Google has applied for a number of top level domains (TLDs), including .google, .youtube and, most bizarrely, .lol. A top level domain is the highest level of domain name, and basically anything that...
Four hundred parts per million. Over the Arctic, in the spring of 2012, monitoring stations reported concentrations of carbon dioxide of more than 400 parts per million. Thats a notable figure, as ic...
Todays photography from the Wired Aperture -- beautiful daily images of the Wired world around us, curated every day by Wired.co.uk. Subscribe to the Wired Aperture RSS feed or follow the&n...
Windows users are one step closer to getting a major system facelift -- and if the 1 June release of Microsofts latest OS build tells us anything, its that the company is putting the systems stronges...
The top of LGs mid-range "L" series comes with the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 5-megapixel camera and a 4.3-inch screen. But is its single-core processor...
It would be a brave soul who would deny that BlackBerry is in trouble. Canadian firm RIM has been unable to innovate as quickly or as effectively as the deep-pocketed likes o...
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most compelling. My oldest has recently been getting into old James Bond films, something about the straight forward plot and clear lines between good a...
Coming 33 years after the first Alien, and with Ridley Scott back in charge and designer of the original monster itself on board, its hard to imagine expectations could ...
Medical researchers in Switzerland have used a combination of spinal cord stimulation and robot-aided therapy to get paralysed rats to learn to walk again. A team at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale ...
He once was known as al-Jamil -- the Handsome One -- for his chiselled features and dark curls. But four decades as dictator had considerably dimmed the looks of Muammar Gadd...
Engineers at the IBA, the Amsterdam department of engineering, have come up with a handy way of solving the problem of bicycle storage -- automatic hangers mounted on the citys roofs. ...
In 2011, the US government rolled out its " International Strategy for Cyberspace," which reminded us that "interconnected networks link nations more closely, so an attack on one nat...
This week we learn about Volvos real-world test of cars that drive themselves, a history museums adults-only sleepover, the extinction of planet Earth, military spy tactics and the rest of the w...
The UKs Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has announced that it will cease its funding for two Hawaiian telescopes, and they will be transferred to another operator or scrapped entirel...
The titans of the games industry are preparing to descend upon the E3 Expo in Los Angeles to show off their upcoming wares. Console-makers Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will host keynotes, and the sho...
Two yet-to-be filled job listings posted in mid- to late-2011 hint at a a very specific future Apple innovation. And its one that has been widely speculated upon: dock connectors. The job postings,&n...
SpaceXs Dragon capsule has splashed down in the Pacific, marking the end of the historic first commercial mission to the International Space Station. The unmanned spacecraft parachuted to a watery la...
You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for t...
Transport for London has listed the first group of Underground stations that will offer free Wi-Fi access throughout the Olympic games this July. Virgin Media will run the service, and offer internet...
Mathematicians now suspect quirks in energy-cloaking metamaterials could be exploited to create powerful quantum probes called "Schrödingers hats". Although not yet built or proven in the rea...
A startup called Diffbot has developed application programming interfaces (APIs) that help machines "read" web pages the way that humans do. The company has just raised $2 million (£1.3 milli...
London-based startup Escape the City has turned down two offers of venture capital financing in favour of crowdfunding, and has raised almost £500,000 in a week. Escape the City is a website tha...
The European Crisma project is to develop a decision-support tool to help authorities, responders and communities know how best to respond in the wake of a disaster. Coordinated by the VTT Technical ...
Bethesda has released the first in-game footage of its forthcoming Skyrim e xpansion pack, Dawnguard. This is the first content expansion pack released for Skyrim, the fifth game i...
Click play on the embedded video. Allow your jaw to drop. Starforge is a first-person action game with infinite deformable terrain, proper physics and no loading screens. It lets you build ...
The government is to award £100 million to alternative lenders such as online peer-to-peer finance companies in a bid to help boost funding to entrepreneurs. Online peer-to-peer lending services allo...
Nanofabricators at the University of Glasgow have carved the face of Elizabeth Windsor onto a tiny sliver of diamond, making what they claim is the worlds smallest coin. The coin, which was etched at...
Movie and TV streaming and DVD service Lovefilm has announced that it now supports high-definition streaming on PC, Mac, Xbox and certain smart TVs. Lovefilm Instant will support streams up to 1080p ...
The genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been fully sequenced. The decoded DNA has been published in the journal Nature, and made available online. "For any characteristic of the tomat...
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