1. Europe Hopes Jules Verne Will Make It A Major Player in Space

    It's just a mock-up, but it could signal one giant leap for Europe's space travel program. Yesterday at the Berlin Air Show, European consortium EADS Astrium unveiled a model spacecraft that it says could be carrying astronauts into space within...

    05.29.08 | 7:07 AM From Autopia

  2. Earthscape Brings Earth to iPhone

    Yesterday's demo of Windows 7 focussed heavily on multi touch. In fact, it was pretty much only about multi touch. And the only part of the demo which we hadn't already seen on the iPhone was the rather swish Google...

    05.29.08 | 7:05 AM From Gadget Lab

  3. Facebook, The Princess Phone and a Mattress for Sergey and Eric

    By Marty Graham Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg presented interviewer Kara Swisher with a pink phone before they sat down for the interview at the All Things Digital conference. "We learned this morning from Barry Diller that we...

    05.29.08 | 6:44 AM From Epicenter

  4. A Dose Of Polyrhythmic Hypermelodic Drone: An Interview With Dosh

    Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh is a long, evocative name, but it fits the man who can play many instruments and wear many hats. As the drummer for Fog and Lateduster or on his own as a solo artist since...

    05.29.08 | 12:56 AM From Listening Post

  5. The Case for Asteroid Defense

    Should the United States be investing in asteroid defense? In an article in the Atlantic, Gregg Easterbrook argues that "improbable but cataclysmic dangers ought to command attention because of their scope." As an analogy, he notes, a "tornado is far...

    05.29.08 | 12:56 AM From Danger Room

  6. Virtuality Casts James D'Arcy as Outer Space Shrink

    Fox's sci-fi pilot Virtuality continues to gather steam as Battlestar Galactica co-creator Ronald D. Moore finds a star and director for his new series. British actor James D'Arcy (pictured) will anchor Virtuality, starring as the resident psychologist who conducts experiments...

    05.28.08 | 9:17 PM From The Underwire

  7. Best Animated Videos? Here's A Few

    Listening Post got a heads-up today on a video for "Sideways Here We Come" from our favorite Kiwi post-punkers Die! Die! Die! -- and it's a cardboard cutout good time. Which got us thinking about other interesting animated shorts that...

    05.28.08 | 8:57 PM From Listening Post

  8. Remake of Ed Wood Gem Plan 9 From Outer Space in Works

    It only seems like common sense that you don't want to remake good movies. There's nowhere to go but down. Examples? Psycho. Godzilla. Poseidon. The Wicker Man. Planet of the Apes. But, there's nothing stopping anyone from remaking bad movies....

    05.28.08 | 8:39 PM From The Underwire

  9. Business Never Far From the Surface at D6

    By Marty Graham Arianna Huffington is blogging from the lobby of this posh resort, 25 miles north of San Diego and a sneeze away from its own, PGA-rated golf course. Jeff Bezos is wandering around looking crumpled. And security is...

    05.28.08 | 8:13 PM From Epicenter

  10. GeekDads HipTrax #6

    Updated and reposted: We had a problem with the file earlier that has now been fixed. Listen on, people! The GeekDads bring you HipTrax: three geeky songs you can share with your kids. GDHT #6 includes Brad Sucks, The Weasel...

    05.28.08 | 6:25 PM From Geekdad

  1. Tesla v1.5: 'Really Phenomenal' Torque, Better Range

    Engineers at Tesla Motors have sorted out the revised drivetrain they'll be dropping into the Roadster later this year, and aside from being more efficient and less complex, it provides a hell of a lot more torque. J.B. Straubel, the...

    05.28.08 | 6:25 PM From Autopia

  2. Celebrating the Berlin Airlift, Mourning The Airport

    Sixty years ago, when the Soviets were tightening their grip on Berlin with a blockade of the city, the United States did something amazing - it flew as much as 5,000 tons of food into the city every single day...

    05.28.08 | 6:10 PM From Autopia

  3. Rival Networks Flatter Lost With Sincere Imitations

    With the two-hour Lost finale expected to vanquish all competition Thursday night, rival networks have cast an envious eye on the serialized storytelling that has created a nation of Oceanic Six voyeurs. In the waning days of the ratings-challenged 2007-08...

    05.28.08 | 5:54 PM From The Underwire

  4. Pilkington Spotted Via Gervais, Culture Show

    There's been a Karl Pilkington sighting -- or at least there will be. Pilkington, a citrus-domed maniac, recently visited the set of the Ricky Gervais feature film This Side of the Truth for a cameo role, according to Gervais' movie...

    05.28.08 | 5:45 PM From The Underwire

  5. Hewlett-Packard Spying Scandal Figures Fined

    A key figure who pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection to the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal was ordered Wednesday to pay hefty fines and to refrain from selling personal phone records obtain fraudulently via pretexting. A Florida judge ordered Bryan Wagner, right, to pay $428,000...

    05.28.08 | 5:44 PM From Threat Level

  6. Fest-Full? Try These Under-the-Radar Finds

    Coachella. Lollapalooza. Bonna-who? There are enough summer music festivals alive to pack Earth's schedules and empty its wallets. And most of them boast the same acts. Listening Post has a couple to check out that may offer more for less....

    05.28.08 | 5:43 PM From Listening Post

  7. Video: CocoRosie's 'God Has A Voice, She Sings Through Me'

    Normally, the autotune audio effect first popularized by the Cher hit "Do You Believe" drives me batty. The effect began as a way to put wayward singers back on pitch, but producers soon realized that cranking the settings all the...

    05.28.08 | 5:35 PM From Listening Post

  8. Cops Nab Alleged Graffiti Artist After Video Goes Viral

    Wanna be a successful graffiti artist? You might want to keep videotapes that show you vandalizing property off video sites like YouTube. Authorities arrested 24-year-old convention planner Cyrus Yazdani on Tuesday, alleging that he is the notorious graffiti bomber known...

    05.28.08 | 5:22 PM From The Underwire

  9. Touchscreen Displays + Mixer = DJs' Ultimate Tool?

    Dundee University student Scott Hobbs put together an updated version of the standard two-turntables-and-a-mixer DJ setup, replacing the turntables with touchscreen displays to give digital DJs a new way to mix music on the fly. Rather than touching the records...

    05.28.08 | 5:01 PM From Listening Post

  10. California AAA Folding Its Map-Making Operation

    Road maps produced by the Northern California State Automobile Association, long appreciated by travelers and cartographers for their utility and beauty, are going the way of car-hops, drive-ins and high-test gas. The auto club has been producing maps since 1909...

    05.28.08 | 4:52 PM From Autopia

  1. Al Qaeda's Civil War?

    In an online town hall meeting with supporters last month, Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri was asked a number of unusually pointed questions. "Do you consider the killing of women and children to be Jihad?" one asked. "What is the...

    05.28.08 | 4:42 PM From Danger Room

  2. Punk Rock Webcaster Serves Listener Headcounts to Advertising Suits

    If webcasters are ever going to be able to afford the new royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board in March of last year, they may need to insert terrestrial more radio-style advertising into their programming. PunkRadioCast, which says...

    05.28.08 | 4:41 PM From Listening Post

  3. Sizzling Medical Noir Foreign Body Thrills, Kills

    Foreign Body, a new web show from former Disney mogul Michael Eisner, dives into the dark side of medical tourism. Body follows the journey of a group of Indian nurses who jump on an opportunity to work in Southern California,...

    05.28.08 | 4:38 PM From The Underwire

  4. Rabbids, Shaun White Love the Wii Fit Board

    Ubisoft is getting behind, or on top of, or whatever, the Wii Fit Balance Board in a big way. Two major Wii titles announced today at the company's Paris press conference will use the Balance Board as an optional accessory:...

    05.28.08 | 4:32 PM From Game | Life

  5. Lost's F-Bombs Go Missing

    The writers who cook up scripts for Lost apparently use more than a dash of a secret ingredient that's not ready for prime time: foul language that would never make a network broadcast. "One of the inherent problems in the...

    05.28.08 | 4:31 PM From The Underwire

  6. Go Behind-the-Scenes With Weezer's 'Pork and Beans'

    Motion Theory, the production company behind Weezer's geeky anthem "Pork and Beans," sent Wired.com some exclusive images from the video shoot, which took place earlier this month. Since its Friday upload, the memetastic video has amassed an impressive 4 million...

    05.28.08 | 4:01 PM From The Underwire

  7. First Screens: Beyond Good and Evil 2

    Big news from Ubisoft's press conference in Paris today: Critically acclaimed adventure game Beyond Good and Evil will be receiving its long-awaited sequel. Ubisoft has released three teaser images from the game, which sport some seriously nice-looking graphics and the...

    05.28.08 | 3:23 PM From Game | Life

  8. Marvel Beams Iron Man Into Space for Intergalactic Screening

    American astronaut Garret Reisman couldn't wait to return to Earth to catch summer blockbuster Iron Man. So, to help him combat his space cabin fever, Marvel decided to broadcast a special screening of the film directly to the New Jersey...

    05.28.08 | 3:22 PM From The Underwire

  9. Air Force Pulls 'Misleading' Space Ad

    The U.S. Air Force has yanked a controversial television ad, after analysts and former officers complained to DANGER ROOM that the commercial was inaccurate, at best. Even the Air Force admits that the spot was "misleading" -- while pledging to...

    05.28.08 | 3:19 PM From Danger Room

  10. Prosecutor Decries YouTube User as 'Dumbest Criminal'

    On Tuesday, THREAT LEVELer Kevin Poulsen handed the "Caper of the Year" award to a Northern California man. He allegedly bilked online brokerage institutions out of $50,000 by using an automated script to open 58,000 accounts, linking each of them to a handful of bank...

    05.28.08 | 3:09 PM From Threat Level

  1. E.U. Tops U.S. As Second Largest Gaming Territory

    The European Union is the second largest territory for gaming, second only to Asia, according to research compiled by Nielsen Games. During 2007, videogames generated $11.4 billion USD in the E.U. -- falling behind the $11.5 billion generated by games...

    05.28.08 | 3:01 PM From Game | Life

  2. African Students Compete in Google's App Gadgets Contest

    Earlier last month, Google started up a friendly student competition to create cool new application gadgets to be embedded within its iGoogle and Google Desktop properties, as well as other pages on the web. (Google's Gadgets function the same as...

    05.28.08 | 2:52 PM From Gadget Lab

  3. Could Methane Trigger a Climate Doomsday Within a Human Lifespan?

    A new paper published appearing Thursday in the prestigious scientific journal Nature presents the worst-case scenario for runaway climate change that could leave the Earth entirely ice-free within a generation. If global temperatures continue to rise, massive amounts of methane...

    05.28.08 | 2:29 PM From Wired Science

  4. Hot Wet Japanese Summer: Rhythm Tengoku, Wario Land

    Worried that Nintendo hadn't announced many games for the summer? As it turns out, Japan is about to get an avalanche of quality content for DS and Wii over the next three months, including the sequel to the best Game...

    05.28.08 | 1:59 PM From Game | Life

  5. Sony's Dialogue Manager Argues Against Celebrity Cameos

    Greg deBeer, Sony's dialogue manager most famous for the God of War series, believes gaming companies should utilize professional voice actors for their games, and avoid celebrity cameos. "My recommendation is to stay away from celebrity talent," deBeer recently told...

    05.28.08 | 1:53 PM From Game | Life

  6. GeekDad Contest #3: D&D; Self Portraits!

    Just a reminder to work on your entries to the GeekDad contest! With the deadline looming a little more than 2 weeks from now, now is the time to get a-scribblin'! And as a special note for people who have...

    05.28.08 | 1:30 PM From Geekdad

  7. Game|Life Video #15: Inside the Musee Mecanique

    In this week's episode of Game|Life The Video, we take a trip to one of San Francisco's most fascinating attractions: the Musee Mecanique. Located inside a giant shed on Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf, the Musee Mecanique is an amazing...

    05.28.08 | 1:13 PM From Game | Life

  8. Spore's Creature Stage Pictured, Detailed

    Electronic Arts has released details on Spore's Creature Stage, the second phase of life in the upcoming evolution simulator from game designer Will Wright. The Creature Stage is the point in Spore where your customized organism crawls from the primordial...

    05.28.08 | 1:06 PM From Game | Life

  9. World Science Festival Starts Tomorrow

    The World Science Festival kicks off tomorrow in New York City, and Wired Science will be there. The festival, a five day celebration of all things science, has already helped define a long-suspected but poorly-quantified phenomena: any event you really,...

    05.28.08 | 1:02 PM From Wired Science

  10. FanPrice: Name Your Price for Secondhand Concert Tickets

    We've been keeping our eyes peeled for online ticketing solutions that don't require that you sign over your first-born child for the privilege of entering your credit card number onto a website, the way Ticketmaster does. (Okay, they don't go...

    05.28.08 | 1:02 PM From Listening Post

  1. Review: Garmin Edge 705 GPS Offers Maps and Metrics for Data-Happy Cyclists

    Garmin Edge 705 GPS Type-A training tweakers, metrics maniacs, peripatetic two-wheeled geo-cachers and the geographically challenged now have something to collectively rally around: the Garmin Edge 705. This latest fitness offering from the GPS giant has more than a little...

    05.28.08 | 1:00 PM From Gadget Lab

  2. Turner Pulls Plug on GameTap Editorial, Sacks Staff

    The editorial and video branches of GameTap, Turner Broadcasting System's games-on-demand service, will be shutting down, Wired.com has learned. The main GameTap service, in which players pay a monthly fee for access to an all-you-can-eat buffet of PC games, will...

    05.28.08 | 12:53 PM From Game | Life

  3. Street Fighter IV to Hit Consoles and PC

    It's now official: Street Fighter IV will definitely be hitting consoles following its Japanese arcade debut. Capcom announced yesterday that the heavily anticipated fighter will be released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as well as the PC, which...

    05.28.08 | 12:50 PM From Game | Life

  4. Art of the Cube

    Forget Banksy-esque minifig stencil graffiti or Nathan Sawaya's Art of the Brick -- there's a new brick in town and it's already on its second museum, the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum. As mentioned earlier this year, Q-BA-MAZE is a...

    05.28.08 | 12:30 PM From Geekdad

  5. 'Why No One Believes the Navy'

    It's an open secret in Washington that the Navy's ship-building plans are -- oh, how to put this delicately? -- complete and utter bullshit. The 30-year, 313-ship project relies on, among other things, doubling the country's maritime construction budget, to...

    05.28.08 | 12:30 PM From Danger Room

  6. ABC, FBI Punk'd by Terror 'Fan Video' (Updated)

    On Tuesday, ABC News posted a story headlined "Al-Qaeda Tape to Call for Use of WMDs." Which would be awfully scary -- if it were true. "Operatives" from the terrorist group, the network warned, "will post a new video on...

    05.28.08 | 12:10 PM From Danger Room

  7. Professor Layton Brings His Investigations to Mobile Phones

    The Professor Layton series is making the move to mobile phones in Japan. Not only has the first game in the series, Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village, gotten the mobile treatment, it comes pre-installed on Panasonic's new DoCoMo handset,...

    05.28.08 | 12:10 PM From Game | Life

  8. Sega Licenses Unreal Engine for New Game

    Sega has licensed Unreal Engine 3 again for a specific, unannounced title. No word yet on what that game will be -- the statement only reveals that it will be cross-platform -- but the agreement is an extension of a...

    05.28.08 | 12:02 PM From Game | Life

  9. Cat Saves Japanese Railway

    The highest-ranking female at the Wakayama Electric Railway Co. does nothing more than sit around looking cute, but no one minds because she's single-handedly caused ridership on the struggling transit system to jump more than 10 percent. Make that single-pawedly....

    05.28.08 | 12:00 PM From Autopia

  10. Phoenix Lander Gets Ready to Dig Into Mars

    The Phoenix lander is getting set to move its 7 foot robotic arm this morning. It has unlatched its wrist and flexed its elbow. Plans for moving the arm yesterday were pushed back a day when commands from Earth were...

    05.28.08 | 11:54 AM From Wired Science

  1. Delisting XBLA Games: The Potential Candidates

    Following last week's news that underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games would be delisted, now is the time to consider what's in danger of getting cut. Of the criteria Microsoft is claiming will qualify a game for removal, two are easily...

    05.28.08 | 11:53 AM From Game | Life

  2. Oddworld Creator Confirms New Game

    Lorne Lanning, creator of the Oddworld series, has gone on record to confirm the existence of an upcoming title in the Oddworld universe. Rumors regarding the new Oddworld game can be traced back to comments made by Maxis co-founder Jeff...

    05.28.08 | 11:36 AM From Game | Life

  3. Inaugural Million-Dollar Kavli Prizes Awarded

    The Kavli Prizes aren't so well known as the Nobel Prizes, but three million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. That's the sum split by seven scientists chosen to receive the inaugural Kavli Prizes, sponsored by Norweigan science authorities and...

    05.28.08 | 11:19 AM From Wired Science

  4. Academics Target Pentagon's Social Science Project

    A group of anthropologists is trying to get Pentagon stop funding an ambitious social science project. Instead, they want the work handed over to the National Science Foundation, an organization that, the academic group contends, would be better able to...

    05.28.08 | 11:09 AM From Danger Room

  5. Bionic Commando Rearmed Delayed

    Bionic Commando Rearmed, the downloadable remake of Capcom's classic Bionic Commando, will no longer meet its planned May launch window, according to a clever Flash animation on the game's official site. By clicking on a doppelganger of the original NES...

    05.28.08 | 10:59 AM From Game | Life

  6. Metallica Repents, Sort Of

    Who are these people, and what have they done with Metallica? The band has a long, storied history of clashing with fans online, but along with its label, it hopes to make amends with a new website called Mission: Metallica,...

    05.28.08 | 10:55 AM From Listening Post

  7. 'Propaganda' Used to Sell Iraq War?

    Ordinarily, I find debates about the beginnings of the Iraq war pretty pointless -- kind of like arguing about birth control, after the kid is already out of diapers. But when the former White House press secretary -- a guy...

    05.28.08 | 9:59 AM From Danger Room

  8. Five for Fighting 5/28/08

    * Nuke sub damaged in Red Sea crash * Inside the cluster bomb talks * Darpa doles out bug-thopter cash * 'Taser treatment' helps heart * RIP, rocket science great (High five: EM, RC)

    05.28.08 | 9:35 AM From Danger Room

  9. Lala Bails On Free Music, Starts Selling Streams

    Lala, has been through several incarnations, the latest of which was a free unlimited music streaming service that encouraged users to acquire those tracks as a download, CD trade, or CD purchase. CEO Bill Nguyen has a new plan: selling...

    05.28.08 | 9:33 AM From Listening Post

  10. Everybody's Talking Alt-Fuel at the Berlin Air Show

    Hey, if you were in the business of manufacturing products that some of your biggest customers could no longer afford to operate, you'd be scrambling for options, too. The Berlin Air Show kicked off yesterday, and not surprisingly, much of...

    05.28.08 | 9:27 AM From Autopia

  1. Racing Balloons Over England

    Yes, it's another post about balloons. This time, however, it's a nifty event across the pond, helping charity and involving a GeekDad reader. From Richard: I’m a Microsoft MVP working and living in Cambridge (UK). The village school that our...

    05.28.08 | 9:00 AM From Geekdad

  2. Leaked iPhone 2.0 Case Photos Could Confirm New Design

    This is an odd one. The photograph to the right is purported to depict the mold for an iPhone 2.0 silicone case (all of the photos are posted below at full size, for your Photoshop-inspecting pleasure). It clearly shows the...

    05.28.08 | 8:24 AM From Gadget Lab

  3. Novelty Notepad Brings Icons To Your Meatspace Desktop

    The Design Museum Shop, like any other museum shop, is a treasure trove of plastic tat. Unlike the usual museum shop, which is a cynical money-sink for school kids on day trips, the Design Museum aspires to a higher level...

    05.28.08 | 7:46 AM From Gadget Lab

  4. IPhone Annouced For Nordic And Baltic Regions

    Another piece of the international iPhone puzzle has been jammed into place. When we detailed the contracts signed between Apple and telcos worldwide, there was a conspicuous gap in the map, above and to the right of Western Europe. That...

    05.28.08 | 7:23 AM From Gadget Lab

  5. Nerdapalooza: Geek Out for a Good Cause

    Americans typically equate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts, and, of course, Will Smith/Jeff Goldblum vehicles, but this year a pair of geeks will attempt to add a rather counterintuitive concept to that list of classical touchstones: nerdy music. July 4th...

    05.28.08 | 7:00 AM From Geekdad

  6. USB Dock Accepts Hard Drives, Memory Cards, Everything

    When we brought news of the Stage Rack, a dock for raw SATA hard drives, you were pleased. But where the Stage Rack only offered only a lone USB connection and compatibility with 2.5" and 3.5" SATA drives, Brando's take...

    05.28.08 | 6:58 AM From Gadget Lab

  7. Laser Etched Moleskine Are Reassuringly Expensive

    $12 Moleskines not expensive enough for you? How about adding some custom, laser-etched artwork? One picture alone will bring the price up to a satisfyingly elitist $40. Add extra text to both the front cover and spine and you could...

    05.28.08 | 6:38 AM From Gadget Lab

  8. California State Yo-Yo Championships Coming Up

    If you or yours are at all interested in yo-yos, this sounds like an event well worth putting on the calendar. The California State Yo-Yo championships are happening on Saturday, Sept. 6 from 10am to 4pm at the Exploratorium in...

    05.28.08 | 6:00 AM From Geekdad

  9. Ballmer And Gates Demo Windows 7: Multitouch, Pie Menus And a Piano

    Over at Walt Mossberg's D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have shown a small snippet of the upcoming Windows 7. The short version? Windows 7 looks like Vista with some new Multi touch clothes. The long...

    05.28.08 | 5:55 AM From Gadget Lab

  10. American naysayers bay for pundit blood

    (((This is kind of a mild and interesting article, but it's the reaction to it that really raises the eyebrows. There's a swarm of guys in there insisting that America is toast. Listen, fellas, be reasonable -- the USA might...

    05.28.08 | 5:52 AM From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Canadian centipede

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-canada-berniermay28,0,4682230.story (((It's absurd on the face of it to allege that this guy's sex-bomb girlfriend is an agent of sinister biker gangs trying to infiltrate the Canadian government. Since when have biker gangs been subtle Trotskyite subversives? Clearly the flap...

    05.28.08 | 5:45 AM From Beyond the Beyond

  2. Picture This: B-1, B-2, and B-52, All in a Row

    A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, and a B-1B Lancer bomber make a rare appearance together, in format, for an air show earlier this month at Barksdale Air Force Base. [Nice spot: CB; photo: USAF]

    05.28.08 | 3:17 AM From Danger Room

  3. Weezer's Memetastic Video Director Spills the 'Pork and Beans'

    Weezer hit the virtual jackpot with "Pork and Beans," the band's hot new music video that mashes together a decade of internet memes in less than four minutes. Whether you think of the savvy short as the web celeb edition...

    05.27.08 | 8:51 PM From The Underwire

  4. The Next Spider-Man: Maybe Patrick Fugit?

    Sony Pictures has not confirmed the rumor, but Latino Review is reporting that Patrick Fugit (pictured) of Almost Famous has top crack at replacing Tobey Maguire as the new Spider-Man. Most of the key players involved in the first three...

    05.27.08 | 8:18 PM From The Underwire

  5. Mego Museum Sends Adults to 8-Inch Plastic Heaven

    The Mego Museum salutes the long-lost toy manufacturer that specialized in 8-inch recreations of classic comic book heroes and '70s TV icons. The thorough site includes a gallery and forums in which Mego lovers can discuss the custom figures they...

    05.27.08 | 8:11 PM From The Underwire

  6. Researchers Recover Thousand-Year-Old Viking DNA

    The Vikings buried on the Danish island of Funen may very well have sailed all the way to Constantinople or Baghdad or Moscow, looting and pillaging with lusty ferocity. And now we've got their DNA. In a study published today...

    05.27.08 | 8:00 PM From Wired Science

  7. WarGames Returns Sans WOPR for Sequel

    "Greetings, Professor Falken Falcon. Would you like to watch a sequel?" With WarGames now 25 years old, MGM Home Entertainment has announced a direct-to-DVD follow-up to the iconic '80s movie -- WarGames: The Dead Code. It's a different world now,...

    05.27.08 | 7:38 PM From The Underwire

  8. Incredible Hulk Director Cuts to the Chase

    In his 2003 Hulk, director Ang Lee stressed the introspective aspects of Marvel Comic's angry green giant. French filmmaker Louis Leterrier (The Transporter) says he's going the opposite way with The Incredible Hulk. "This is really a chase movie," Leterrier...

    05.27.08 | 7:35 PM From The Underwire

  9. Coming Soon: Google to Open Up Enrollment for AppEngine

    Google says it plans to open sign-ups for Google AppEngine -- an application hosting service for small- to medium-sized businesses -- to everyone, effective Wednesday. Launched as a preview release in April, Google AppEngine was only available to the first...

    05.27.08 | 7:34 PM From Epicenter

  10. Interview: BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk Talk Mass Effect

    Today marks the PC release of the acclaimed Xbox 360 role-playing game Mass Effect. Who better to explain the changes made to this version of the game than the heads of developer BioWare? In an email interview with Wired.com, BioWare's...

    05.27.08 | 6:37 PM From Game | Life

  1. She Wages Online Jihad

    Here in the States, women like Rita Katz and Shannon Rossmiller wage quasi-vigilante campaigns to track, undermine, and capture jihadists online. In Belgium, one of the jihadists is waging a quasi-independent campaign of her own, over the 'Net. Tomorrow's Times...

    05.27.08 | 6:34 PM From Danger Room

  2. Yahoo and the Case of the Lottery Spam Bandits

    Yahoo said today it sued a bunch of John and Jane Does for fraudulently using the Yahoo brand for criminal purposes. The doozie of a lawsuit alleges that "lottery spammers" have dragged Yahoo's good name into an old scheme that...

    05.27.08 | 6:29 PM From Epicenter

  3. Lamborghini Says 'Emissions Rules? What Emissions Rules?'

    Lamborghini is known for one thing, and one thing only - absurdly fast cars. It's been building them for almost half a century, and it isn't going to let a little thing like global warming get in its way. The...

    05.27.08 | 6:20 PM From Autopia

  4. Whoops: Japan VC Gets MSX Games After All

    My bad! When Nintendo left any and all games for the MSX computer off of their recent release calendar for Virtual Console in Japan, I interpreted that to mean what it has always meant: That the games had been delayed....

    05.27.08 | 6:17 PM From Game | Life

  5. McCain Promises to Cut Nukes, but How Much?

    One of the more interesting questions that will hopefully come up in presidential debates is over the size and purpose of the nuclear arsenal. So far, candidates have approached the issue only indirectly. Barack Obama earlier this year created a...

    05.27.08 | 6:17 PM From Danger Room

  6. Eye-Phone Concept Aims to Enhance Travel With Satellite Information

    Future technologies are intent on giving us everything we already have, but in a better package that is easier to use. And we like that. What else is the iPhone but a nicely packaged mix of available technologies found separately...

    05.27.08 | 6:01 PM From Gadget Lab

  7. I'm Not a Superdelegate, But I Play One on the Internet

    Like any of the 796 superdelegates in this highly-charged presidential election cycle, Tom Ryan says he's taking his responsibility of choosing a Democratic nominee for president very seriously. Meet Tom Ryan, the fake superdelegate. Image courtesy of Howard Thomas So seriously that the putative candidate...

    05.27.08 | 6:01 PM From Threat Level

  8. Beautiful New Nebulae Images from the Very Large Telescope

    To celebrate the Very Large Telescope's 10th anniversary, the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere has released two beautiful new VLT images of nebulae located in the direction of the Carina constellation. The first, seen above, surrounds...

    05.27.08 | 5:57 PM From Wired Science

  9. Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits'

    A California man has been indicted for an inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months -- a few pennies at a time. Michael Largent, of Plumas Lake, California, allegedly exploited a loophole in a common procedure...

    05.27.08 | 5:26 PM From Threat Level

  10. Pentagon Watchdogs Swamped by Military Spending; $152 Billion a Year Goes Unaudited

    The Pentagon's internal watchdogs can't keep up with the explosive growth in military spending. Which means $152 billion's worth of contracts annually aren't being reviewed for fraud, abuse and criminal interference by the Defense Department's Inspector General, according to a...

    05.27.08 | 5:25 PM From Danger Room

  1. Adobe Not Scheduling GPU-Enhanced Photoshop

    In a shocking turn of events, it appears that something the blogosphere eagerly reported and repeated over the weekend is, in fact, not exactly true. Despite rumors to the contrary, the product manager for Adobe Photoshop, John Nack, says that...

    05.27.08 | 5:05 PM From Gadget Lab

  2. Penny Arcade Game Earns Third Spot On XBLA Charts

    The Xbox Live Arcade version of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness earned the third most successful game launch to date on Microsoft's service, according to Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik. Precipice lags behind only Ikaruga and...

    05.27.08 | 5:04 PM From Game | Life

  3. Supreme Court OKs Cellphone Unlocking Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dashed a bid by T-Mobile and AT&T; to stave off a class-action lawsuit challenging the carriers' policies against unlocking mobile phones. The justices declined to review an October decision by the California Supreme Court that cleared the way for...

    05.27.08 | 5:00 PM From Threat Level

  4. How To: Hack Your DS, Recreate Rembrandt

    Over on Wired.com's How-To Wiki, there's an entry that shows you how to create amazing paintings like the one above with Colors, a homebrew application for Nintendo DS. As it turns out, the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch screen...

    05.27.08 | 4:38 PM From Game | Life

  5. Darpa's New Medical Treatment: Putty

    When bombs shatter bones with compound fractures, it can take multiple surgeries and lots of rehab to set things right. So Darpa, the Pentagon's premiere research shop, wants to "develop a dynamic putty-like material" that can be packed around a...

    05.27.08 | 4:23 PM From Danger Room

  6. Rare Stereolab Tracks Unearthed and Uploaded

    From the "nothing is rare anymore" department comes this latest item, a compilation of ultra-rare Stereolab tracks, assembled by someone known as "The Architect" and uploaded to Rapidshare. Although the band was fastidious about releasing rare, colored vinyl singles and...

    05.27.08 | 4:06 PM From Listening Post

  7. Nerd Up: Indiana Jones' Skull Flick

    By Scott Brown and Brian Raftery Each Monday* for Nerd Up, Wired writers (and movie nerds) Scott Brown and Brian Raftery fire up their instant-messaging clients and do a tag-team critique of a new flick. Sort of like Siskel and...

    05.27.08 | 3:49 PM From The Underwire

  8. Hobbit Watch: Filmmakers Chat 2-Picture Plan While Legal Action Looms

    Re-capping Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson's weekend Hobbit chat, the filmmakers said Ian McKellen is "absolutely" back as Gandalf with Andy Serkis expected to reprise Gollum. The filmmakers also said Lord of the Rings fixture Ian Holmes will again...

    05.27.08 | 3:42 PM From The Underwire

  9. Weekend Thrifting: Just So Much Genesis

    This is actually the haul from two consecutive weekends of prowling for cheap used games, but still: My Sega collection has grown by leaps and bounds since moving out here. As I'm sure I've postulated before, San Francisco is a...

    05.27.08 | 3:29 PM From Game | Life

  10. Sony Reveals Home's Events Venue

    Last week Sony invited select members of its Home beta test to witness a re-creation of PlayStation Day 2008 within Home's just-unveiled Media And Events Space. Sony hopes the space will help integrate the advertising and event-planning needs of its...

    05.27.08 | 2:59 PM From Game | Life
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