Bones Brigade Exposes Skateboarding's Golden Age
Stacy Peralta's newest skateboarding documentary, The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, chronicles the lives of the young skateboarding team and their impact on the culture. Photo: Grant Britain SALT LAKE CITY, Utah ? There were many laughs and somemore
How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video
Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already ?beaten first to digitalmore
Theophilus London Brings His Unique Style to Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah ? Theophilus London is cool. An MC for the times, he resides at the intersection of authentic hipster sensibility and the commercial mainstream. So it only makes sense he?d be right at home at the Sundance Film Festival, wheremore
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx for Verizon (photos)
Available on Verizon, Motorola's $299.99 Droid Razr Maxx takes all the great features of the first Droid Razr and adds on a high-capacity 3,300 mAh battery for good measure.more
Microsoft's Kelihos botnet suspect says he's innocent
The man pegged by Microsoft as the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet, says he's not guilty, according to a report. The BBC said today that Andrey N. Sabelnikov, a former employee of antivirus company Agnitum, had contacted the news agency to say thatmore
webOS daddy Jon Rubinstein exits HP
Enough is enough: 'I'm gonna go for a swim, have a little lunch..." Jon Rubinstein, late of NeXT, FirePower, Apple, and Palm, has resigned from his position at HP, where he endured the mismanagement and eventual overboarding of Palm's webOS mobilemore
Twitter's Country-Specific Blocking Brings Hazards and Hope
The company will disclose requests from governments that want tweets removed IDG News Service ? Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be anmore
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documents Artist's Social Media Dissent
PARK CITY, Utah ? Most art documentaries feature paintbrushes or chisels. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry opens with a surveillance camera. Alison Klayman?s entertaining, compelling and thought-provoking??film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festivalmore
It's official: Motorola Droid Razr Maxx runs forever
Think your smartphone has a big battery? Sorry my friend, but if you don't have the new Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, you're sadly mistaken. Equipped with a massively energy-dense 3,300mAh battery, the Maxx played video for a jaw-dropping 19 hours and 47more
Microsoft Kinect Could Make Its Way to Laptops
The ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought. The Daily got a sneak peek at two Microsoft-developed Windows 8 notebook prototypes with built-in Kinect sensors. The system would allowmore
Pentagon Confused by Its Own 'Subs vs. Terrorists' Plan
It's the Pentagon dream that won't die: hitting enemy targets with missiles anywhere around the world within mere hours. (Too bad it could trigger a nuclear war.) Now that the brass swears it's got a technological fix for the ambitious missile project,more
Salesforce.Com Customers Say New Analytics Should Be Included in Core Fees
Users are angry at the extra cost tied to the upcoming Analytics Edition, saying the core product's reporting function has long been lacking IDG News Service Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition ofmore
Lifelens malaria app wins Microsoft 'Imagine Cup' grant
Team Lifelens was announced as an Imagine Cup finalist in 2011. (Credit: Microsoft) After taking second place in the 2011 Imagine Cup finals, Team Lifelens of the U.S. is one of four teams from around the world to win a $75,000 Imagine Cup grant,more
Microsoft Kinect Could Make Its Way Onto Laptops
We could be seeing Kinect gesture-recognition technology embedded in laptops within the next year. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com The ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought. Themore
Asus and Microsoft working on a Kinect-equipped laptop
Share This article It seems a vision of a far-off utopian future or the wildest dreams of science fiction: you sit down with your laptop at a coffee shop, a steaming mug of half double-twist decaf caramel latte beside you. You open the lid of themore
You Aren't Tough. These Guys Are Tough
If the risk of hypothermia, burns, electrical shocks, broken bones and severely mussed hair isn't your thing, move along. There's nothing for you here at Tough Guy.more
Documentary Meaning of Robots Unearths Droid-Porn Creator's Gadgets
PARK CITY, Utah ? When director Matt Lenski first went to Michael Sullivan?s apartment, he probably never imagined he would be walking into a den of robot porn. After years of working with Sullivan, who made miniature sets for Lenski?s commercialsmore
Palms Down: Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP
HP?s mobile era is over. Jon Rubinstein, the HP executive to lead the charge against Apple?s iPad devices, has left the company as of Friday morning. An company spokesman confirmed to Wired in an interview that the mobile hardware guru, once a starmore
Dumb salesmen are hurting us â Nokia CEO
Analysis Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of ?2bn into a loss of ?1bn in the new boss's first full year; volumes are down by 29more
Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX: Key Features, Facts and Video
CIO U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless has released the much lauded DROID RAZR MAXX smartphone, which was very recently announced at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Motorola's New DROID RAZR MAXX on Verizon Wireless With so many feature-packedmore
Why Popcorn Smells Like a Bearcat?s Butt
Special glands on the rumps of binturongs, or bearcats, excrete a chemical that smells like popcorn. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek explains how the chemical concoction plays a crucial role in the animal's bizarre mating ritual.more
Jacques Maisonrouge, Who Steered IBM?s Global Growth, Dies at 87
12:27 PM EST By Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jacques G. Maisonrouge, a French native who became the first non-American on the board of International Business Machines Corp. after helping the company expand globally, has died. He was 87. He died at his home inmore
Former Palm CEO Rubinstein out at HP
Former Palm CEO and principle architect of the WebOS platform Jon Rubinstein has left Hewlett-Packard, effective today. Rubinstein is leaving after completing a commitment to stay with HP for 12 to 24 months. All Things D first reported on the departure,more
Dumb salesmen are hurting us ? Nokia CEO
Analysis Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of ?2bn into a loss of ?1bn in the new boss's first full year; volumes are down by 29more
Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE
Possible SmartScreen dislike of Amazon caused hiccups Microsoft has so far declined to explain why Internet Explorer this week flagged Dropbox as a phishing threat, in an apparent clash with Amazon?s S3 cloud storage. Customers manned the Dropboxmore
The Wired.co.uk Podcast 60: ACTA, magnetic soap and temples for atheists
Subscribe & Play Related features On the show this week the idea for temples for Britain's atheists take a step forward towards reality, the most worrying internet law to be considered in recent years gains worrying support by the EU, and a presidentialmore
GeekDad deciphers the recent Skylanders rumours
The internet should be a place of truth and enlightenment, but the more I think about (and contribute to) it, the more it seems more like an echo chamber. What got me thinking about this was a regular refrain from my eight-year-old daughter, upon findingmore
An Intimate Look at Egypt's Youth in Ongoing Revolution
If you?ve been following the Arab Spring, you?ve seen Ed Ou?s work. At age 25, he has made some of the most impactful photos of the revolutions in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. His photography has helped translate the ongoing uprisings formore