QuickTime on Windows has two big vulnerabilities that Apple's never gonna patch. The post Got QuickTime on Windows? Uninstall It Right Now appeared first on WIRED.

How to do the unthinkable: fast-track an infrastructure project in your city. The post Want a Bike-Friendly City? Get Ready to Fail Until It Works appeared first on WIRED.

After a globe-trotting roadshow, the Kaleidscope VR Film Festival has handed out its prizes—and the future of VR storytelling is bright indeed. The post Award-Winning VR Films Hint at How Far the Medium Will Go appeared first on WIRED.

Carlo Ratti, founder of MIT’s forward-thinking Senseable City Lab, designed a couch. Lift-Bit is billed as “The world’s first digitally-transformable sofa.” The post Wild Shape-Shifting Sofa Can Be Whatever You Want It to Be appeared first on WIRED.

Most people don't think of surfing when they think of NYC. But there's a horde of surfers who endure just about anything to catch a wave. The post The New Yorker Surfers Who Shred No Matter How Gnarly It Is appeared first on WIRED.

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 is back in action after a nine-month break for technical repairs. The post After a Long Delay, Solar Impulse 2 Is Ready to Finish Its Round-the-World Flight appeared first on WIRED.

For certain AI projects, videogames are emerging as a missing link in AI development to help transition AI learning from digital spaces to the real world. The post Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge (No, Seriously) appeared first on WIRED.

Android phones are finally getting emoji that look like people. Imagine that! The post The Great iOS-Android Emoji Divide Narrows Ever So Slightly 👀 appeared first on WIRED.

The four-piece Samsung HW-K950 system brings a Dolby Atmos theater into your living room. The post Samsung's New Soundbar Makes Explosions (And Rain) Rain Down From Above appeared first on WIRED.

Amazing image quality coupled with a small and lightweight design make the X70 an excellent travel and street-photography camera. The post Review: FujiFilm X70 appeared first on WIRED.

This week: Facebook Live, video streaming, bots, the Kindle Oasis, and lunch in the workplace. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Just Keep on Live-ing appeared first on WIRED.

If octopuses are smart enough to run away, should you be locking them up in the first place? The post What Would Inky Think: Is It OK to Cage an Octopus? appeared first on WIRED.

Follow along as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton debate before the New York primary on Tuesday. The post The NY Democratic Debate Liveblog: Bernie and Hillary Face Off appeared first on WIRED.

The goal of the Starshot program is to create small nanocraft to travel at very high speeds in order to reach another star. Why so small? The post How Breakthrough Starshot's Tiny Spacecraft Can Hack Physics to Go Interstellar appeared first on WIRED.

They were even able to identify a young woman who'd sought Google Maps directions to a Planned Parenthood clinic. The post Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google's Shortened URLs to Spy on People appeared first on WIRED.

As Facebook reminded us this week at its F8 developer conference, it's always liked free stuff. That's part of its plan to take over the world. The post 10 Things Facebook's Given Away to Take Over the World appeared first on WIRED.

Now that people are (mostly) over Batman and Superman, all eyes are once again being cast towards Marvel. Take it away, heroes! The post Cape Watch: Captain America Clips! Get Your Captain America Clips Here! appeared first on WIRED.

But they'd prefer to stay at Trump's place. Can you blame them? The post Sorry, Donald. Americans Would Rather Host Hillary on Airbnb appeared first on WIRED.

Photographer Marco Castelli takes the stuff of germophobes' nightmares and makes stunning art. The post Look at These Beautiful Planets JK They're Bacteria From Public Buses appeared first on WIRED.

Thanks to the smartphone-addicted consumer, GPS, apps, and the Internet, startups are reinventing a $638 billion industry. The post The Supermarket Must Die. App-Fueled Services Can Kill It appeared first on WIRED.

The pizza boxes look like dominos. Get it? The post Domino's New Pizza Delivery Boxes Are Weirdly Clever appeared first on WIRED.

New Balance is about to sell a shoe with a 3-D printed midsole for $400. The post New Balance's Prototype 3-D Printed Kicks Will Set You Back $400 appeared first on WIRED.

It's not just "Wizard of Oz" and "The Force Awakens," people. Check out these other four perfect match-ups, and we'll see you on the Pink side of the Floyd. The post It's Not Just The Force Awakens That Syncs With Dark Side of the Moon appeared first on WIRED.

This is my Live Case. There are many like it, but this one is mine. The post New Google Phone Cases Take Customization to the Next Level appeared first on WIRED.

It's a sensible new Android phone with some head-scratching flaws. The post 6 Things the HTC 10 Gets Right—And 4 It Gets Wrong appeared first on WIRED.

Google is giving beacon tech a much-needed security boost to make sure you're not tracked in the real world like you are online. The post Google May Have Found a Way to Make the Real-World Web Work appeared first on WIRED.

Crown-of-thorns starfish are the zombies of the sea. They won’t die even if you cut them in half. The post The Great Barrier Reef's Best Hope Is a Killer Robot appeared first on WIRED.

The simple, folding headrest creates an instant hammock to keep you from drooling on your neighbors. The post A Clever Headrest That Could Make Flying Actually Bearable appeared first on WIRED.

Gianluca Gimini has asked more than 500 people to draw a bicycle from memory. Most people can't. The post Some Can Draw Bikes From Memory. Some ... Definitely Can't appeared first on WIRED.

Fans—upset over a series of LGBTQ deaths on TV—have taken to social media to air their anger. And show-runners are listening. The post It's Harder to Kill Off Gay Characters When They're Trending appeared first on WIRED.

1500 teenagers gathered in LA last month to combat each other in the FIRST robot wars competition. The post Grief and Triumph at a Medieval Robot Battle for High Schoolers appeared first on WIRED.

The non-profit certificate authority Let's Encrypt is enabling a sea change toward HTTPS encryption online. The post A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working appeared first on WIRED.

Some scientists are looking for human DNA in mosquitoes to understand mosquito-borne disease. The post Blood in a Mosquito's Belly Could Reveal How Diseases Spread appeared first on WIRED.

First, Clay Bavor got his co-workers at Google to take a bet on virtual reality. Now that he's the company's head of VR, his next goal is to win it all. The post Inside Google's Plan to Make VR Amazing for Absolutely, Positively Everyone appeared first on WIRED.

Federal regulators are threatening to shut down Theranos' California lab and ban its owners from running any labs for two years. The post Theranos' Future Looks Bloody Grim as Feds Threaten a Shutdown appeared first on WIRED.

"It is now clear that the virus causes microcephaly," says Tom Frieden, director of the CDC. The post Zika Causes Microcephaly, the CDC Confirms appeared first on WIRED.

This week, the best things to watch on TV were movie trailers, so that's what we're talking about on the latest installment of the WIRED Culture podcast. The post Culture Podcast: We Can't Shut Up About the Suicide Squad Trailer appeared first on WIRED.

The former Tribune Company employee was convicted of giving Anonymous information that helped hackers access an LA Times server and alter a headline. The post Matthew Keys Sentenced to Two Years for Aiding Anonymous appeared first on WIRED.

Here's how to distinguish the colors of the hacker rainbow. The post Hacker Lexicon: What Are White Hat, Gray Hat, and Black Hat Hackers? appeared first on WIRED.

Earlier this year we lost one of comedy's most unique voices when Garry Shandling passed. It's time to binge-watch some of his best work. The post WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: The Larry Sanders Show appeared first on WIRED.

Darpa's new "Gremlins" program will create swarms of drones that will be dropped off and picked up by other planes. The post Darpa's Developing Tiny Drones That Swarm to and From Motherships appeared first on WIRED.

A massive southern California water agency has bought up land surrounding northern California's most important piece of water infrastructure. The post California's Water Wars Flare Up as SoCal Makes a Land Grab appeared first on WIRED.

Watch the 360-degree opening credits for HBO's hit fantasy show here. The post You Can Watch the Game of Thrones Opening Credits in VR Now appeared first on WIRED.

Suddenly the whole tech industry is knee-deep in AI-powered assistants. Now if we could just get them to be less asshole-y. The post Bots Need to Learn Some Manners, and It's on Us to Teach Them appeared first on WIRED.

Kanye West's newest album hit the top spot six weeks after release with mostly "streaming equivalent sales," which might open the door for smaller acts to chart. The post Even Taylor Swift Should Be Glad Kanye Hit No. 1 appeared first on WIRED.

Rey and Finn are nice, but BB-8 is clearly the movie's breakout star. Here are 20 fun facts you probably didn't know about everyone's new favorite robot. The post 20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Wars: The Force Awakens' BB-8 appeared first on WIRED.

A quadriplegic patient can swipe credit cards and play video games thanks to the microchip implanted in his brain two years ago. The post A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic's Arm Back to Life appeared first on WIRED.

For most people, highways and bridges are just a way to get from Point A to Point B. Nobody thinks about what's underneath. Except Gisela Erlacher. The post People Sure Get Creative With the Space Under Highway Overpasses appeared first on WIRED.

The MoMA has curated one of the best design collections of any museum. Now it's closing those dedicated galleries. The post New York's MoMA To Shut Down Its Architecture and Design Galleries appeared first on WIRED.

Lunar globes already exist, but 3-D, topographically accurate ones do not. These designers say they've made the first. The post Insanely Detailed 3-D Globe of the Moon Shows Every Dimple appeared first on WIRED.