Wired: Top Stories (21 unread)
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Google Goes Black for Earth Hour
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Underwire
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Google's white homepage goes black on Saturday to draw attention to an environmental campaign called Earth Hour.
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Gallery: Mozilla at 10 - A Photo Tour of the Lizard’s Lair
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Michael Calore
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GIs Turn Filmmakers in Bad Voodoo's War
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Danger Room
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Soldiers in the Bad Voodoo platoon stationed in Iraq carry high-def videocameras and shoot the raw footage for a new documentary, Bad Voodoo's War, by director Deborah Scranton. The film airs Tuesday on PBS' Frontline.
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Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Underwire
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Video-hosting site LiveLeak pulls the controversial anti-Quran film Fitna, citing a barrage of threats. The 17-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders received more than 3 million views before being taken offline.
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Plug-Ins are Headed for the Heartland
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 8:00pm EDT by Autopia
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Plug-in hybrids are coming to the heartland, thanks to bureaucrats in California.
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Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 8:00pm EDT by Kevin Poulsen
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In what might be the first physical attack over the internet, hackers bombard an epileptic patient forum with images intended to trigger seizures.
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Review: 'Viking' Videogame Is Gruesomely Addictive
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:25pm EDT by Game|Life
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Who knew getting medieval on a bunch of monsters could be so much fun? Viking: Battle for Asgard isn't the best game ever, but it's easy to get hooked by the action.
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Songbird Challenges iTunes With Major Update
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:20pm EDT by Listening Post
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The open-source music player built on Mozilla code was already stable. Now it's just better than ever, with new features and bug fixes included in the latest version.
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Maverick IT Entrepreneur Eckart Wintzen Dies
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:00pm EDT by Epicenter Blog
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Eckart Wintzen, who founded European software consultancy BSO Origin and socially-conscious venture firm Ex'tent, has died.
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LOLcat Guys Squeeze Laughs Out of Graphs
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:00pm EDT by Underwire
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The I Can Has Cheezburger? crew puts out the call for bar graphs and pie charts that take a whack at pop culture.
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Build Your Own Gaming PC for Under a Grand
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:00pm EDT by How-To Wiki
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Why spend thousands on a pre-built frag machine when you can assemble your own for much less? Wired.com's How-To Wiki offers advice on building a killer sub-$1,000 PC ready for some front-line action.
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Mozilla's Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem With Democracy
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:40pm EDT by Compiler
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As Mozilla prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on Monday, March 31st, Wired.com spoke with one of the browser maker's longest-term employees. Community development director Asa Dotzler tells us how Firefox was born, how the tough decisions about adding features get made, and what Firefox 3 will bring to the table.
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Top 10 April Fools' Pranks for Nerds
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:30pm EDT by Jose Fermoso
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Here's the top 10 tech-related tricks to pull on friends and co-workers on April Fools' Day.
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Charity Battles Imaginary Killing Machines
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:00pm EDT by Danger Room
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Another group has joined the ranks of academics and ethicists who want to save our society from blood-thirsty armed drones that are preparing to gun down our puppies and children. Too bad they don't exist outside of science fiction.
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Gear Blog Rivals Engadget and Gizmodo Turn the Competition Up to 11
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:00pm EDT by Carlye Adler
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Like a couple of rival hometown newspapers, the competition between Engadget and Gizmodo has developed into a full-blown feud, complete with ridicule, charges of malfeasance and sabotage.
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YouTube's New 'Insight' Underwhelms
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:00pm EDT by Kevin Maney, Portfolio.com
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A new YouTube tracking tool, called "Insight," is supposed to show you where your video is most popular, as well as who is watching your clip and when. But the info is so broad -- how useful is it, really? From Portfolio.com.
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Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT by Epicenter
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Countless Googlers have fled the company in search of new challenges (and fortunes).
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China Verging on 3G Phones; Market Quivers in Anticipation
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Associated Press
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The country's largest mobile phone company begins trials next week of its next-generation standard. Companies look at the potential market and salivate.
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Comrade Communications: Cubans Can Have Cellphones
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:50am EDT by Associated Press
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President Raul Castro's government is lifting the ban on private cellphone ownership, a move many hope is the beginning of a general relaxation of laws affecting personal freedoms on the island.
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California Cuts Zero-Emissions Mandate in Favor of Hybrids
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:35am EDT by Autopia
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The California Air Resources Board doesn't kill the electric car, but it tells the auto industry it can build a whole lot less of them. That break for automakers comes with the requirement that they produce nearly 60,000 plug-in hybrids by 2014.
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These Gizmos Connect to the Net, But You'd Never Know It.
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:00am EDT by Lucas Graves
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Even the best web-enabled gadgets can't make web-browsing comfortable. But developers of some products have a new approach: Instead of offering full-fledged web access, they tap the net selectively to power particular functions. Welcome to the invisible internet.