The “Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism” episode that airs Thursday night will take the comedy to geeky new heights, thanks to the inclusion of an anime sequence.

It’s not only economic inequality that’s increased in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. In the last 40 years, environmental inequality has increased, too.

Every time you buy a pirated DVD a gangster shoots his gun — or something evil like that, according to a new federal government ad campaign against counterfeit and pirated goods.

A vintage gas pump becomes a video-monitoring system, offering the human canvas a peek at what the tattoo artist is inking on their back. See this and other retro-futuristic creations, which are currently on display in the Mobilis in Mobili exhibition in New York.

Get ready for the next phase of the U.S.’ deadly drone war — this time, in miniature. A major defense company has successfully flown a mini-me drone loaded with a mini-me missile. The munition in question weighs only 12 pounds, meaning that the U.S. military’s fleet of small spy drones could soon become killers, like their big-boy cousin the Predator.

Last month Google’s Chrome web browser narrowly beat out Mozilla Firefox to take the number two spot worldwide behind the most used browser on the web: Internet Explorer. November also saw Chrome use surge ahead of Firefox for the first time among Wired.com readers.

An exceptional fossil reveals that frogmouths once lived in prehistoric North America, and that the big-mouthed birds haven?t changed all that much in 50 million years. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek reports.

The creators of the no-holds-barred animated TV show South Park are teaming up with developer Obsidian (Fallout: New Vegas) and publisher THQ to release a role-playing game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to Game Informer magazine.

A little over a month ago, the revolutionary Lytro light-field camera became available for pre-order. But a few lucky pro photographers have been using the Lytro and its “living picture” technology for the last few months, and now we can see their stunning results.

The Pentagon wants the world to know: When the American military stops spending billions per week in Afghanistan and eventually goes home, the Afghan economy is gonna be totally fine. After all, they’re sitting on trillions in mineral deposits, just waiting to be mined.