It's been a year since Apple Computer updated its digital jukebox software with broad support for syndicated homebrew audio. What's been accomplished and what's next? By Steve Friess.
To commemorate the demise of the commerical movie theater, we present denizens of the future with innovative products that harken back to days of moviegoing yore. Relive ancient history in the privacy of your AV pod with our cell-phone sound-effect generator, self-serve food aisle and more. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
A new technology that corrects for the distortion of light through the atmosphere could help make the doomsday devices of tomorrow. By Noah Shachtman from Wired magazine.
Top climatologists say the former vice president's global-warming fright flick, An Inconvenient Truth, pretty much nails the science behind climate change.
A company in Austin has opened the first baby tooth stem cell bank. It’s cheaper than cord blood banking, but possibly just as unnecessary. In Bodyhack.
General Motors is reportedly working on a plug-in hybrid that could be on sale by the end of 2007. Plus: DaimlerChrylser will finally bring the tiny Smart Car to the United States. In Autopia.
Twilight of the media moguls? Not for this guy. With the $580 million purchase of MySpace, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is betting he can transform a free social network into a colossal marketing machine. From Wired magazine.
The new Oakley ROKRs are all function and no flare, a hand crank flashlight keeps you self-reliant and the new Helio phone kicks and flips but little else, all in this week's Gadget Lab from Wired magazine.