Top News Stories

Wired Top Stories
World's Largest Earthquake-Safe Building	11/20/2009 4:45 PM
A new 2-million-square-foot terminal at an Istanbul airport is the largest building in the world to sit on high-tech seismic isolators designed to help the building survive earthquakes intact.
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood	11/20/2009 4:45 PM
Dan Glickman, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, is complaining to Congress that those who don't support a proposed international intellectual-property treaty are "hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide."
Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS	11/20/2009 3:00 PM
Google has some ambitious goals with its open source PC operating system Chrome OS. But we're not convinced consumers will be thrilled with the way the browser-based OS is being presented, so we make a modest proposal.
Make an Independent Movie on the Cheap	11/20/2009 3:00 PM
Anyone with a camera phone and poor impulse control can be a YouTube star for 15 seconds. But what does it take to make a feature film that will get noticed by Hollywood?
Listen to 'World's First Twitter Album'	11/20/2009 2:35 PM
Digital music students create a crowdsourced album within the 140-character confines of Twitter by writing short strings of code that can be translated into songs.
Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment	11/20/2009 2:00 PM
Malaria has begun showing troubling signs of developing resistance to artemisinin, which is currently the best available treatment for the disease.
VW Builds the World's Coolest SUV	11/20/2009 1:33 PM
You need a tough truck to take on Dakar. VW delivers.
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate	11/20/2009 1:30 PM
A trove of e-mails stolen from a leading climate-research group in Britain has sparked an online debate over global warming data. Bloggers claim the e-mails reveal that scientists colluded and manipulated data to support global warming theories.
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud	11/20/2009 1:15 PM
Using DNA barcoding, scientists tested tuna at 31 sushi restaurants and discovered many of the restaurants were selling endangered species, or fish that wasn't tuna at all.
Wired Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize	11/20/2009 12:30 PM
Nothing has done a better job of circumventing censorship, spreading democratic thought and promoting understanding between nations than the internet. Join Wired's global campaign to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to our beloved series of tubes.