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Rob Sheridan, the art director for Trent Reznor?s side project How To Destroy Angels, is up on stage, but he has no instrument. More accurately, he is playing an instrument, but it doesn?t play music -- it plays light.

The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing culprits may be entering a critical phase. Live.

Three days after the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, the FBI released photos and a video of two suspects it believes are associated with the attacks.

The cofounder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers.

LinkedIn is on a redesign rampage. Next in line: mobile.

A month before the Boston Marathon bombs, the FBI put out a warning that the chemical "exploding targets" used by recreational rifle shooters could be used to fuel homegrown improvised bombs.

Frequent fliers have grown accustomed to a certain amount of inconvenience, but with booking systems being completely computerized, one minor glitch is enough to shutter not just a single flight, but an entire airline. And it seems to be happening with increasing regularity.

BlabDroids, which will be filming this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, are out to make the first documentary ever shot and directed by robots.

The heart of baseball is a love of stats. The heart of MLB's fan cave is a massive NASA-style stats-displaying mission control center.

This week electropop outfit Chvrches covered the theme song to Game of Thrones -- joining a long line of great covers of TV theme songs.

This stunning video illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at at Stanford University have developed a method for making tissue almost completely transparent to reveal the fine-scale anatomy and molecular make up of neurons

Think Google Fiber's expansion to Austin signals future plans to come to your town? Sorry ? infrastructure isn't Google's business.

The latest robot from Boston Dynamics is now fully clothed. You would not immediately think he was made of metal and devoid of life.

This great collection of images of Earth from space come from several different satellites as well as the International Space Station. There are awesome shots of glaciers and sea ice, city lights at night and sand dunes. Some of the best stuff involves dynamic data visualizations that start at 1:22 in the video and show things like the winds during hurricane Sandy, changing sea surface temperatures and ocean currents.

There¿s no indication the ocean plans to stop littering Southern California¿s shores with the tiny bodies of starving sea lion pups any time soon. After three months, roughly 1,100 pups have entered marine mammal rehabilitation centers in the area. Now, scientists are asking what's going on with food supplies and ocean conditions.

When you absolutely, positively have to destroy everything within 300 square meters, accept no substitutes for this upgraded Russian flamethrower tank.

By the time kids are two years old, iPads tend to be within their Cheerio-encrusted grasp. But with nearly invisible components inside, tykes could be left thinking that tablet technology is magic. Enter Adafruit's Circuit Playground, the latest in a growing trend of independently produced science education YouTube video series.

In the world of sci-fi, fantasy, and other genres there are voices that are as iconic as major characters like Luke Skywalker or Master Chief. Here are some of the best -- from Darth Vader to GLaDOS.

It's sometimes dismissed as "porn mode" but private browsing mode has legitimate uses as well -- like staying signed in to two Gmail accounts at the same time. Mozilla's latest version of Firefox makes it simple to have private mode windows right alongside normal windows. Firefox 20 also sports a new and improved downloads manager and some new web standards for developers looking to test the latest and greatest the web has to offer.

The GoJo is a plastic headphone frame with a suction cup on one end that wedges your phone right up against your face. It?s brilliant in its simplicity ? or at least, it?s simple and for sale on television, which is more or less the same thing.

Why settle for disappointment when a movie trailer promises something the film doesn't deliver? One man has demonstrated that complaining can get results.

As the print industry continues to burn, Newspaper Club is what happens when the internet gets hold of a printing press.

The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the deluge of robocalls and caller-ID spoofing, the FTC took to private enterprise to dream up a technological solution to block these unwanted nuisances on both mobile and landline phones. The FTC announced Tuesd...

At least one person isn't ready for Google's futuristic world of self-driving cars: CEO Sergey Brin's mother-in-law, who freaked out during a ride in one of the robo-cars.

A sea lion trained to bob her head in time to music not only appears to have better rhythm than many people, but she is also challenging researchers' notions about beat-keeping in animals.

As a fan of G.I. Joe since childhood, director Jon M. Chu wanted his Joe movie to be a flick that would "make my 10-year-old self happy." Here's how he did it.

As increasing numbers of vessels are being shot into space powered by pure liquid capitalism, we are beginning to face issues that previously have only been the concern of science fiction writers, loopy futurists and economists.

Dedicated track cars comes in all shapes, sizes and prices, but they have one thing in common: a gas-powered engine, usually pulled out of some uninspiring econobox. Birmingham City University and the stripped-out sports car purveyors at Westfield have built an alternative. Or more accurately, you can.

One of the most famous battles in the original Star Trek series has been restaged to promote the upcoming Trek video game. Spoilers: It might depress you.

Curved and shimmery, comet tails sometimes seem to follow a slightly different trajectory than the comet's nucleus. Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain explains why.

Design is becoming a prerequisite for business success, but with a year at a top-flight school like RISD easily costing more than $53,000, that learning doesn't come cheap. Luckily, education marketplace Skillshare has created a new online school of design with world-class teachers that only costs $20 per class.

Mozilla has partnered with Epic Games to bring the Unreal 3 gaming engine to Firefox. The result is a high-end gaming engine that could change the way you think of web-based video games.

For Mexico's drug cartels, children are considered expendable soldiers, according to a report from a prominent non-governmental organization.

People who have visited SFO's BART station or the Raleigh Convention Center are familiar with the "shimmer wall" art installation -- a technique created by Ned Kahn that employs small, dangling squares of reflective metal over a large surface to create a display that ripples with the gentlest breeze. Now, new companies are pushing this technique to enchant clients like Disney and Marc Jacobs and add a little shine to storefronts.

Welcome to the world of WesterosCraft, a Minecraft server where Game of Thrones fans have recreated Westeros in 59,000 blocks by 22,000 blocks -- over 500 square miles relative to the characters -- roughly the size of Los Angeles.

Imagine sitting in a room in the dark in the middle of the night. Then imagine scouring the room for any faint light source: cracks in floorboards, street lighting leaking in through the window, LEDs in electrical fixtures, mobile phone screens. Once these are all eliminated, you are left in an unnerving blanket of darkness. It is under these conditions that experimental theater performance Ring takes place.

James Dyson found success bringing new ideas into a product category many thought was beyond innovation. Now, his charitable foundation is trying to get young designers to take a fresh look at other tired categories with an award competition that offers nearly $150,000 in prize money.

If you've never watched Doctor Who, this Saturday's midseason premiere is a good time to start. Here's what you need to know before tuning in.

Just in time to help anticipation for the new season of Game of Thrones hit fever pitch, a slew of new clips surfaces on the web.

Lantos Technologies, a small startup spun out of MIT, has created the first FDA-cleared digital ear-canal scanner. While that may seem wildly specific, and maybe a little gross, it could dramatically improve your grandfather's hearing aid, Lady Gaga's in-ear monitor, and mission-critical communication devices used by the military.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop thinks that Apple's iPhone is embarrassing. So much so that he threw Finnish talk show host Hjallis Harkimo's iPhone to the ground on live TV.

Windows Blue is coming, and we already know some of what you'll see in Microsoft's looming upgrade. We've also got our own wish list for must-have features.

Twitter is seven today -- or at least, it's been seven years since founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. Here's to remembering our first tweets.

YouTube announced that it has racked up 1 billion unique monthly users. About as many people use YouTube (which is owned by Google) as they do Facebook. That's huge.

Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin told Wired that his potential cameo on the HBO show would occur not in Season 3, but rather in Season 4.