by Danny Gold The word “hated” adorns Hunter Moore’s social-media bios. He has drawn the ire of the music industry, young people from all over the United States (as well as Canada, England and Australia), of privacy defenders — and, well, of many, many other people who happen to come across his…

News! This week, I started writing Codeword, a new weekly column for Wired.com. I’m covering a mix of data journalism, Internet culture, indie gaming, or whatever else I find interesting — the same kind of thing I’ve written here for almost a decade. As part of the arrangement, I retain joint…

DESIGN This crypto ring certifies your digital self with real-life handshakes Is the Quartz ring an ingenious security solution or a dark vision of the future? DESIGN Mattel has a new custom font, and it’s full of playful hidden details For the first time in 80 years, the toymaker has a new brand…

echocam, artvamp.com, 2000 Maybe half of being a camgirl was talking about being a camgirl – not just turning a webcam on yourself and by extension your life, but documenting how your life changed from having turned a webcam on it. We were only doing this for a little while, from sometime in the…

Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it - you can listen to sad music and…

LONDON — After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to…

Nov. 16, 1999 Do great orgasms last longer than Oscars? American actress Meg Ryan and British thespian Helena Bonham-Carter have never nabbed Academy Awards, but they’ll both be immortally cherished for their caterwauling, cinematic climaxes. Ryan’s charm and humor etched itself intimately into…

If you’ve ever wanted to read more about a science article here on io9, and clicked through to the original journal article to read more, chances are you’ve been met by a subscription page (like the one up top) that asks you to either log in or fork over a grip of cash to read the article in full.…

Editor’s Note: This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s ongoing coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear emergency. EXCLUSIVE: THE FUKUSHIMA ROBOT DIARIES An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as…

Annals of Business May 9, 2011 The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple.Illustration by PAUL ROGERS In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox…

When Thomas Shaw gets worked up, he twists in his chair and kneads his hand. Or he paces about in his tube socks grumbling, “They’re trying to destroy us,” and “The whole thing is a giant scam.” And Shaw, the founder of a medical device maker called Retractable Technologies, spends a lot of time…

iStock / GettyImages Plus: miriam-doerr Mensch oder Maschine, das ist hier die Frage Roboter übernehmen Alltagstätigkeiten Wer in den USA den Kundenservice großer Organisationen anruft, bekommt den Eindruck, mit Robotern zu sprechen. Weiterlesen GettyImages 10 Kriterien, die man beim…

Aktuelle Nachrichten aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport und Kultur Balanceakt im Oval Office: Was sich der Kanzler für seinen Besuch in Washington vorgenommen hat Trump empfängt Bundeskanzler Merz zum dritten Mal im Weißen Haus. Der Irankrieg steht dabei im Vordergrund – und könnte andere wichtige…

Der Massenmord von Oslo und Utöya gründet nicht einfach auf den fatalistischen Launen des absolut Bösen. Selbst das wahnsinnigste Verbrechen spiegelt die Befindlichkeit einer Zeit und einer Gesellscha

Facebook, Jappy, NB-Town ■ Das Phänomen: Ob Facebook, wer kennt wen, Jappy oder NB-Town – in allen sozialen Netzwerken sind auch Rechtsextreme aktiv. Sie stellen ungeniert ihre Gesinnung zur Schau und vernetzen sich. Weltweit bekannt wurde das Problem, als ein Blogger Nazi-Propaganda bei Facebook…

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A Critic at Large May 3, 2010 In the months before the invasion of Sicily, British spies fooled German spies with a caper inspired by a detective novel.Illustration by John Ritter On April 30, 1943, a fisherman came across a badly decomposed corpse floating in the water off the coast of Huelva, in…

For a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee was in the habit of collecting and filing some of the comments that people made about him on web pages and social media sites. He did a 10-minute Google trawl most days for about six months and the resultant collected…

From the start, it was a bad case. A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades. It was early on a winter morning in…

Over the last week or so I’ve been explor­ing Google’s new social net­work­ing sys­tem, Google+ or, as it is affec­tion­ate­ly known, g+. At first glance it seems like a direct clone of Face­book with some fan­cy user inter­face improve­ments for orga­niz­ing your «cir­cles» of con­tacts. There are…

A few weeks ago i finished reading Lierre Keith’ book The Vegetarian Myth – food, justice, sustainability – a powerful and very angry manifesto against the vegetarian/vegan diet. While I still have trouble digesting some of the information, I have to say, she does a great job collecting lots of…

Lately, EFF's work to protect rights and liberties in the online world has focused rather heavily on social networking sites and their policies. The logic is borne out by the numbers — Facebook and Twitter combined claim hundreds of millions of worldwide users, so advocating for stronger privacy and…

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