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West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide (Kindle Edition) newly tagged “adventure”

West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide (Kindle Edition) newly tagged “adventure”

West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide (Kindle Edition)By K.M. Johnson-Weider Buy new: $ 0.99 Customer Rating: First tagged “adventure” by stephen m cano Customer tags: superhero novel(5), alternate history(4), speculative fiction(3), superhero(2), celebrity(2), superhero prose fiction(2), knowledge fiction(2), adventure, km johnson-weider

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Upstart Eric Ries Has the Stage and The Crowd Is Going Wild

Upstart Eric Ries Has the Stage and The Crowd Is Going Wild

Photo: Eric OgdenScott Cook is conducting an experiment. “It’s the corporate-counseling version of alacrity dating,” says the spectacled cofounder of Intuit, the finance software giant. He’s gathered his troops in a brightly lit conference room, where members of four Intuit departments are seated in front of 300 colleagues—plus 1,500 more watching via webcast—to hash out some business predicaments. Each team will take five minutes to bestow its problem. Then special guest Eric Ries will come up with a solution. Arun Muthukumaran, a group manager of Intuit Payment Solutions, kicks

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Redesigned activity box, notification center give Facebook users in-line controls for privacy, app alerts

Redesigned activity box, notification center give Facebook users in-line controls for privacy, app alerts

Over the past week, Facebook has been rolling out redesigns for the “recent activity” box on Timeline and the notification center at the top of the site. Besides visual changes, the features now include in-line controls for adjusting the privacy level of a recent action and choosing whether an app or group can send notifications. The new activity box includes better metaphors and text, as well as an bonus app icon. When users hover over their own activity tales, they see the contemporary privacy setting

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Space Double-Feature Weekend: SpaceX Launch and Solar Eclipse

Space Double-Feature Weekend: SpaceX Launch and Solar Eclipse

If you’re a space enthusiast, this weekend is going to be a doozy. In the wee hours of Saturday, May 19, the confidential spaceflight company SpaceX is plotting to launch their Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The launch window is for 1:55 a.m. PDT, so West Coast night owls might just want to stay up to catch the action. Join us here on Wired’s Open Space site for live coverage starting an hour before the launch. If you sleep through the event, don’t worry; we’ll

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Facebook makes fifth mobile acquisition this year with Karma

Facebook makes fifth mobile acquisition this year with Karma

Facebook has bought the mobile gifting and buying benefit Karma, according to a blog post on Karma’s website. This is the social network’s fifth mobile-related acquisition in 2012 after Lightbox, Tagtile, Glancee and Instagram. Launched just months ago in December, Karma positions itself as a user-friendly way for consumers to pick out and pay for gifts culled from a curated catalogue of items. The benefit hasn’t been a breakout hit; Karma’s Google Play item shows the app has been downloaded between 10,000 and 50,000 times and it is

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7 Most Intriguing TV Shows Coming This Fall

7 Most Intriguing TV Shows Coming This Fall

<< Previous | Next >>           runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1644688813001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences();What will fill television’s sci-fi black hole after Fringe ends next time of year? The rash of new shows announced by networks over the past week include a few prime-time contenders that will offer an alternative to the usual doctor/lawyer/cop and sniggling singles/smug family fodder.Which ones

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