Android App's Data Collection Raises Mobile-Security Questions
- An Android app's data-collection practice has raised concerns about user privacy and security on mobile phones.
Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century of Global Warming
- A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change.
Genome Surprise: Guinea Pigs Have Ebola!
- A genomic hunt for virus genes traced sequences to Ebola and the closely related Marburg virus in no fewer than six vertebrate species. The genes appear to have been mixed in about 40 million years ago, and have stuck around ever since.
Nexus One Phone Rides a Rocket Up 28,000 Feet
- A group of rocket enthusiasts used a rocket to send a Nexus One phone 28,000 feet into the atmosphere.
Twitter Convert Kanye West Changes His Rap
- Rapper Kanye West, who might be more famous for his controversial pronouncements over the years than for his music, would seem the perfect candidate for starting a Twitter account, but rejected the notion. However, he changed his mind by starting an account and rapping at Twitter's headquarters on Wednesday.
Brammo Builds Another Sweet Electric Race Bike
- If the Empulse RR runs as well as it looks, the competition should be very nervous.
Researcher Demonstrates ATM 'Jackpotting' at Black Hat Conference
- LAS VEGAS — In a city filled with slot machines spilling jackpots, it was a 'jackpotted' ATM machine that got the most attention Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference, when researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated two suave hacks against automated teller machines that allowed him to program them to spew out dozens of crisp bills.
Feature-Laden GPS Camera Has No Sense of Direction
- The Samsung HZ35W would be a great GPS-enabled camera, if it could only give us accurate coordinates.
Wind-Powered Cart Goes Faster Than the Wind
- A wind-powered vehicle can travel downwind faster than the wind. It's been proven at El Mirage. Not that we expect the debate to end quietly.
July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon
- President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle
- Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales.
Photoshop of Horrors: Readers Show BP How It's Done
- We asked for your help to show BP how to improve upon their terribly Photoshopped oil-cleanup images, and you delivered some awesome images.
U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons
- The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't AK-47s or grenades -- they're roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. Here’s how the U.S. military is fighting back.
Let the Little Guys Get In on Pre-IPO
- The rich are adding to their millions with pre-IPO stock, but today's internet stock rockets are social networks built by their members -- so shouldn’t Regular Joes get a cut, too?
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring
- The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real-time -- and says it uses that information to predict the future.
What's the Fastest and Best ISP in Your City? Look It Up Here
- Rankings of the best and fastest ISPs in U.S. cities are now available, thanks to stats from Speedtest.net. And while the country is far from leading the world, the nation's tubes aren't nearly as bad as many suspect.
W3C's Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once
- Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously.
Court Says Privacy Advocate May Publish Social Security Numbers
- A federal appeals court orders Virginia's attorney general to back away from threats of suing a woman for posting elected officials' Social Security numbers. The reason: The government published the private data first.
Making of a Meme: The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With Legs
- A storm of Star Wars-themed jokes hit Twitter, mimicking WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of U.S. military memos. Only this stuff is funny. Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo shares techniques he used to get the #wookieeleaks hashtag to take off.
Porsche Greenlights 918 Hybrid Supercar
- With a zero-to-60 time around 3 seconds, a top speed of 198 mph and 78 mpg, it'll be the coolest hybrid none of us will ever drive.
Wired.com Video: Is Comic-Con Still a Comic-Book Convention?
- This year's Comic-Con International in San Diego marks the 41st year of a comic-book convention gone pop. Originally, Comic-Con consisted of a few nerds swapping comics, but now it's a multimillion-dollar event. Wired.com asks Grant Morrison, Thomas Jane and others how the convention has changed over the years.
Warming Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life
- In two separate studies, researchers find that warming oceans lead to a massive decline in the amount of plant life in the sea over the last century. They say temperature is tightly linked to global patterns of marine biodiversity.
Marsupial DNA Redraws Family Tree
- Genetic evidence shows that a South American ancestor gave rise to all Australian marsupials, and that the South American opossums were the earliest group to branch off from the other six marsupial clans.
Dark Dust Trails Form When Whirlwinds Suck Sand Grains Clean
- The ephemeral dark trails left in desert sand by dust devils are produced when the whirlwinds blow tiny particles of lighter-colored silt and dust off larger sand grains, a new study shows.
Apple Updates Safari, Turns on Extensions
- Safari 5.0.1 has been released. This version updates support for lightweight extensions, and Apple has launched a gallery featuring over 100 of them created by third parties.
Wii Air Force: Will Gamer Gloves Help Fly Combat Jets?
- Flipping switches and pulling throttles is so old. The Air Forces wants its new pilots to fly jets with electronics-packed gloves.
Letter From Silicon Valley: Doing the Math on Android vs. Apple
- The fight between Google and Apple is not over phones: It's a software-platform war. The trouble with this horse race is that one horse's progress is measured in meters and the other in yards. The comparison between Android and the iPhone is meaningless.
High Performing Laptop Is Stuck Squarely in the Past
- Meet the Ava Direct gaming rig, a notebook computer with modern components but with mid '00s styling and heft.
Burning in a Heat Wave? Let Dyson's Latest Fan Blow You Away
- A fan without blades? That could only come from a company that makes a vacuum without bags.
Birth Control Messes With Monkey Business
- The powerful hormones in birth-control drugs change how lemurs smell, radically altering the subtle chemical cues that guide their attraction and communication.
Facebook data hoarder speaks out
- Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.
Google cleared of wi-fi snooping
- No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.
Amazon offers new look UK Kindle
- Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.
Nintendo game copiers 'illegal'
- A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games on the Nintendo DS console are illegal in the UK.
Government's £6m web search bill
- Four government departments spent almost £6m ensuring their websites appeared on search engine results pages, new figures show.
Legal action on 'zombie cookies'
- Lawsuit filed in San Francisco district court after firms resurrected deleted browser cookies.
State of global internet revealed
- Asian countries top the charts when it comes to internet speeds, according to a global survey by network giant Akamai.
Green light for mobile auctions
- The government has finally set a date for the auction of airwaves crucial to next-generation mobile services.
Botnet hacker caught in Slovenia
- One of the hackers behind a computer virus that infected nearly 13m computers has been tracked down by international authorities.
Long wait for StarCraft II ends
- The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released.
Facebook makes move into search
- Facebook has made its first steps into the search market with the launch a servcie that allows users to quiz the site's 500m members.
Britain's oldest Tweeter dies at the age of 104
- 104-year-old Ivy Bean, who is said to be the oldest user of social media site Twitter, has passed away in her sleep.
Online etiquette
- Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson
Step away from the iPod
- Banning technology from classrooms is unlikely to solve any problems, thinks Bill Thompson.
Building the Networked World
- Open software, fast broadband and a narrower digital divide. Europe lays out its digital agenda.
Facebook battles privacy and profit
- Is the social network's pursuit of short-term profits risking its long-term survival?
Websites take on bogus reviewers
- Search engines and websites are seeking ways to beat spammers who post fake reviews
Gadgets embraced by Wimbledon
- How the oldest tennis tournament and its fans are embracing modern technology.
Hi-tech help for disaster zones
- How technology has ushered in a new era for aid work in disaster zones
New era for African independence
- Programmers, developers and software makers herald a new era of African independence.
Can someone download a doctor?
- Afridoctor offers personal medical advice and emergency distress service via mobile phone.
View from the end of the world
- Photographers and film-makers capture their 3-D views of the corners of virtual worlds
Girl Geeks: Women in tech on top
- Are women happy being known as geeks?
Ash cloud passengers publish zine
- The volcanic ash cloud that shut down British airspace, leaving thousands of travellers stranded also brought many strangers together digitally to create a silver lining.
On a mission with the rocket men
- In our series about makers and hackers, we look at the world of amateur rocket-makers.
Resurrecting Victorian technology
- The release of an album on wax cylinder inspired us to try to make a phonograph to play it.
Robots and gaming at hi-tech school
- Robot and video game design classes are par for the course at San Diego's High Tech High.
Who will win the 3D TV war?
- Some of the biggest names in Japan's technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders.
The man with the keys to the web
- A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to help restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4's PM programme about what he might be called upon to do in an international online emergency.
Gamers try out Nintendo 3DS
- Two Newsbeat listeners, Neil and Melanie, have been given a sneak preview of Nintendo's new hand-held console the 3DS.
HTC makes first foray into China
- One of the world's top designers of smartphones, Taiwan's HTC, has announced it is moving into the Chinese market for the first time.
Can you crack the cyber-crime code?
- A Britain's Got Talent style competition is being held to find UK's finest IT workers.
Space age sub explores slick
- David Shukman takes a dive in a research sub as it investigates the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico's coral reefs.
Why women gamers are big business
- Almost half the people who play computers games in Britain are women, but they often prefer a different type of game to men.
Royal family opens Flickr account
- Rare pictures of the Royal family have been posted on the internet after Buckingham Palace opened an account on photo sharing website Flickr.
Speed limit
- What makes your broadband connection slow?
Sneak preview
- The world's first 3D handheld console on test
What is Wikileaks?
- A look at the secretive whistle-blowing website
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Amazon unveils 3rd-generation Kindle e-book reader
- Amazon's third-generation Kindle is lighter, smaller and faster, with a sharper display, longer battery life and twice the storage.
Report: Travelers and teens flocked to the Web in June
- It's not all that surprising, really, but Web sites for travellers and teens gained the most visitors in June vs. May, researchers at comScore ...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation cool but not foolproof
- It's cool to use your voice instead of a keyboard to input text or give commands to your PC, and Dragon also has come a long way since 1997. ...
Cybergang goes after job-seekers with check scam
- Job-seekers beware. A Russian cybergang is running a campaign offering to pay you up to $500 to cash expertly faked business checks.
Volume of Kindle book sales stuns Amazon's Jeff Bezos
- USA TODAY Personal Technology columnist Edward C. Baig visited Amazon's Jeff Bezos in Seattle to discuss Kindle, tablets and e-books in general. ...
Alice Cooper and Runaways sign onto 'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'
- The Runaways and Alice Cooper are among the acts added to the playlist for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
Review: 'StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty'
- It took Michelangelo more than four years to complete his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It took Blizzard nearly twice as long ...
"˜Spider: Bryce Manor' makes its HD debut on iPad
- Tiger Style's cult smash for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available in high-definition for the Apple iPad.
'Madden NFL' stats: the breakdown
- As we look forward to the release of Madden NFL 11 on Aug. 10, the makers of the franchise provide a look back at last season's online gaming ...
Blue Microphones' USB models are popular
- The market for microphones is down in the U.S., but Blue Microphones is thriving by focusing on a different microphone customer: the consumer. ...
Nintendo slumps to loss as game sales fade
- Nintendo, maker of the Wii home console and DS handheld, slumped into the red last quarter as sales faded amid a strong yen and a lack of new ...
Market researchers get new tool in iPad
- The struggling world of consumer market research appears to be getting a serious boost from an unexpected new tool: the iPad.
Hollywood bracing for a Christmas 3D logjam says DreamWorks chief
- Movie studios may be seeing red this Christmas as they struggle to secure theaters that can show new 3D films in their multidimentional glory, ...
Survey: Consumers uneasy about the economy; still plan to spend on tech
- Here's more evidence how much people love their toys: Consumers plan to keep buying electronic gadgets even though they see the economy headed ...
Report: 2000s were warmest decade on record, global warming 'undeniable'
- A new report released today by federal government scientists says that the decade from 2000-2009 was the Earth's warmest on record, and that ...
Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins
- Amazon.com, the maker of the Kindle e-reader, is introducing two new smaller, lighter versions with high-contrast screens and crisper text.
Telefónica Wins Full Control of Brazil Phone Venture
- The $9.75 billion deal should end a dispute between Telefónica and Portugal Telecom over their joint cellphone operation in Brazil.
Monitoring Elderly Parents
- New technologies can help adult children keep track of their aging parents.
Congress Is Rethinking Its Ban on Internet Gambling
- Under pressure to find new revenue sources, Congress is reconsidering legalizing, and taxing, Internet gambling.
Researcher Releases Facebook Profile Data
- A security researcher released a file containing the names, profile addresses and identification numbers of more than 100 million Facebook users.
Tech Talk Podcast: Wikimania and Socks by Subscription
- Noam Cohen discusses the recent Wikimania convention in Poland and Samy Liechti explains how his Internet sock-subscription company works.
Have a Question? Ask Facebook.
- Facebook introduced Facebook Questions, becoming the latest Web company to start a personalized Q. & A. search engine.
What We're Reading: Tech Heirlooms
- Google getting suggestive, tech products as heirlooms and the meaning behind a surge in Bible apps hit the reading list.
Video Technology Added at New Meadowlands Stadium
- With the New Meadowlands Stadium set to give fans free applications, enhanced video and the ability to compete against other fans, is the live game no longer enough?
Advertising: Fox Uses Previews to Give ‘Lone Star’ Wide Exposure
- A new television series will be seen by Vanity Fair readers, cruise line passengers, hotel guests and iPad owners before its network premiere.
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Weakened Arizona immigrant rules still draw protests
- PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to block key parts of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants and police in Phoenix arrested scores of activists protesting the remaining measures in the law.
Unemployment claims fall, but still elevated
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits slipped last week, but stayed at a stubbornly high level that underscored the labor market recovery was having trouble gaining traction.
BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stage
- BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged.
WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, U.S. says
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, the Pentagon said on Thursday, warning its unprecedented leak of secret U.S. military files could cost lives and damage trust of allies.
Fed officials clash on need for more stimulus
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials clashed on Thursday over whether the central bank should be more aggressive in supporting the stumbling economy and one said the Fed's current policy may be contributing to worryingly low levels of inflation.
Special Report: A Mississippi Yankee in BP's battered court
- HATTIESBURG, Miss./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bob Dudley is not one to wear his disappointment on his sleeve.
Heavy rains delay salvage of crashed Pakistan plane
- ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.
Arabs back direct peace talks when Abbas sees fit
- CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League said on Thursday it would back face-to-face peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel when the Palestinians believe the time is right.
Republican concerns could stall START treaty
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Republicans voiced objections on Thursday to the new START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, raising concerns that could delay efforts to hand President Barack Obama a foreign policy victory ahead of the November elections.
Ethics panel reviews tentative Rangel deal: source
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives ethics panel on Thursday began reviewing a "tentative agreement" to settle charges against Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, a congressional source said on Thursday.
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