Somehow, the last thing we expected to see Formula 1 champ Sebastian Vettel endorsing is a crossover utility vehicle. But that’s exactly what Infiniti will roll out next month at the Frankfurt auto show when Vettel unveils the FX50 concept car he helped design. The 390-horsepower CUV is slathered in matte white paint. Other tidbits include [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/08/sebastian-vettel-crosses-over/ Tyra Banks

Google, in an interesting but not entirely unexpected twist, will not be open-sourcing Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the foreseeable future. Historically, Android is usually open-sourced via the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days or weeks after the code is finalized. While this departure from the norm won’t affect OEMs like HTC and Motorola that have access to internal builds of Android, small-time developers will likely have to wait months before rolling their own [...]

As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/a-google-a-day-puzzle-for-wednesday-august-31st/ Rachael Leigh Cook

Google, according to reports from “a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem” is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system. As it currently stands, Google hands over the ‘final’ code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to fit their hardware, and to create a unique and marketable flavor. That’s all set to change, however. Over the last [...]

For what seems like an eternity, Download Squad readers have reacted to news of security exploits targeting Adobe Reader with a common sentiment: why doesn’t Microsoft build its own secure PDF reader into Windows? Apparently the Windows 8 team agrees, and they’re working away at an application called Modern Reader which is exactly that. From the handful of screenshots Paul Thurrott has shared, it’s clear that Modern Reader has been built with Metro in mind. [...]

This one’s for the sysadmins in the audience: Altaro, makers of our favorite “time machine for Windows” back solution, OopsBackup, have just announced a new product entering beta called Hyper-V Backup. It’s a backup solution for virtual machines running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution. If that sentence just seemed like a bunch of buzzwords crammed together, Hyper-V backup is not for you. But, if you actually use Hyper-V and are hankering for a good backup [...]

In a way, Steve Jobs might have saved the best “One Last Thing” for last: The legendary and now former Apple CEO has left his company in fine hands and on a path of prospects as great as his final years at the helm have provided. There is no question that the Man of the Hour [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/world-without-steve-jobs/ Shiri Appleby