Two staffers using rubber bands to blow up a watermelon got more than 800,000 viewers on Facebook Live–more eyeballs than these beloved shows. The post 7 TV Shows With Fewer Viewers Than BuzzFeed's Exploding Watermelon Video appeared first on WIRED.

We've been anticipating these last two weeks for decades. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: VR Is Finally Here. So Now What? appeared first on WIRED.

Rocket 1; Barge 4. The post SpaceX Rocket Lands at Last. Take That, Robot Boat! appeared first on WIRED.

What makes a good VR game versus a bad VR game? Also: Will the next Zelda let you play as a girl? The post Game|Life Podcast: Our Favorite VR Games So Far, From Puzzles to Tower Defense appeared first on WIRED.

Long after the radiation that blanketed Europe dispersed, herders in Norway are living with the effects of the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. The post Radioactive Reindeer Roam Norway 30 Years After Chernobyl appeared first on WIRED.

Learning the Foley ropes at Lucasfilm's new state-of-the-art sound lab. The post At the Skywalker Sound Lab, Sometimes You Gotta Think Like a Bunny appeared first on WIRED.

The government backed down in the San Bernardino iPhone case, but it's not giving up its fight to compel Apple to cooperate in other cases. The post The Feds' Battle With Apple Isn't Over—It Just Moved to New York appeared first on WIRED.

Beam makes the process of transforming data into useful visuals very, very easy. The post This Tool Makes It Stupid Simple to Turn Data Into Charts appeared first on WIRED.

A scene in the Rogue One trailer shows the assembly of the Death Star. How fast was the dish piece moving? Homework included. The post Dang, the Death Star Is Coming Together Quick in the New Star Wars Trailer appeared first on WIRED.

A mystery adventure game that will show you the power of Vive's room-scale VR. The post Call of the Starseed Is a Riveting (if Brief) VR Adventure appeared first on WIRED.

You may want to manage your expectations about Remote Play. The post PlayStation 4 Now Streams to PC, But Not Always Super Well appeared first on WIRED.

In fact, the Burr-Feinstein bill is so bad for privacy that it may be good for privacy in the long run, say experts. The post The Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill Is ‘Ludicrous, Dangerous, Technically Illiterate' appeared first on WIRED.

Last fall, London’s Royal Academy of Arts ran a big retrospective on Ai WeiWei. When it closed, the museum turned the exhibit into an interactive, tour. The post Take a 360-Degree Tour Through 25 Years of Ai Weiwei's Art appeared first on WIRED.

Plastic shades are for lameoids—the real way to block the sun is with a window that goes from transparent to opaque using microscopic particles. The post Shades Are So 2015. These Airplane Windows Tint Themselves appeared first on WIRED.

Elon Musk's rocket company is making another go at landing a rocket on a floating barge. The post SpaceX's 0-for-5 Rocket Tries Yet Another Ocean Landing appeared first on WIRED.

Into the air with the aerospace engineers making themselves into the test pilots that the future needs. The post My Flight With the Wannabe Space Pilots of the Mojave appeared first on WIRED.

The live broadcasting of dick vids, beheadings, and shootings on Facebook seems inevitable. And it’ll be up to you to help stop them from spreading. The post Facebook's Plan to Stop People From Livestreaming Sex? You. appeared first on WIRED.

Comics! Movies! Legos! How psyched are you to be a saga-lover nowadays? To quote that other Starship-related enterprise: Nothing's gonna stop us now. The post You Know What? You Were Right to Stay a Star Wars Fan All Those Years appeared first on WIRED.

From capturing the Yangtze River to soviet nuclear testing sites, Nadav Kander's work is as complicated as it is beautiful. The post The Ruins and Lovely Landscapes of Soviet Nuke Sites appeared first on WIRED.

A $49 computer and a 3D printed headset get you cheap-ass VR---without the cardboard, and without putting a phone in your face. The post The Pockulus VR Headset May Look Funky, But It's Only $49 appeared first on WIRED.

The task of providing accurate transcriptions of long blocks of actual human conversation remains beyond the abilities of today's most advanced software. The post Why Our Crazy-Smart AI Still Sucks at Transcribing Speech appeared first on WIRED.

There's a lot to unpack in the trailer for the new Star Wars movie. These GIFs will help. The post The New Star Wars Trailer: A Comprehensive GIF Analysis appeared first on WIRED.

There are still four more superhero movies coming in 2016. Here's what's up with Cap, Doctor Strange, and all the other heroes heading to the multiplex. The post Cape Watch: Spider-Man Spins a Web of Confusion and Possibly Lies appeared first on WIRED.

A famous faked study gets proved right—by the people who unmasked it in the first place. The post The Debunkers of a Gay Marriage Study Just Re-bunked It, Sort Of appeared first on WIRED.

I said I wouldn't look at these silly machines anymore, but I decided to do another one. Here is a popular video showing a perpetual motion machine and the reason it won't work. The post The Physics Behind Another Bogus Perpetual Motion Machine appeared first on WIRED.

Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, announced that four of his firm's blueprints will be free to download. The post Alejandro Aravena, Winner of This Year's Pritzker Prize, Is Giving Away His Designs appeared first on WIRED.

Trap-jaw spiders are positively tiny, but sport enormous jaws that snap shut like a bear trap in just half a millisecond. The post Meet the Itsy-Bitsy Spider With a Bear Trap for a Mouth appeared first on WIRED.

It's a question as old as time: Do I have to do something just because the bride and groom want me to? We have some advice for that. The post Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Do I Really Have to Use a Wedding's Instagram Hashtag? appeared first on WIRED.

In Carlo van de Roer’s high-speed, high-tech photographs, the viewer gets to control the lighting. The post Wild Interactive Portraits Let You Control Light With Your Cursor appeared first on WIRED.

Watch it now. The post The First Trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Is Here! appeared first on WIRED.

It was a trickle at first. But then the flood of viral menstruation moments. The post Hey Silicon Valley, Let's Talk About Periods appeared first on WIRED.

The first-person action movie might strain belief (and your tolerance for motion sickness) but it's a hell of a lot of fun. The post How Hardcore Henry Pulled Off This Insane Action Scene appeared first on WIRED.

This designer made us want to read a book about high-yield bonds. The post High Yield, Future Tense Is a Gorgeous Book About Finance. Yes, Finance appeared first on WIRED.

Hyper Light Drifter is one of the most beautiful games ever put to pixel art, an alien and lively 2-D action game that succeeds despite punishing combat. The post Entrancing New Game Hyper Light Drifter Screams With Life appeared first on WIRED.

Trying to find some inner peace, so you don’t completely lose your mind? We have just the apps that will help you keep it together. The post Meditation Apps That'll Keep You From Losing Your Mind appeared first on WIRED.

Volvo plans to put 100 Chinese customers into its self-driving cars for a longterm beta test. The post 100 Lucky Drivers in China Will Get to Test Volvo's Self-Driving Cars appeared first on WIRED.

Thao Nguyen describes how her estranged father and Marilynne Robinson's writing helped inspire Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's "Astonished Man." The post Song Exploder: Thao Nguyen Breaks Down Her 'Astonished Man' appeared first on WIRED.

CorPower Ocean's tests show its buoy can produce three times as much electricity as the best rival tech, with a far more practical design. The post The Wonder-Buoy That May Finally Make Wave Energy Feasible appeared first on WIRED.

The two companies have been working on the new dual-camera phone for almost three years. The post Hands-On: Huawei's Flagship Phone Sports Two Leica Cameras appeared first on WIRED.

Usually we only get this excited about the release of a VR headset or a new Marvel movie, but man, FX's miniseries on the O.J. Simpson trial was amazing. The post Culture Podcast: We're Still Reeling From the People v. O.J. Finale appeared first on WIRED.

The 2011-12 eruption of Nabro in Eritrea left quite an altered landscape covered in ash and lava flows. The post Annotated Volcano: Check Out the Craters and Lava Flows of Eritrea's Nabro appeared first on WIRED.

The crew of the International Space Station answer the Internet's most pressing questions about their jobs. The post We Forced ISS Astronauts to Answer Your Google Searches About Whistling and Peeing appeared first on WIRED.

There’s a revolution underway in sex toy design. The post The High-Tech, High Design World of Sex Toys appeared first on WIRED.

Coming off a year of acclaim journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates opted to write a Black Panther series. Here he talks to WIRED about comics’ newest claws célèbre. The post Ta-Nehisi Coates Fights the Power—Literally—With Black Panther appeared first on WIRED.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. The post Beware Dating Site Scammers and Their Ungrammatical Game appeared first on WIRED.

Pen, paper, and an app technically make up the writing set, but your smartphone provides much of the operating power needed to make the system work. The post Review: Moleskine Smart Writing Set appeared first on WIRED.

Bompas & Parr have created a living necklace The post This Living Necklace Glows With Bioluminescent Algae appeared first on WIRED.

Seven new snippets are included on the Digital HD version released April 1. Here's all the new information we found out. The post Everything We Learned From The Force Awakens' Deleted Scenes appeared first on WIRED.

VR can impart experiences that range from being a Sudanese refugee seeking asylum to being a different sex, even to living with physical disabilities. The post Maybe VR Shouldn't Give You Heaven—Maybe You Need Hardship appeared first on WIRED.