Parisa Tabriz and her team of security engineers are using the world's most popular browser to drag the web towards encryption. The post Google's Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security appeared first on WIRED.

A new method of colorizing electron microscope imagery will make it easier for microbiologists to spot elusive molecules. The post Electron Microscopes Can Finally See in Wonderful Color appeared first on WIRED.

But you still shouldn't in these 17 states where the act is illegal. The post Cops Probably Don't Have Time to Arrest You for Taking Ballot Selfies appeared first on WIRED.

This video is frustrating and annoying and very disappointing and DEAR LORD WE CAN'T STOP WATCHING SOMEBODY PLEASE SEND HELP. The post A Beautifully Agonizing Video of Unsatisfying Moments appeared first on WIRED.

Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like. The post See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves appeared first on WIRED.

Google Home and Amazon Echo's Alexa are both great, but which one's better if you need to know what a whale sounds like? Or if you want to buy canned peas? The post OK, Alexa: A Google Home Versus Amazon Echo IQ Test appeared first on WIRED.

You thought that 10th inning rain delay was unique? Somebody on Twitter called it back in 2014. The post This Apocalyptic Tweet Predicted the World Series 2 Years Ago appeared first on WIRED.

An emerging tracking technique uses inaudible sounds to communicate with apps on your phone and track you. Here's how to stop it. The post How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You appeared first on WIRED.

Gal Gadot's Diana Prince whips up some serious action in the new trailer for Wonder Woman's 2017 standalone movie. The post No More Waiting for Gadot: The New Wonder Woman Trailer Is Here! appeared first on WIRED.

Google is offering new tools for cleaning up one of the dirtiest places on the internet. The post You Watching, Twitter? YouTube Just Cleaned Up Comments appeared first on WIRED.

In a year of accusations and scandals, listeners have flocked to a medium that prides itself on authenticity and intimacy. The post Fed-Up, Freaked-Out Americans Find Comfort in Politics Podcasts appeared first on WIRED.

Home is where the heart is, or at least where the Google Assistant is. The post Review: Google Home appeared first on WIRED.

For scientists talking to submarines, robots, and other instruments, data travels at dial-up speeds of single bytes per minute---far slower than the megabits per second we use in the office or at home. The post The Ocean’s Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet appeared first on WIRED.

Government alliances make the sharing economy's implicit bias problem a much bigger deal. The post Uber's Discrimination Problem Is Bad News for Public Transit appeared first on WIRED.

Designing for the homeless---and learning from them The post Strikingly Imaginative Structures for Housing LA’s Homeless appeared first on WIRED.

The digital display rethinks and improves how the driver interacts with and sees the world around him. The post Cadillac’s All-Seeing Rearview Mirror Peers Into the Future of Cars appeared first on WIRED.

This time around, our little book club is diving into Kelly Sue DeConnick's 'Bitch Planet' and 'Sex Criminals' by her husband Matt Fraction. The post WIRED Book Club: Time for a Break. Time for Comics! appeared first on WIRED.

Pediatricians and early childhood educators say it's great to experiment with new reading formats. But Amazon Rapids still can't replace a good old paperback. The post The Amazon Rapids App Gets Kids Reading—But It Can’t Replace Books appeared first on WIRED.

AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to acquire media giant Time Warner spotlights a hole in American Internet policy: zero-rating. The post Big AT&T Deal Proves It’s Time to Stop ‘Zero-Rating’ appeared first on WIRED.

If successful, the Standing Rock protest could be a minor boon for the economics of weaning the world off oil. The post The Dismal Science of the Standing Rock Pipeline Protests appeared first on WIRED.

The filmmaker's second feature isn't just a genre festival darling—it's a rare look inside a nation many people simply aren't familiar with. The post Mattie Do, Laos' Sole Female Director, Scares Up Attention With Dearest Sister appeared first on WIRED.

The hacker-artistic creation is meant to illustrate the privacy flaws of the cellular signals we all depend on. The post This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection appeared first on WIRED.

On this week's WIRED Culture podcast, we're trying to figure out if too many fan theories are making TV shows less fun. The post Too Much Internet Speculation Is Ruining TV appeared first on WIRED.

Don't believe everything you read on Twitter. The post Ignore the Trolls: You Definitely Cannot Vote Via Text appeared first on WIRED.

The most interesting thing about Uber's dramatically redesigned app isn't the streamlined UI. It's a brand new feature called Uber Feed. The post A Radical Redesign Makes 'Uber Feed' the Center of Your Ride appeared first on WIRED.

A group of scientists are attaching transceivers to sharks in order to map how they interact while swimming through the sea. The post Two-Way Radios Reveal the Mysterious Social Lives of Sharks appeared first on WIRED.

Project Felix brings photorealistic 3-D rendering to the masses. The post Adobe’s Project Felix Uses AI to Help You Craft Hyper-Realistic 3-D Renderings appeared first on WIRED.

Voters in Washington state could approve the nation's first carbon tax next week, providing a much-sought victory to proponents of legislative climate action. The post The Unlikely Battle to Pass the Nation's First Carbon Tax appeared first on WIRED.

Rand wanted <em>A Designer's Art</em>, originally published in 1985, to be the book people remembered him by. The post Paul Rand’s Classic A Designer’s Art Is Finally Back in Print appeared first on WIRED.

CenturyLink, a major telecom. is acquiring the Internet backbone company Level 3. It's a deal that shows just how much the telecom world is changing. The post The World's Telecoms Are Under Threat From All Sides appeared first on WIRED.

How else do you fit advanced software into planes built around cables and pulleys? The post Inside Darpa's Plan to Make Old Aircraft Autonomous With Robot Arms appeared first on WIRED.

Need a reprieve from this year's brutal, bizarro election? These great behind-the-scenes accounts will remind you that campaigning has always been painful. The post 7 Streaming Political Docs To Make You Feel a Tiny Bit Better About 2016 appeared first on WIRED.

Don't ask permission. Just sneak in. The post Wanna Feel Small? Step Into an Abandoned Cooling Tower appeared first on WIRED.

Missing MagSafe in the new MacBook Pro? Try this instead. The post Missing the MagSafe Charger in the New MacBook? Here's Your Dongle appeared first on WIRED.

Sustainability-minded architects prep for the future parking structures that could, one day, house humans. The post It's Time to Think About Living in Parking Garages appeared first on WIRED.

At San Quentin State Prison in California, a new project offers a chance for inmates to take part in the tech transformations they might have missed. The post Inside the Classroom Where San Quentin Inmates Learn to Code appeared first on WIRED.

Announced within a week of each other, the GoPro Karma and the DJI Mavic Pro are the season's hottest drones. The post Drone Off! GoPro Karma and DJI Mavic Pro Fly Head-to-Head appeared first on WIRED.

A new kind of Apple Watch band is turning your dumb band into a camera. The post This Camera Band for Apple Watch Is Legit. But Who Needs It? appeared first on WIRED.

A series of posters from the company's offices are currently up for auction. The post You Can Now Buy Facebook's Internal Propoganda Posters appeared first on WIRED.

The company is testing tags that let you learn more about products you see on its social network---and even buy them. The post Get Ready to Buy Stuff Straight Through Instagram appeared first on WIRED.

The league will broadcast one game every Tuesday through the NextVR app on Samsung Gear VR. We caught the first game last week in Sacramento. The post Go Behind the Scenes of the NBA's In-Your-Face VR Broadcast appeared first on WIRED.

Researchers have built a chain-smoking robot. And not because they want a real-life Bender. The post A Chain-Smoking Robot Isn't Just Hilarious—It's a Big Deal appeared first on WIRED.

The InstruMMent 01 looks like a pen and works like a tape measure. The post The Clever Pen on a Mission to Finally Kill the Tape Measure appeared first on WIRED.

Donald Trump stated that we could get 650 million immigrants into the US in just a week. Is this realistic? The post What It Would Take to Move 650 Million People into the US in One Week appeared first on WIRED.

The ability of Americans to anonymously advocate ideas they care about is under attack at the state and federal level. The post Anonymous Speech Is More Important Than Ever. TED Proves It appeared first on WIRED.

Go up, up, up through a (nearly) infinite pinball board that challenges you to up your skill-shot game. The post Fantastic PinOut! Puts an Infinite Spin on Pinball appeared first on WIRED.

Using technology to stop birds from flying into buildings The post How to Keep Buildings From Killing Hundreds of Millions of Birds a Year appeared first on WIRED.

Another month, another batch of classics, originals, and documentaries to mainline. The post The 9 Netflix Additions You Won't Want to Miss This Month appeared first on WIRED.

An interview with US Secretary of State John Kerry about how Silicon Valley and Washington can work together to solve the problems of the future. The post Hey Silicon Valley, John Kerry Wants You to Help Save the World appeared first on WIRED.

A 'Black Panther' spin-off and talking motorcycles? Sold. We've got five new titles to add to your sequential-art pile this month. The post Pull List: The 5 Comics You Absolutely Need to Read This Month appeared first on WIRED.