One day, your Facebook photos will sit in the hands of robots. Behind the scenes at Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Facebook engineers have already built these robots, and one of them was on display last week in downtown San Jose, at a gathering of companies dedicated to exploring new technology inside the massive data centers … Â Â Â Â
If you never got addicted to Battlestar Galactica, here’s your chance: Wired is giving away a complete Blu-ray box set of the rebooted sci-fi show and its prequel Blood & Chrome .
When the nominations for the Academy Awards are announced Thursday, untold millions of people already will have watched some of the leading flicks. But many of them likely didn’t view the motion pictures on a theater’s big screen, even though the movies haven’t been released on DVD or Blu-ray.
Over the last several weeks, we’ve posted our year-end roundups of the best television , top albums, and most underrated movies of 2012. We thought we made some pretty good choices, but since no list is ever going to be comprehensive in the eyes of the fan whose favorite didn’t make the cut, Wired readers had some suggestions of their own.
And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great ( Zero Dark Thirty ), some weird ( Holy Motors ), some are for your parents ( Lincoln ), and some are just plain sadistic ( Les Misérables ). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies— The Master , Argo , Magic Mike , Looper —there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly.
LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators considered testimony Wednesday here at UCLA on whether to allow citizens and filmmakers to legally crack DVD encryption meant to protect them from being copied. Filmmakers, video mixers and others have petitioned the U.S. Copyright Office for the ability to continue to use DVD decryption tools to copy short clips