The FCC’s support for network neutrality may have the unintended consequence of ending unlimited internet access for flat-rate monthly fees, Wired.com’s Dylan Tweney argues.

The spokesperson for the nation’s wireless carrier tells Wired.com, in the final installment in a three-part interview, why text messages aren’t so expensive and why the feds need to auction more bandwidth.

Dust storms swept over Sydney Wednesday morning, turning the city sky so red, some residents thought they’d left the blue planet. “It was like waking up on Mars,” Sydney resident Marcus Schappi wrote in an e-mail to Wired.com. Residents of eastern Australia have had to battle these bizarre conditions, because strong winds from the dry [...]

In the search for extraterrestrial life, some scientists say we’re focusing too much on finding signs of existence as we know it, and in the process, we may be missing more strange forms of life that don’t rely on water or carbon metabolism. Now researchers from Austria have started a systematic study of solvents other [...]

French hip-hop has few finer champions than Wax Tailor, whose Tuesday release, In the Mood for Life, scratches soul, hip-hop, funk and jazz into an intoxicating hybrid. He’s also a tech mediator: His lead single, “Say Yes,” is being packaged exclusively at Borders with In the Mood for Life in CD-Vinyl format, which can be [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel showed off a spiffy new version of Moblin, a Linux operating system designed for mobile gadgets. Initially targeted at netbooks, Intel has now hinted that it will extend the system’s reach to mobile phones. Intel started the Moblin initiative last year in a bid to maximize the potential of netbooks and [...]

While the world eagerly awaits Apple’s fabled touchscreen tablet, Microsoft has unveiled one of its own. It’s called Courier. The Courier, still in late-prototype stages of development, is a dual-screen device that folds like a booklet. It features dual 7-inch multitouch screens connected by a hinge. The interface is designed to detect finger gestures as [...]

NASA is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification.

NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the moon collected during national and international space missions.