Kicking and screaming will the late adopters be dragged into the future. But if you want to stoke their deepest fears just the right amount, let xkcd be your troll-guide: Read More >>
How do you build the next generation of an iconic gaming console—and controller? How do you create something that fans both recognise and are inspired by? Wired got some exclusive alone time with the people who brought Xbox One to life. If you like prototypes, you'll love this. Read More >>
It's Google Day! Google I/O, that magical time of year when everybody's favourite search megalopolis shows off its latest doodads and Doodles. And you can watch the keynote unfold in real-time right here. Read More >>
When news first broke nearly a year and a half ago that Netflix was resurrectingArrested Development for a fourth season, the reception was joy followed by immediate apprehension. Could the expectations be met? Could it be as funny as it is in our collective memories? The answer, based on this first trailer, is a very hopeful maybe. Read More >>
A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They're expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code that turns 14,000 of your users into an unwitting personal bitcoin botnet? Totally doable. Read More >>
Featured comment by Will--:
""and either twice or half that tomorrow, given the viscosity of Bitcoin"
Yes bitcoins are very viscous aren't they.
*facepalm*" More »
The phone book. There's perhaps no more outmoded, unnecessary, downright wasteful collection of printed information in the known universe. But Doghouse Diaries has a few suggestions that might make them useful after all. Read More >>
The addition of Google Now to the iOS App Store has granted iPhone owners access to one of Google's most useful products. But it did something else, too. It made the iPhone a better Android phone than the vast majority of Android phones you can buy. Read More >>
Featured comment by pretpat:
"So Apple doesn't change anything in 4 years and the author boasts that you can now use Google Now on a 3GS. Impressive to find an angle like that for ..." More »
It's hard not to be won over by the charms of the original 2008 Iron Man movie. But it's possible—just possible—that you were so busy appreciating Marvel's whizzbang treatment and Robert Downey Jr.'s roguish charms that you missed these GIANT GLARING PROBLEMS. Read More >>
Featured comment by stevenjoes:
"I have JOINED to +1 this.
I love the honest trailers but these are just useless. Having a go at Happy for not going out in Vegas!?!?! HE'S A PA.
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A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep implications for how analysts evaluate the company's worth. It's framed as an identity crisis, one with deep, dangerous implications for one of the most dominant consumer electronics companies in the world. There is much gnashing of teeth. Read More >>
Featured comment by ian1175:
"Yeah look at it like this ! When i upgraded to the new Macbook pro retina i gave my 2005 macbook pro to my son. And he still uses it everyday and love..." More »
The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev's capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking him down, technology played as prominent a role as it ever has in a time of national crisis. Read More >>
Whether Apple will release a budget iPhone this year is subject to no small amount of debate, but it seems almost certain that the company is at least testing one out. Which is why this rumoured cheap iPhone shell, published by Tactus, could very well be legit. Whether it actually makes it into stores is another question altogether. Read More >>
Featured comment by Fredshed:
"Everything you have said is exactly what I would like to have originally posted had I not been at work with the boss looking over my shoulder!
To s..." More »
To say that Twitter Music is debuting today would be to discount the man hours celebrities have spent assaulting their earholes with it. But, as shared on Good Morning America, Twitter's music service will debut today on the web and on the iPhone for the common man. Read More >>
Did you hear? Nearly half of Justin Bieber's Twitter followers are fake. Fake! Belieber nation is a fraud, life has no meaning, the abyss of treachery and betrayal that is life grows deeper by the hour. Read More >>
Sure, our supervillains are more of the geopolitical type, but it's inevitable that some day a mad scientist will come along with an oxygen-stealing ray. And when he does, as this Buzzfeed video—based on an imaginative Quora thread—points out, we're all in a whole lotta trouble. Read More >>
Google's finally starting to reveal the winners of its #ifihadglass promotion, and surprise! You're not one of them. Not yet, anyway, unless you happen to be one of the following six golden ticket recipients. Read More >>