You might not necessarily have heard of Bliss n Eso, but they're one of the titans of the vibrant Australian scene, dubbed "Skip hop" in a . The trio (Bliss, Eso and DJ Izm) the music video for their latest single, "Addicted", which is embedded above. There's a little bit of fruity language, so beware if you're somewhere that's sensitive to…

I have talked to a time traveller. Jon Silk looks just like you and I but he is from a strange, alien world we no longer truly understand. It is a world known as Britain 1998… alright, so that's a little ridiculous but so was the customer service that led Silk to begin his 1998 Project. The endeavour where he attempts to survive with just…

Almost half a million websites now use the Cyrillic domain name .рф, despite it only having been opened up for registration a week ago, on 11 November. It's the latest internationalised, country-code, top level domain name, and is already surging in popularity and climbing the rankings of most used domains. In December 2006, the , which…

The United Nations' first satellite, the $5 million UNESCOSat project, has a pretty clear goal: to if astronauts' faeces can be used as an effective fuel source in space. The orbiting craft will launch in 2011 with the aim of assisting in , promoting public awareness of science, and improving international co-operation. Teachers and students…

At times this can be the toughest job in . You have to fly to Monaco, hang out with some of the world's most inspiring , and then sit with the best of them on a stage as you try to channel their wisdom to a hall packed with influencers. And as for the formal dinners afterwards in baroque gold-leaf-decorated hotel ballrooms… Gruelling, honestly.…

In the episode three of the Wired.co.uk Podcast we abandon with reverb-tastic confines of our boardroom and embark on Operation: Take Over Easy Living's Storeroom -- a mission that resulted in us creating a proper studio (read: better sound quality than last time). Here's what we chatted about on the show. News Feature …

reminded the Valley Wednesday that Google wasn't the only company being stymied by Facebook's stranglehold on user identity. John Battelle publicly asked Williams if Facebook would ever import Twitter's firehose of data. Williams shot back, "You'll have to ask Mark that. You missed your opportunity," referring to Batelle's interview with…

Particle physicists at the CERN particle accelerator below the French-Swiss border at Geneva that they've successfully managed to create and trap atoms. A team has in creating antihydrogen and, using powerful magnetic fields, managed to trap it for about a tenth of a second before it met a hydrogen atom and was annihilated. That might not…

Nasa's WISE infrared space telescope is losing its refrigeration, but its backlog of data is still yielding cool images such this one of an odd, blobby, nebula. "I just happened to look up one of my favourite objects in our WISE catalogue and was shocked to see these odd rings," said , a member of the WISE science team at Nasa's Jet Propulsion…

Apple's found itself in market cold wars with many tech companies, most notably Microsoft, Adobe and Google. But things are really heating up with smartphone maker RIM. In the last 24 hours, RIM has attacked Apple's technical chops and software philosophy. First, posted a video comparing its forthcoming tablet's mobile browser to the iPad's.…

The government's culture minister, Ed Vaizey, has to say that he's happy for ISPs to go ahead with plans to create a two-tiered internet, abandoning . Network neutrality, or net neutrality for short, is a that states that if a given user pays for a certain level of internet access, and another user pays for the same level of access, then…

Dairy farming has by the Lely Astronaut A4, a cow-milking robot that aims to make the milking process as stress-free as possible. More importantly, the manufacturer claims that the can increase milk yield by between 10 and 15 percent. Robotic milking systems are not new. There are other pieces of machinery that automate the milking…

A Russian construction company called AB Elise to build a gigantic domed city in an abandoned diamond mine in Siberia, powered by the sun. The project is more of a concept than a reality so far, but the plans accomodation for 100,000 people over three main levels. The mine in question is the Mir mine in the in Eastern Siberia. You might…

This gargantuan, 80 gigapixel panorama of by photographer Jeffrey Martin has broken the world record as the largest 360-degree photo in existence. Just how big is it? Well, at 400,000 x 200,000 pixels, it would be about 35 meters long and 17 meters tall if printed out at 300 DPI. The mammoth image is about 6,000 times bigger than a holiday…

DIY creator Dr. West at the Afrotech forums a computer with little more than a and a pencil. Oh, and some crocodile clips, wires, a circuit board and an anti-static strap. And some maths, too. But still, it's an impressive feat for a sheet of printer paper coloured in with an old HB pencil. That's the important part -- functions as a handy…

In a moment of bizarre coincidence, two universities some 6,000 miles away from each other have both published research papers that claim to decode the secret behind a notoriously tricky birdsong. The bird with the complex singing voice in question is the Bengalese finch. Other , like zebra finches, have relatively simple songs: enthusiastic…

The annual Leonid is expected to peak today (17 November) and tomorrow, at around dawn GMT. The Leonids come every year in November, when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris trailing the comet . When the dust Tempel-Tuttle leaves behind smacks into Earth's atmosphere, the specks vaporize and blaze across the sky. It's hard to predict…

It's a rare movie that has no plot holes at all. Even movies nearly everyone likes, like Star Wars (I speak of Episode IV, in case that's unclear), are occasionally rife with them. Of course, for many geeks -- myself included -- part of the fun of seeing a movie is identifying and discussing its plot holes afterward. Here, then, are ten plot…

Nintendo's Wii game console may owe some of its extraordinary success to emotions that are triggered by specific movements: it might essentially be using your body to hack into your brain. A better understanding of which motions trigger which emotions might not only lead to better games, but could one day help improve the iPhone, iPad and…

From our Old Bond Street office in London, it's with nothing but pleasure I welcome you to the new-look Wired.co.uk! We've been working for the last few months to rethink and redesign how we bring you our daily news, features, photos and videos, and you're looking at the result. We hope you like it. But before you decide, let me point out…