It's unclear what exactly Zakaria Kandahari's relationship with U.S. Special Forces is, but the Afghans claim to have a video showing him torturing civilians.
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The Supreme Court on Monday for the first time backed patents for a self-replicating technology -- Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soybeans -- along with its licensing agreement that allows farmers to use them only once.
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Some nonprofits try to change the world by collecting signatures on petitions, others by blocking whaling ships, but Thought Caf? is trying to better the world through design ? specifically by using YouTube and Vimeo to share their animated infographics to help explain complex issues. The project seems to be working; their flagship series has just crossed 30 million views, and they've recently announced a new infographic-driven movie that features Jane Goodall among others.
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The progressive values of the show seem to have faltered?and even started falling behind the mainstream?by failing to add LGBT members to the crew of the Enterprise.
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Steering wheels, watch your backs. This summer will see the world's first production steer-by-wire car -- the steering wheel talks to a computer, and the computer talks to the wheels. Here's a breakdown of the new system.
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Even a group of bandits hauling backpacks stuffed with millions likely won't speed the U.S. conversion to more secure card tech.
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Amtrak passengers along the Northeast Corridor and in Pennsylvania will start seeing new hardware up front, with brand new locomotives replacing ones that are between 25 and 35 years old.
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California is studded with a network of sensors that can perceive almost any motion in the ground, including the slightest perturbation of the Earth's crust. The network began as a seismology research project, to track earthquakes in this fault-ridden part of the world. But as technologies developed, the network became more sophisticated, gathering far more ...
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We've got the gear you need for rolling to work safety and stylishly, whether you're a hardcore racer, a seasoned commuter or an urban hipster with money to burn.
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Carlos Slim's profit-taking is neither illegal nor evil. It's entirely rational for him to allocate capital to dividends and profits rather than investing in upgrades to his network, much less encouraging his competitors. He is in harvesting mode, because neither competition nor oversight pushes him to do anything else. What stands between us and Mexico? We have several monopolists, not just one.
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Federal authorities prosecuting two brothers on allegations they plotted to blow up a high-profile target in New York City are refusing to divulge whether they cracked the case by employing a style of warrantless electronic eavesdropping first introduced by President George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11.
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Wired is celebrating Bike to Work Week by reviewing the hottest bikes and gear out there today, but in order to appreciate how far we've come, it's also time to take a look back.
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In his first interview since taking over as the head of Android, Sundar Pichar talks about his plans for the world's most popular mobile operating system and how it can play nice with Chrome.
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Highlight CEO Paul Davison imagines ushering in a new form of publishing information about ourselves leveraging the increasingly powerful phones in our pockets, and the increasing number of connections we are making between each other. But rather than existing on some digital page on Facebook or LinkedIn, the publishing platform Davison imagines persists in the ?air above our heads.?
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A new season of Arrested Development is coming to Netflix in less than two weeks. Not a moment too soon the streaming service has released a trailer for the upcoming episodes. Check it out here.
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A novel coronavirus continues to spread, with infections now reported in France. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna reports on the latest developments, including a statement from the WHO.
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The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.
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Copenhagen Suborbitals is ready to begin tackling the giant, 20-meter rocket that will carry the space capsule aloft -- and have made the designs available for download. Wired Science blogger Kristian von Bengtson has an update from the DIY Spaceflight company.
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This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear as muted orange color. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right.
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The PROplus iPad Keyboard from Zagg is perfect for traveling typists, as long as they can handle a little extra weight.
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ABC has finally confirmed what everyone expected all along: Joss Whedon's Avengers TV spin-off, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is getting a series.
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Sailors of catamarans ? those light, fleet, double-hulled sailboats ? accept capsizing as a part of the game and train for flips before they ever grasp a tiller. Without the massive center-weighted keel of traditional monohulled sailboats, catamarans are much faster and more difficult to keep stable during maneuvers. The risk is especially well-understood by the America?s Cup crewmembers who will race the leading edge AC72 boats in July. But an abiding respect for these untested behemoths wasn?t enough to keep them safe Thursday, when a member of Artemis racing was killed when his boat crashed.
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If you're a fan of Adult Swim's eclecticism, you'll love the channel's 2013/2014 schedule, which mixes Community's Dan Harmon, rock operas and Mike Tyson.
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Nothing ruins a dramatic scene like buffering, so do yourself a favor and optimize your rig for streaming video.
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A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill -- the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013. So you might assume that Congress will make a rational decision to guarantee our rights. But don?t kid yourself: This is an uphill battle. Technology advocates don?t have a great record of legislative wins compared to the deep-pocketed carriers and content lobbyists who are masters of playing the long game.
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