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Is the U.S. doing enough to alleviate the world food crisis? President Bush has asked for almost $1 billion in new funds. But critics say the aid may come too late. Home > Rss Directory > General > CS Monitor |
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Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs Errol Morris is one of the world's great digressive talkers, and once he gets started it's almost impossible to stop him. "I don't trust people who don't talk too much," he often says. "You never know what they're thinking." In a crisp white shirt and khaki shorts, the filmma Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World Of all the copy shops in all of England, Trudy Coughlan had the rotten luck of walking into Document Image Processing. It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them ont Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World Of all the copy shops in all of England, Trudy Coughlan had the rotten luck of walking into Document Image Processing. It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them ont Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The quotable Bill Gates Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640KB of memory in IBM's PC was a significant b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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A new day for Macs in the enterprise? When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone was ready for enterprise use, the announcement caused a stir that few of the world's iconic businessmen could match. It seemed that everyone from rank-and-file worker-bees to CEOs wanted to get their corporate applic Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Spore' Releases the Pixar in You Six and a half minutes. That's how long it took me to create my first kooky, adorable critter using the Creature Creator for Spore, Will Wright's new sim game due out this fall. I started off with a default "body" -- a sort of shapeless lump of virtual plasticine -- and used the m Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Spore' Releases the Pixar in You Six and a half minutes. That's how long it took me to create my first kooky, adorable critter using the Creature Creator for Spore, Will Wright's new sim game due out this fall. I started off with a default "body" -- a sort of shapeless lump of virtual plasticine -- and used the m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete "All models are wrong, but some are useful." So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the wor Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete "All models are wrong, but some are useful." So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the wor Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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MacBook Air: The proof's in the packing In the two-plus months since Steve Jobs first announced the MacBook Air during January's Macworld Expo keynote, Apple's most svelte laptop has generated much debate, as well as a good deal of criticism -- much of the latter relating to Apple's decision to focus on wei Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Reading the E-Leaves With Amazon's Bezos News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Airline Execs Have Their Heads ... in the Clouds Ted Leonsis on AOL, Microsoft, the NHL One Word for Michael Dell: Plastics Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Who knew that Amazon C Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Reading the E-Leaves With Amazon's Bezos News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Airline Execs Have Their Heads ... in the Clouds Ted Leonsis on AOL, Microsoft, the NHL One Word for Michael Dell: Plastics Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Who knew that Amazon C Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Reading the E-Leaves With Amazon's Bezos News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Airline Execs Have Their Heads ... in the Clouds Ted Leonsis on AOL, Microsoft, the NHL One Word for Michael Dell: Plastics Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Who knew that Amazon C Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Facebook seeks trusted relationships on the 'Net While perhaps best known as a major social networking site in the Web 2.0 vein, Facebook is becoming a popular place to interface with potential customers, similar to what companies such as Scribe and iLike have done. Facebook also is being viewed as a place for enter Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Who Stole the Plans for iRobot's Battle Bots? Jameel Ahed says he didn't really read the email. He was preoccupied with trying to solve a few electrical problems on the robots he hoped his company would sell to the US Army for as much as $300 million, one of the largest robot orders in history. So he didn't pay much attention to the fact tha Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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The Web's best free stuff Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Is the World Running Out of Food? A growing population could bring on a food-shortage crisis, experts say. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates, a Capsule Biography The Bill Gates that most people are familiar with is the socially awkward nerd who strong-armed his way into becoming the head of the largest software company in the world. In reality, Gates is a smooth operator who, despite his uncombed hair, baby face and disheveled appearance, Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |