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Today’s idea: Detroit’s “massive failure” makes possible a radical transformation of the blighted city, an article says, including shrinking it down to its urban core and turning much of the place…

The unemployment rate reached 10 percent for the first time in 27 years on Friday.

By now we can probably all agree that the iPhone is the Model T, the Sputnik, the Lawrence Taylor of the mobile technology realm. We are still waiting for the offenses to adapt, the competition to…

Voters in 2004 approved a $4.7 billion, 122-mile rail project; costs are now expected to be $7 billion. Most of the lines are still on the drawing board.

Last week, I reviewed not one, but three new phones. You’d think that would be enough for a while, but fall is peak season for new mobile devices, and another major release — Motorola’s Droid — is…

Twitter is “smart enough, or lucky enough” to let its users create new features for it, says an M.I.T. professor.

STOCKHOLM — Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product.”

Sara Marshall peers into a drop-off point for recycling in Nantucket. The town is a leader in “zero waste.”More Photos >

Wired takes a look at the company behind the messaging service