Microsoft buys Nokia, Goat Petting Simulator and Saturn storms

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T E C H N O L O G Y Microsoft to buy Nokia's phone business for £4.6 billion in cash In a move that will surprise few, Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business, along with a warchest of related patents » G A M I N G Goat Petting Simulator: the 'most extreme goat petting sim out there' In a world stuffed with first person shooters and emotional narrative experiences, goat petting simulators are, perhaps, one of the most underrepresented of all the gaming propositions » T E C H N O L O G Y Brazilian government plans national 'anti-snooping' email system The Brazilian government is planning to develop a national email system that is protected from the sort of espionage that the US National Security Agency carries out » S C I E N C E Massive storm churned up water from Saturn's depths, finds Nasa's Cassini Nasa's space probe Cassini has detected for the first time the presence of water ice in Saturn's atmosphere, thanks to a massive 2010/11 storm on the planet » S C I E N C E Transparent gel speaker plays music, paves way for biocompatible 'soft machines' Material scientists at Harvard University have developed a translucent speaker made out of a thin sheet of rubber squished between two membranes of saltwater gel » T E C H N O L O G Y So long, Key Lime Pie! Google announces Android 4.4 KitKat Commentators have been referring to the next version of Android as Key Lime Pie for well over a year now, but in a surprise move, Google has announced that it will be calling the latest version of its operating system Android 4.4 KitKat in a tie-in with Nestle » Promotion Read Wired magazine online You can read the full selection of content from the September 2013 issue on our site, as well as explore the archive of older issuesbr> Click here W I R E D   B L O G Check out WIRED 2013's speaker list in detail For WIRED 2013 we are gathering pioneering thinkers from across the world, all of whom are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in their fields Listen » T E C H N O L O G Y Look! It's Sony's £1,300 head-mounted T3 cinema being worn on a human face You're looking at a man wearing Sony's new head-mounted cinema screen, the HMZ-T3 Listen »

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