The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a heroin overdose points to the dangerous way that the drug messes with your brain.

At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview. His most interesting comment? Apple should release an Android handset.

How did huge mammals like woolly mammoths sustain themselves when they roamed the Arctic during the last ice age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals.

What can we expect from our high-tech future? Of course, no one can forecast with 100% accuracy how our lives will progress; but if we look at what experts predict might become possible over the next two-to-three decades; and then blend in some scenarios that push the envelope – an incredible time begins to take form.

You should not be very comfortable giving away your Wifi password to anyone just like that. Who knows who they are?

Silk Road, the infamous and anonymous online marketplace specializing in illicit goods, sells everything from pot to black tar heroin. If you can smoke it, inject it, or snort it, there’s a good chance Silk Road has it.

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a working sugar-powered fuel cell with energy density greater than that of current lithium-ion batteries.

Pop-up window automatically activated when suspicious activity is detected. The new protection was unveiled in a blog post published Friday by Linus Upson, Google's vice president of engineering. It is designed to augment a feature introduced in October that allows users to return Chrome settings to a factory-fresh state with the click of a single button.

I've tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness.

Immune cells undergo ‘spontaneous’ changes on a daily basis that could lead to cancers if not for the diligent surveillance of our immune system, Melbourne scientists have found.

A Tumblr artist known simply as VSE OK has created a hilariously clever sequence of eight images that depict Bruce Lee, using his expert martial arts skills,…

In a watershed moment for cryptography, computer scientists have proposed a solution to a fundamental problem called “program obfuscation.”

If you attend a Super Bowl party on Sunday, you’ll probably hear at least one casual football viewer ask, “How do they get that yellow first-down line on the field?” While “magic” is a fine answer in its own right, the real explanation is a bit more technologically intense. Let’s have a look at the background and mechanics behind every football fan’s shining beacon, the yellow first-down line.

These 11 startups based in the United States are worth billions of dollars but you've probably never heard of them.

(Credit: Yue Zhang, Josh Silverstone, Damien Bonneau And Mark Thompson, Tom Wilson/Nature Photonics) Scientists and engineers from an international

I don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further. Why are these gaming studios so intent of killing themselves?

If you build a new PC in 2014, chances are you’ll end up installing three types of storage inside: RAM, SSDs, and hard drives. RAM is the fastest, but wont retain its data without power, SSDs beat out hard drives on speed but is price-limited on storage size, and hard drives give you terabytes of space at very affordable prices, but they are slow.

The Keecker robot from Paris based company Keecker, is probably one gadget revealed at CES 2014 that could change home entertainment in a radical way. The Keecker is capable of projecting pictures and movies on any blank wall turning it into a screen but unlike your other entertainment devices that are fixed, the Keecker is capable of following you around the house like your own personal R2-D2.

A certain species of snakes manage to "fly" by flattening their bodies, according to a latest study. Snakes, belonging to the Genus Chrysopelea are skilled gliders and have been observed to fly from tree to tree in rainforests of Southeast Asia. These snakes flatten their bodies and curve it into an S shape, which allows them to glide, according to researchers at Virginia Tech Wake Forest University.

ames Lee, 25, was skydiving with a large group of people in England when an accidental bump from another skydiver knocked him unconscious. Luckily for Lee, a few others quickly noticed and were able to deploy his parachute in time. According to The Telegraph, Lee regained consciousness before landing, but had no idea what had happened.

What do tulips and bitcoin have in common? Fortunes made from risky investments.

These hummingbird pics were originally been posted by an unknown person on Overgrow.com before it was shut down several years ago. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that hummingbirds eat cannabis for their THC, but it is possible these hummingbirds were interested in the (mostly sans-THC) sugary sap that is occasionally produced by cannabis buds. Other animals which have been spotted eating cannabis plants include deer and house cats.

Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. - Van Gogh

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It's official: all-in-one meal supplement (or replacement) Soylent has a nutrition label. In a blog post two weeks ago, Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart noted that the company had decided to produce a single 2,000-kilocalorie version for its initial production run; beta versions (including the 0.89 Beta formula we tried) came in male and female variants. The single launch formula means that a single nutritional label can be applied to all the packages of Soylent going out the door.

A team of physicists has proposed a way of teleporting energy over long distances. The technique, which is purely theoretical at this point, takes advantage of the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement where two particles share the same existence.

The computer you're working on stores one bit of data in about 1 million atoms. With atomic-scale magnetic memory, 12 is the new million.

Ultimately, there is only one way to be sure what a particular bit of DNA does – you have to alter it in real, living cells to see what happens. But genetic engineering is very difficult and expensive. At least, it used to be. Last month, two groups announced that they had performed a mind-boggling feat. They targeted and disabled nearly every one of our genes in cells growing in a dish.

The punch-drunk North Korea is standing on wobbly legs, and America really doesn't want to be ill-prepared for its fall. That's why Dr. Bruce W. Bennett, a resident North Korea security expert at Rand Corp., presented a brief to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Wednesday about how Washington and Seoul should prepare for and mitigate such a collapse.

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