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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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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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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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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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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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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Adobe's move to the Creative Cloud isn't sitting well with all of its customers. Over 5,000 of them have now signed a Change.org petition calling on the company to keep selling packaged software.
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Robert Xavier Burden used to paint nudes, but nearly a decade ago he shifted his eye from bare flesh to another sort of fetish. Now he spends thousands of hours creating massive, and massively nerdy, oil paintings of toys from his youth.
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On Sunday, PBS's 10 Buildings That Changed America will take a look at 10 buildings responsible for much of the architecture that we're familiar with, but don't always think of as iconically American.
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The first trailer for director Alfonso Cuar?n's sci-fi thriller Gravity is here. And it's hauntingly beautiful.
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Wired's gaming geeks discuss the week's news: Electronic Arts' Star Wars exclusive, a new Eternal Darkness (mostly) and more.
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Electric vehicle prices are coming down, but the cost of chargers has always hovered in the $1,000-$2,000 range. That's changing with the introduction of a residential charger for a scant $450.
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Arya, aka the best character on Game of Thrones, was the fastest-rising name for girls on the Social Security Administration's annual list of baby names released yesterday.
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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, has always been a combination of big science, high sleaze, and pure conspiratorial strangeness. Somehow, it just got sleazier and stranger.
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Put on your reading glasses and grab a magnifying glass, or better yet, a microscope for this one!
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It's safe to say that anyone that bikes dreams of riding a Tron Light Cycle. Revolights makes that a little closer to reality, and a new built-in version is helping the system become even more lightweight and simple than the original bolt-on version.
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This week, staff writers Mat Honan and Roberto Baldwin get physical with the Fitbit Flex and share some good news about Windows 8.
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American pilots can breathe easier. Russia isn't going to sell Syria the advanced S-300 air defense missile. Not that the Air Force wants to strike Syria, but still.
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In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Wired invites all of our readers to a unique game of Twenty Questions.
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