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Jul 20, 2018
Sacking the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' helmer was the worst outcome of a lose-lose situation.
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Jul 20, 2018
When the filmmaker made 'Unbreakable' in 2000, the studio told him to avoid mentioning comics. Those days are done.
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Jul 20, 2018
And other tidbits from a conversation with the director.
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Jul 20, 2018
One day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to clarify his position on Holocaust deniers, Facebook announced a new policy to take down misinformation that might lead to violence.
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Jul 20, 2018
Emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the social network has had plans to launch low Earth orbit satellites since at least 2016.
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Jul 20, 2018
Municipalities all over the US are taking oil companies to court for damages related to global warming. They're losing.
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Jul 20, 2018
This week, special guest Nitasha Tiku charts Juul's ever-changing relationship with its consumers, its investors, and those who oppose its product.
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Jul 20, 2018
Phishing attempts and DDoS attacks have begun hitting 2018 campaigns. The US seems ill-prepared to meet the challenge.
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Jul 20, 2018
The state's third-largest wildfire ever burned more than 100,000 acres and destroyed more than 200 homes.
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Jul 20, 2018
On Friday, John Collins—aka The Paper Airplane Guy—will attempt to break his own world record for paper airplane flight distance.
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Jul 20, 2018
On Friday, John Collins—aka The Paper Airplane Guy—had ten attempts to break his own world record for paper flight distance. He came up short.
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Jul 20, 2018
Apple's 2011 release of the emoji keyboard may have signaled the start of the spike, but it feels like emoji have been with us forever.
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Jul 20, 2018
This week, we've got some big growth for some big games, alongside a very late bug fix and an excellent Nintendo Switch port.
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Jul 20, 2018
These are the work bags that we absolutely adore.
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Jul 20, 2018
Are science and commerce the only legitimate pursuits off-planet—and who gets to decide?
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Jul 20, 2018
Did you miss the excellent deals this week? Don't worry. We got you.
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Jul 20, 2018
Look beyond the Twitter antics and the up-and-down stock price, and you'll find a growing mass of happy customers.
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Jul 20, 2018
Researchers analyzing the pattern of tweets say 20 or more real Americans may have been erroneously included on a list given to Congress, and later publicized.
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Jul 20, 2018
NASA's ban on scientific contacts doesn't apply to all academics.
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Jul 20, 2018
The secretive startup has released a video showing its car facing down some of San Francisco's gnarliest thoroughfares and San Franciscans' most befuddling behaviors.
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Jul 20, 2018
With employees critiquing executives in the press, Dara Khosrowshahi must now decide whether to repeat history, or forge a new company culture based on trust.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jodie Whittaker, who plays the show's new (and thirteenth!) Doctor, met her fans at the show's Comic-Con panel today.
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Jul 19, 2018
The actor hardly ever wears shoes—a fact his co-stars were all too happy to discuss.
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Jul 19, 2018
The internet is an essential tool for democracy in the modern era. And that's why the government wanted to tax it in Uganda.
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Jul 19, 2018
The closed group was taken over by abusive trolls, raising questions about Facebook's ability to monitor spaces designed for sharing intimate information.
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Jul 19, 2018
Some look back at the '80s and recall Ronald Reagan, glam metal and The Breakfast Club — a time of weird hair, ridiculous fashions and a thaw in the Cold War. See also: Your Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks, From Metropolis Through the '50s Best Sci-Fi Flicks of the '60s, '70s, According to You When prodded, Wired.com \[…\]
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Jul 19, 2018
WATERFORD, Michigan — Not everybody wants a shiny new guitar these days. A few connoisseurs want one that looks like it's taken more abuse than Keith Richards. Nailing the look and feel of a vintage guitar takes time. Guys like Vince Cunetto and Bill Nash, both known for their high-end "aged to perfection" instruments, make \[…\]
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Jul 19, 2018
iFixit performs surgery on Apple's new silicone-padded keyboard.
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Jul 19, 2018
'Kingdom Hearts Union ?' hit mobile a couple of years ago—and is the perfect appetizer for the long-awaited console title.
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Jul 19, 2018
The next generation of Corning's Gorilla Glass can withstand repeated drops—and is built for the future of smartphones.
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Jul 19, 2018
RAICES, which received more than $20 million in donations through a viral Facebook campaign, wanted Salesforce to drop its contract with a US border agency.
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Jul 19, 2018
Ernesto Benavides hangs out of helicopters to document the devastation inside Peru's Tambopata National Reserve.
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Jul 19, 2018
Humans are going to live on the moon eventually. So how are we going to *move around* there?
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Jul 19, 2018
On Friday, John Collins—aka The Paper Airplane Guy—will attempt to break his own world record for paper airplane flight distance.
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Jul 19, 2018
Sending a robot into the icy depths and getting it back alive can be more challenging than communicating with a Mars rover millions of miles away.
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Jul 19, 2018
No one seems to have listened to the Theranos founder in her own words. Until now.
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Jul 19, 2018
No one seems to have listened to the Theranos founder in her own words. Until now.
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Jul 19, 2018
Aviation companies like Sikorsky are working on self-flying helicopters, a technical ordeal that makes robo-planes look easy.
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Jul 19, 2018
It's a parent's job to think her child is exceptional.
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Jul 19, 2018
The former Google X project is now its own Alphabet company, and just signed its first commercial agreement with Telkom Kenya.
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Jul 19, 2018
The former Google X project is now its own Alphabet company, and just signed its first commercial agreement with Telkom Kenya.
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Jul 18, 2018
Trump has denied or downplayed Russia's attempts to influence US democracy three times this week—and that has very real consequences.
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Jul 18, 2018
New York City's latest bill is part of a long campaign pitting hoteliers against the home-sharing site. But success in New York is crucial—regardless of the consequences and costs.
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Jul 18, 2018
Artists and entrepreneurs aren't responsible for the actions of their followers—and in some of these cases, that's a good thing.
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Jul 18, 2018
Amid frequent customer data exposures, Amazon Web Services is pushing to spot errors and promote access control.
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Jul 18, 2018
The European Commission ruled that Google had unfairly used its Android operating system to harm competitors and consumers.
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Jul 18, 2018
Just like groups of birds or insects, these drones organize themselves into cohesive groups—a so-called "emergent" property of their individual actions.
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Jul 18, 2018
Amazon's Prime Day is over, but rivals like Walmart are still holding huge sales on Fitbit, Beats headphones, video games, and more.
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Jul 18, 2018
Amazon Prime Day 2018 has ended, but there are still some great deals going. We've collected the best post-Prime Day deals, including some from Bose and Fitbit.
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Jul 18, 2018
Reddit wants to bring its communities closer together. Its solution: throwing it back to real-time chatrooms.
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Jul 18, 2018
In just 15 years, roughly 4,000 miles of fiber-optic cables in US coastal cities could go underwater.
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Jul 18, 2018
French artist Guillaume Hebert creates hybrid images that blur the differences between media.
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Jul 18, 2018
Jeff Bezos may be the richest man of the modern age, but he built his e-commerce empire by playing freely with new ideas—not disrupting swaths of industries
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Jul 18, 2018
Crypto-developers—ironically, a community devoted to eliminating centralized authority—could use more traditional vetting structures.
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Jul 18, 2018
Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright's research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he's taking on the the world's biggest platforms before it's too late.
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Jul 18, 2018
Horror sequels, a Momoa-shaped tsunami, and the Spider-Man we've all been waiting for—SDCC may be light this year, but there's plenty to look forward to.
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Jul 17, 2018
Decades ago, Section 230 gave tech companies sweeping power to police content on their platforms. Now some lawmakers want that power back.
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Jul 17, 2018
On the coast of Greenland, cliffs of ice routinely shed chunks into the water, generating dramatic waves that tourist boats travel to see.
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Jul 17, 2018
It's retreated, but the risk of what happens with a grounded iceberg is almost luck of the draw.
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Jul 17, 2018
Already own an Echo Dot and an Instant Pot? We have a few fascinatingly strange Amazon Prime Deals for you.
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Jul 17, 2018
Colorado's Mike Coffman signs a petition to force a vote on a measure to restore the Obama-era rules. Backers still need about 40 more members to sign on.
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Jul 17, 2018
Truthbrary.org is the website of Dr. Billy W. Ruddick, a character Cohen plays in Who Is America?, but the conspiracy theories it aggregates are taken from across the web.
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Jul 17, 2018
Eleven of them behave a lot like Jupiter's other moons, but the twelfth one is weird (in a good way).
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Jul 17, 2018
Some fantastic gear for gamers is on sale for Amazon Prime Day, including consoles, headsets, PCs, accessories, and games.
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Jul 17, 2018
The automaker's ReachNow car-sharing service now lets users book rides with pro drivers, putting it in competition with and Uber Black and Lyft Lux.
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Jul 17, 2018
The comics industry, and its fans, are no longer the underdogs.
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Jul 17, 2018
A good remix can provide a thrilling encounter with an already fantastic game—and that's what Sega's latest accomplishes with a new gameplay mode.
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Jul 17, 2018
Amazon may have Prime Day, but rivals like Google and Walmart are holding huge sales, too.
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Jul 17, 2018
You may not have heard of Safe Browsing, but it's made the web more secure for over a decade. Here's its story, from the people who built it.
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Jul 17, 2018
It took thousands of years for humans to breed a pea-sized fruit into a beautiful beefsteak tomato. Now, with gene editing, scientists can change everything.
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Jul 17, 2018
A new facial recognition tool by RealNetworks aims to keep kids safe in school. But privacy experts fear the unchecked surveillance of kids could go awry.
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Jul 17, 2018
Inrix's 'Road Rules' platform lets cities compile details about things like stop signs and school zones in a computer-friendly format that any self-driving developer can fold into its software.
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Jul 16, 2018
FCC Chair Ajit Pai, long seen as supporting the deal, suggests sending it to a judge-often a graveyard for merger proposals.
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Jul 16, 2018
Workers in Europe, upset by talk of cuts in pay and benefits, plan walkouts during one of the retailer's biggest promotions.
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Jul 16, 2018
Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio both cast President Trump's appearance in Helsinki as a major setback in the fight against Russian interference in elections around the world.
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Jul 16, 2018
Pull your shattered life back together with our favorite home and outdoor deals this Prime Day.
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Jul 16, 2018
Prime Day is finally here! We have the deals you're looking for.
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Jul 16, 2018
By refusing to acknowledge Russia's role in election interference, Trump has given it the green light to continue.
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Jul 16, 2018
Fire HD Tablets, Fire TVs, Kindles, Cloud Cams, Echo speakers, and more are as cheap as they'll get for Prime Day.
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Jul 16, 2018
The actor has reportedly signed on to join J.J. Abrams' next 'Star Wars' movie.
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Jul 16, 2018
Roku's new $199 wireless speakers are matched with an optional wireless button you place in another room and use as a voice remote.
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Jul 16, 2018
You can make a physics model that teaches you tons about running.
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Jul 16, 2018
Extreme heat already kills more than a hundred New Yorkers yearly. It's on track to kill thousands by 2080.
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Jul 16, 2018
Transmitting data makes steady, low returns. But the telecom giants want a grander life: in high-risk, high-reward, high-margins media.
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Jul 16, 2018
Cops in LA, NYC, and beyond are using software from Elucd to figure out how the sentiments of the people they protect.
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Jul 16, 2018
Maker of e-cigarettes is trying to convince regulators that it wants to push away the teens that made it famous, just as its trying to raise billions.
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Jul 16, 2018
You don't typically find philosophical bickering at an FDA public meeting. But then again, lab-grown meat is no ordinary topic.
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Jul 16, 2018
The special counsel has collected a mountain of evidence in the Trump-Russia investigation, but so far only a tiny amount of it has been revealed in official indictments. Here are nine areas where we should expect answers as the inquiry unfolds.
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Jul 15, 2018
President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court got a lot of gums flapping on the internet last week.
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Jul 15, 2018
Leila Jeffreys photographed majestically colorful members of the Columbidae family in Australia.
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Jul 15, 2018
Plus: a look inside Alphabet's moonshot factory, Pininfarina's electric hypercar, the angst of the Automated Vehicles Symposium., and more.
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Jul 15, 2018
Engineers at the Google sister company Wing spent more than a few hours searching for just the right mechanism that would let their drones safely deliver packages.
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Jul 15, 2018
Brave long lines and massive crowds like a superhero with these essential items.
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Jul 14, 2018
The new horror movie is very frightening—but not entirely because of its occult twist.
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Jul 14, 2018
Drone plans for sale, a Silk Road arrest, and more security news this week.
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Jul 14, 2018
Beautiful evidence of our red neighbor's watery past and current annual changes.
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Jul 14, 2018
The famed Italian design house hopes to win over customers with the PF0, a battery-powered ride that hits 60 mph in under two seconds and offers 310 miles of range.
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Jul 14, 2018
Evidence mounts that organisms without nervous systems can in some sense learn and solve problems, but researchers disagree about whether this is "primitive cognition."
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Jul 14, 2018
Amazon's big Prime Day sale is almost here, and we'll help you get something out of the madness.
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Jul 14, 2018
This small, bashful botvac that will win over your heart, if not your wallet.
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