It’s Elementary: Why a Female Watson Isn’t a Bad Idea for Latest Holmes Series
Illustration: David Galletly The truth is, I was all set on Sherlocks. Spoiled, really. I had the slick fights and brisk dialog of the Guy Ritchie films and the cunning, rarefied world of the BBC’s...
View ArticleSept. 12, 1958: Kilby Chips In, Integrates Circuit
1958: New hire Jack Kilby shows his Texas Instruments colleagues a little something he’s built. A very little something: a working integrated circuit on a piece of semiconductor material. The world...
View ArticleCheerio, Vizio
Vizio’s All-in-One desktop computer has stunning looks, but it fails to impress as an everyday workstation. Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired Vizio is well known as a producer of affordable televisions...
View ArticleBlueStacks and AMD Bring 500,000 Android Apps to Windows 8
Just some of the many apps available through AMD AppZone. Image: BlueStacks and AMD Don’t worry, Windows 8 users. You won’t have to look at all those Apple users and suffer from too much app envy....
View ArticleBring on the Hybrids: Lenovo Reveals Slew of Convertible Windows 8 Devices
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga folds back 360 degrees, from ultrabook to tablet. Image: Lenovo Lenovo is barreling into Windows 8 with a full force of convertible devices that are designed to be used as both...
View ArticleLiving by Numbers: Wired Health Conference Explores Personalized Medicine
How do you get 800,000 soldiers into fighting shape? What has the sequencing of the human genome actually achieved? And where the heck is my medical tricorder, anyway? These and other questions will...
View ArticleHands-On With the Best of the Rest: The 4th-Gen iPad, 13-Inch MacBook Pro,...
Photo: John Bradley / Wired Apple basically refreshed everything left in its lineup Tuesday. We got to get our hands on everything except for the Mac Mini — the fourth-generation iPad, the 13-inch...
View ArticleApple Updates Mac Line — Except for Mac Pro
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. Photo: John Bradley/Wired Apple dropped a slew of new Macs in San Jose on Tuesday. While the spotlight for the last half of the event was on the iPad,...
View ArticleGadget Lab Show: Google’s $250 Chromebook, Motorola’s New Razr HD
This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab Show is 100 percent Google. Wired Reviews editor Michael Calore and staff writer Nathan Olivarez-Giles break down the details on Google’s new $250 Chromebook,...
View ArticleCybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything — And No One’s Safe
Photo: whiteafrican / Flickr The FBI recently put out a mobile malware alert, providing us with a sobering reminder of this “evil software” for phones and tablets. In this particular case, the FBI was...
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