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- Gamemaker's Secret Mission: Save Duke Nukem Forever When it came to resurrecting the MIA videogame, Randy Pitchford faced a task that was part suicide run, part debt of honor. The Gearbox Software CEO serves up the inside story on the improbable rescue of one of gaming's most beloved (and most obnoxious) franchises.
- DHS Cyber Division Misses 1,085 Holes on Own Network The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.
- Hyundai's Land Yacht Should Have Luxury Automakers Quaking Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal.
- Citing Obama's State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case Citing the Obama administration's evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court is dismissing a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.
- Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university's official sports mascot has fizzled.
- Video: How to Film a 23-Mile Free Fall When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him.
- Hack Your Parking Maybe you always remember where you parked. Maybe you never get parking tickets either. For the rest of us, some tools to alert us when our parking meter is about to expire or give us directions back to our car would be mighty handy.
- Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 am local Italian time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely controlled a 0.25-meter telescope in Mayhill, New Mexico through the Global Remote Astronomy Telescope Network. They got four separate exposures of 30 seconds each and stitched them together to make this animation.
- X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?) After a set of sexy X-rays hit the web earlier this year, viewers were left to wonder if they were real. Now we have the answer.
- Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that's fighting back.
- The Best Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of Esther Vergeer is the best tennis player you've never heard of. Vergeer, who hails from Holland, hasn't lost a wheelchair tennis match since 2003 — that's nearly 400 victories in a row.
- Xbox 360 Slim Is Leaner, Meaner, Quieter Machine Microsoft's upgrade/redo, the Xbox 360 S, is packed with a lot of the extras that used to be sold separately, but the most dramatic change takes place under the hood.
- Swivel Camcorder Features Flat Footage A late entry into the pocket-camcorder field, Sony's Bloggie is overdesigned and underfunctional. The swiveling lens offers flexibility, but the slow and unintuitive controls make it a tough sell.
- Wired.com Contest: Redesign Apple's Ugly iTunes Icon A lot of people seem to think the iTunes 10 icon is hideous, so why not design your own? Wired.com invites readers to make a better iTunes icon than Apple's and submit it for a chance to win an iPod Shuffle.
- Pakistan Aid Groups Route Around U.S. Military for Relief Web The U.S. military's efforts to assist the 17 million victims of the Pakistan flood are still pretty tech-lite. So a group of civilian aid workers, Pakistani and international, have home-brewed a series of social media apps to help coordinate relief work ? everything from crisis Wikis to crowd-sourced maps to SMS calls for help.
- Hitchhiking Goes High-Tech With Car2gether Daimler uses social media and smartphones to help people find carpool buddies who don't suck.
- Exclusive: Sneak Peek at Audio-Embedded Sounds of Star Wars Book Genuinely ingenious new book The Sounds of Star Wars amplifies the concept of interactive show and tell to ear-blasting new heights. In this exclusive video about the making of the book, legendary sound designer Ben Burtt and others involved in the sci-fi saga tell how they came up with such memorable noises.
- Why PlayStation Move Could Give '3-D Games' a Whole New Meaning Sony's upcoming motion controller is more than just a Wiimote clone. Thanks to its player-facing camera and its powerfully precise targeting, it offers a peek at what full-fledged augmented reality will look like.
- Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphoto Winners Revealed Nikon's Small World microscope photography winners are revealed today. This gallery features some of the most interesting winning images of ordinary stuff like snowflakes and banana leaves. Vote for your favorites and help choose the popular-vote winner.
- Sept. 8, 1930: Scotch Tape Starts Sticking 3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive.
- Pushing Arcade Games to the Limit Computer lab manager Don Hodges knows why Pac-Man, at level 256, suddenly turns into a hideous mess of ASCII letters and graphics.
- Freakazoid Rocking Chair Gives Lounging a Floaty Feeling The Gravity Balans from Variér Furniture is far less nefarious and cranium-cracking than it looks. We'd heard a great deal about its ergonomic benefits and decided to give it a spin in our quest to find the perfect marathon gaming/lounging chair.
- Fast Family Cars for High-Performance Parents Porsche panache comes to the carpool lane, and Mercedes Benz makes burning rubber with kids in the back seat comfy for everyone!
- Why You Should Get Excited About New Mobile Processors None of your fantasies about multi-touchscreen smartphones can be realized until someone makes a dual-core chip that would know what to do with multiple screens. But Samsung's new Orion 1-GHz dual-core ARM microprocessor could make those kinky dreams come true.
- Google Debuts 'Instant Search' Google revamped its iconic search site Wednesday, unveiling what it calls Instant Search, which loads search results as soon as you finish typing a word, packing your screen quickly with results as soon as you start with the 'd' in dog.
- DIY Laser-Safety Update: There's an Easier Way There's an easier way to test laser pointers for leaking harmful infrared light: Use an infrared thermometer.
- Firefox 4 Beta 5 Adds Audio Tools, Hardware Acceleration Mozilla has released a fifth beta for its Firefox 4 browser, adding hardware acceleration in Windows, a new audio API and support for a new security protocol.
- Why Alcohol Is Good for You New research confirms that alcohol can be beneficial to your health. In fact, abstaining from alcohol increases your risk of dying.
- Tweet of the Day: Journalist Tweets From Jail With Guard's Phone A journalist captured in Afghanistan told the world he was still alive over the weekend by tweeting with a prison guard's cellphone. This remarkable tale about a tweet kicks off a new meme here at Gadget Lab that we're calling Tweet of the Day.
- Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking A federal appeals court is ruling the government may obtain cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment. Cell-site location information, which carriers usually retain for about 18 months, identifies the cell tower to which the customer was connected at the beginning of a call and at the end of the call.
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