Vanessa Marsh doesn't take photos of the night sky with a camera. She makes them in the darkroom instead. The post These Photos of Starry Nights Aren’t of Starry Nights appeared first on WIRED.

Hacker Samy Kamkar shows that the problem of internet-connected cars being vulnerable to hacks just keeps getting bigger. The post This Gadget Hacks GM Cars to Locate, Unlock, and Start Them appeared first on WIRED.

The currents of the Indian Ocean are way too complicated to backtrack where MH370 crashed. The post That Piece of Debris Won’t Tell Us Where MH370 Crashed appeared first on WIRED.

Seeing Michael Keaton back in the saddle as a hard-driving newspaper man will give you chills in this new trailer. The post The Working Actor Dream Cast Trailer: Spotlight appeared first on WIRED.

Sit down. Take a breath. Legend of Zelda's 'TBD' date in a Nintendo earnings report means absolutely nothing. The post No, Nintendo Didn’t Just Delay Wii U Zelda Again appeared first on WIRED.

It's a bid to make existing customers---a particularly enthusiastic fanbase by industry standards---into de facto sales people. The post Tesla’s Using Its Customers to Get Around Trouble Opening Stores appeared first on WIRED.

Amateur sleuthing aside, authorities are already applying a bunch of analytics to find out if the washed-up plane fragment does belong to MH370. The post How to Tell if That Wreckage Is Really From MH370 appeared first on WIRED.

The screenwriter says a bold new idea is in the works for another ghost-busting movie. The post New Ghostbusters with Dudes Reportedly Still in the Works appeared first on WIRED.

What can be done to prepare Naples for the volcano in their midst? The post The World’s Most Dangerous Volcano May Kill Another City appeared first on WIRED.

Fifteen months later, we have no idea know what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But we keep going back to a theory posited by a pilot Chris Goodfellow just days after March 2014 disappearance. Goodfellow thinks an electrical fire in the cockpit could have caused the loss of transponders and communications in the aircraft. […] The post This Is Still Our Best Theory For MH370 appeared first on WIRED.

This week's entertainment podcast is packed full of VR hedgehogs, HBO hits, and Adam Sandler misses. Join us, won't you? The post Entertainment Podcast: Adam Sandler Is Out, Virtual Reality Is In appeared first on WIRED.

There's no radar tracking over the open ocean, which is a big, deep place. The post How You Lose an Airplane in the 21st Century appeared first on WIRED.

Postcards are industrialized pieces of art—cheap to produce, made in bulk, and free of envelopes. The post The Perfect Medium for Bauhaus Artists? Postcards appeared first on WIRED.

A piece of airplane that appears to match the missing MH370 jet that went missing in March 2014 was found on the island of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. It is really is from that airplane, it is way far from where it was last spotted, near the southern tip of Vietnam. The post That Wreckage Is Nearly 4,000 Miles From Where MH370 Was Last Seen appeared first on WIRED.

Despite graphene’s impressive resume, no one has quite figured out what the stuff is good for. So in the meanwhile, why not try graphene kirigami? The post We Finally Know What Graphene Is Good For: Origami appeared first on WIRED.

A chunk of airplane wing that may match the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing more than a year ago was found on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The post They May Have Found a Piece of MH370 appeared first on WIRED.

When a showroom selling ceramics underwent a renovation, the designer in charge built a walkway from defective tableware. The post A Shop Floor Made of 25,000 Pieces of Defective Pottery appeared first on WIRED.

The Grid, a set of wooden pieces resembling dominoes, is so gorgeous, you won't mind leaving it on the table. The post Reinvented Dominoes Are More Addictive Than Candy Crush appeared first on WIRED.

Jason Segel turns in a solid performance as the novelist in The End of the Tour. But turning Wallace into a movie character has its pitfalls. The post Consider the Movie About the Book About David Foster Wallace appeared first on WIRED.

A collection of necklaces and sunglasses visualizes air pollution levels. The post Funky Accessories That Visualize Invisible Air Pollution appeared first on WIRED.

While the Central Valley's farm economy reels under the strain of drought, farms in the Salinas Valley are operating on all cylinders. The post Enjoy Your Romaine Lettuce—While It Lasts appeared first on WIRED.

Get ready to enjoy some wishful drinking with Carrie Fisher. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 87 appeared first on WIRED.

Keiji Inafune's Kickstarter for Red Ash doesn't look like it's going to get funded. There's an important lesson here. The post Even Mega Man’s Creator Isn’t Sure to Succeed on Kickstarter appeared first on WIRED.

The Bronx Documentary Center exhibits 150 years of Photoshopped, manipulated, and posed photojournalism. The post Infamously Altered Photos, Before and After Their Edits appeared first on WIRED.

Ferrari has introduced its 488 Spider, its newest droptop supercar. Of course, it looks freaking spectacular. The post Ferrari’s Newest Convertible Is Its Most Aerodynamic Ever appeared first on WIRED.

If a hacker attacks your TrackingPoint smart gun over its Wi-Fi connection, you may find the weapon is aiming at a different target than you think. The post Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target appeared first on WIRED.

A German eSports league announced that it is working with anti-doping agencies to create a drug testing policy for its professional gamers. The post Professional Videogaming Has Doping Scandals, Too appeared first on WIRED.

The satirical news service is launching a disruptive docu-vertical of its own, and it's called Edge. The post The Onion’s New Vice Parody Kidney Punches You With News appeared first on WIRED.

A report this year found a $740 billion backlog in needed improvements to roads, highways, and bridges. The post Here’s How Much Your City’s Crappy Roads Are Costing You
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Trust that the comedy duo will serve up a lot more LOLs before their run is done. The post New Key & Peele Sketch Will Make You Preemptively Miss This Show appeared first on WIRED.

The ISS got a RED Epic Dragon in January that can shoot 6K and 3D at up to 300 frames per second. Add some water and a fizzy tablet and this is what you get. The post This Is What Happens When You Send a 4K Camera Into Space appeared first on WIRED.

Oculus Story Studio's new project is more than a cute animated short--it's a test case for narrative techniques that could change the way we watch movies. The post The Most Important Movie of 2015 Is a VR Cartoon About a Hedgehog appeared first on WIRED.

Springfielders doing their thing to the strains of "Way Down in the Hole"? Sign us up. The post This Simpsons-Wire Mashup is the Opening Sequence of Our Dreams appeared first on WIRED.

So by most indications, the new Vacation movie will only serve to crush your childhood if you grew up loving the Griswold clan. That’s a shame. But since we probably won’t be able to count on a new Christmas classic from Rusty and family, how about trying this one on for size? The trailer cutely […] The post The Next Big Drug-Fueled Christmas Classic Trailer: The Night Before appeared first on WIRED.

A new study shows that combined flooding events---a tag team of storm surge and onshore precipitation---are on the rise. The post Catastrophic Floods Are Going to Hit the US More Often appeared first on WIRED.

Japan's biggest role-playing game series is hedging its bets, with Dragon Quest XI coming to PlayStation 4, 3DS... and Nintendo's NX, eventually. The post Dragon Quest, Japan’s Biggest RPG, Finally Goes Multi-Platform appeared first on WIRED.

Motorola came ready to impress with two powerful new phones. The post Hands On With Motorola’s Stunning New X and G Phones appeared first on WIRED.

The catastrophic error is a harsh repudiation of the design philosophy behind the two aircraft: Rely on human skill instead of computers. The post Blame a Catastrophic Blindspot for the Fatal Virgin Galactic Crash appeared first on WIRED.

The HIV Self Test, the first of its kind approved for use in the UK, is 99.7 percent accurate and similar to those used by medical labs. The post How to Design a Foolproof at-Home HIV Test Kit appeared first on WIRED.

Long derided for its shoddy terminals and chronic travel delays, the La Guardia you know will soon be history. The post LaGuardia Airport Will Get a Sprawling $4B Redesign appeared first on WIRED.

Inuit tribal elders weren't just providing feedback to the makers of Foxtales, out today--they were game executives. The post Foxtales Shows Game Devs How to Get a Sensitive Story Right appeared first on WIRED.

In an era where economic policymaking skews strongly toward free-market forces, London School of Economics professor Anthony Atkinson—one of the world’s top academics on inequality and income distribution—still stands in defense of government intervention to redress the lopsided state of wealth that prevails in so many countries today. In fact, Atkinson’s new book, Inequality: What Can […] The post Sir Anthony Atkinson: Don’t Blame Tech for the Wealth Gap appeared first on WIRED.

Bence Bakonyi photographs tourists doing what tourists do best – wandering and gawking. The post Wandering Tourists Look Like Ants in the Vast Gobi Desert appeared first on WIRED.

How do you model the interaction between New Horizons and Pluto? Here is some sample code along with further homework questions. The post Let’s Analyze the Physics of New Horizons’ Mission to Pluto appeared first on WIRED.

Time to make yourself some fly droid shoes. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 86 appeared first on WIRED.

Iko is the kid-equivalent of a bionic limb. The post Lego Makes Everything Better—Even a Prosthetic for Kids appeared first on WIRED.

"Making these safes smart...has actually drastically reduced the security of something that was fairly safe to begin with." The post Brinks’ Super-Secure Smart Safes: Not So Secure appeared first on WIRED.

"I’m pretty sure [my neighbors] think there’s this weird cactus nutcase living in the neighborhood." The post Mesmerizing Time-Lapse GIFs of Cacti Flowers in Bloom appeared first on WIRED.

People tend to get really excited when they think really smart propulsion physicists have figured out a way to travel to the farthest reaches of space. They shouldn't. The post Really, Propellantless Space Drives Are Still Not a Thing appeared first on WIRED.