The officer in charge of running the Air Force's sexual-assault prevention and response division was just arrested on sexual-assault charges himself.
Electronic Arts will be the exclusive provider of games based on the
Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell is on the verge of a buyout that will take the public company private. But this hasn't changed the company's plan to transform itself from a hardware seller into an outfit that's just as concerned with software and cloud services. On Monday, Dell announced that it will acquire the cloud management company Enstratius, formerly known as enStratus.
Flying an airplane that's got the wingspan of a 747, the weight of a car and 12,000 photovoltaic cells to provide power takes a deft touch.
Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency.
When capturing prey, killer whales use a number of chilling tactics. Some of these, like repeatedly ramming into a pod of sperm whales, are seldom seen. Others, like flipping a stunned creature out of the water and then eating it, are more frequently reported -- but seldom captured in such detail as the photos in this gallery.
The Pentagon says it doesn't have evidence linking the Syrian regime to the recent sarin gas attack. But it also says it believes dictator Bashar Assad still has control of his deadly chem arsenal.
They started by printing their own gun parts and magazines. Now the internet gunsmiths at Defense Distributed have produced the world's first fully 3-D printed gun. It's been tested, and it works.
It may have happened on land, but the Navy's demonstrator for its aircraft-carrier drone of the future caught the arresting gear on a mock deck. That's a positive sign.
Activity trackers are abundant right now, but none are better than the Fitbit Flex -- the most wearable, best-syncing device in the scrum, with the best app to boot.
Try to explain any philosophical ¿ism¿ to your friend or colleague. Unless you¿re both scholars, you probably can¿t do so easily. London-based graphic designer Genís Carreras wants to make it easier for us to talk philosophy, so he's removing words all together and replacing them with pictures in his postcard and book project Philographics.
The freakiest thing about horror flick
Jonathan Coulton and Greg Pak announced a new stretch goal for their massively successful Kickstarter: an illustrated book based on Coulton's song "The Princess Who Saved Herself."
The third season of
There¿s been talk, buzz, and hype about Bitcoin ATMs, bubbles, ecosystems, miners, and more. But no one has addressed something about Bitcoin that only seems obvious in hindsight:
We need a Chrome OS for cars. Not necessarily Chrome OS for Cars, but a way for us to get into any vehicle and have every preference, from seating position to suspension settings, automatically tailored to our individual taste.
In the movie Elysium, there is a giant spinning space station. How big would this space station be, and how do you create fake gravity? Could you play sports in there? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain is up to the challenge.
We know that Facebook writes a lot of the software that underpins its massive social network. And we know it designs its very own computer servers to juggle your every like, comment, and cat photo. But to get a sense of how deep the tinkering goes inside the company, consider this: Facebook now works with Intel to customize microprocessors for its particular needs.
There are many more annual fatalities in the United States from dog bites, lightning strikes and bee stings than from venomous snakebites, yet the slithery reptiles occupy a vilified, mythically hated role in many people's minds. But if snakes of the world ever see David Kasnic's photos of Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up, humans should justifiably fear an uprising.
Two security researchers recently found that they could easily hack the building management system for the corporate giant¿s Wharf 7 headquarters overlooking the water in the Pyrmont section of Sydney, Australia.
This week we¿re cataloging memes, from lolcats to Joseph Ducreux. I even put on a clinic for the Insane Clown Posse re: magnets and how they work, then explore the legal troubles of Technoviking, an ancient pillaging type stuck in the cruel courts of the 21st century.
When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank. Wired talked to the Chief Internet Evangelist at Google to get a sense of how the interplanetary internet works.
From 1993 to 2012, these are the 20 games that had our jaws closest to the floor with their astounding graphics.
I just paid for coffee on the same kind of device I use at home to watch
After a sequence of explosive eruptions, the Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the aviation alert status at Cleveland to Orange. But there has been no visual confirmation yet, so how did we know there was an eruption (or several, in this case)?
Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna has the roundup on news related to food, foodborne illness, and antibiotic use and resistance.
This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material.
Saudi Arabia has quickly reported that another three patients have been sickened by a mysterious coronavirus. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna has the update.
In Star Wars V, an AT-AT falls over. Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain asks, how long should it take to fall?
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this weekend and now counts more than 225 million members. From my nearly 700 LinkedIn connections, I tapped a slew of entrepreneurs with more than 500 connections each about how they use the platform. The consensus: Time using LinkedIn is well-spent. Here’s what they said.
It's only been a couple of months since the launch of that followed (which still lingers today), but Maxis and EA want to cleanse your palate with a new addition to the Sims franchise: The Sims 4 is coming to PC and Mac in 2014. EA writes on their : "The Sims franchise is fueled by the passion and creativity of its millions of fans around the world. Their continued devotion to the franchise ignites the fire of creativity of the team at The Sims Studio, driving them to continually improve and innovate on one of the world’s most successful simulation game that has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide." Before the SimCity boondoggle, the announcement of a new Sims game would barely be newsworthy. But in a post-SimCity world, any new EA game is worth scrutinizing: Will a constant connection be required? Will multiplayer features be shoehorned in? Will extravagant features be promised but then redacted until further notice? Or will it all come together smoothly, and redeem EA in the eyes of an audience still smarting over the belly-flop that was the SimCity launch? I guess we'll find out in 2014.
Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments. Enstratius’ software, which can be run on premises or procured as a hosted service, provides a way for organizations to manage their workloads running on private or public cloud services. It includes capabilities such as application provisioning and scaling, configuration management, usage governance and utilization monitoring. It can also interoperate with other configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet. At present, Enstratius’ software can manage jobs on over 20 public and private cloud platforms, most notably OpenStack, VMware’s platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure. Customers can add additional cloud platforms as well. The acquisition is another step in Dell’s strategy of building a portfolio of cloud management tools for the enterprise. Last November, Dell purchased Gale Technologies. Like Enstratius’ software, Gale’s Active System Manager provides cloud management capabilities and the two products are complementary, according to Dell.
Intel revealed key details of its redesigned Atom microprocessor product line this morning. Code-named Silvermont, this all-new microarchitecture marks the first time that Intel will use its 22nm manufacturing process and 3D Tri-gate transistor technology to build a system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform for devices ranging from smartphones and tablets to microservers. As a result of the age of their underlying architecture, Atom processors have not been competitive with mobile CPUs based on designs from the UK’s ARM Holdings. The Apple A series, Nvidia Tegra, Qualcomm Snapdragon, and Samsung Exynos mobile CPUs that power the vast majority of modern smartphones (and many non-Windows tablets) are all variations on one or another ARM platform.
Futuremark is busy these days shaking up their benchmarking business, and the new 3DMark is proof that nothing is off the table. PC, WinRT, Android and iOS support are all planned, although the Windows and Android versions are currently the only ones available. 3DMark's version numbers have been ditched from the product name in an attempt to emphasize the new cross-platform nature of the release. This ill-advised gesture is ignored by the faithful and the press alike, including me. Naming gaffes aside, Futuremark has undertaken the long-overdue rework of their flagship product and emerged with a slick package that sheds the weight of past releases and restores the luxurious visuals and sense of style that have been absent from the last few versions. Installation isn't complicated and remains free of add-on traps and other bloatware, although the gigabyte-sized download isn't petite. Make sure you read the latest instructions: In the case of the AMD 7950 in my test system, beta drivers were actually recommended over certified ones. Once installed, it presents you with a window where the three test environments that comprise the suite can be selected for a benchmarking pass. Advanced options let you select custom visual settings, enable demo modes, loop benchmarks for stress testing and view past results.
Windows uses a file's extension--the part of the file name after the period--to identify what program should open it. When you double-click, say, a .docx file, Windows checks to see what application is associated with that extension (probably a word processor) and opens the file in that program. You can change these associations yourself, and you can associate multiple programs with a single extension. In fact, there's a good chance Windows has already done that for you.
Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market momentum" could develop for the OS in 2014, Shen said in a Monday earnings call. Other PC makers, including Samsung, Acer and Hewlett-Packard, have already launched so-called "Chromebooks" with prices between $199 and $449. "Chromebook is good, not on the consumer side, but it's good in the education and government side, and some for the commercial side," Shen said. Asus is preparing the product in the wake of a in shipments for Windows PCs, which dropped by 13.9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC. Microsoft's new Windows 8 OS has yet to jump-start PC sales, while demand for tablets and smartphones continues to rise.