In many ways, Google+ is still struggling to define itself. But there's been one clear success story inside the Google social network: Video "Hangouts," which have proven popular in group communications, from academia to large corporations to startups.
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New materials. Outlandish technologies. Insane movements. Today?s watchmakers are engineering the most complicated mechanical timepieces ever.
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I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco?s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms.
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Anyone who has spent time in blustery, rainy climates knows the frustration of an umbrella defeated by the elements. In 2009, designer Federico Venturi experienced this frustration firsthand and, instead of throwing away the broken umbrella like everyone else does, decided to use it as inspiration for everything an umbrella should not be.
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It's hard to resist rubbernecking when we pass an accident on the freeway. What's happening is none of our business, but we do it anyway. This voyeuristic urge is what Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt wants to explore in his series, Car Crash Studies.
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The biggest question that comes up in Star Trek Into Darkness: What does this mean for Star Wars?
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NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.
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The Justice Department's internal watchdog found "significant problems" in how the feds handle terrorists who snitch and get new identities. They can evade no-fly lists. Some actually have.
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The Meteor Entertainment employee who helped create Brosie the Riveter spoke with Wired about the prank that went viral, and about what the internet's reaction to it could tell us about the gender problem in the gaming industry.
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Nintendo has said that it is working with YouTube to place advertisements in front of user-created videos of Nintendo games. This might be a bad idea.
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In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without a court order.
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As bloated as it might be, Apple isn't forgetting about iTunes. Cupertino released the latest update to its music/video/movies/app manager and player today.
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Design freaks (and freaks of any persuasion, really) can find a digital treasure chest of entertaining content in the realm of the podcast. Allowing for interested parties to expand beyond radio/tv/print restrictions, the format continues to grow in professionalism and regard.
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Over 10 days in November 1983, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Now newly declassified documents reveal just how close we reached a mutual destruction -- because of an exercise.
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At Google's annual I/O developer conference Thursday, the company announced the first big wave of third-party Glass apps, dubbed Glassware.
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Four leading hackers from LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, were sentenced today to between two and two-and-a-half years in prison in London for their roles in hacking Sony and a series of other targets in 2011.
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A Danish ferry operator has begun converting a diesel-electric ship into a diesel-electric hybrid. When it's done, it will be the world's largest hybrid passenger ferry. Scandlines commissioned the retrofit of the Prinsesse Benedikte, a ship that can carry 300 vehicles and 900 passengers on the short, 11-mile hop between R?dbyhavn, Denmark and Puttgarden, Germany. Thanks ...
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No longer will anyone have to hire Tobias F?nke -- his new web site lets people insert him into any available openings they have.
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Electronic Arts says it will no longer include an Online Pass that makes used-game buyers pay extra for online game services.
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers is launching a fellowship program for design students, announcing today the assignments awarded that will connect some of the best students from some of the best schools with some of the most design-influenced startups (and not-so-startups) on the venture capital giant's client list for 3-month appointments.
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Studying and practicing math is so difficult and boring that very few people do it. A new study suggest there may be an easier way. Scientists stimulated volunteers' brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. Those who received this brain stimulation learned quicker -- and retained a performance edge six months later.
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The war against al-Qaida is far from winding down, according to top Pentagon officials. The Pentagon's chief of irregular warfare sees it lasting for 10 to 20 more years.
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If machines are going to become as smart as Google and NASA want them to be, they may need a whole new type of computing to get them there. Quantum computing, that is. So today Google said it's opening a lab -- complete with quantum computer -- called the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. It's hosted at ...
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From even a short distance, this West African Gaboon viper looks just like a pile of dead leaves. New research shows that the highly-camouflaged snake owes its elusiveness to nanostructures in its black scales.
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For fans wondering what happens after Star Trek Into Darkness, you won't have long to wait to find out; IDW's Star Trek comic launches the sequel next week.
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