I met Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars. He grew up as a self-described otaku, coding his own computer games [...]

Cross one off the list of Google's friends. Wireless audio-equipment manufacturers and producers of live events are up in arms against Google's efforts to open up a little-used patch of radio spectrum. What's being contested is the so-called "white space" spectrum, the vacant bands between ultra-high frequency television channels. As [...]

A security vulnerability in Google's web-based e-mail service can be easily side-stepped by adjusting your account settings. And you should do it now, because in a matter of weeks, Gmail is about to get a lot less secure.[...]

The Motion Picture Association of America says a pirated DVD is valued at $19. The Recording Industry Association says an illicit CD is worth nearly $14. The lobbying groups say they lose billions annually to piracy, and tout the figures to lawmakers in a bid for stricter regulations.[...]

Many believe that humanity's destiny lies with the stars. Sadly for us, rocket propulsion experts now say we may never even get out of the Solar System. At a recent conference, rocket scientists from NASA, the U.S. Air Force and academia doused humanity's interstellar dreams in cold reality. The scientists, [...]

A lawsuit complicates the effort to bring DC Comics' classic graphic novel to the silver screen.[...]

Search giant Yahoo opens up its Buzz social news site to accept submissions from any publisher on the web. While story submissions for the Digg-like service were previously limited to 400 publishers, now anyone with a blog can put a Buzz widget on their website and have a shot at [...]

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When in doubt, blame the latest technology. Socrates thought the advent of writing would wreak havoc [...]

Shai Agassi looks up and down the massive rectangular table in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and begins to worry. He knows he's out of his league here. For the last day and a half, he's been listening to an elite corps of Israeli and US politicians, businesspeople, and intellectuals debate the [...]

The days of Silicon Valley not being involved in D.C. are over. Google, which just a couple of years ago had a single representative in D.C., is hosting blow-out parties at the conventions with Vanity Fair, and showing politicos how to use its tools to good effect.[...]

Monday was a big day for Google's Android operating system for smartphones -- a new set of developer's tools was released, and the first handset made especially for Android emerged. But the "Googlephone" still faces a substantial challenge as it faces off against the current leader in mobile innovation, the [...]

Online advertising networks -- particularly Google's -- are more dangerous than the fledgling plans and dreams of ISPs to install eavesdropping equipment inside their internet pipes to serve tailored ads to their customers, AT&T; says.[...]

A Bronx woman agrees to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $6,050 for purloining eight tracks on the Kazaa file sharing network. That's $756.25 per song. The largest penalty ordered in an RIAA file sharing lawsuit was $9,250 per track.[...]

Seven years ago, while working at a job that entailed cutting and pasting vast swathes of text for hours on end, I began to feel a wide range of aching, burning and numbing sensations in my hands and arms. I was eventually diagnosed with tendonitis, lateral epicondylitis and carpal tunnel [...]

: Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that's fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with -- and school -- a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted [...]

: Photo: Mike Stimpson Lego fanboy and amateur photographer Mike Stimpson found a way to combine his two loves: He recreates scenes from historic photographs using the plastic bricks, then snaps his own photos. The British videogame programmer first began assembling his Lego duplications in October 2007 as a way [...]

Identity-management service Chi.mp offers new users a free, personalized domain name they can use to host their OpenID credentials. Along with the identity tools, users also get a life-streaming service that pulls in updates from all their favorite social networks.[...]

JVC's latest shooter takes a step back from the HD camcorders out there. Instead, it focuses on shooting low-res vids for uploading directly to YouTube. Trouble is, there are other cameras out there that do it better and cheaper.[...]

This free software application lets you stream the songs in your iTunes library to any computer on the internet. But the real jaw-dropper is the iPhone app, which we put to the test.[...]

NBC may be taking lumps in the blogosphere for its decision to provide so much of its Olympics coverage exclusively through traditional channels, but they have provided advertisers with an increasingly elusive commodity — a large, captivated -- and captive -- audience.[...]

: Photo: Apple Apple released its first iMac on Aug. 15, 1998. The cute, translucent blue, all-in-one PC was easily the most influential personal computer of the 1990s, heralding a return to simplicity and ease of use and briefly sparking an industrial design fad around clear, colored plastic. It also [...]

The proposal for a so-called "iTunes tax" in California was widely criticized and promptly shot down this spring. So why is it back on the table? One state assemblyman reintroduced a bill that would levy an additional tax on digital download purchases, potentially driving more paying customers to use file-sharing [...]

Several of the web's heavyweights -- Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google among them -- have been debating which direction to take ECMAScript, the programming language which serves as the basis for JavaScript and powers much of the interactivity on the web. The group has come to an agreement and [...]

Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding [...]