In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility.

While on the run, Evan Ratliff snapped a self-portrait each day to document his constantly evolving appearance.

After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Why were they drawn to the hunt, what did they do and what did they learn?

With a week remaining in the hunt for Evan Ratliff, Wired decided to up the stakes with of five challenges hidden in New York Times crossword puzzles.

The web is watching you, and it’s doing it using browser cookies — small snippets of tracking code. Do away with them to be free of watchers, and annoy the heck out of Big Brother too.

YouTube has begun enforcing a 16-month-old change in its terms of service that requires device manufacturers to become "strategy partners" in order to display YouTube videos on televisions.

Prosecutors have dropped any plans to appeal the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy criminal case.

A new 2-million-square-foot terminal at an Istanbul airport is the largest building in the world to sit on high-tech seismic isolators designed to help the building survive earthquakes intact.

Dan Glickman, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, is complaining to Congress that those who don't support a proposed international intellectual-property treaty are "hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide."

Action takes a back seat to moping in this Twilight sequel, a throwaway teen flick that gives vampire movies a bad name. Aside from the brooding bloodsuckers, New Moon also delivers a lousy message to fangirls swooning over the supernatural love story.

Packaged in a brushed and polished metal casing, the Olympus E-P1 camera screams both brawn and retro chic. Overlook the lo-res LCD and instead appreciate this cam's top-notch stabilization abilities and tidy images.

Google has some ambitious goals with its open source PC operating system Chrome OS. But we're not convinced consumers will be thrilled with the way the browser-based OS is being presented, so we make a modest proposal.

Anyone with a camera phone and poor impulse control can be a YouTube star for 15 seconds. But what does it take to make a feature film that will get noticed by Hollywood?

Digital music students create a crowdsourced album within the 140-character confines of Twitter by writing short strings of code that can be translated into songs.

Malaria has begun showing troubling signs of developing resistance to artemisinin, which is currently the best available treatment for the disease.

You need a tough truck to take on Dakar. VW delivers.

A trove of e-mails stolen from a leading climate-research group in Britain has sparked an online debate over global warming data. Bloggers claim the e-mails reveal that scientists colluded and manipulated data to support global warming theories.

Using DNA barcoding, scientists tested tuna at 31 sushi restaurants and discovered many of the restaurants were selling endangered species, or fish that wasn't tuna at all.

Nothing has done a better job of circumventing censorship, spreading democratic thought and promoting understanding between nations than the internet. Join Wired's global campaign to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to our beloved series of tubes.

Using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, astronomers have peered through the thick dust of the Centaurus A galaxy to reveal the leftovers of another galaxy it consumed.

While you are giving thanks for the important things in your life next Thursday, mull these 10 geeky things for which we all have reason to be grateful.

Making footage shareable and searchable online has sparked a revolution in the cute animal, stupid human and delicious tamale communities. New software just might mean a similar upgrade for military video intelligence: Think of it as a real-time YouTube with heavy artillery.

The founding of the SETI Institute helps solidify the search for intelligent life in the universe.

In Ray Bradbury’s book, The Illustrated Man, the title character is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story. New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course).

Watch video of six of the most spectacular and costly rocket explosions in history.

Microsoft is touting advances due in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, answering the challenge of Firefox and Chrome. Sadly, IE9 doesn't look very competitive.

Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Not when that imitation takes horrific video with terrible sound. Meet the Memorex Mini camcorder, a pale and warped copy of the Flip Mino.

Whatever happened to that indie film revolution the new generation of DSLRs was supposed to start? Turns out even cheap filmmaking isn't as easy as it looks.

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. As one of the culprits said last year, "This is going to be really bad."

Scientists studied a fungus that lived in the dung of mammoths and other large mammals to try to determine what caused them to go extinct 13,000 years ago.