What Will Fracking Do to Your Food Supply? The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be next. by Barry Estabrook May 14, 2011 There’s a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland, where a man

What I have in my hand is Vietnam. This Vietnam is visually spectacular, still a landscape of layers and colours but perhaps slightly easier to deconstruct, examine and truly know. Those who have not visited may recognise its features. This...

Nothing says summer is on the way like baskets of fresh strawberries at the supermarket! In Strawberry Chicken Stir-fry, tender strips of chicken are combined with strawberries in a tangy orange-flavored sauce. This simple recipe is a great way to take a

HTC revealed the HTC Flyer back in February but we weren't allowed to get our mitts on it. The Gingerbread-running 7-inch tablet with a revamp HTC Sense, finally landed on our desk this week and we couldn't wait to get the wrappers off.  Here's our H

This story sounded kinda scary until I realized how they actually "hacked" the computer in the car. If you ask me, this is just one more reason to buy a classic car like mine...there ain't no hacking a 40 year old muscle car. In a late 2009 demonstrati

A new piece of malware has caused an uptick in Apple customers reporting infected machines, renewing a timeless debate on the state of Macintosh security versus Windows. The trojan horse is called Mac Defender. It’s a web pop-up containing a spoof m

The Cult of Mac blog is moving to a new address. The blog can now be found at www.cultofmac.com. And we’re serious this time. We’re still part of the Wired family, just decamped to our own domain to make some mischief. We even have several pos

After threatening to sue several iPhone app programmers last week for implementing a new iOS feature, a patent firm touched off a storm of controversy and even received death threats. Now the company has explained why it's going after the little guys, in

The Apple MacBook Air 11-inch has broken new ground for netbooks. See why and learn its one major flaw.

Also with friends (10%), while waiting (9%), in meetings/class (5%) or in the bathroom (4%) A report issued Thursday by Nielsen compares usage patterns of nearly 12,000 U.S. owners of tablets, eReaders or smartphones. The key findings, as Nielson sees it:

Two of the Philippines top performers, Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez are now officially husband and wife. The Ogie-Regine wedding took place today in Batangas. The venue was filled with violet,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website

Secret Show with Special Guest Jim Cantiello – 05/19/2011 | Source: Rickey.org Another awesome Secret Show! Jim Cantiello could not be with us tonight since he was busy. Video here:X Factor | The Voice | American Idol

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There was an unmistakable echo of the dot-com boom Thursday on Wall Street....

Eli Pariser made his mark on the Internet as the executive director of MoveOn.Org, the liberal group that was perhaps the first to turn the Web into a tool for massive political action.

David Pogue, a technology columnist for The New York Times, and his wife have been charged with disorderly conduct.

While fund managers are complaining that limits on leverage and demands for increased capital will damage returns, academic research points to the contrary

Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter Jesse Eisinger — he insists I write that intro every time I mention his name (heh heh) — has an interesting ProPublica/NYT column out this morning looking at the many empty appointments at key agen

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Japan’s nuclear crisis drags on, exposing profound failures both at the company and in national energy policyIT IS daylight, but the darkness inside the headquarters of the world’s biggest privately owned electricity company is sepulchral. Off

Five years before emergency vents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed to work, an American engineer told regulators that their design was flawed.

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Hybrid, MPG Research conducted by Auto Trader suggests that money, not the environment, is the main driving force behind motorists' interest in eco-friendly vehicles, at least in Great Britain. The majority o

Ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is just the first step. The project would transport electricity from wind farms off the Atlantic coast.

A selection of jazz listings.

This gig blends Danilo Pérez formative influences with the logic of a baroque fugue in an extraordinary display of rhythmic intricacy and independence

Who the hell is Chilly Gonzales? A geek-hop hybrid who can “smoke weed and read The Economist.” Or so he boasts in this uproariously surreal video medley that lampoons President Barack Obama and Jaws while dropping clever lines like “I b

Sophomore albums are a tricky enough hurdle for bands to clear without having the added pressure of following something as special as Company Of Thieves' Ordinary Riches. While this effort does not quite match the consistency of their debut, the highs ar