Sabeen Mahmud has short-cropped hair and rectangular glasses; she?d fit right in hunched over a laptop at Philz or behind the counter at one of Apple?s Genius Bars. Her resume matches her style. She?s founded a small tech company, opened a hip coffee shop and organized a successful hackathon. But Mahmud doesn?t hail from the ...
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Cycling is a pretty big deal in the Bay Area, where it's been said cycling is the new golf. So it should come as no surprise to learn that nearly every tech company from Twitter to Intuit has a dedicated band of riders, who rock some sweet kit.
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Now that there's an open call for people to go to Mars for Dutch reality television, it's time to think up some science-fiction-meets-science-reality shows. Here are a few.
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Every fan has their favorite Star Trek episode, but there are a lot that don't get nearly as much love as they deserve. Here are just a few.
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Accenture announced yesterday it will acquire design firm Fjord, making the consulting firm one of a growing list of multi-faceted companies that are integrating design into their product by buying whole studios.
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In his project, Family Meal, photographer Douglas Adesko?joins families at home or at their favorite dinner spot so he can document the long tradition of breaking bread together.
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Offered by Amosu for around $4,300, this iPad wears a 24-karat jacket and a Apple logo made of 360 Swarovski crystals, and is otherwise just like every other iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.
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When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. But there was a problem. The Internet Census was illegal. Somebody ? nobody knows exactly who ? had built a network of hacked computers called the Carna botnet to generate the data.
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Generally speaking, Google I/O has been bad luck for products launched there. So now the developer conference is turning into mellower, lower-profile affair, starting today.
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How a career con man made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online¿and pulled off a federal sting that cost Google $500 million.
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Star Trek films: They don't make 'em like they used to. With the imminent release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, Wired's arbiter of geek culture, Angry Nerd, fumes over Captain Kirk and the Starfleet becoming "typical, blockbuster action heroes" and pines for the franchise's Golden Age of DIY stunts and primitive charm. Where have you gone, William Shatner?
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Airbus pulled its newest airliner, the A350 XWB, out of the paint booth this week and may well be the big story at the upcoming Paris Air Show.
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ABC has released a new, nearly three-minute trailer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as agent IDs for the main cast. Coulson lives!
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Google I/O, Google?s yearly developer conference, kicks off tomorrow. Last year brought us, among other things, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and Google Glass-wearing skydivers falling through the sky to San Francisco?s Moscone Center. What will this year?s event hold?
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We now live in an Orwellian world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of drug dealers and spies if he or she wishes to talk to the press ? Just imagine if Mark Felt had to do all this when leaking to Woodward and Bernstein.
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From torture allegations to dead U.S. soldiers, it's been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. But to the admiral in charge of America's special operation forces, things are going rather well there.
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A prominent computer security researcher says he recently rejected a request by a Saudi telecommunications company to help it spy on mobile customers.
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For the first time ever, the Navy launched a drone off an aircraft carrier at sea today. It just didn't land on the carrier, a much harder task.
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The sun has unleashed three strong solar flares since Sunday evening, punctuating a short period of increased solar restlessness that comes as scientists are keeping an eye out for this cycle?s solar maximum.
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Take a trip around the solar system and bring the entire city of New York with you in these captivating drawings showing how the atmospheres of other planets would interact with the iconic metropolitan skyline.
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Google CEO Larry Page says both his vocal chords are partially paralyzed, a "very rare" condition. He'll be speaking softly and funding research.
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Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view.
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Google Now Cards are amazing. The location-based search service can tell you whether the commute home will be hellish or merely miserable. Knowing what time your bus arrives or whether the day will bring driving rain or glorious sunshine is simply a swipe and tap away. Google Now does this via individual cards that handle ...
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Officially, Ryan Christopher Fogle worked as a junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. According to Moscow, he was a spy working for the CIA. If so, he screwed up bad.
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BlackBerry just introduced a cheaper phone. With colors. The new Q5 is the company's first entry into the mid- to low-cost phone range since introducing its new operating system, BlackBerry 10. The phone is designed and built for emerging markets, according to CEO Thorsten Heins. It will be launched by global carrier partners this July, ...
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