San Franciscans gets a peek at what's involved in building a new bridge when builders place the first segment of a tower that will soon hold up a brand-new span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Wired.com shoots photos of the new bridge on a recent tour of the massive construction project.

An Android app's data-collection practice has raised concerns about user privacy and security on mobile phones.

A group of rocket enthusiasts used a rocket to send a Nexus One phone 28,000 feet into the atmosphere.

The Samsung HZ35W would be a great GPS-enabled camera, if it could only give us accurate coordinates.

Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales.

Meet the Ava Direct gaming rig, a notebook computer with modern components but with mid '00s styling and heft.

A fan without blades? That could only come from a company that makes a vacuum without bags.

A digital book reader could bring information to students in developing countries using a technology that is long past its prime: 8-bit computing.

Intel researchers combine silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per second. The technology should be able to achieve a terabit per second in the future.

Fancy a timepiece that's colored like a traffic cone and can survive a descent of a quarter-mile below the surface of the water? Have we got a watch for you.

A four-legged robot nicknamed "Ranger" sets a distance record, walking 14.3 miles before running out of juice.

The iMac just got a little bit faster thanks to an update across the line. Processors, graphics and even the displays have been improved, although prices have stayed the same.

The new HTC phones coming this summer will include a technology called SLCD, or Super LCD, instead of the newer organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays used in some current-model smartphones.

Researchers at MIT create software that compares the scene in front of the camera with an historical photograph. You can then see the old shots lined up over the new, like a window into the past.

Squeezed by larger companies such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, smaller e-reader makers are going out of business even as consumer interest shifts toward tablets.

A $35 tablet from India is on its way, says the Indian government. But the country doesn't have a history of delivering on its much-hyped promises about electronic devices.

Apple has started to refund buyers of the $30 rubber-band it calls the Bumper Case. The refund was promised to buyers after Apple offered free bumper cases to iPhone 4 owners to fix the signal-dropping death-grip.

What do you know about Dwayne’s Photo Service of Parsons, Kansas? It is the place where the very last roll of the Kodachrome was processed

Bloatware, long a problem for PC users, is now rearing its head on Android phones. Android phones are being pre-loaded with trial software and apps that can't be deleted off the device by the user.

If you've been down to your local blues bar recently and seen some young gun playing a beat-up 1959 Stratocaster, your eyes may have been fooling you. What looks like a vintage Strat is probably a "relic," a modern-day copy that's been artificially aged by master artisans.