This season's biggest problem: It insists on hitting the same bleak notes for each character, never offering a counterweight to despair. The post True Detective Recap: This Plot Is Getting Hard to Follow appeared first on WIRED.

Twitter crunched the numbers following Comic-Con and found out what was the most popular. The post Twitter Says Star Wars Wasn’t the Most Popular Thing at Comic-Con appeared first on WIRED.

Whoever pirated bootleg trailers for Suicide Squad, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, and Deadpool is ruining it for everyone. The post Dear Idiots, Stop Leaking Comic-Con Trailers appeared first on WIRED.

Warner Bros. has finally released an official version of the teaser that leaked online over the weekend. The post Here’s the Suicide Squad Trailer That Freaked Out Comic-Con appeared first on WIRED.

The Dutch city Rotterdam is seriously considering a greener alternative to asphalt called Plastic Road. The post Future Highways Could Be Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles appeared first on WIRED.

When the new E-Class senses a crash coming, it triggers a sound to prepare your ears for the much louder noise to come. The post Mercedes Is Using Loud Static to Protect Fancy Ears in Crashes appeared first on WIRED.

When Berkeley Breathed shared a photo himself drawing a new strip, people justifiably freaked out. Turns out they didn't have long to wait. The post Ack! After 25 Years, Bloom County is Back appeared first on WIRED.

Thanks to the power of planetary physics and NASA's viz team, you can watch New Horizons pass by Pluto on your computer right now. The post Watch: Here’s What New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby Will Look Like appeared first on WIRED.

New Horizons' scientists just announced their best estimate of the dwarf planet's size. The post NASA Finally Knows Pluto’s Size…Kind Of appeared first on WIRED.

Even after uninstalling the Google Photos app, your pictures may still be synced to your Google+ account. The post Is Google Secretly Syncing Your Photos? appeared first on WIRED.

Apparently Libby is more interested in Virginia than we originally thought. The post Masters of Sex GIF and a Graf: ‘I Always Wondered What That Felt Like’ appeared first on WIRED.

Last night's episode finally turned Lee Pace's Joe into a truly rehabilitated character. The post Halt and Catch Fire GIF and a Graf: Joe Gets Out of the Way
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Meteorologists are promising another El Niño, but the storm has left the west coast bitter and wanting the last two times it promised to come around. The post We’re Expecting You, El Niño, But You’ve Let Us Down Before appeared first on WIRED.

Mexico’s one-peso-per-liter tax on sugary beverages is a model for its northern neighbor. The post Mexico’s Soda Tax Is Working. The US Should Learn From It appeared first on WIRED.

At London's Barbican, the multimedia artist is filming 150 visual artists and musicians getting creative---and posting the results on social media. The post Doug Aitken’s New Project: A Film Made of Instagram Clips appeared first on WIRED.

Soon after New Horizons passes closest to Pluto, it could pass through a ring of orbital dust. The post New Horizons’ Finest Moment Could be Its Hour of Destruction appeared first on WIRED.

These glass luxury pods are the new glamping. The post Cliff-Hanging Sleep Pods Take Glamping to New Heights appeared first on WIRED.

We continued the #maketechhuman conversation on cocktail napkins at the WIRED Business Conference in May. A couple of themes that keep surfacing in the #maketechhuman debate are concerns about (loss of) human connection, as well as technological advances inevitably outpacing regulation, not to mention meaningful global debate around the philosophical and ethical implications. To the […] The post Cocktail Party Conversation: What are you excited/worried about? appeared first on WIRED.

As the first Earth probe nears Pluto, a photographer takes an exclusive look at what it took to get the mission off the ground. The post Photos: How NASA Set New Horizons on Its Path to Pluto appeared first on WIRED.

Here is a numerical model to explore baseball range and density. The post Does the Density of Air Matter in the Home Run Derby? appeared first on WIRED.

Ian MacLellan scales up mountains alongside New England climbers to get some stunning photos. The post Inside the Beautiful (And Precarious) World of Ice Climbing appeared first on WIRED.

The best way to soak up the open road isn't behind the wheel, it's on a bike. The post Saddle Up With This Gear for Long-Distance Bike Trekking appeared first on WIRED.

Check out the latest image of Pluto taken by the LORRI camera on the New Horizons space probe. The post Cliffs and Crater-Like Features Appear in Latest Pluto Shot appeared first on WIRED.

Nintendo's president has passed away, the company has announced. The post Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies at 55 appeared first on WIRED.

New images from New Horizons reveal that Charon has a checkered geological past, just like its neighbor Pluto. The post Pluto’s Biggest Moon Has a Personality of Its Own appeared first on WIRED.

The 'Heroes' reboot made a pretty good showing today at Comic-Con. Watch the new trailer for the show here. The post Heroes Reborn Actually Looks Pretty Exciting appeared first on WIRED.

Ryan Murphy has managed to secure himself an entire hour at Comic Con, thanks to a panel that combined the AHS and Fox's new fall show Scream Queens. The post Everything From Today’s American Horror Story/Scream Queens Combo Panel appeared first on WIRED.

New Horizons was powered to Pluto with physics, chemistry, and a little bit of superstition. The post The New Horizons Team Has Some Weird Good Luck Charms appeared first on WIRED.

NASA's planetary sciences director doesn't care what you call Pluto. He just calls it interesting. The post NASA Doesn’t Care If Everyone Else Calls Pluto a Dwarf… appeared first on WIRED.

During its panel at Comic-Con, the team behind the show announced it will be back for Season 3. The post Salem Is Not Done Cramming Frogs Down Your Throat appeared first on WIRED.

Things got really emotional during the Comic-Con panel for NBC's recently cancelled horror show. The post Hannibal Fan Devotion Is Alive and Well, Even If It’s Cancelled appeared first on WIRED.

Access Games’ Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro has a notability problem: he may be more well-known than his creations. While his games (Deadly Premonition, D4) have won him fans, they’re not exactly mainstream hits. Still, as an independent creator with a reputation for getting noticed, Swery was on hand at BitSummit in Kyoto this weekend to exhibit […] The post A Chat With Deadly Premonition‘s Creator, Swery appeared first on WIRED.

'Back in 1995' replicates the low-poly awkwardness of PlayStation 1 games, warts and all. The post 90s Nostalgia Meets Survival Horror in Back in 1995 appeared first on WIRED.

KYOTO, JAPAN — In Brave Yamada-kun, the titular lead is a full-time video game company employee who codes his own games on the side in nothing but his underwear. It’s an RPG about a guy who makes RPGs in his spare time, who then leaps into his own creation to become the hero. I ask […] The post Art Imitates Life in this Indie RPG About Making RPGs appeared first on WIRED.

Pico Park takes 10 players and forces them to work closely together to succeed. The post A Raucous, Teamwork-Teaching Game for 10 Players appeared first on WIRED.

At super-low temperatures, a crystal called samarium hexaboride behaves in an unexplained way. The post Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists appeared first on WIRED.

Week 11 of the WIRED 'Star Wars' Challenge is already here. Behold your assignments! The post Here Are Your WIRED Star Wars Challenges for Week 11 appeared first on WIRED.

Since 1967, the Mint 400, one of the continent's most grueling races, has been drawing some of motorsports' top names to the Nevada desert. The post The Off-Road Race So Wild You Barely Need Front Wheels appeared first on WIRED.

A massive collection of Marvel stars gathered at Comic-Con on Saturday, but it wasn’t for the the Marvel Studios panel—it was the 20th Century Fox one. The post 20th Century Fox Stole Some of Marvel’s Swagger for Comic-Con appeared first on WIRED.

Robert Kazinsky—the actor who plays Orgrim in 'Warcraft'—told the Comic-Con crowd his love of the game it's based on once caused a girlfriend to leave him. The post Orgrim Lost His Girlfriend Filming Warcraft appeared first on WIRED.

Series creator Ron Moore teased fans at the show's Comic-Con panel with new things to come in Season 2. The post Ron Moore Promises ‘A Whole New Outlander‘ Next Season appeared first on WIRED.

Joss Whedon announced at Comic-Con International today what his next project will be: a new comic called 'Twist.' The post Joss Whedon Is Making a ‘Victorian Female Batman’ Comic appeared first on WIRED.

The Pluto photos from New Horizons keep rolling in, this one taken from a mere 2.5 million miles away. The post New Horizons Gets Its Last Look at the Far Side of Pluto appeared first on WIRED.

Quentin Tarantino is a perfect filmmaker, and it looks like his Hateful Eight is no exception. The post Hateful Eight in 70mm Will Be the Best Cinematic Experience of the Year appeared first on WIRED.

The representative is at Comic Con, cosplaying as himself from the march on Selma 50 years ago. The post Congressman John Lewis Might Have Just Won Comic Con appeared first on WIRED.

Swordfighting? Hand-to-hand badassery? Back tattoos? What's not to look forward to? The post AMC Finally Takes the Wraps Off Its Martial Arts Series Into the Badlands appeared first on WIRED.

Directors of two upcoming DC Comics-based movies have thought a lot about canon; they just have different thoughts. The post Suicide Squad’s Director Has a Message for Worried Fans appeared first on WIRED.

Zack Snyder, director of Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, has moved Gotham City. Is nothing sacred anymore? The post Zack Snyder Turned Gotham City and Metropolis Into the Bay Area appeared first on WIRED.

Fresh off the Warner Bros. panel this morning, here's Zack Snyder's latest and (hopefully) greatest. The post The New Dawn of Justice Trailer is a Big Step in the Right Direction appeared first on WIRED.