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Today Google plans to publicly reveal the team, known as Project Zero, a group of top Google security researchers who will be given the sole mission of finding and neutering the most insidious security flaws in the world’s software. When 17-year-old George Hotz became the world’s first hacker to crack AT&T's lock on the iPhone in 2007, the companies officially ignored him while scrambling to fix t
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Ex-Googler Gives the World a Better Bitcoin
Charles Lee was a software engineer at Google, spending his days hacking networking code for the search giant’s new-age operating system, ChromeOS. But in his spare time, he rewrote the world’s most popular digital currency. Charles Lee was a software engineer at Google, spending his days hacking networking code for the search giant's new-age operating system, ChromeOS. But in his spare time, he r
William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong
William Gibson, one of science fiction's most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don't possess some mystical ability to peer into the future. "We're almost always wrong," said Gibson in a phone interview with Wired. Gibson coined the term cyberspace in his 1982 short story "Burning Chrome" and expanded on the concept in his 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer. Par
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords
Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don't play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse. As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright "bots" -- automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time, while it is still
Google Glass Team: 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm'
Wired's Steven Levy interviews Google's Babak Parviz and Steve Lee, the principle brains behind Project Glass. Read on for exclusive details on how the wearable computing glasses work, and what's in store for Google ambitious technology. Babak Parviz (right) demos Project Glass on stage with Sergey Brin by his side. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Even though I followed Google’s I/O Conference from a
Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
Google treats its infrastructure like a state secret, so Google czar of infrastructure Urs Hölzle rarely ventures out into the public to speak about it. Today is one of those rare days. At the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California, Hölzle is announcing that Google essentially has remade a major part of its massive internal network, providing the company a bonanza in savings and efficie
Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say
Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say Google's Project Glass looks great, but is it grounded in reality? Two augmented-reality experts tell Wired that Google will have a tough time realizing the promise of its demo video and photography. The New York National Guard helps the New York State Police Scuba team load a Zodiac boat into a truck to reach flooded portions of N
Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train
Twitter is now serving up pages over Google's improved web protocol, making the site a bit speedier in Chrome and (soon) Firefox. Google is hoping that its SPDY protocol, pronounced "speedy," will one day speed up not just Google and Twitter, but the entire web. Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. SPDY
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
Wired follows the story of Bitcoin, the virtual currency you can actually spend—if it doesn't get stolen first. In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list's veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and
200+ Labels Withdraw Their Music From Spotify: Are Its Fortunes Unravelling?
Following a study that claims that streaming music is damaging to record sales, a distributor representing more than 200 labels has withdrawn its entire catalogue from Spotify, Napster, Simfy and Rdio. Disquiet from musicians and labels over the royalties paid out by Spotify has plagued the music service almost since it first launched The study, which […] Following a study that claims that streami
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