Publication: Wired News

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Autodesk Purchases, Revives 3-D Design App Tinkercad

Great lamenting and gnashing of teeth ensued in March when Tinkercad announced it would be discontinuing its web-based 3-D modeling tool to focus its energies on Airstone, an interactive simulation environment. But on Saturday at Maker Faire, CAD software ... [Published Wired News - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Autodesk Inc, Maker Faire, Powerful, Discontinuance

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Reports of Social TV’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

I read an interesting piece in TechCrunch coined, “,” from Somrat Niyogi, the CEO of Miso - one of the earliest American startups in the Social TV arena.“Why should a user open up YOUR app versus the other billion apps out there around TV?”, writes Niyogi. ... [Published Wired News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Metadata, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, United Kingdom, Smartphone

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Frank Gens

Contributor Content | Get a Jump on the Next 20 Years of Technology

After so many years in technology, I find it hard to see the newest trends as completely new. I’ve become a cynic about hype. Things have cycled so many times in my career that every new fad reminds me of highly touted “movements” like CORBA and artificial ... [Published Wired News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Frank Gens, Chris Taylor, Artificial Intelligence, MySpace.com

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

Terrorist Entered Witness Protection, Then Fled The United States

The Justice Department’s inspector general found that terrorists who snitch and enter witness protection can — and in some cases have — evade federal no-fly lists. Photo: redjar/FlickrShould you ever be accused of terrorism, here’s what you should do: ... [Published Wired News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Terrorists, Witness, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Koninklijke DSM NV

Let's Fight Big Pharma's Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness

book excerpt Saving Normal by Allen Frances “Nature has rolled the dice trillions and trillions of times and has learned to pick diversity as the best long-term bet. It would have been far less complicated to go with one species, but nature has consistently ... [Published Wired News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Big Pharma, Diagnostic, Koninklijke DSM NV

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Plastics

Push Back Against the Elements With New Flexible, Super-Strong Umbrella

Anyone who has spent time in blustery, rainy climates knows the frustration of an umbrella defeated by the elements. In 2009, designer Federico Venturi experienced this frustration firsthand and, instead of throwing away the broken umbrella like everyone ... [Published Wired News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Ginkgo, Recyclable, Plastics

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis

During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from the CIA, NSA, KGB, and senior officials in both countries reveal just how close we came to mutually assured destruction ... [Published Wired News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Nate Jones, Nuclear, CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Soviet Union, NATO