Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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Start with a moisturizer, then add a few (safe) preservatives, an antistatic agent, and some of that stuff inside breast implants, and you have dry scalp care!
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:45:00 GMT
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Tress are among the oldest living things on the planet, and the oldest we know of are pushing 5,000 years. If you count clonal trees, which continually grow new trunks from the same roots, the oldest may be 80,000 years old.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:26:00 GMT
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There's plenty of
Star Wars nerd rage in this engaging new documentary, which lays out the case against Lucas' endless tweaks and creative decisions. But plenty of warm-and-fuzzy flashbacks to the franchise's roots soften the blow.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:16:00 GMT
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The company that makes cool digital cameras wants you to find it online soon at http://canon. It's the first of what could a wave of new top level domains for companies, and it's just one sign of big changes coming to the net's naming conventions.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
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Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet that is near habitable temperature and also crosses in front of its star, allowing it to be studied from Earth.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:10:00 GMT
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The first television series with an 'environmentalist' bent, Our Vanishing Wilderness, is available online in all its strange, groovy, apocalyptic glory.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:21:00 GMT
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The General's latest science project makes the entire windshield a monitor and you a safer driver.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:52:00 GMT
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A former employee of an Austin, Texas, auto dealership is charged with computer intrusion, after a web-based vehicle-immobilization system is used to kill at least 100 cars and trigger their horns honking out of control.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:18:00 GMT
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A federal judge is approving a $9.5 million settlement requiring Facebook to spend more than $6 million funding online privacy studies amid accusations its now-defunct 'Beacon' program illegally publicized video rentals and other purchases made by Facebook's millions of members. Lawyers who brought the case stand to earn about $3 million.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:11:00 GMT
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Quantum physics is always being demonstrated at the atomic level; but what about making it work in something that's visible to the naked eye? Now scientists have.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:17:00 GMT
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Everybody knows Google is one of the net’s big kids, but how big is it exactly? Well, as Arbor Networks measures it, if Google were an ISP it would be the third largest in the world and the fastest growing — if you are measuring the amount of traffic passed from its network to another.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT
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At the Austin absinthe bar, drinks come with a tasty back story.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:57:00 GMT
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The Pentagon's risk-taking research agency wants a 'smart camera' that can report back on war-zone activity with the same detail a trained human operative could offer.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
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An Australian researcher invents an essential tool for identifying the causes of an airplane crash.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
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The casting director of
Amazing Grace and
Survivor tells
Wired what it takes to get a role in reality TV.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
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OnLive, Gaikai and Otoy -- these pioneers of cloud gaming are competing in a field many experts believe is technically impossible.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:26:00 GMT
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Detailed thermal images reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot is far more dynamic and structured than had previously been thought.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:52:00 GMT
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The badass bass player for the world's loudest rock 'n' roll band cracks up the audience at the world premiere of a documentary about him. The movie reveals intimate details about the living legend.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:33:00 GMT
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This week's behind-the-scenes podcast focuses on 10 years after the dot-com boom and bust. Senior editor Joanna Pearlstein hosts a conversation between contributors Matt Honan and Steven Leckart about the dot-com era's major players, total failures and missed opportunities.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:11:00 GMT
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PayPal's latest upgrade to the PayPal iPhone app lets you pay (and be paid) by bumping fists.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT
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As a Wired Editor's Pick, Luna Optics' night-vision binocs can do almost nothing wrong. They're warrior tough and have an artist's vision, with unmatched light-magnifying power and impressive versatility.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT
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Microbes living in lakes beneath the ice of Antarctica and Greenland could be producing methane. The greenhouse gas could be building up and released if the ice melts.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:42:00 GMT
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Classmates.com is offering to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of falsely leading people to believe their old schoolmates wanted to contact them. A proposed settlement would give $3 each to more than 3 million paying customers.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT
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A new study suggests that fighting climate change by seeding the ocean with iron could result in algal blooms that produce a neurotoxin, killing marine life and eventually working its way up the food chain to humans.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT
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An ordinary-looking store on the south side of town hides a back room brimming with vintage guitars, amps and other sweet finds. When SXSW Music hits town, Cash America Pawn breaks out the good stuff and gets ready to wheel and deal.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:14:00 GMT
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A Russian hacker is being accused of artificially manipulating 38 stocks on the Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges, profiting a quarter million dollars between August and December alone.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:58:00 GMT
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Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:12:00 GMT
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The Mars Express Orbiter has taken its closest ever images of the Martian moon, Phobos. The views show possible future landing spots.
Published: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT
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Our list of almost perfect cars doesn't satisfy some of you readers. Now it's your turn to weigh in on your favorites -- and why your pick tops your list.
