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Newsweek gives Julian Assange's "mansion arrest" the Martha Stewart treatment.

On the brink of 2011, peering out through circles within circles, reckoning changes to come.

Is the design world's embrace of domestic iconicity a harbinger of the coming Singularity?

Cassini's composite picture of the gas giant drives home what a vast, strange, and compelling world it is.

Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

Obsolescing 2G networks furnish security loopholes in mobile networks, which malicious hackers may find easy to exploit.

A pinkie bone found in Russia offers a key to our complicated common heritage.

A film promoting the European linen industry offers a rapturous look at machinery spinning straw into gold. Video after the jump.

In place of the brave new world of design fiction, artists like Olafur Eliasson invite us to enter the instant Utopia of our own imaginations.

An intriguing concept device called "Thimble" would serve as an interface, text scanner, and Braille e-book reader for the blind. But the crucial technology, a refreshable, haptic Braille display, remains elusive.