Just two years ago, cybercriminal gangs were behind record-breaking data breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of customer records. But the year 2011 will be remembered as the year hacktivists out-stole cybercriminals to take the top data breach award, according to a new report released by Verizon.
Toxic barbs on a cucumber?s skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse?s technicolor eyeball are just a few of 2011′s best science visualizations.
“Lost” music gets found all the time: Bands keep demos locked up in storage, original pressings are stumbled upon during spring cleaning at a recording studio. Here are five key pieces of “lost” music recovered last year.
To help you get the new year started with a great procrastination opportunity, we’ve collected our most popular science image galleries of 2011. From camera traps and photo alteration to weird animals and strange sand, these collections were our readers’ favorites.
It’s the last GameLife podcast of the year. Yes, we?re skipping the last week, but to make up for it we’re bringing you not one, but two great discussions: the best games and the most disappointing games of 2011.
The editors of Gadget Lab recap the tech industry news stories that had the biggest impact in 2011. Apple and Google led the way, but that doesn’t mean other companies didn’t capture a few news cycles — if only for nefarious reasons.
Rather than probing the heights or descending the depths of the past year, I?m going to talk about the top 10 things nobody cared about in 2011.
The amount of data the world stores is on an explosive growth curve. According to research outfit IDC, the digital universe will grow 44 times larger over the course of the decade, thanks to the rise of worldwide obsessions such as social media and cloud computing. And that means more data centers. But this data center boom comes at a time of high energy prices and heightened concern about carbon emissions. The days of cramming truck loads of servers into a room and firing up a bunch of industrial air-conditioners to cool them are over. Here, Wired takes a look at nine of the more innovative facilities that came online in 2011.
2011 had some pretty remarkable advances that seem to be the start of inexorable things to come, as well as some surprising and sad examples of demise, whose impact will surely be felt for years to come, in ways that are currently near-impossible to predict.
This article is not about Steve Jobs. Here are 11 other technology giants who left us this year, and the amazing legacies they left behind.