New self-driving trucks and buses highlights the often overlooked, less than glamorous, and potentially momentous role of autonomous commercial vehicles. The post China’s Self-Driving Bus Shows Autonomous Tech’s Real Potential appeared first on WIRED.

This week on the WIRED Entertainment podcast we're off to the fourth rock from the sun! (Oh, and we're making a pit stop in Fall TV Land, too.) The post Entertainment Podcast: Time to Marvel at The Martian appeared first on WIRED.

The new poster for the final chapter of the franchise is beautiful, and foreshadows the end of the saga. The post The New Hunger Games Poster Is Full of Hidden Messages appeared first on WIRED.

It’s disorienting, schizophrenic, and totally banal. The post This Voyeuristic Site Will Make You Reconsider Social Media appeared first on WIRED.

The latest encrypted email service to rise in popularity is ProtonMail, which attracted wide attention after it was featured on Mr. Robot. But how secure is it really? The post Mr. Robot Uses ProtonMail, But It Still Isn’t Fully Secure appeared first on WIRED.

The Bay Bridge's failures reveal the two main problems with engineering innovation. The post California’s Busiest Bridge Has a Serious Issue With Rust appeared first on WIRED.

WIRED and Sports Illustrated are teaming up to imagine what professional football will look like fifty years from now. The post Welcome to SB 100, Examining the Future of Football appeared first on WIRED.

You haven't heard of Uncorporeal, but they've got something in their pocket that'll blow your mind. The post These FX Wizards May Have Solved VR Films’ Biggest Problem appeared first on WIRED.

Since the first plutonium bomb was detonated in 1945, photography has followed the development of nuclear warfare. The post Eerie Photos Trace the Strange History of Nukes appeared first on WIRED.

Chicago native Jeanne Gang is one of the biggest names at the city's first-ever Architecture Biennial. The post The City-Sculpting Buildings of Chicago’s Biggest Architect appeared first on WIRED.

From RFID tags to tracking implants, athletes will go further and further to gain an edge in their training. The post Athletes Turn to Implants to Take Training Into the Future appeared first on WIRED.

How science turned J. J. Watt of the Houston Texans into the NFL's dominant force. The post Science Turns the NFL’s J. J. Watt Into a Tower of Power appeared first on WIRED.

The innovative Icon A5 is designed to make anyone a pilot. Take a look inside the company and the development of an airplane created by an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer. The post This Plane Is Slick as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski appeared first on WIRED.

How a San Francisco-area laboratory turned Jeremy Lin, Jason Castro, Teresa Noyola, and others into top athletes. The post The Tech-Powered Training That’s Forging Superathletes appeared first on WIRED.

From a biomechanical standpoint, the throwing motion for quarterbacks and pitchers is largely the same, so skills that help on the diamond can help on the gridiron. The post How Baseball Is Building Better NFL Quarterbacks appeared first on WIRED.

At an international meeting in Washington, the bigwigs of Crispr/Cas9 try to sort out the ethics of editing DNA. The post Science Would Like Some Rules for Genome Editing, Please appeared first on WIRED.

Apple's wildly popular iOS has earned the title of the world's most secure consumer operating system. But now that title has an asterisk: China. The post iPhone Malware Is Hitting China. Let’s Not Be Next appeared first on WIRED.

Yes, there's a second spaceship. The post A Look at Apple’s Newest Spaceship Building appeared first on WIRED.

Last night's episode had a big twist. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) The post Gotham GIF and a Graf: The Joke’s on Us appeared first on WIRED.

Neutrinos are the second-most abundant particle in the universe...and the most elusive. The post Shape-Shifting Neutrinos Grab the Nobel Prize in Physics appeared first on WIRED.

Did you know you can make music with slime mold? Because you can. The post Listen to Slime Mold Sing a Song appeared first on WIRED.

Turns out the director is a fan of Mark Watney's "gallows humor." He also, naturally, liked the idea of going to space. The post Ridley Scott Directed The Martian for the Lols appeared first on WIRED.

Time to take it back to your arcade days. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 156 appeared first on WIRED.

A new book charts the gorgeous evolution of maps. The post 8 Stunning Maps That Changed Cartography appeared first on WIRED.

Thanks to an upgrade to Boeing's simulator tech, F-22 Raptor pilots have an even more realistic training simulator. The post Brilliant Screens Make an F-22 Sim More Realistic Than Ever appeared first on WIRED.

Rachel Hulin is releasing her new novel on a most unexpected platform: Instagram. The post Telling a Strange Love Story, Post by Post on Instagram appeared first on WIRED.

Maybe we need to stop rushing our novelists to deliver at such a prodigious rate. The post It’s OK George R. R. Martin’s New Book Isn’t a GoT Sequel appeared first on WIRED.

The photos are presented seemingly as they were taken, with time-lapse captures taken through command module windows. The post These Crappy Apollo Images Are What Make NASA So Great appeared first on WIRED.

It's the middle of the road, but it's also the sweet spot. Take a moment to embrace the average. The post If You’re an Average American, You Peed 4 to 7 Times Today appeared first on WIRED.

Last night's season finale had a lot of twists. Will any of them matter in Season 3? Who knows?! The post Rick and Morty GIF and a Graf: The Intergalactic Narc appeared first on WIRED.

The American gaming retailer will have Valve's PC-based game hardware and its new Steam Controller starting November 10. The post Want a Steam Console? Well, Hope You Like GameStop appeared first on WIRED.

Ubisoft launched a strange livestream to promo a new game announcement. Leaks are saying it's a Far Cry game set in prehistoric times. The post Leaks Point to Prehistoric Far Cry: Primal Game appeared first on WIRED.

Hurricane Joaquin blustered up and down the coast, flooding Instagram with photos of the aftermath. The post Following the Aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin on Instagram appeared first on WIRED.

This year's winners discovered their therapies by sifting through huge repositories of bacteria from soil samples and isolating active compounds from herbs. The post Parasite-Busting Drugs Take the Nobel Prize in Medicine appeared first on WIRED.

The first cavity is filled with air, the second with water, a frog, and food for the frog. The post This Glass Wall Full of Frogs Breathes Like a Living Thing appeared first on WIRED.

Have we got a deal for you, McFly! The post Hope You’re Thirsty, Because This Back to the Future II Pepsi is $20 appeared first on WIRED.

The anti-surveillance group Intelexit has graduated from passing out pamphlets to dropping them from the sky. The post Activists’ Drone Drops Anti-Spying Leaflets Over the NSA appeared first on WIRED.

People drink a lot in Antarctica–maybe enough that the US government will have to send some breathalyzers. The post Scientists in Antarctica Drink a Lot. Maybe Too Much appeared first on WIRED.

On the next episode of his truTV show, comedian Adam Conover explores the "security theater" of the TSA screening process. Watch it here. The post Comedian Calls Out TSA for Not Actually Stopping Terrorists appeared first on WIRED.

Acquiring the rights to the Kingkiller Chronicle fantasy series means there's more riding high to do, but here's how they got to this point. The post How Lionsgate Went From Lightweight to Titan in 20 Years appeared first on WIRED.

This classic xkcd physics problem involves an accelerating velociraptor. Here is a numerical solution to this problem using python. The post Here’s How to Solve the xkcd Velociraptor Problem With Code appeared first on WIRED.

"Patience, you must learn patience!" The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 155 appeared first on WIRED.

The new iPhone is as essential as the shoes on your feet—and just as exciting. The post Review: Apple iPhone 6s appeared first on WIRED.

A journey into the strange community of actors and enthusiasts who record full audio books for free at LibriVox. The post The Weird, Obsessive World of Free DIY Audiobooks appeared first on WIRED.

A lame drive around a parking lot reveals the most crucial work Google's self-driving car team is doing. The post Google’s Lame Demo Shows Us How Far Its Robo-Car Has Come appeared first on WIRED.

Researchers have demonstrated how attackers using a drone plus a mobile phone could intercept documents sent to a Wi-Fi printer. The post Hacking Wireless Printers With Phones on Drones appeared first on WIRED.

A new book of 6,000 different logos shows that in graphic design, Modernism is still alive. The post All Good Logos Are Modernist Logos, Really appeared first on WIRED.