Many a game designer has left messages etched permanently in the data of our games, buried deep within the code and not intended to be seen by us.

Caleb Cole loves used clothing. His mom used to take him to thrift shops and yard sales long before Brooklyn hipsters and Macklemore made it cool. Over the years he's come across some amazing vintage goods and always wondered about the original owners. Who were they? What did their lives look like?

You can think of it as an ATM for Bitcoins. For a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, the Robocoin machine dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world's most popular digital currency. The two brothers who built the thing -- Mark and John Russell, of Las Vegas -- are still trying to figure out what to do with this contraption. But one thing's certain: They don't want to operate it on their own. Mark Russell isn't even sure if it's legal.

By all rights, Star Trek Into Darkness should be a really good movie. The acting is superb. The core cast established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in 2009, and they've only gotten better. Unfortunately, Into Darkness is wrestling with way, way too much story for one movie.

Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.

The BMW Guggenheim Lab released today their full list of urban trends gleaned from almost six months' worth of workshops held in Mumbai, Berlin, and New York City.

The new Phorus speaker system provides multi-room wireless audio streaming over Wi-Fi. It uses the new Android-based Play-Fi lossless streaming protocol.

If the Pentagon's not careful, it's going to find its new network of spies rolled up by Congress.

If you're looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won't cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce's new Mobile Music Pump.

Apple's senate testimony on tax avoidance shows that tech companies are being held to a higher standard. They have only themselves to blame.

During today's unveiling of the new Xbox One, Microsoft announced that legendary director Steven Spielberg would be working on a new live-action Halo show.

San Francisco serves, in Star Trek?s fictional universe, as the site of Starfleet Command ? the headquarters of the good guys ? and despite all the time they spend boldly going where no one has gone before, the Enterprise and its sister ships make it back home surprisingly often.

Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards.

Jean Grey shows up in the middle of the night in the latest trailer for director James Mangold's The Wolverine.

Curiosity's adventures on Mars continue with another drilling operation: On May 20, the rover drilled into a rock named Cumberland, creating a hole measuring a bit more than half an inch across.

A group of Kansas City high school students and their mentors have electrified a Karmann Ghia, modifying it so that it will only run when it gets mentioned in social media. If that sounds like a publicity stunt, that's because it is. And it's for a good cause.

Starting this Friday, you can watch the conservation of historical Apollo Saturn V engines that were recovered from the bottom of the ocean. That is, if you live near or are planning to visit Hutchinson, Kansas.

Wired senior editor Peter Rubin spent a few days in Redmond, Washington getting the inside scoop on the new console, and we sat down to discuss all the news and what it means for you.

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Wired's exclusive look at Microsoft's next-gen console, Xbox One.