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Elon Musk puts Tesla in the black, cities rein in scooters, and a car engineer spends a lot of time throwing up.

Game designer Rob Daviau turned a popular horror-themed board game into a spine-chilling saga.

A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough.

Keep your data private and the environment protected.

Compromised crypto, flawed SSDs, and more of the week's top security news.

It was a sensation when it was first spotted in 1744, but now we know much more about the effects of solar wind on comet dust.

More realistic films could raise awareness about real-world threats.

Planning your winter ski vacations? Now is a great time to pick up all the snow gear you need.

Flexible displays aren't just gimmicks. They’re glimpses of the next great mobile frontier.

Black Twitter has grown into a vibrant digital community shaping political and cultural discourse. Does that place exist for Latinxs?

Jaguar Land Rover is investigating how to detect and curtain motion sickness, and that meant emptying an engineer's stomach a few times.

Lots of wind along with very dry vegetation turned the Northern California wildfire into a high-speed menace that tore through Paradise and Butte County.

Here's how smoke travels to your lungs and enters your bloodstream—and how you can protect yourself.

The British thrill-seeked endured more than a few crashes—and broke some concrete—on the way to designing the jetpack suit he's now using to launch a racing league.

The director of Mother! and Black Swan talks about the new VR series, Spheres, which he produced.

In an expansive on-the-record interview with WIRED, the principal deputy director of national intelligence made her pitch for public-private partnerships.

Louis De Belle photographed 32 gimmicks for his new book *Disappearing Objects*.

We can use video analysis to test whether an escape pod carrying R2-D2 and C-3PO in the first Star Wars movie was modeled using a KFC bucket, as one theory claims.

Most over-ear workout headphones are preposterous. But not these.

The fourth quarter of the calendar is always a doozy—but we've sifted through the best new releases to stock your shelf (or e-reader) with.

Nor did Nintendo's racist-imagery snafu or Square Enix's 'Final Fantasy' expansion plans. Plenty of wrong to go around!

Angry about climate change, activists shut down an oil pipeline in Minnesota—and then tried to convince a jury that their illegal actions were necessary.

An MIT professor argues that misinformation boils down to one simple thing: mental laziness, exacerbated by social media.

Organizers of last week's walkout say ending mandatory arbitration for individual harassment claims still thwarts collective action, among other concerns.

The former head of New York, London, and Hong Kong transit signs on with the hyperloop company.

Plus: 'Swamp Thing' casting details, the 'Missing Link' trailer, and more.

A video distributed by Sarah Sanders to justify revoking the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta was altered in ways that made it misleading.

A novel system monitors the dynamics of colonies exposed to imidacloprid, a neurotoxin that belongs to the infamous neonicotinoid group of pesticides.

It's all about perception.

Facebook starts publicly testing its dating service with users in Colombia today.

Centuries-old ideas about force and motion have an intuitive appeal that is enduring but oh-so-incorrect, as these simple experiments show.

Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September.

Microsoft’s ultralight PC is back with faster processing and longer, 10-hour battery life.

Autonomous vehicles use several technologies to create their maps of the world, and (hopefully) not run over humans.

This Thanksgiving season, the Butterball hotline adds Amazon Alexa to its turkey toolkit, among other new features.

One in five American farmers has some sort of disability, and they rely on a cornucopia of tools from services like AgrAbility and Breaking New Ground to keep putting food on everyone's table.

“Hopefully we will no longer see the science committee used as a messaging tool for the fossil fuel industry,” says Rep. Bill Foster, a science committee member.

A series of successful ballot initiatives should create more districts where voters get to choose their representatives—not the other way around.

Proposition C, which will raise an additional $300 million a year for homeless services, was approved with roughly 60 percent of the vote.

In the face of big lines, bad weather, and extra-long ballots, perseverance is key.

The plane builder wants pilots to brush up on what to do if a faulty sensor sends a 737 MAX into a dive.

In 2018, we should worry less about bot-nets and more about the oldest political tricks: misdirection, misinformation, and outright voter suppression.

The next Congress could have majorities in both houses that support net neutrality, but the outlook for legislation is bleak.

At a developer event today, Samsung showed off a smartphone with a folding screen that points to a possible future for mobile computing.

Washington voters will likely shoot down a ballot initiative that would tax carbon emissions, but carbon pricing is still likely to reach the US.

Major environmental ballot measures passed in Florida and Nevada, but not in Washington and Arizona.

A win for marijuana in Michigan, Utah, and Missouri may foreshadow a win for cannabis nationwide.

The tech industry faces a notably less cozy environment in the Senate after election night, but the biggest changes could come under a Democratic House.

Forget haggis, whisky, and 'Braveheart.' This photo gallery shows the real Scotland—a country in eco-transition.

The new device has a sleeker design, more storage, an updated processor—and now it’s waterproof.