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Tech Law | HP Wins Big Victory Over Oracle in Battle of the Itanium
Oracle and Larry Ellison received another legal setback on Wednesday when a California judge said the company must continue to support HP's Itanium servers.
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Software | Coders Get Instant Gratification With Khan Academy Programming
Khan Academy today launched a new computer science section, in which tutorials are interactive and live entirely in the browser.
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Cloud | Google Crunches One Trillion Pieces of Data With Single Click
There may be a piece of the future in a new Google research paper published earlier this month. It describes a tool capable of processing a trillion pieces of information with a single mouse click....
View ArticleHistory | The Geekiest License Plates of All Time
HTTP 418. To most highway drivers, it looks like a random collection of characters -- the kind of mud-spattered jumble you'd see on any car. But to Phil Dokas, it's a really good joke. And he's right....
View ArticleHistory | World’s Geekiest License Plates 2: Revenge of the Wired Readers
There are a lot of very geeky and very funny vanity license plates out there. More than we thought. Last week we picked out the geekiest license plates we could find, and we invited Wired readers to...
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Mobile | Microsoft Celebrates Surface Launch With ’2 Bitches’ Video (NSFW)
Mike Angiulo is not only the Microsoft executive in charge of planning and working with partners for the Windows operating system. He's also a pretty bad-ass rapper.
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Research | Twitter Bots Fight It Out to See Who’s the Most Human
It’s the last day of the contest, and the final Twitter messages are rolling down TweetDeck. They’re unenthusiastic. “I’m feeling awfully bored right now,” says Bernt Michaels. Bernt describes himself...
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Dropbox Pries Programming God From Clutches of Google
Online storage startup Dropbox has hired Guido van Rossum -- creator of the massively popular Python programming language -- prying him away from the language's biggest backer: Google.
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Servers | Facebook’s Mystery Hardware Maker Expands Worldwide Empire
Who are the world's biggest server sellers? No one really knows.
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History | How Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a Force for Good
Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia harnessed the web as a force for good. Some 24 million entries later, it's an essential part of our lives.
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Live Apple Bicycle Photographed in Natural Habitat
Most people know about Google's famous multi-colored bikes. They're hard to miss, scattered around the company's Mountain View campus like hundreds of discarded toys. But you may not realize that Apple...
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Security | Mozilla Takes Aim at Spyware That Masquerades as Firefox
Mozilla's lawyers are sending a nasty gram to a U.K. company that writes spyware for government snoops.
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Networks | Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World’s First ‘Nice’ Botnet?
When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. But there was a problem. The Internet Census was illegal. Somebody — nobody knows exactly who — had built a network of...
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Bitcoin | Bitcoin’s Big Bank Problem: Why Did Mt. Gox Halt U.S. Payouts?
The world’s best-known Bitcoin exchange stopped paying out customers in U.S. dollars Thursday. Mt. Gox didn’t exactly explain what was going on, though. It blamed an “increased volume” of transactions,...
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Software | IRS Puts Open Source Projects Under Microscope, Spawns Nonprofit...
For the past three years, trying to get tax-exempt status for your open-source project has been a non-starter for many. And now we know why. Since at least 2010, the Internal Revenue Service has...
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Bitcoin | Winklevoss Twins File for $20M Bitcoin Public Offering
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss say they’ve sewn up about 1 percent of the world’s Bitcoins, and now they want to offer you a piece of the action. On Monday, they filed forms with the Securities and...
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Strip Club Sues Oracle for Dodging $33,000 Tab
A San Francisco strip club is suing Oracle, saying the software giant refuses to pay a whopping $33,540 tab racked up by one of its employees.
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Bitcoin Values Plummet $500M, Then Recover, After Silk Road Bust
Bitcoin, world’s most popular digital currency, had a roller coaster ride today after the federal government shut down the Silk Road, an online marketplace where millions of bitcoins were swapped for...
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The Magic of Bitcoin Turns FBI’s Seized Booty Into Government Protest
The FBI seized over $3.3 million in digital currency after busting up the online drug marker known as The Silk Road, and on Friday morning, someone spotted what is likely the online address where the...
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Facebook Taps ‘Deep Learning’ Giant for New AI Lab
Facebook is building a research lab dedicated to the new breed of artificial intelligence, after hiring one of the preeminent researchers in the field: New York University professor Yann LeCun.
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