer through the popular Raspbian operating system, as well as through a browser interface, will allow the community's rapidly growing user base to share applications they've created or ported for the $35 board.
Amazon is building some serious advertising technology.
You read that right. The first U.S. city to outfit itself entirely with electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids is Indianapolis, Indiana. Time to up your game San Francisco and Austin.
RIM announced the location and time of their January 30th BlackBerry 10 event. For the struggling Canadian company, it's either now or never.
[HTML1]The new Star Trek Into Darkness trailer offers more eye-gouging "Red Forest" chase chaos along with quick glimpses of Chris Pine's Kirk hurtling through space in solo mode and take a flying leap off a futuristic skyscraper. Yikes!Expanding on the short tease released earlier this month, the spookiest new stuff come courtesy of Brit Benedict ...
Biology can be fascinating at any scale, but the most intriguing aspects are the ones we can't see without the aid of a microscope. This year's winners of the ninth annual Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition are simply stunning. The top ten images and videos were chosen from nearly 2,000 entries from 62 countries.
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann want you to make architecture with robot arms.For decades, robots have been used on assembly lines to do things like make cars and package food. Over a long period of refinement, the iconic robot arm has become a nearly commoditized piece of hardware. You can buy them, and essentially plug then play. Their generalized capabilities make them very flexible in terms of application.
An unlikely, decadelong journey that began with the discovery of a rapidly aging mouse has led scientists to a protein that seems to protect animals from cancer and other scourges of old age?with no apparent downsides. There are still lots of mysteries about the protein, called BubR1, but the work offers clues about how protecting chromosomes can enhance health.
Twitter's Manager of Social Innovation discusses the unique issues of helping the Pope join the world of social media.
Whereas businesses once purchased servers from these big three to store and transport their digital goods, they?re now choosing to make their own servers and data centers. The server industry is being disrupted, and three key trends have evolved as a result of this disruption.
While it may look like other soundbars out there, GoldenEar's new SuperCinema 3D Array charts a slightly different course than its rectangular relatives.
The FDA is forgoing opportunities to compel companies to disclose data regarding the use of antibiotics in agriculture -- data that some say is in the public's interest to know. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna describes the situation.
The Mississippi River has been in the news lately -- in short, the water level is low enough to create a navigation hazard. Boats are running into the bottom of the too-shallow river. How much rain does the Mississippi river need to maintain its water level? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain considers the necessary calculations.
Some proposed rules and end conditions for dealing the many-headed hydra of Internet Arguments.
A lot of magical thinking sometimes goes through marketers' heads as they try to snatch their pieces of merchandising gold from one of the most valuable franchises in history.
Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols. It turns out to be a representation of the Aztec calendar and will eventually become a national treasure.
Last Christmas, photographer Wes Naman and his assistant Joy Godfrey were wrapping presents in Naman's photo studio when Godfrey randomly put a piece of scotch tape on her nose and pulled it into an awkward position. Seeing the silliness contained in a simple household item turned a light on in Naman's head.
World's Most Wired game designer Zach Gage's work asks provocative and relevant questions about our new lives in the digital cloud.
The PET Bottle Launcher, a $370 bazooka-like toy from Marudai in Japan, lets you do a shoulder-mounted take on a classic middle school physics demo. Just put some water in a 1-liter bottle, screw it onto the end of the tube, use a bike pump to pressurize the contents, aim, and fire.
If you've read Tim Ferriss' books, you know he'll do almost anything to himself in the name of self-improvement. And if you thought he took this too far in The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, just wait until The 4-Hour Chef, his new guide to the world of rapid learning. Turns out Ferriss has ...
In the early '90s, Phil Zimmermann was a peacenik with a half-written program that he swore would let people exchange messages privately. But Zimmermann could never find the time to finish the code -- until Joe Biden came along.
What the heck is DLNA and why you should care about it? I'll keep this simple. . What kinds of other devices? TVs, Blu-ray players, media boxes, and even smartphones and tablets. What's cool is that you might already own the gear you need. In that case, all you'd need is some free software for your PC. .
When it comes to managing business expenses, half the battle is keeping tabs on your mileage. Obviously there are plenty of apps that let you manually enter your miles or odometer readings—but that's still a pretty low-tech approach. But, hey, your smartphone has a built-in GPS, right? Seems like a smart app could leverage that to automatically keep tabs on where you drive for business. in a nutshell. Available for Android and iOS, this app monitors your mileage via GPS, tracks any parking, tolls, or other expenses, records fuel costs, and generates IRS-ready reports. All you do is set up your vehicle, then take a few seconds to create a new trip before you head out on the road. TripLog will automatically pinpoint your starting location, though you can enter a different location if needed.
is not knowing how much they will cost, given the pay-as-you-go model. "IT shops are becoming cost centers for service delivery," says William Fellows, a researcher at the 451 Group. "But they're looking for ways to determine how their clouds are running, how much it's costing and whether it's a good value." Vendors provide some services around tracking usage. Amazon Web Services, for example, last week announced more granular data, allowing users to track their services hour by hour. But there is a growing ecosystem of cloud management tools. Some help companies manage, track and optimize their use of public or private cloud resources. Others help companies automate and deploy cloud resources. And others act as a platform for managing public cloud resources.
And now in this corner, the scrappy competitor: Nitro Pro 8, a PDF application that costs just $120. In the other corner hulks Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, the reigning champion of PDF. Many PDF applications have challenged the champion; is Nitro Pro 8 the one to pull off the upset? It depends on what the audience wants to see and to pay for: If they're looking for an application that can get most of their PDF-related tasks done without many extras, then Nitro Pro 8 is the one to root for. Nitro Pro 8 lacks some of the newest features in the $449 , does. (You could argue that you don't need Acrobat XI Pro for that either; you can either download FormsCentral or simply use its website skip the PDF software entirely.) Nitro Pro 8 does not yet have the ability to scan a PDF and suggest form fields, as Acrobat XI Pro does. Likewise, Nitro Pro 8's digital signature features are basic PDF ones: You can add a "QuickSign," which is an image of your signature that you can password-protect; or you can add a digital signature, which entails creating a digital ID, which is an encrypted, key-based file you can generate within the application with Windows' help. I think some people may get these two types confused, but they're pretty easy to set up.
Your small business or fan Facebook page is probably fine just the way it is. But it could be a whole lot better. That's the idea behind Heyo Social, a nifty Web-based tool that allows you to add a whole lot of content to your Facebook fan or small business pages.To use Heyo Social to add content to your Facebook fan page, you simply sign in with Facebook. It will find any pages you manage, and within a few minutes you're ready to begin adding content. You do this by creating entirely new pages that are linked to your Facebook fan page through its tabs—those small squares that sit under the cover photo, showing photos and how many likes your page has. I can deal with Heyo's sometimes finicky tools, and I don't hold it against them that not everything works all of the time in Internet Explorer. But I really do wish that Heyo Social offered a save and preview feature. It's a major oversight in an otherwise excellent tool for those looking to expand their Facebook presence. The Download button on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor's site, where you can use the latest version of this Web-based software.
draws to close, retailers Best Buy, Walmart, and many others are enticing shoppers to buy from them with free shipping offers that expire Monday. , 1600 online retailers will offer free shipping on select electronics, clothes, and toys Monday. While the promotion is generally a boon to shoppers, offers vary from retailer to retailer and come with important caveats. For example, some "free shipping" offers restrict the items they will mail for free and others will only ship items at no charge if you spend beyond a certain threshold. It's also important to remember many online shops already offer free online shipping throughout the year. Amazon, which doesn't officially participate in Free Shipping Day, regularly offers Free Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Others, such as Best Buy, are offering free shipping as a special on Monday, but the big box retailer also has a long list of exclusions. As those that live in Alaska and Hawaii likely already know, the holiday shipping offers and guarantees only apply only those located in the continental U.S.
. What is Cain & Abel? It’s described as a Windows-based password recovery tool, but it does much, much more than just password recovery. The software can capture and monitor network traffic for passwords, crack encrypted passwords using various methods, record Voice over IP (VoIP) conversations, recover wireless network keys, and more. . Cain & Abel can perform a dictionary attack—essentially trying every word in the dictionary—to guess the password. It can also do a brute force attack, which attempts every possible combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols until it finds the right one, or cryptanalysis attacks that attempt to circumvent password encryption techniques. It could take hours, or possibly days, but given enough time Cain & Abel should be able to recover the password for you. There’s another way to put a tool like Cain & Abel to use for password security. You can run Cain & Abel against your password database to test the strength of your password policies. You might have a password policy in place, but you’d be surprised how easily some passwords that meet the password policy requirements can be cracked.
It seems that BlackBerry 10 is on track for an early 2013 release. RIM today announced the launch of a BlackBerry 10 Technical Preview program for 120 select customers. enterprise mobility management platform, as well as to a limited number of pre-production BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The beta will give these 120 organizations a chance to explore the features and benefits of BlackBerry 10, and provide valuable real-world feedback RIM can use to work out any remaining hiccups before BlackBerry 10 becomes available to the general public. The BlackBerry 10 Technical Preview participants span a variety of industries including financial, healthcare, government, insurance, media, and manufacturing. The lineup of beta testers includes 64 Fortune 500 corporations. .
A suspected fault in how Samsung Electronics has implemented the Android's kernel in several of its devices could allow a malicious application to gain total control over the device. The vulnerability was described on Saturday by the user "alephzain" on XDA Developers, a forum for mobile developers. It affects devices using the Exynos processor models 4210 and 4412. Alephzain wrote that the issue was a "huge mistake." (See also ) By Sunday, another developer on the forum, an Android application package (.apk) file that will successfully exploit the vulnerability. "You should be very afraid of this exploit," Chainfire wrote. "Any app can use it to gain root without asking and without any permissions on a vulnerable device."
After a decade of contentious legal debate, the case of accused hacker Gary McKinnon could finally be over with the announcement that he will not face charges in the UK. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer QC concluded that there was no likelihood of McKinnon being convicted for crimes carried out against servers in the U.S. "The potential difficulties in bringing a case in England and Wales now should not be underestimated, not least the passage of time, the logistics of transferring sensitive evidence prepared for a court in the U.S. to London for trial, the participation of U.S. government witnesses in the trial and the need fully to comply with the duties of disclosure imposed on the CPS, said Starmer in a statement. "The prospects of a conviction against Mr. McKinnon which reflects the full extent of his alleged criminality are not high."