Notorious hacker Chris Tarnovsky opens his underground laboratory to Wired.com, providing a peek into the world of satellite TV smart-card hacking. This complicated process involves nail polish, a pin head and various acids -- so don't try this at home (unless you're Chris Tarnovsky)!
Kohler gets his Wii out! He's even threatening to take it to the zoo. Can his journalistic integrity win over his love for this console? Plus a review of Viking: Battle For Asgard.
Artist Aaron Koblin's phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon's labor distribution mechanism, The Mechanical Turk. Koblin's goal was to raise questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age.
If I were stronger than any person on Earth, I'd have a better attitude than the Hulk. Maybe he'd have a better time if it weren't anger that set off his transformation.
There are two things the Internet excels at: helping us connect with people, and helping us avoid people. Twitter fits right into the crawlspace between these functions, giving you an IV drip of tiny pseudo-interactions. Take a look at this exciting, not particularly new site with our guide to social networking.
Check out the first video blog from Game|Life, Wired's videogame channel. We review No More Heroes (Wii) and Rez HD (XBox 360), two games with no shortage of amazing graphic style. Which one comes out on top?
In this animated promotional video, defense contractor BAE Systems shows off its vision for "Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology" -- tiny, swarming, bug-like robots. The Army just gave the company a $38
million contract to head up a consortium of researchers into the next-gen mini-drones.
Do you ever get in arguments on the Internet? If not, get a refund from your ISP, because you're not getting your money's worth. This handy guide to logical fallacies will aid you in any argument. It won't actually help you win, but it will allow you to keep changing the subject until your opponent gives up. And on the Web, that's just as good!
Ever wanted to be a wizard, binding demons as easily as a human being changes a litter box? First, your neophyte wizard needs to master a few less-impressive spells.
The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor's lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works.
Wired's Michael Belfiore goes past Virgin's PR machine to assess the problems of Virgin Galactic's space venture. Pilot Brian Binnie and passengers talk risks and rewards.
Cute kittens, crazy stunts, weird science. Every bite-size morsel of web
writing can be boiled down into just a few key ingredients or a mutation on
a standard theme.
Seeing, as it turns out, is not believing. Not if you're smart. Human visual processing is so unreliable that in the right light, a Chevy Tahoe LS can appear to be a small book of quinoa recipes. This video is a guide to some of the more well-known optical illusions out there ... or is it?
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