Here’s an idea: Maybe just tell me what makes the Olympics a superhuman challenge.

They're just two in what will be thousands of orbiting routers.

Why one Texas professor pays Turkers to post themselves doing Olympic events on YouTube.

How an idealistic entrepreneur turns wild experiences into viral videos into actual science into a going business concern.

The president's quote tweet of Facebook executive Rob Goldman misses how the Russians really influenced the election online.

At the newly expanded Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, controllers watch their planes through radar and video, not line-of-sight.

The timepiece displays the time by pulling its thermoelastic membrane into the cavities beneath the clock's face.

Its worldbuilding is expansive and its detective is hard-boiled—it's sci-fi noir turned up to 11.

The Opportunity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. But that doesn't mean it can't put Curiosity's social media skills to shame.

Legacy toymakers like Disney, Lego, and Hasbro are all banking on AR to keep their toys relevant in 2018.

The most chilling aspect of that blockbuster Mueller indictment? The bureaucracy behind Russia's onslaught.

The Department of Defense released two videos of so-called UFOs. Or did it?

In the wake of the Mueller indictment of a Russian troll farm, any attempt to claim that the 2016 election wasn’t affected by Russian meddling is laughable.

To troll effectively, Colonel Gant, you must think in Russian!

How students are fighting lies, half-truths, and hypocrisy in the wake of the Florida school shooting

Google released the former senior software engineer last August after he wrote a ten-page memo arguing that biological differences between men and women accounted for the gender disparity in software engineering.

A federal judge from New York ruled that embedding a tweet containing an image in a webpage could be considered copyright infringement.

A new Justice Department indictment alleges Russia's disinformation operations created bank and social media accounts using the stolen identities of real US citizens.

This week, our guest Nick Thompson talks about Facebook, fake news, Russian propaganda, politics, and journalism.

Robert Mueller's office has come out with a 37-page indictment that details the extraordinary lengths Russian agents went to influence the 2016 presidential election.

It takes a well orchestrated team to build the sport's most epic ramp.

In an excerpt from a new book on Snapchat, Billy Gallagher explains how Facebook fought back against a tiny rival's challenge.

'Detroit: Become Human' is a gripping, unsettling project, one that David Cage considers his most compelling.

Soon enough, burgers will grow not just in fields, but in vats. If the sound of that bothers you, know that you’re not alone.

Plus: Tesla Model 3 struggles, GM's car-sharing service expands, and a Corvette drives back from the dead.

WIRED columnist Felix Salmon on how a traffic tax on ride-sharing services would be more effective than congestion pricing.

Ryan Coogler's movie overflows with truth and fire, providing an urgent counter-history for film and mass media.

Google started blocking the web's worst ads in Chrome on Thursday. Here's what it means for you.

After its negligence on Russian election hacking, the Trump administration is taking Russia's global malware attack more seriously.

If you're in the market for excellent noise-cancelling headphones, grab these and don't look back.

If LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.

From SMS notifications to an egregious number of emails, the social media company's desperation has gone too far.

In the wake of Wednesday's Parkland, Florida school shooting Russian bots have taken to Twitter to stoke the gun control debate.

The "Protect" menu item in Facebook's mobile apps refers users to the company's Onavo Protect VPN, but the tool falls short of basic privacy standards.

You can measure the height of a drop with just a rock, a phone, and the gravitational force.

Founder of the X Prize is turning his attention to fighting the onset of old age, one stem cell at a time.

Augmented-reality workspaces will transform the way you do your job, and you won’t look weird doing it. At all.

Rivalry among established Chinese companies and US startups has intensified into a trash-talking land grab involving electric scooters and electric bikes.

For aircraft like Airbus' Vahana, the FAA's outdated rules pose a more serious threat than gravity.

Want a crash course on T'Challa before hitting the theater this weekend? Start here.

De Beers diamond company has a whole division to synthesize quantum-grade diamonds.

The latest budget proposal halves the federal government’s Amtrak commitment—including funding for a safer braking system.

Despite its Olympics diplomacy towards the South, the Kim regime is still engaged in brazen cybercrime targeting its neighbor.

Virtual exercise is more immersive, dynamic, and—mercifully—distracting than a traditional treadmill or stationary bike.

Mystro gives ride-share drivers more leverage and says it can increase drivers' earnings by 30 percent.

Kim Wall went for a ride on a submarine, hoping to write a story about a maker of "extreme machines." She never did. I needed to know what happened.

Quinn Norton was hired by the paper of record to write about “the power, culture and consequences of technology.” Then those consequences kicked in.

Can a computer spot deepfakes? The GIF website Gfycat says it can.

The Congressional Task Force on Election Security announced extensive recommendations for strengthening defense. But most of them won't happen any time soon.

The actor who plays Erik Killmonger in the new Marvel movie knows a lot of T'Challa trivia.