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Actor James Gandolfini, 51, has died of what early reports say was a massive heart attack. He was in Italy at the time.    

I've always loathed her. Now you can too, based on what the press has dug up in a court deposition just now made public.    

Alyssa Rosenberg at Slate's XX blog explores the ethics dilemma surrounding a Kickstarter for a "how to get chicks" guide for men that included what sounded to her, and me, and a lot of other women and non-stupid men, like a HOWTO sexual assault explainer.    

Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer. Image: Makerbot.com. Bre Pettis' Brooklyn-based privately-held 3D printing firm Makerbot will be acquired by publicly-traded Stratasys Ltd.    

I'm delighted by this video of a pet python, titled "Julius Escaping." This lovely creature passed on last year.    

After years of benefiting from the bug bounty programs of other companies, Microsoft is finally stepping into the bug bounty business itself by offering three new programs to encourage and compensate researchers who find vulnerabilities in the company's software.    

Next month Guillermo del Toro will release Pacific Rim, his first directorial effort in five years. Wired went to the film's set to catch the filming in action.    

Nick Cave doesn't create art just so you can stare at it. The Chicago-based artist's work is meant to be explored, experienced and, in some cases, even worn. In Sojourn, the newly opened exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Cave has created a weird and wonderful fantasyland filled with sculpture ...

Tesla is recalling some 1,300 Model S sedans to replace and reinforce a rear seat bracket that wasn't bonded properly during manufacturing.    

FBI Director Robert Mueller said today the bureau was surveilling the United States with drones. The revelation came during a bureau oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes as the bureau, along with the National Security Agency, are on the defensive about revelations th ...

After years of benefiting from the bug bounty programs of other companies, Microsoft is finally stepping into the bug bounty business itself by offering three new programs to encourage and compensate researchers who find vulnerabilities in the company's software.    

Next month Guillermo del Toro will release Pacific Rim, his first directorial effort in five years. Wired went to the film's set to catch the filming in action.    

Nick Cave doesn't create art just so you can stare at it. The Chicago-based artist's work is meant to be explored, experienced and, in some cases, even worn. In Sojourn, the newly opened exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Cave has created a weird and wonderful fantasyland filled with sculpture ...

Tesla is recalling some 1,300 Model S sedans to replace and reinforce a rear seat bracket that wasn't bonded properly during manufacturing.    

FBI Director Robert Mueller said today the bureau was surveilling the United States with drones. The revelation came during a bureau oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes as the bureau, along with the National Security Agency, are on the defensive about revelations th ...

Airliner cockpit panels by decade's end could resemble giant iPads, as the current dizzying array of knobs and switches gives way to touch screens, suppliers at the Paris International Air Show say.

Dish Network said it won't submit a new offer for Sprint Nextel by its Tuesday deadline, a move that appears to clear the way for the third largest U.S. wireless carrier to be bought by SoftBank of Japan.

Wal-Mart is creating a vast new logistics system that includes building warehouses for Web orders, but also uses workers in stores to pack and mail items to customers.

Two of the largest independent U.S. high-frequency-trading firms are in early merger discussions, as a downturn in trading opportunities has spurred cutbacks and tie-up talks among rivals

Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to a $150 million venture-capital round led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings.

Previewing search results pages before clicking on them is now available through Google on Android and iOS.

Thousands of Gmail accounts wiped last week have now been fully restored.

Employees under 25 are sending company data over webmail to bypass restrictions placed on their work email.

Here's our look at the phones and tablets that have been unveiled during the first half of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2011, despite having security software.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday that users of its forthcoming Xbox One game console will be able to play games offline without establishing an Internet connection, and will be able to lend or sell used disc-based games. The announcement reverses the company's position w ...

A new report suggests that the HTC One mini will be arriving on at least one U.S. carrier later this year. According to PhoneArena, the smartphone will be available on AT&T this summer. The HTC One mini is expected to be equipped with a 4.3-inch 720p display, a 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 pr ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft rolled back a much-criticized requirement that its upcoming Xbox One gaming console be regularly connected to the Internet and made clear that there will be no limitations on sharing games.

Apple, Samsung and HTC are reportedly interested in releasing more power efficient smartphones that will incorporate some form of liquid cooling. According to Digitimes, all three companies may adopt “ultra-thin heat pipes” in some next-generation smartphones. The cooling modules that might be u ...

Google’s wearable computing device has come under fire once again. Government privacy and data protection officials from seven countries have reached out to Google CEO Larry Page over privacy concerns regarding Google Glass. Commissioners from Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Mex ...

Like your iPhone? What about your speed bike? With the GoRide bike mount, you can combine both -- with style. More About: Gift of the Day, Lifestyle, health and fitness, holidays 2012, iOS, iphone

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists hadn't known was there, researchers announced today. More About: NASA, space, voyager 1

The Nielsen company's latest report shows that social networking has become ubiquitous while watching TV and while using the bathroom. The report says that one-third of Twitter users in June tweeted about TV shows -- a 27% increase from five months earlier. "Twitter has become the second scr ...

More Button A More button now appears beside the Reply, Retweet, and Favorite options at the bottom of each tweet.Click here to view this gallery. Twitter has started rolling out the ability to email tweets from its website. Announced mid-Novemb ...

Your workout is not the time to disconnect from your gadgets. Keeping track of important details like steps, perspiration and blood oxygen levels can be key to figuring out the best workout for your body. There are a number of well known fitness, health and wellness gadgets on the market that ...

When we first discovered that Makerbot was looking to partner with Stratsys I was a bit non-plussed. Makerbot, as I've noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable.

The reveal of the Xbox One didn't go as Microsoft hoped. Gamers loved the system, but hated the absurd restrictions placed on the games. But Microsoft listened and just today reversed its stance on some of the more ridiculous policies. Good for them. Good for us. I mean, the outcry was hard t ...

Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats -- there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restrictions on who you could share disc-based games ...

Twitter today acquired Spindle, an app that uses mobile devices and social networks to make a smarter localized search engine. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app. Using social networks, the time of day, and your location, Spindle would show you places you ...

Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot, as we reported, in a stock deal worth $403 million based on the current share value of Stratasys. The combination of the companies brings together a leader in 3D industrial printing and manufacturing, with the emerging leader in desktop 3D ...

He has probably saved the community tens of thousands of dollars in repairs and may have saved lives through avoided accidents, but for reasons that are his and his alone, Roa Dart will paint roads no more. Roa (not his real name) told The Northern Star [of Lismore, Australia] …

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A northern Idaho church has decided to end its charter of a Boy Scout Troop because of the national organization's recent decision to lift its ban on openly gay youth.

The other day, an elected member of the U.S Congress, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) was discussing the anti-choice bill that careened through the lower chamber and said this: “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful… They s …

America has enemies ... within our shores ... as dangerous and destructive as terrorists. Here are twenty of them ...

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian: Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process  —  Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise  —  Since we began began publishing stories about the ...

Andy Greenberg / Forbes: Microsoft Finally Offers To Pay Hackers For Security Bugs With $100,000 Bounty  —  For years, Microsoft has refused to offer financial rewards to researchers who tell the company about security flaws in its software, even as Google and Facebook have ratc ...

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: Bath salts and booty: watch a drug-fueled John McAfee uninstall his antivirus software  —  The strange tale of John McAfee keeps getting stranger.  In a video posted to YouTube last night, the antivirus software founder and part-time fugitive c ...

Nick Summers / The Next Web: Rdio opens up its social movie and TV streaming service Vdio to everyone in the US and UK  —  Rdio surprised almost everyone last month when it launched Vdio, a new service for buying or renting digital copies of movies and TV shows.  The compan ...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Public Outcry In Taiwan Kills Their Version Of SOPA  —  At the end of May, we wrote about the Taiwanese government's bizarre proposal to create a copyright bill that was like SOPA, but even worse.  Apparently, the folks at the Taiwan Intellectual Pr ...

An anonymous reader writes "At a hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI director Robert Mueller confirmed the agency is using unmanned drones for surveillance within the U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley asked, 'Does the FBI own or currently use drones and for what purpose?' Mueller ...

First time accepted submitter dougkfresh writes "Checkmarx's research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection. Furthermore, a concentrated research into e-commerce plugins revealed that 7 out of the 10 ...

An anonymous reader writes "With the focus from Ubuntu on phones, seven carriers have signed onto their Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group including Deutsche Telekom, Everything Everywhere, Telecom Italia, Korea Telecom, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom, and SK Telecom. The group is designed for the carrie ...

alphadogg writes "Start-up Cumulus Networks this week has emerged with a Linux network operating system designed for programmable data centers like the ones Google and Facebook are building. The company's Cumulus Linux OS operating system includes IPv4 and IPv6 routing, plus data center and netw ...

An anonymous reader writes "As reported earlier on Slashdot it appeared the license covering the MySQL man pages was changed from the GPL to something less good. However, as speculated, this appears to be a bug." The build system was grabbing the wrong files, oops. The fix should be coming short ...