06.15.12 | To many – too many – science is something like North Korea. Not only is it impossible to read or understand anything that comes out of that place, there are so many cultural differences that it’s barely worth trying. It’s easier just to let them get on with their lives while you get on with [...] Read more

06.14.12 | This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display — and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides. We disassemble and analyze new electronic gizmos so you don’t have to — kind of like an internet version of Consumer Reports. Read more

06.13.12 | It's bad enough when you run a search company in an increasingly social world. It's worse when anti-trust regulators say you have unfairly and illegally used your dominance in search to promote your own products over those of competitors. Now Google executives, who like to boast of their company's informal motto, "Don't Be Evil," also stand accused of being just that -- and rightly so. What other interpretation is possible in light of persistent allegations that the internet titan deliberately engaged in “the single greatest breach in the history of privacy” and "one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen?” Read more

06.11.12 | As the dust settles around the Facebook IPO, the important question becomes not what went wrong, but rather, how will Facebook create value to justify its lofty valuation? Read more

06.07.12 | E3 will always be relevant, because gamers will always care. Especially the millions of hardcore gamers, who spend serious bank on their hobby and await gaming news with bated breath. Read more

06.06.12 | As Kickstarter has exploded in popularity, I’ve started to see signs that there are others like me — a movement of fans as producers, commissioning work from their favorite artists instead of waiting for the artists to come to them. Read more

06.05.12 | Microsoft’s decade-long plot to take over your living room is finally coming to fruition. Read more

06.05.12 | Search rules. No matter your email provider – but particularly if you're embedded in the Gmail ecosystem – search is core to your experience, more so even than folders, labels, signatures and an integrated address book. Everyone uses search. If you're like me, you use it all the time. Which means any time you type a query into that search field, you're hit with a deluge of messages tangentially related to what you're looking for. That needs to change, and the best way to do it is to adapt our emails accordingly. Read more

05.30.12 | I had been certain that the bubble would pop. But I was disappointed. For weeks, print and pixel had been dominated by news, overwhelmingly uninformed or stale, about the long-awaited and presumptively historical Facebook IPO. Read more

05.30.12 | The Facebook IPO, however rocky, marked a coming of age for the loose collection of technologies and services known as "social media." If Mark Zuckerberg had been elected governor of California, it would not have done as much to confer society's seal of approval. It was almost as if the internet itself went public. Read more

05.25.12 | Today, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of a movie few will ever see again. Read more

05.24.12 | Wired Opinion: The flood of celebrity sexting has prompted folks to wonder, Why are so many famous people exhibitionists? The source of all this au naturel flaunting lies not in the culture of fame, but in the design of our sexual brains. Computational neuroscientist Ogi Ogas takes a look at our primal urge to expose ourselves. Read more

05.23.12 | People don’t really want to talk on airplanes; they just want to be connected. It’s the way it should have been all along. Portable electronic devices are not threats and everyone knows it. Now Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will allow passengers to make calls with their cellphones during flights between London and New York. Read more