Kids learn by playing, and videogames are transforming the way kids play. It's just possible that they'll see the world as a place for creation not consumption. By Will Wright, guest editor of this month's Wired magazine.
Building websites targeted to women pays off for some pioneers, but studies say distinctions in how males and females approach the net are more subtle than we thought. Commentary by Joanna Glasner.
It sure can get lonely on Mt. Everest. But thanks to a new type of software, intrepid climbers can now transmit video, photos and text to loved ones at home. By Katy Neusteter.
A federal appeals court rules that an airline passenger can't just turn around and go home when the TSA asks about that meth pipe-shaped lump in his pocket. By Ryan Singel.
Warnings of global warming run rampant and snowfall appears to be slacking off. So what's a ski resort owner to do? Plenty are battling the effects of climate change with wind power and other alternative-energy sources. By Gretchen Cuda.
After an e-mail complaint charging bias, Amazon modifies the way its search engine handles the term "abortion." The company says the prompt that came up asking if the user meant "adoption" was a kind of spell-check.
South Korea's Hwang Woo-suk, the stem-cell scientist who claimed to have created the first cloned human embryo, is fired by his university and banned from teaching and research. In January, his data was shown to have been faked.
Tech blogs are lit up with news of a "secret" new download of the Firefox browser. Too bad it's not an official release -- or even really a secret. In Monkey Bites.
Shakespeare gets turned into software, Superman gets taken down a peg and Sean Connery inspires a dizzying collection of self-referencing humor. In Table of Malcontents.
Young people are rethinking the boundaries of gender bending, and the internet is helping them do it. Plus: Tell me your sexual procliviites. In Sex Drive Daily.