- PlayStation Vita Review: Finally, Console-Level Gaming in a Handheld Device
The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging their PlayStation Network. - Illustrated Guide to Mad Men Bed-Hopping
Wired diagrams the mad Mad world of bed-hopping on AMC's Madison Avenue. - D-Wave Defies World of Critics With 'First Quantum Cloud'
Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, but he's also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a Canadian national champion wrestler. That may seem like an odd combination, but this dual background makes him the perfect fit for his chosen profession. Rose is the CTO and founder of D-Wave. He calls it the world?s only quantum computer company, but the world's quantum computer experts don't agree with him. The result is a nearly 10-year fight to prove each other wrong, and at least in some ways, Geordie Rose is winning. ?I?m not okay with losing at anything," he says, "at all.? - Feb. 22, 1918: A Really Big Kid From Alton, Illinois
Robert Pershing Wadlow is born and will soon astound the world as the tallest man who ever lived. - Priceless Science: Striking Finds From a Rare-Book Fair
From Audubon?s The Birds of America, a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus? heliocentric sketch that changed the world, we?ve selected the most remarkable science tomes from this year's San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair. - Mexican Mayhem Fuels U.S. 'Bodyguard' Boom
Thanks to the drug wars in Mexico, demand has spiked for professional bodyguards and guns-for-hire, many of them based in the United States. - In Speculative Fiction Story 'Cut,' Genital Mutilation Becomes a Fad
- Players Populate Skyrim With Killer Rabbits, Ghostly Horses
- A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 22
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. - Ubuntu for Android Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop Computer
Cramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. But now Canonical's Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop OS only when it actually makes sense. - Love Paper All Over Again With Two Adorably Tiny Printers
London design firm BERG and New York open hardware shop Adafruit both trade in big and small ideas about the future, but their projects rarely converge. Until now -- with impossibly tiny printers. - Apache Web Server Gets First Facelift in 6 Years
The world's most popular web server just got a facelift. On Tuesday, for the first time in over six years, the Apache Software Foundation unveiled a new version of its eponymous web server, which runs an estimated 398 million sites across the net. - How Many Different Ways Can the Same iPad 3 Rumors Be Reblogged?
We know. You're excited about the iPad 3. We are too. And so is just about everyone else who follows consumer tech hardware. Rumors about Apple's upcoming tablet have been pouring in for months, and we've been following them just like everyone else. - Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom Granted Bail in New Zealand, But Banned From Net
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was freed on bail in New Zealand, pending an extradition hearing to face criminal copyright charges in the States. Dotcom is not, however, allowed to fly, stray far from his mansion or, perhaps worst of all, use the internet. - Intel 'Solar' Chip Nears Light of Day
In September, Intel showed off the Claremont processor, a research prototype so energy-efficient it can run Windows on the power generated by a palm-size solar cell. Now, the company is also using the processor's Near Threshold Voltage technique in memory chips and graphics processors, and the technique's public status has also been upgraded from may-not-see-the-light-of-day to likely-to-turn-up-in-products. - How Patent Battles Threaten the Simple Act of Unlocking a Phone
Unlocking a smartphone is perhaps its most basic function. It's a no-frills feature, but an important one. And yet over the past six months, the simple act of unlocking a phone has grown absurdly controversial. - How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA
- Apple's iCloud Has Solar Lining
- The iPhone Monoculture Is in Your Mind
One mobile web expert argues that while it might seem like the mobile web is all iPhone, it just seems that way. In fact, the problem with the iPhone isn't that it's creating a monoculture around WebKit; the problem is that it's the only phone developers talk about. - NASA Launches Rocket Into Northern Lights
Scientists recently sent a 46-foot rocket sailing through the shimmering green band of energy known as the northern lights. - Small Town Flips for Centuries-Old Sport of Pancake Racing
Pancake racing, the most wonderfully random of all weird sports, is held on Shrove Tuesday and is exactly what its name suggests. - Will Network DNA Sabotage Your Journey to the Cloud?
After more than four years ?in the cloud?, I have come to the conclusion that one of the most difficult challenges for large enterprise customers to overcome on their journey to cloud is the DNA of the network. Fortunately, ?gene therapy? treatments are available which can significant improve the quality of experience and service from any cloud. - Barfipelago: Using Twitter to Fight Virus Outbreak
Norovirus can spread among people very, very fast. But not as fast as Twitter. When an outbreak hit the annual Archipelago journalism conference -- subsequently dubbed "Barfipelago" -- attendees and organizers alike used Twitter to stay on top of the situation. - Slick Web App Slaps Stereotypes by Remixing Toy Commercials
A handy web app called the Gendered Advertising Remixer mashes toy commercials together, tweaking the concept of ?girls? stuff? and ?boys? stuff? ? with often-hilarious results. - Comcast's 'Mini-Hulu Plus' Offers Full TV Seasons to Go for $5/Month
Forget voice, video and internet: When it comes to television, a mix of live, recent and back-catalog video is the real triple play. - Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden Pentagon
I'd like to pretend there was some master plan, that the site you see before you crept out of our skulls fully-formed. But the truth is, when Sharon Weinberger and I launched Danger Room five years ago this week, we were just winging it. - Documentary Film Bear 71 Tags and Tracks Viewers
The documentary Bear 71, which premiered at Sundance, invites its viewers to engage with Banff National Park in an interactive experience that allows its viewers to join the forest's tagged wildlife at the project's temporary home at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art or by way of webcam through the documentary's website. - Will You Trust Cloud Security to a Cloud Service?
ScaleXtreme is aiming to ease concerns about the cloud with today's announcement of what it says is the first cloud-based automation patch management engine that works across public cloud machines, virtual machines and physical servers. But will you trust your security (cloud or not) to a cloud service? - Q&A: Sony's Game Design Chief Talks PlayStation Vita
- C-Level: Enterprise, Steak Dinners and Becoming Truly Social