My two-year-old daughter clearly loves music. She dances to everything, and she sings with abandon. Although I'm married to a musician and live nearby to one of the top music schools in the world, I have been blessed with only an average aptitude for making the stuff. I'm a poor guide for my daughter as ...

CATRA is an invention of MIT's Media Lab which uses a cellphone and a cheap plastic eyepiece to detect cataracts. Not only is it cheaper and easier to use than existing solutions, it actually provides much better results. Cataracts cause blindness by fogging the lens of the eye, scattering light before it reaches the retina. Normally, ...

If you've played Portal 2 solo mode all the way to the end, you've heard the excellent end-credits song "Want You Gone," Jonathan Coulton's follow-up to "Still Alive," his justly famous song from the first Portal. Well, a fan named Pedro Calvo has made a music video based on the song and the ending of the ...

Formerly an editor working for years in the newsroom of a dying paper, Amy Vernon has moved beyond print to become the top female contributor of Digg of all time, the VP of strategy at Hasai, and of course, The Bacon Queen. How did Vernon’s rise to an internationally-known social media [...]

A number of Apple TV customers are unable to stream Netflix movies to their devices, according to several user reports posted over the weekend. A Netflix spokesman confirmed to Wired.com that a small number of Apple TV devices were experiencing technical issues with the service, and the company claims the issue has been fixed. "Now I have ...

So far, the most useful feature in Google+ is Hangouts, browser-based video chat with up to 10 people. It works right in the browser (although you might have to download a plug-in first), there's almost no latency, it's...

According to a new report from comScore, 1 in 3 Americans now own a smartphone. Google’s Android OS is ahead of the pack with a 38.1% share of the market during the 3-month period ending in May, while RIM’s BlackBerry OS fell 4.3% to a 24.7% share of the market.

It may be just days before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, but you can prep your Mac now to make the upgrade go and faster and more smoothly.

Animated GIFs are literally the best thing about the internet. And the internet is literally the best thing western civilization has ever spawned. But mankind's greatest triumphs are locked online, right?

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are enjoying Google+ right now. What's stopping Google from letting millions more join in the fun?

Prime Minister David Cameron led a chorus of condemnation on Tuesday over allegations a top-selling British newspaper from Rupert Murdoch's global media empire hacked the voicemail of a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered.

One of Microsoft's hottest new profit centers is a smartphone platform you've definitely heard of: Android. Wistron is the latest company to agree to pay Microsoft royalties on Android ... bringing the tally up to at least five.

Google intends to retire the Blogger and Picasa brands and rename them as Google products.

The latest version of the MacBook Air, the release of which is rumored to be imminent, will feature Toggle DDR 2.0 flash memory with up to 400Mbps performance.

Mark Zuckerberg may be the most followed user on Google+, but good luck trying to find any of your Facebook friends on Google’s new social service. Facebook is making it difficult for anyone to import their friend contact information into Google+.

Google has suddenly and quietly stopped its Realtime Search service. The move comes after the two-year contract with Twitter, the primary content provider for this particular search engine, expired. There is no indication if a new arrangement is under discussion at this time.

IPad-owning photographers should stop reading right now (well, not right now, or you won't know what to do next) and go download PhotoForge 2, a rather splendid update to the already decent photo-editing app. Better still, if you already bought the iPhone version, the update is free -- the app is now universal. The biggest differences ...

Did Apple'€™s retreat earlier this year signify that the shine has come off? Or was it the pause that refreshes? The top performers weigh in, and provide 10 tech stocks that they like more than Apple.

Between Lulz and yesterday's Fox News hacks, cyber criminals are on a roll. But the scariest online threats are the ones you haven't even heard of.

An Android developer is pulling its game app from the Amazon Appstore for Android, calling it a "disaster" because of a number of shortcomings. It's the complaint of one developer but it highlights some of the challenges in building a mature market for apps.