This free Twitter client for the Mac is a lot like its popular competitor, TweetDeck, except it lets you manage multiple accounts and it’s not based on Adobe AIR. Nambu also has nifty organizational features, persistent searches and support for group...

The underlying pattern of our DNA appears to follow a rule of thermodynamics, which means it would hold throughout the universe, and life that evolved elsewhere would have a genetic code whose architecture is very similar to ours.

Gutting the Armys development of next-gen tanks and troop carriers was the hardest part of radically overhauling the military, says Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The nations newspaper publishers blame the internet for ruining their business models, but at their annual conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells them to stop whining and start innovating. Schmidts gentle lecture comes just a day after the AP thre...

Ranting on social networking sites retain no privacy protection, a California court rules. A womans diatribe about her Central Valley hometown sparked death threats against her family.

Two FBI raids on Texas data centers last week took hundreds of innocent businesses offline, in a slash-and-burn investigation into $6 million in unpaid phone bills.

The Australian government promises all its citizens a superfast internet connection in an ambitious, US$31 billion plan to connect the country with fiber optic cables and wireless broadband. A private, but government-owned company will build out the ...

A bad connection in the brains of schizophrenic patients seems to leave them unaffected by a common optical illusion that turns the concave backside of a mask into a convex face. The difference may be a disconnect in the schizophrenic brain between w...

If youve got more gear than you can shovel into a shoulder bag but dont want the graceless un-coolness of a typical backpack, the Ortlieb Velocity is a good choice.

Our first-hand account from Antarctica gives a scientists perspective on the political maneuvering among countries hoping to position themselves for a potential land grab when the moratorium on mining expires in 2041.

General Motors and the people who make the worlds coolest scooter unveil a EV two-seater thats essentially a big honkin Segway. Your move, Woz.

While a world of Trekkers believed the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek would premiere in Sydney, Australia Tuesday, Leonard Nimoy made a surprise appearance in Austin, Texas Monday night to screen the film for an unsuspecting audience.

Having proven its technology works in the dirt, Zero Motorcycles wants to show it works in the city, too.

Musical rebel Trent Reznor puts even more power into his fans hands with a new iPhone app and a seriously upgraded website.

: Weighing just 140 grams, the handset offers some of the best optics weve ever found crammed into a cell phone: sharp, noiseless pics (3,264 × 2,448 pixels) and decent image stabilizer punctuate video capture that puts full-figured handicams from 20...

A new alpha release of the broadband video software for AppleTV welcomes content from Hulu.com back into the mix. Boxees developers add a new web browser based on Firefox, enabling it to show any web-based video content. Theres also a new API so outs...

1933: Although it will be another eight months before Prohibition is officially repealed, this is a red-letter day for beer drinkers. Suds containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol by weight are legally obtainable again, without having to get the glad eye...

British disco diva Little Boots mixes her hipster sensibilities with her thirst for music gadgets. LB tells Wired she wants to keep things raw.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple and major music labels are betting that the launch of three-tier pricing at the iTunes Music Store will boost music sales with a new mix of song-based packages and give consumers more options.Apple will announce its new thr...

In an unprecedented race, 50 people log a few thousand miles in 24 hours to prove electric motorcycles are here, and here now.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposes the most sweeping overhaul of Americas arsenal — and the Pentagon budget — in decades. Major weapons programs, from aircraft carriers to next-gen bombers to new school fighting vehicles, will be cut back or eli...

Two patients who receive double hand transplants regain motor control of their hands, suggesting its possible to regenerate brain control systems.

The U.S. Army introduced a gargantuan plan In 2003to wage the wars of tomorrow. Now, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking to all-but-end the Army’s future combat systems.

A group of Kindle e-book readers is protesting the price of e-books being higher than $10. Their rationale is that Kindle books cannot be distributed, traded or sold, and should cost much lower than their paper counterparts.