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Bandwidth on Navy ships is a scarce, expensive commodity. For sailors using non-essential systems, like recreational computers? Dial-up speeds -- if they're lucky. But by the end of the year, for the first time, the Navy will put a 4G LTE wireless network aboard some of its ships, giving a whole new communications tool to sailors and Marines: their smartphones.
Meet the Wave Glider, a wave-powered watercraft that is attempting to cross the entire Pacific ocean on the forward thrust of ocean currents. But this isn't just a world-record grab -- the Wave Glider also has the potential to rewrite everything we know about ocean exploration.
Penny De Los Santos is one of the world's premier culinary photographers, and while her exotic food photos will make your mouth water, they're also a gateway to the larger bond that food creates across all cultures.
One man's fridge mold is another man's still life: Estonian artist Heikki Leis presents a rotting cornucopia of vegetables photographed long past their prime.
Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world's largest social network. But he moonlights as a children's author. His first book is called Lauren Ipsum, and it's a fairy tale that seeks to introduce children -- as young as five or as old as 12 -- to the concepts of computer science.
For this month's Wired magazine Found feature, we predict that in 2027, luxe analog watches will do a lot more than just tell you the date and the time and the phases of the moon.
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It's April when I ask Makielab founder Alice Taylor how it's going with Makie, their line of customizable dolls. "It's going great, with the caveat of the usual (and some unusual) last minute crazy." That crazy includes the wrong shipment of eyeballs from Spain, a CTO stranded in America, a run of dolls with two left hands, and some deaths in the team-family.
If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
Facebook is agreeing in "principle" to settle allegations that its "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform breached its users' privacy. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. The suit, filed in April 2011, claimed that the social-networking site did not adequately provide a way to opt out of the advertising program that began in January 2011.
Welcome to the first episode of Observation Deck, a quick peek into the Wired world. Every week, host Adam Rogers will spout odd facts, rage, strange tales, pleas for understanding and idiosyncratic monologues (but not in a supervillain way). This week's topic: the mysterious worlds beneath our feet.
Northrop Grumman has finally penciled in the first flight of the giant surveillance airship it's building for the U.S. Army. The football-field-size, helium-filled robot blimp should take to the air over Lakehurst, New Jersey the first or second week of June.
GTar, which easily broke its $100,000 Kickstarter goal this week after making waves at TechCrunch?s Disrupt NYC conference, is the newest and perhaps the most promising futuristic guitar to help lower the barrier of entry for a new generation of shredders.
The greatest trick the Google's public relations team ever played on the world was convincing people to link to the search service's homepage whenever there's a cool Google Doodle. In this case, they've turned Google.com into a playable Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of synthesizer innovator Robert Moog, inventor of the musical instruments that bear his name.
Cloud computing holds great promise as one of the key methods available to IT professionals to enable cost reduction in operations for enterprises; large, small and medium sized business across nearly every market vertical. However, as it is currently being implemented, the cloud is in danger of establishing constructs that will cause it to fail to meet its potential, writes Eric Johnson.
Is Microsoft's new social network So.cl the next Facebook, Twitter or even Google+? We spent some hands-on time with Microsoft's new social network to find out. The short answer: no.
The National Security Agency is teaming up with universities to train students in cyber operations for intelligence, military and law enforcement work that will remain secret to all but a select group of students and faculty who pass clearance requirements.
In the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle, the jury is still grappling over claims that Google infringed on Oracle patents in building its Android mobile operating system. And judging from the questions the jury tossed at the judge on Tuesday, a verdict is still a long ways off.
In our software-driven world, the middleman is an endangered species. Remember travel agents? Websites like Kayak.com obliterated the profession?in under a decade. Now, the suits in creative industries are dying out. Musicians, inventors, and game designers can raise huge sums of money from fans and use digital tools to deliver products to them without interference from publishers, retailers, or other gatekeepers. Will they follow the encyclopedia salesman into the dustbin of history
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and "baseless political attacks"? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, to "remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post."
"Executives across the globe feel peer and competitive pressure to 'get to yes' on private cloud. This burden falls on IT to provide a cloud solution -- oh, and by the way, we need it by the end of the year. With this clock ticking, it?s hard to think about private cloud strategically. In fact, ...
Despite its plan to get behind a big shift to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with a June 7 launch, Microsoft faces an uphill battle getting U.S. coders to jump from Amazon to its cloud. So it comes as little surprise to see that Microsoft today announced it was launching an accelerator for its Windows Azure cloud in India.
The military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally. That's because Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research arm, has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them to living cells. Think of it like an assembly line, but one that would churn out modified biological matter -- man-made organisms -- instead of cars or computer parts.
As a team of climbers inches toward the summit of Mount Everest, body sensors will monitor them day and night, collecting data to help researchers understand chronic illnesses like heart disease.
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility officially closes. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is history, and the new CEO is Dennis Woodside, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who has been with Goodle since 2003.
The web has yet to produce an elegant way of serving small images to small screens and large ones to large screens. The problem, argues web developer Jason Grigsby, is that what web developers want to do is at odds with how web browsers handle images.
Electric vehicle pioneer Chip Yates is upping the ante in the world of electric airplanes. Today, the world-record holder for electric motorcycles announced plans for an all-electric recreation of Charles Lindbergh's famous trans-Atlantic flight in 1927.
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