Don?t hold your breath for music subscriptions from Apple's iTunes music store -- Steve Jobs will never offer them. Renting music flies in the face of consumer behavior. Consumers want to buy music, not rent it, and a big
Why Steve Jobs Will Never Offer Music Subscriptions (Tue, 01 May 2007 05:00:00 +0100)
U.S. Special Forces may soon have a strange and powerful new weapon in their arsenal: a pair of high-tech binoculars 10 times more powerful than anything available today, augmented by an alerting system that literally taps the wearer's prefrontal
1978: Spam. And we don't mean Monty Python.
The first piece of unsolicited bulk e-mail (what will come to be known as spam) is written. When it's sent two days later, more than 400 people with an Arpanet
The look of the Jellyfish House is so graceful it's easy to forget the building is an environmental workhorse. But the concept house harvests rainwater in its lacelike structure, filters its own waste water and is built on a
We plugged guitars into computers and adjusted our headphones. I clicked "record" and began laying down a bass track alongside the guitarist's. As we watched our tracks appear in the audio-mixing software, he recognized something familiar in the chord
1945: In the waning days of World War II, U-2511, under Korvettenkapitan Adalbert Schnee, puts to sea from Bergen, Norway. It marks the first and only combat patrol by a Type XXI Elektroboot, the German U-boat that profoundly influenced
Photos from Wired magazine's Rave Awards ceremony in San Francisco
During a Playboy radio interview earlier this week, show host Tiffany Granath asked me, the producers, and the listeners whether we would allow our children to be in a class with a teacher if we knew ...
Gut bacteria hacks may be the future of disease treatment.
Google casts a long shadow over this year's adtech interactive media conference, where the search and advertising giant's recent agreement to purchase DoubleClick for $3.1 billion was clearly on the minds of the advertisers and publishers in attendance.
Inventive new titles keep everybody's favorite gaming system jumping. Game reviews by Chris Kohler and Lore Sjöberg.
Tread carefully, politicians -- concerned citizens are watching your every move on the web. Their tools? Custom data mashups that use public databases to draw correlations between every vote cast and every dollar spent in Washington.
The internet telephony industry lets out a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a stay order, allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers during its appeal on a major patent infringement case.
A former dancer, Hubert Lepka choreographs the movements of planes, trains and automobiles in one-off performances that combine a postmodern perspective with Las Vegas spectacle. Lepka's group just performed Hannibal on top of the Rettenbach glacier in the Austrian Alps.
A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would forbid genetic discrimination.
The Luddite: With modern technology war can achieve only two things: crushing of the human spirit or total annihiliation. Commentary by Tony Long.
Andy Partridge isn't afraid to admit it: He's a Luddite. The guy says he doesn't even really know how to drive a car. But the former frontman of XTC does -- when pressed -- own up to using a computer, contributing to a blog, being a slave to email and making podcasts with ex-bandmates.
April 26, 1812: Alfred Krupp, the man who will become renowned as Germany's "Cannon King," is born in Essen.
A federal advisory board is about to recommend new guidelines to limit publication of life-sciences research that could be misused by terrorists. It's treading on dangerous ground.
A Q&A with privately funded space traveler and X Prize sponsor Anousheh Ansari includes three exclusive videos taped on the International Space Station.
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In Alt Text: Thanks to leaps in technology, new fetishes are being invented all the time. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
April 25, 1953: Two researchers finally unlock the mystery of DNA's architecture and now the real work can begin.
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