A federal appeals court has ruled that three suspects targeted in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to know from which companies, other than Twitter, the government sought to obtain their records.
Employees of Relic Games celebrate their acquisition by Sega in style.
What happens when you stretch a Lotus Exige to fit a 1,244-horsepower Corvette engine? You get the Hennessey Venom GT and a new record for the quickest car in the world.
Fans of indie musician Jonathan Coulton were incensed last week when an alleged
Researchers at the University of Southern California are using MRI to try to figure out how beatboxers do their thing.
It's been just about three months since the fourth-generation iPad was announced, so naturally, it's time for some rumors and reports of the fifth-gen model to start rolling in -- along with reports on the next-generation iPhone.
From Sasquatch to the Starship Enterprise, we?ve collected some of our favorite science and tech-related White House petitions. And, of course, included the White House homebrew recipe.
Mobile phones purchased beginning Saturday can no longer be legally unlocked by consumers to enable them to be used on competing networks.
Volkswagen stakes a claim to the single largest solar installation of any automotive manufacturing facility in the U.S. at the company?s Tennessee plant.
Facebook has locked out a mobile app from Russian internet powerhouse Yandex. It's the latest examples of how social networks are increasingly hoarding their information and locking out potential competitors.
In Silicon Valley?s cutthroat market for hiring engineers, free food and bicycles is no longer enough to entice applicants. That forced the CEO of San Francisco-based data startup WibiData to get so creative in his process to find new staffers that he built a company-themed overlay for the popular puzzle game
Nissan's fourth-generation Pathfinder covers all the points required of a crossover, but in doing so, serves none of them outstandingly.
Ski rodeo is a perfect weird sport for Colorado, a place with a long history of ranching, a deep love of skiing and people only too happy to combine the two.
Get your spell-caster on, explore castles, and lop off heads. Lop off lots of heads.
Special Operations Forces from at least three countries are doing the heavy lifting in the Mali war.
GitHub has temporarily crippled its new search tools in an effort to protect users caught storing private keys and passwords in public repositories. Unfortunately for those exposed Google long ago indexed your data, which means it's already on the web for anyone to find. Here's how to fix your GitHub mistakes and minimize the damage.
Private spaceflight companies bring the promise of cheaper access to space and greater opportunities for science. But with those opportunities come greater risks. Wired Science blogger Jeffrey Marlow reports.
Between medications and food, there?s a huge swath of edible products that don?t need approval from the FDA, including energy drinks and weight-loss pills. Manufacturers test their products for safety, rarely offer test results that vouch for efficacy, or mention the less savory ingredients in their products.
Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting.
Architects draw detailed plans before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. But few programmers write even a rough sketch of what their programs will do before they start coding. Some may argue that the analogy between specifications and blueprints is flawed because programs aren?t like buildings: Tearing down walls is hard but changing code is easy. But changing code is hard ? especially if we don?t want to introduce bugs.
PWDR is an open source, inkjet-based 3-D printer that has the potential to bring a
A look at the tech of the past that shaped the lives we lead now.
New car owners pretty much hate their car's navigation system, which are too often riddled with complex menus, bungled voice commands and general lack of intuitiveness. They'd much rather use their smartphone.
Candy bars heading for the space station can hitch a ride on the European Space Agency's unmanned Automated Transfer Vehicle. But how much energy does it take to get one candy bar into orbit?
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server loaded with software that typically drives the Facebook website and started messing with the CPU.
A behind-the-scenes look into the making of the Millennium Falcon Mardi Gras float created by the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus.
If the latest crop of biometric systems work as advertised, they may be able to identify you without you ever knowing you?ve been spotted, with more accuracy, and from farther away. Here are 11 projects.
At first glance, Kristain Schmidt and Shawn Heinrichs' photos of models swimming with whale sharks off the coast of the Philippines appear heavily Photoshopped. But while the levels and colors have been manipulated and the backgrounds tweaked, the most striking part ? the models' proximity to sharks ? is real.
Academics say the six-second constraint imposed by Twitter's new video system could unleash an unpredictable flurry of creativity.
This week on the Gadget Lab show, the gang talks about Apple?s blockbuster sales and (to some) disappointing earnings, and checks out Twitter?s new video app, Vine.
Atari hat mit einem Konkurs das Handtuch geschmissen - um sich zu erholen und neu zu erfinden. Atari begründete die Videospielkultur wie kein anderes Unternehmen.
Jedes zweite verkaufte Smartphone kommt von Samsung oder Apple. Auf Platz drei folgte Ende 2012 bereits der chinesische Shootingstar Huawei, der bekannte Marken wie Nokia hinter sich liess.
Der iPhone-Hersteller führte 2012 fast 400 Inspektionen bei seinen asiatischen Zuliefer-Firmen durch. Fazit: Die grössten Probleme sind ausufernde Überstunden und schädliche Chemikalien.
Über den Kurznachrichtendienst WhatsApp wird schlüpfrige Werbung verbreitet. Spammer versuchen Ahnungslose zum Abschluss eines Erotik-Abos zu verführen.
Wir sind in die Archive gestiegen und haben die besten hundert Videospiele herausgepickt. Jetzt sind Sie an der Reihe: Verraten Sie uns im Duell, welche Games Sie begeistern.
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Nicht nur Aussenseiter werden Opfer von Cybermobbing. Die Schweizerische Kriminalprävention warnt in einer jetzt erschienenen Broschüre davor.
Beim Suchmaschinen-Riesen zu arbeiten ist kein Honigschlecken. Trotzdem gilt Google als einer der beliebtesten Arbeitgeber. Denn niemand weiss besser, wie man seine Mitarbeiter umgarnt.
Holländische Architekten planen, ein spektakuläres 1000 Quadratmeter grosses Gebäude mithilfe eines 3D-Druckers zu erstellen. Das erste Objekt soll bereits 2014 realisiert werden.
Zelda und Super Mario kehren im Doppelpack zurück: Nintendo kündigt in einem Video zahlreiche Spiele an, nach denen Fans seit Monaten lechzen. Auch Yoshi und Retro-Games geben bald ihr Wii-U-Debüt.
Das Warten der iPhone-5-Besitzer auf das ultraschnelle 4G-Netz soll bald ein Ende haben. Laut Apple-Chef Tim Cook ist es nächste Woche so weit. Die Swisscom kann dies allerdings nicht bestätigen.
Noch sind die Chinesen die Underdogs in der Smartphone-Branche. Doch Firmen wie Huawei heizen Apple, Samsung und Co. mit viel Leistung für wenig Geld mächtig ein.
Canon bringt zwei neue EOS-Kameras, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten. Die 6D begeistert durch ihren Vollformat-Sensor, die kleinere EOS M ist eher eine aufgemotzte Kompaktkamera.
Der US-Technologiekonzern Apple hat im ersten Geschäftsquartal Rekordverkäufe bei iPhones und iPads erreicht. Der Gewinn stagniert indes wegen hoher Entwicklungskosten des iPhone 5.
Der neue Online-Speicherdienst des umtriebigen Internet-Tausendsassas hat laut Experten erhebliche Lücken. Die Verschlüsselung lasse sich knacken, lautet der happige Vorwurf.