Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 9:53 p.m.
From Star Trek to The Prisoner, creative types are busy raiding the past in a never-ending quest for the next successful remake. Sometimes they score; other times they fail miserably. These science fiction shows deserve to be spun into the futuristic mix.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 9:29 p.m.
The beta version of Adobe's image-processing program is promising, with speed improvements, built-in support for image sharing services like Flickr, and other new features.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 9:21 p.m.
Just in time for the holidays, the Business Software Alliance is offering London workers thousands of dollars if they rat out their bosses for software piracy violations.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 8:28 p.m.
As part of its 350th anniversary celebration, the Royal Society releases some truly historical, and often quite funny, scientific papers dating back to the 17th century.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 8 p.m.
Verizon and Yahoo oppose a FOIA request for the companies' menus of surveillance prices and services it offers the government, like wiretaps and pen registers.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 8 p.m.
Researchers have created flexible antennas that can be bent and twisted for use in consumer electronics, military equipment and even construction.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 7:24 p.m.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announces his new company in appropriate fashion: with a tweet on the network he created in 2006. His new company, Square, allows merchants and individuals accept secure payment from credit (and other) cards using a mobile phone.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 7 p.m.
In the new videogame based on James Cameron's highly anticipated sci-fi flick, blue giants deliver a big green message: Greed is bad, and humans are a cancer. But behind the scenes, the parallel teams working on the movie and the game forged a visionary alliance.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 6:51 p.m.
If Twitter has taught us anything, it's that information is much easier to consume when its tasty morsels are bite-sized. Learn from Twitter: Distill the web and consume more of it.
Wired News • Tuesday December 1 (2009) @ 6:36 p.m.
President Barack Obama is set to announce a rapid, six-month troop buildup in Afghanistan tonight. How does the U.S. military expect to get an additional 34,000 or so additional troops there in such short order?