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Video: 192 Lasers, Nuclear Weapons, and Fusion Power
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 7:24pm EDT by Alexis Madrigal
Wired Science visits the high-security National Ignition Facility, which Department of Energy scientists hope will help manage the American nuclear weapons stockpile and provide the key to harnessing fusion power.
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Inside Operation Highlander: NSA's Wiretapping of Americans Overseas
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:15pm EDT by Kim Zetter
A top secret NSA wiretapping facility accused of wiretapping innocent Americans abroad was hastily staffed with inexperienced reservists in the months following September 11, where they worked under conflicting orders and with little supervision, according to three former workers at spy complex.
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VeriSign, ICANN Square Off Over DNS Root
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:59pm EDT by Ryan Singel
As the U.S. government starts the process of closing a major net vulnerability, two longtime net infrastructure rivals -- the non-profit ICANN and for-profit VeriSign -- are battling over who will compile and verify the net's most important document. Internet experts give the nod to ICANN and bring up VeriSign's greedy past.
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What's On Your CSS Wishlist?
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:48pm EDT
Cascading Style Sheets are a key component to presenting content on web pages. But the standard, now more than ten years old, has its limits. If you had your say in the discussion to improve CSS, what would you ask for?
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Underground Whispering Campaign Could Undermine McCain
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:29pm EDT by Sarah Lai Stirland
An e-mail circulating online that looks like a revealing personal account of a vacation taken with John McCain could undermine his image of an upright character since a lot of people appear to believe unverified information forwarded to them by their friends.
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Climate Models Trump Financial Models Phew!
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT by Alexis Madrigal
While earth scientists and investment bankers both employ data-heavy computer models, climate models are on much firmer ground than their shaky financial counterparts.
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How to Camp With Less Gear
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT by Magazine
With all the gear you pack up for your camping trip, sometimes you forget what camping is all about. These hardcore tips from Les Stroud of TV's Survivorman should strip us back down to just the essentials and get us back to nature.
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Real Ad Men Talk About Mad Men
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 4:31pm EDT by Meghan Keane
Every week on AMC TV's Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Wired.com asks a real-world ad man about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today.
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'Doctor Who' No. 1 Gal Pal Shares Secrets of Sarah Jane's Success
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:14pm EDT by John Scott Lewinski
Actress Elisabeth Sladen has played The Doctor's companion at various times since the '70s, becoming the lovable British equivalent of sci-fi legends like William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy. The star of hit Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures talks with Wired.com about developing the character over the years.
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Windows 7 Will Be Less Annoying Than Vista
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 2:00pm EDT by Michael Calore
Microsoft says it is scaling back the frequency of User Account Control, or UAC, prompts in the next version of Windows. The prompt system, which continually asks users to allow or deny certain actions, is widely seen as an annoyance and is regarded as one of Vista's worst features.
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