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News Corp Microsoft Seek To Pressure Google into Paying for News (23 November 09:21) |
| News Corp hopes to delete its news articles from Google's search engine and put them on Microsoft's search engines instead, in return for payment. Although this represents a new option for f... |
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YouTube Blocks Non-Partner Device Syabas as Allegations Fly (21 November 04:42) |
| YouTube has begun enforcing a 16-month-old change in its terms of service that requires device manufacturers to become "strategy partners" in order to display YouTube videos on televisions.
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Listen to Worlds First Twitter Album (21 November 02:05) |
| Digital music students create a crowdsourced album within the 140-character confines of Twitter by writing short strings of code that can be translated into songs.
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Retailer Relents on Logo Use After Pirate Bay Cries Foul (18 November 09:44) |
| From the "Now you know how it feels" department: The Swedish online retailer that had trademarked a near replica of The Pirate Bay’s iconic logo has agreed to withdraw registration of what... |
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Music Too Expensive to Be Free Too Free to Be Expensive (17 November 11:55) |
| Advertising was supposed to be music's magic bullet, enabling fans to get the free music they’re going to find anyway while feeding copyright-holder coffers. Well, that dream is fading fas... |
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Google Submits New Proposal for Library of Future (17 November 04:37) |
| Google hopes that it can find a creative legal solution that lets it create the library of tomorrow by scanning millions of books. Late Friday, it submitted a new proposal for paying authors... |
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To Play With Giants App Devs Risk Getting Squashed (14 November 04:55) |
| Mobile app developers find that there's a risk to being a little guy: Sometimes the corporation that controls the platform, like Google or Apple, will make your app obsolete.
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In Escalating War With Verizon ATT Is Getting Tone Deaf and Outflanked (13 November 10:30) |
| Verizon and AT&T are going to war: As it took direct aim at the 800-pound gorilla that is the iPhone with funny and cinematic TV ads for the Droid rollout last week, Verizon is also flanking... |
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Intel Pays AMD $125 billion To Settle All Disputes (12 November 08:42) |
| Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices settle all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing issues. Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion as part of the se... |
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Intel to pay AMD $125 billion settle all disputes (12 November 07:41) |
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chip makers Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc said they have settled all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing iss... |
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Storyboard Demand Medias Google-Crunching Profit-Posting Answer Factory (11 November 04:27) |
| Employing a clever algorithm and a speedy production team, the company whips up dirt-cheap videos that capitalize on internet users' queries.
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Singularity University Cracking the Human Code (10 November 11:20) |
| A neuroscientist specializing in real-time brain imagery says that the next wave of knowledge, technology and business will come from learning how humans perceive, think and act.
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Singularity University Rearranging Atoms With Ralph Merkle (09 November 07:26) |
| 'If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to all material aspects of life,' says Ralph ... |
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Singularity University Day Two Peter Diamandis Thinks Big (09 November 07:12) |
| After dinner on day two of Singularity University, Peter Diamandis gives a fantastic presentation about the X-Prize and what it means. This is a guy who radiates energy, seriousness, and goo... |
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Singularity University Day One Infinite In All Directions (08 November 09:37) |
| A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval airbase that hosts the nascent Singularity University. Night has fallen, but it st... |
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4 Ways Live and Digital Music Are Teaming Up (07 November 03:00) |
| Music webcasting is setting the stage for an online live-music renaissance.
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Googles Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles (07 October 10:16) |
| Imagine a world where Google sucks. It might seem a stretch, but a few geeks with long memories remember the last time Google assembled a giant library that promised to rescue orphaned conte... |
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Sneak Peek 3-D TV Menu Systems Surprisingly Complicated (07 October 03:21) |
| It's not the sexiest problem in the world, but someone's going to have to solve it: How, if three-dimensional television becomes the next HD — the way much of the industry hopes it will â€... |
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Lets Make a Deal Search Engine Askcom Says (06 October 08:22) |
| Ask Deals — which hunts down coupons and sales — takes its place besides Ask’s more conventional tabs for searches for news, video and images. It’s a response to a growing number of ... |
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FTC Tells Amateur Bloggers to Disclose Freebies or Be Fined (06 October 06:49) |
| Gadget bloggers and Amazon.com reviewers now must disclose freebies and financial interests or face fines up to $11,000, according to rules announced by federal regulators Monday in an attem... |
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Mr Know-It-All on Laptop Autopsies Rookie Journalism F-Bomb Tweets (06 October 05:30) |
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My geeky 8-year-old son wants to take apart my old laptop. But the thing still works, so I could also donate it. What's the right call?
If philosopher John Stuart Mill were alive today&... |
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Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind (06 October 05:30) |
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When Michael Jackson died on June 25, millions of people flooded onto Google News to find the latest information about what had happened. The spike in traffic was so massive that Google s... |
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Scott Brown on the Facebook Movie (02 October 05:30) |
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To: A. Sorkin, D. Fincher
cc: Hollywood
Re: Facebook Movie
Gentlemen: My Google Reader informs me that you two are teaming up to write and direct a making-of-Facebook story (working ti... |
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Apple Buyout of Mapping Firm Hints at Future Breakup With Google (02 October 02:19) |
| Apple has purchased Placebase, an online-mapping company, which could indicate the Cupertino company’s plans to reduce its dependence on Google services.
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Taming Twitter Overload Lists to the Rescue (01 October 08:30) |
| Twitter tries a method to sub-categorize the people you follow into "lists," making it possible for the first time to systematically organize — and recommend — feeds you follow.
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Alpha Geek Rocket Scientist Takes on TV for Gamers (01 October 05:30) |
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Mary Spio has been a server at McDonald's and an aerospace engineer at Boeing. She holds one of the patents that make it possible to send movies to theaters digitally (no. 7,065,355, relat... |
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Newsy The News Is Broken But We Can Fix It (01 October 04:30) |
| It’s old news that news consumers shield themselves from pesky dissenting viewpoints by patronizing only those outlets that present a comfortably conforming world view. The web and iPhone ... |
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Wireless Industry To FCC Show Us the Spectrum (30 September 04:43) |
| The wireless industry is under scrutiny from the feds for how it manages scarce resources for smartphones. Their response? Demand more bandwidth.
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Sony Opens Up eBook Platform to Self Publishers (29 September 08:29) |
| Sony announces a partnership with Smashwords and Author Solutions which will allow any author to upload a book to their eBook Store, giving self-published writers unprecedented access to the... |
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httpwwwwiredcomepicenter200909cnn-iphone-app-2-for-two-way-news (29 September 07:36) |
| Although a bit late to the party, CNN has made a decisive entry into the mobile news space with a well-designed iPhone app with that costs $2 to download, nothing to use and makes it easier ... |
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CNNs iPhone News App is Informative And Empowering (29 September 07:36) |
| Although a bit late to the party, CNN has made a decisive entry into the mobile news space with a well-designed iPhone app with that costs $2 to download, nothing to use and makes it easier ... |
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With 2 Billionth iPhone App Download Apple Gets Blas233 (28 September 11:38) |
| It doesn’t exactly rival Moore’s Law, but Apple has hit 2 billion iPhone app downloads in about half the time it took to reach 1 billion. But unlike the fanfare which attended the 1 bill... |
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Worlds First Street Named After a Twitter Account (28 September 08:27) |
| For once, you can take the "@" symbol at the front of a Twitter account name literally. The Twitter name "@arjanelfassed" is not only the Twitter account of one Arjan El Fassed; it’s also ... |
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Netflix Everywhere Sorry Cable Youre History (28 September 05:30) |
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It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry. The gadget looked as unassuming... |
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8 Outrageously Annoying Tech Videos (26 September 01:30) |
| Microsoft's painfully forced "Windows 7 launch party" video is only the latest in a long string of horrible infomercials and commercials produced by the tech industry. Here, we bring you eig... |
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Behold The Worlds First Laser Microphone Video (25 September 10:37) |
| David Schwartz, who laid the foundation for MP3 with his undergraduate and PhD work in the eighties, has another big idea: a microphone that uses lasers and smoke to detect the minute variat... |
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Ralph Keeney Cheat Death (25 September 05:30) |
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Ralph Keeney wants to improve our lives—by making us confront our deaths. In a recent study published in the journal Operations Research, Keeney, a decision analyst at Duke Univers... |
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Jamie Heywood Forget Medical Privacy (25 September 05:30) |
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Want to put your doctor's stethoscope in a twist? Ask them to hand over a complete copy of your medical records. Then watch as they nervously demur, citing state laws, cost, and fuzzy hosp... |
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Dambisa Moyo Cut Off Aid to Africa (25 September 05:30) |
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Last year, Dambisa Moyo was an unknown banker in the London office of Goldman Sachs. Then she wrote a book, Dead Aid, that blames foreign economic assistance for Africa's poverty and corr... |
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A Writers Plea Figure Out How To Preserve Google Books (24 September 09:09) |
| The dispute over Google Books continues to rage in the courts and op-ed pages of the country. There are legitimate questions about Google, profit sharing, and privacy. I'm a science writer a... |
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Thorkil Sonne Recruit Autistics (24 September 05:30) |
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Most occupations require people skills. But for some, a preternatural capacity for concentration and near-total recall matter more. Those jobs, entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne says, could use a... |
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Ludwig Minelli Legalize Assisted Suicide (24 September 05:30) |
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After more than 70 years and roughly 1,500 suicides, the Golden Gate Bridge may finally get a suicide barrier, preventing the desperate and hopeless from leaping to their deaths. As heartb... |
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John Arquilla Go on the Cyberoffensive (24 September 05:30) |
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The Pentagon already employs legions of elite hackers trained in cyberwarfare. But they mostly play defense, and that's what Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla wants to ch... |
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William Gurstelle Take Smart Risks (23 September 05:30) |
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Among our primitive ancestors, those who ventured farthest from their caves in search of better food or who overcame their fear of fire accrued significant advantages over their meeker ki... |
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Stewart Brand Save the Slums (23 September 05:30) |
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Some people see a squatter city in Nigeria or India and the desperation overwhelms them: rickety shelters, little kids working or begging, filthy water and air. Stewart Brand sees the same... |
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Nils Christie Empty the Prisons (23 September 05:30) |
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From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime—but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers ... |
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How the Netflix Prize Was Won (22 September 08:49) |
| Like Netflix Prize-winner Pragmatic Chaos, second-place finisher The Ensemble was an amalgam of teams that had been competing individually for the million-dollar prize. But it wasn't until t... |
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The Smart List 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World (22 September 05:30) |
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Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, ... |
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Stefan Szymanski and Stephen Ross Bust Up Big League Sports (22 September 05:30) |
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Major league athletes are rewarded for talent, toughness, and single-minded dedication. Major league team owners, on the other hand, are rewarded for mediocrity. Having bought their way i... |
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Robert Gates Overhaul the Pentagon (22 September 05:30) |
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From his earliest days as secretary of defense, Robert Gates kept a little countdown clock in his briefcase. It ticked off the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until January 20, 2009, ... |
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