It doesn't go very fast, and it doesn't go very far, but this home-brew EV has style to spare.

Research In Motion Ltd.’s concession in giving Indian authorities access to BlackBerry e-mail and instant-messenger correspondence means it’s likely to do the same for other governments, analysts said.

The micro-distilling frenzy gets even more micro with limited-edition booze infused with geek concentrate.

In New York City, an 800-foot long, two-story-tall tunnel-boring machine is drilling the long-awaited Second Avenue Subway Line that has been 75 years in the making. Wired Science takes you underground to see the project up close.

Wired speaks to author Simon Singh, who has become a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to evolution.

A Detroit station airs what is believed to be the first radio news broadcast. The exact headlines of that day are of no historical significance, but with this local newscast a nascent medium finally conveys a message so compelling that it would soon capture the world's imagination as only television and the internet would, many, many years later.

Quanta Computer Inc., the world’s largest maker of laptops, posted profit that missed estimates and cut its shipment forecast for the current quarter, citing signs of economic weakness in developed markets.

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the largest contract manufacturer of electronics, and unit Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. fell in Asian trading as earnings missed estimates after wage increases at their China factories.

A pair of Chinese satellites have met in orbit. It's either a sign of China's increasingly sophisticated space program or a sign of its increasingly sophisticated space warfare program.

The Navy has to pay HP billions to buy the out-of-date equipment and examine blueprints for the network. It's another example of the military's utter reliance on outside contractors.

Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a new feature called Priority Inbox — think of it as a sort of reverse spam filter which bubbles messages to the top of the queue based on what you read and respond to.

As subscriber growth slows, two big pay-as-you-go wireless sellers woo even business users with upgraded network equipment and pricier devices

This year at Comic-Con, Showtime launched an alternate reality game that gives players the opportunity to hunt down a serial killer known as The Infinity Killer. This game is the newest installment in a series of viral campaigns Showtime has used over the years to promote its dark drama Dexter. Readers should be warned that some of the links in this article may lead to graphic images akin to those shown in the television series.

Research In Motion Ltd. averted a ban on its BlackBerry services in India that would have affected more than a million users and halted the Canadian company’s expansion in the world’s second-largest mobile-phone market.

I wrote a story for Sunday's Chronicle about an unofficial contest to redesign the U.S. dollar. The protagonist was a San Francisco graphic artist who put President Obama's face on the $1 bill, one of many steps he suggested to modernize the currency and rebrand the American economy. After that...



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A British codebreaker found dead under mysterious circumstances worked with the NSA on intercepted e-mails that helped convict would-be terrorist bombers.

To promote Tron: Legacy's December release, Disney is juicing up the film's girl power factor with massive billboards featuring a shot of disc-carrying Quorra, played by Olivia Wilde.

Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication.

One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location, at Stanley Glacier. About half of the animal groups found there, such as trilobites, are found at other Burgess sites in different abundances. But the creatures unearthed also include eight taxa previously unknown to science.