: The era of the megaship didnt sink with the Titanic in fact, it was just picking up steam. Shipbuilders have been engaged in a battle for size supremacy for more than a century. And in September, Royal Caribbean took delivery on the next biggest th...

1675: Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫  in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation thats still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who readily crossed the lines between academic discipline...

Sure, your iPod may have more storage space, but this netbook sports a 1.6-GHz Atom processor, runs Windows XP and rocks a 10-inch wide-screen display.

: Photo: NASAJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryCarnegie Institution of WashingtonWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The first mission sent to orbit Mercury flew by the planet closest to the sun for the second time earlier this month, capturing imag...

Talk about a high-pressure job: Network the worlds environmental sensors, build a system to integrate the petabytes of data they produce, and, oh yeah, pull it all together to predict when disasters (like Katrinas siblings) are about to strike. Frenc...

: Photo: Ladyada.netThis Halloween, dont just carve your pumpkin: Hack it.Geeked-out pumpkins go beyond mere gourd carving to include programmable chips, circuit boards and a good bit of soldering. Some include motion sensors and solar panels. This y...

A new form of renewable energy aims to take advantage of the vibrations created when slow-moving water encounters a cylinder. The same vibrations help fish propel themselves faster than their muscles alone can manage, but they also damage oil rigs ov...

Its a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. Theres a hole in the roof and...

Weta Workshops Greg Broadmore will wax eloquent on the nature of his Infallible Aether Ocillator and other faux Victorian weaponry at Californias steampunk gathering, Steam Powered.

Google settles a three-year old lawsuit challenging its Book Search program, but the financial benefits are dwarfed by the clear field the company now has to complete a global digital library.

Two U.S. astronauts voted from the orbiting International Space Station and sent a video message to Earth encouraging the rest of us to do the same.

Microsoft debuted a preview of Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference Tuesday. While not a huge leap from Vista, Windows 7 addresses modern hardware needs to make it the most welcome upgrade since XP. In fact, it may be be the first Wind...

A Maryland man was sentenced to 21 months in prison Tuesday after being caught secretly filming movies at the theater. Michael Logan produced DVDs with the footage. The Motion Picture ***ociation of America believes Logan filmed an estimated 100 movi...

Most Americans are scrutinizing their every household expense about now. But one line item that probably wont get cut out of the budget: Cable TV. Its become as necessary as electricity and water, analysts say.

Cl***ic riffs on crappy movies never get old. A limited-edition collection of four fan-favorite MST3K episodes comes with lots of cool extras, like a Crow T. Robot figurine and video of a cast reunion.

Microsoft is making up for the lackluster Vista release by packing a bunch of new features into its next iteration, Windows 7. The most welcome change is less nagging by security dialogs. The other six borrow and extend from Mac OS X features, includ...

The U.S. needs new nukes, Pentagon chief Robert Gates says. And ifCongress wont give up the cash for next-gen weapon designs, themilitary will have to start test-firing H-bombs, for the first timesince 1992.

Google has settled a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers over its book-scanning project. Google will pay $125 million to resolve the claims and to pay legal fees, and it will create a Book Rights Registry where copyright holders can register wo...

Keyboard aficionados rave about older IBM and Apple keyboards, but the new $170 Das Keyboard might give those legendary cl***ics a run for their money.

Later today, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie will take the stage at the annual Microsoft Professional Developers’ Conference in Los Angeles where he is expected to reveal more details about Windows 7. Ozzie is no Steve Jobs, but for Wind...

The holidays are coming up, and youre probably busy book overpriced tickets to go visit family you dont even like. (Tidings of comfort and joy!) And though you never can predict what will go wrong during a week sleeping on Grandmas screen porch, ther...

The latest entry in the cl***ic RPG franchise borrows heavily from The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. The end result is a gory, graphically stunning game that will have you gleefully popping mutants heads.

Leading Internet companies long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China -- including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwid...

A company is poised to push the price of complete genome sequencing below $1,000. Watch a video about how they do it.

1998: President Bill Clinton signs the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. It will take awhile before its impact becomes apparent.The new law was crafted to offer copyright protection to authors, composers, filmmakers and other content creator...

: An obsessive-compulsive collector shares his fascination with vintage Halloween photographs, using Flickr to impart these haunting images.My theme is Halloween in the Time of Cholera, collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. T...

When we first reviewed the baby Squeezebox five months ago, we werent totally impressed. The Duet now connects your computers music library to your stereo with kindergarten ease and MIT smarts.

The creators of one of the worlds great time-wasters keep it simple, and simply compelling, while tweaking Bejeweleds cl***ic gameplay.

When financial times get rough, the rough start updating their business cards. Focus on the basics, like your contact information, before diving into fancy designs and card stock. If you want to stand out, theres more to it than just that. Get starte...