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The North American premiere of American: The Bill Hicks Story delivers a biting dose of the late, great stand-up's routines. But that's just the tip of the iceberg: Fans who've memorized every word will dig the documentary's inventive animation sequences.  
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Promising a mix of revenue and flexibility, the startup will offer independent filmmakers a direct route to movie fans.  
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Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times reports.  
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Funny, fresh and amazingly violent, Matthew Vaughn's big-screen adaption of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s superhero story leaves a packed house laughing at South by Southwest.  
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With trailers, film excerpts and concept art, producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal show off their fierce reboot of the sci-fi franchise at South by Southwest. Here's what the lucky folks at the packed screening saw.  
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A slew of new tablets are set to hit the market but they won't kill e-readers. Tablets and E Ink-based reading devices are likely to co-exist, targeting different groups of consumers.  
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What if you could reliably diagnose autism at age 14 months? Findings in a new study could lead to better outcomes for autistic kids because of early intervention.  
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An FBI report says the amount of reported damages stemming from online fraud has more than doubled to $560 million. And the No. 1 consumer online complaint concerned e-mail scammers posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  
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The MP4-25 offers an innovative solution to the age-old problem of maximizing downforce in the curves and minimizing drag on the straights.  
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Large earthquakes can shorten pregnant women's gestation period by small but significant amounts, a new study finds.  
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Twice the screen but half the quality, the Entourage eDGe is a lofty e-reader that falls short in nearly every area.  
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A new form of motor sport needs a new form of governance, one where the teams have a say in making the rules, settling the disputes and share in the profits.  
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To settle a privacy lawsuit, Netflix is canceling a second round of its innovative contest to improve its movie recommendations. The lawsuit claims the anonymized user data given to outside researchers put users at risk of being identified.  
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Chances are, if you have a newer mobile phone, it's a television screen in your pocket. These tiny smartphones are truly smart, and the latest mobiles are connected to the internet and sport a sharp small screen.  
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A NASA satellite captured a small comet on its way to meet the sun. Things will not turn out well for the comet.  
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A Chinese internet official refuses to blink in the 2-month-old censorship flap with Google. He said "consequences" would be felt if Google stops filtering search results in China.  
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The anomalously long lull in solar flares and sunspots during 2008 and 2009 may have been caused by a drop in gas flows at the sun's surface, related weak magnetic fields. The finding may point to a way to better predict solar activity.  
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The "executive drinkist" who concocts adult beverages at this new Austin, Texas, hot spot mixes boutique liquors with vintage inspiration. The first in a series of libation-fueled reports from South by Southwest.  
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Slacker, the critically praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in '07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in the next few months, Wired.com has learned.  
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Apple published two new details about the iPad's support for e-books Friday, including the fact that the iPad will be able to dictate books using a built-in text-to-speech feature. The company also announced support for open EPUB books, including those not sold through Apple's store.  
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Efforts to save the endangered Virginia big-eared bat from White Nose Syndrome by starting a captive colony appear to be failing.  
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Cliqset has produced this nifty web app that aggregates status updates and check-ins sent from people in and around Austin to all of the different major location-sharing services â Gowalla, Foursquare, Twitter, Brightkite and of course Cliqset.  
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Now that Apple has fulfilled its goal of achieving quantity in its App Store, the company is making a hard push for quality. But where do you draw the line between raising quality standards and censorship?  
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The firebrand stand-up comic's story is told in this documentary, which makes its North American premiere at South by Southwest this week. Get a taste of Hicks' brutally funny take on drugs, religion and modern life in this trailer for the movie.  
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Before J.F. Daniell develops a much improved battery, the devices were impractical and downright dangerous. His innovations enable the telegraph and other technology to take off.  
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Shortly after the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the new organization sent 100 photographers out to document the human and natural environments. After a lively few years, the Documerica project was canceled and the photos were archived. Now, this incredible portrait of America in the mid-1970s is making its way onto Flickr.  
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Out with the CD, in with USB drives, maybe in the form of a cassette tape or spork?  
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With a 45,000-foot cruising altitude, the world's biggest airborne telescope will begin collecting data this spring.  
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With 3-D making a comeback, it's time to dig into Hollywood's history and excavate other cinematic technology that was groundbreaking for its time.  
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Minnesota seeks to distinguish itself in the increasingly reality TV-esque race to convince Google to build a high-speed fiber optic network there with a video featuring junior US Senator (and former comedian) Al Franken. It's funny stuff, but also serious business as Google shakes up the notoriously uncompetitive ISP business just by showing up.  
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