Pure and simple Review If a recent survey for HP is to be believed, Britons remain committed to packaged media, with 75 percent wanting hard copies of films in a box. So despite the advance of video streaming and downloading, perhaps it’s not yet time to write off conve...

astroengine writes "Sure, we're looking 172 years into the future, but an international collaboration of scientists have developed two mathematical models to help predict when a potentially hazardous asteroid (or PHA) may hit us, not in this century, but the next. The r...

Kevin Kelly has compiled a list of the 100 greatest long-form magazine articles ever published. He has found links to the text of each article, and says: "I'd like to have folks start to vote up the best (although they can still add). There's a Top Five that has emerge...

It looks like Sprint is giving us EVO 4G owners a nice gift starting next week as Google Android 2.2 starts rolling out. I can't wait to see all the improvements in a device as good as the EVO.

More highlights from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. On day two of briefings, mobile security, cyber-war and weaknesses in HTTPS were among the issues that surfaced. - Day two of briefings at the Black Hat security conference produced some interesting...

Kevin Kelly has compiled a list of the 100 greatest long-form magazine articles ever published. He has found links to the text of each article, and says: "I'd like to have folks start to vote up the best (although they can still add). There's a Top Five that has emerge...

Privacy concerns over Google and the CIA; HP's enterprise slate; why online gaming might help your career and more.

Android is free for device makers to use on their devices -- Google doesn't make a cent on the operating system itself. It's an interesting model that hasn't yet translated into money, but it has...

What will in-flight entertainment be like in the year 2023? There isn't any.

Penguin publishes the first paperback books of substance, bringing the likes of Ernest Hemingway, André Maurois and Agatha Christie to the masses. The business model of the book-publishing industry is about to change.

Google may be OK on StreetView WiFi snooping as far as Britain's ICO is concerned, but what about everywhere else?

Wired magazine's Found page represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Help create our next Found page: Show us what taco trucks will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years?

Clive Thompson waxes philosophical on how text messaging is threatening -- and preserving -- the telephone conversation.

Meet Caterina Fake, the creative spark behind Hunch. Her big idea? Develop a web service that knows what you want before you even want it.

Samsung Electronics on Friday reported a record high operating profit and net profit for the second quarter, driven by strong sales of memory chips and LCDs, but it warned that stiff competition in consumer electronics means it may not be able to maintain profitability ...

YouTube filled the top request from its users July 29, increasing its upload time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. YouTube attributed the minute increase to its ability to protect copyrights for videos uploaded to the Website. - YouTube, looking to make room for the 24...

Amazon released its third-generation Kindle July 28, and the devices "experimental features," including a Web browser, hint at its possible future directions. - Even before Amazon.com announced its third-generation Kindle July 28, speculation abounded about...

News Analysis: Android might be doing well right now, but there are some serious issues that could hold the mobile operating system back. Among the customers' concerns will be security, privacy and an enterprise focus for Android. - Googles Android platform couldnt b...

Rocky and Balls's "Girls Like Boys With Skills" is probably the dirtiest double-entendre ukulele ditty since George Formby sang "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand."

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in th...

Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations.

Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong Il puppet from the Team America movie. I shot the photo during a visit earlier this yea...

At Tom's Hardware, we get a lot of CPUs, but we don't have nearly as many CPUs as this guy. Central processing unit - Hardware - Business - Arts - Graphics processing unit

Samsung Electronics reported a record operating profit in the second quarter driven by strong sales of memory chips and LCDs, it said Friday. Samsung Group - Liquid crystal display - Shopping - Sony - Hardware

A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the "Collateral Murder" video and the recent "Afghan War Diaries" ...

"An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident." Wired News has more.

ATI cards outsold Nvidia cards during the second quarter. Graphics processing unit - Nvidia - ATI Technologies - Business - Advanced Micro Devices

Rebecca MacKinnon reports: "Numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China service availability page. However no journalist has actually confirmed with a huma...

It's official: Sprint will begin rolling out the Android 2.2 upgrade to EVO users on Tuesday, August 3. Android - HTC Corporation - Sprint - 4G - Handhelds

Google's search engine in China may have been blocked briefly overnight Thursday, the company said. Google - Web search engine - Search - China - Search Engine

Wireless devices will allow doctors to provide their patients with more medical information, said a speaker at a mobile health conference. Smartphone - Mobile Computing - Services - Telecommunications - Wireless Data

With Apple's recent update of the iMac line, all new models now feature discrete graphic subsystems and Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors. The two systems in... Apple - IMac - Intel Core - Intel Core i5 - Macintosh

A court-appointed special master has rejected class-action status in an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. Class action - Lawsuit - Intel - Litigation - Law

CodeWeavers, makers of utilities that bridge the software chasm between Windows and the Mac, has released major updates for two of its flagship products:... CrossOver - CodeWeavers - Microsoft Windows - Games - Video Games

Amazon has announced a new Kindle with dramatic improvements over its predecessors. Amazon Kindle - Amazon - South America - Peru - Loreto

Get ready for even longer videos of cats. YouTube - Video - Google - 15 minutes of fame - Uploading and downloading

Samsung unveiled two new products for its fall camera and camcorder lineup: a Wi-Fi-enabled point-and-shoot camera, and a new HD pocket camcorder that boasts a swiveling lens. Camcorder - Samsung Group - Point-and-shoot camera - Wi-Fi - Camera

In this Instructable, talbotron22 shows how to make "Kitty Crack," an ultra-potent catnip extract containing nepetalactone, catnip's active ingredient. One pound of catnip yielded 143mg of nepetalactone. A note about safety. Yes, it is safe to use this extract on...

Rocky and Balls's "Girls Like Boys With Skills" is probably the dirtiest double-entendre ukulele ditty since George Formby sang "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand."

Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for.

Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong Il puppet from the Team America movie. I shot the photo during a visit earlier this yea...

For the second time in as many months, McAfee announces plans to push into the mobile security market via acquisition, this time targeting mobile security vendor TenCube for its remote location, wipe and locking technology. - McAfee announced plans July 29 to acquire...

Intel is negotiating to buy Infineon Technologies' wireless chip business for about $1.3 billion, according to published reports. At the same time, Samsung reportedly is making its own mobility play for Infineon's business. - Negotiations between Intel and Infineon T...

It's fully blocked! Google's China search is working just fine, despite breathless claims from countless news organizations that it's "fully blocked."…

Being able to legally jailbreak your iPhone is cool and all, but think where this type of legal reasoning could take us.

At the Black Hat security conference, retired General and former CIA director Michael Hayden explains the dangers of cyber attacks.

San Franciscans gets a peek at what's involved in building a new bridge when builders place the first segment of a tower that will soon hold up a brand-new span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Wired.com shoots photos of the new bridge on a recent tour of the massive co...

Prepare to have your mind blown. Certain dinosaurs—physically disparate enough that we've always thought of them as different species—may actually be the same animal at different stages of its life cycle. Also: Those big, protective-looking bone formation...

A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the "Collateral Murder" video and the recent "Afghan War Diaries" ...

"An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident." Wired News has more.