Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has a wake-up call for the world’s digital citizens: Beware of the tech giants lurking behind your screens and keyboards. Falque-Pierrotin—current head of France’s CNIL (National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) and the “Article 29 Working Party,” a group of European Union data-protection advocates—believes we are sleepily handing over personal data in droves without truly […] The post Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin: Privacy Needs to Be the Default, Not an Option appeared first on WIRED.

The city's flag is boring, uninspired, and virtually meaningless. Roman Mars wants to change that. The post Inside the Campaign to Redesign SF’s Suck-tastic Flag appeared first on WIRED.

This week's music videos are really strong on concepts, specifically taking conventional ideas and maximizing their impact with art direction---Nicki Minaj. The post Audio Visuals: Nicki Minaj Hijacks Madonna’s Music Video appeared first on WIRED.

This is a lobotomy updated for the 21st century: burning away highly specified parts of the brain to treat mental illnesses. The post Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness appeared first on WIRED.

Thomas Lohr gets up close with some of Europe's most beautiful birds. The post Can You Guess Which Birds These Feathers Belong To? appeared first on WIRED.

A Norwegian health researcher is studying how to keep farmed fish from going on the lam. The post Keeping Farm Fish Locked Up Keeps Ecosystem Calamity at Bay appeared first on WIRED.

The exclusive story of how Microsoft's new hero image was made by hand. The post How Tron Inspired Microsoft 10’s Moody New Wallpaper appeared first on WIRED.

Less than 48 hours after its release, Warner Bros. is yanking the technically ailing PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight. The post Warner Halts Sales of Bug-Riddled Batman on PC appeared first on WIRED.

This week we've got one thing and one thing only on our minds: Pixar's latest animated feature. The post Entertainment Podcast: Inside Out Goes Deep Into Our Subconscious appeared first on WIRED.

After a long hiatus, WikiLeaks is back in the business of leaking top-secret documents that even world leaders can't ignore. The post With Its French NSA Leak, WikiLeaks Is Back appeared first on WIRED.

Truck manufacturers have six years to make major fuel economy improvements. Fortunately, that's not as hard as it sounds. The post Making Trucks More Efficient Isn’t Actually Hard to Do appeared first on WIRED.

Watch out, aspiring game designers. A computer may be coming for your job, too. The post This AI Builds Super Mario Levels by Watching YouTube appeared first on WIRED.

Sacha Jenkins' documentary explores the lines between hip-hop, fashion, self expression, and how they relate to one another in a very connected world. The post Time Travel Through Hip-Hop History With Fresh Dressed appeared first on WIRED.

The F-35 jet has successfully taken off from a ski jump, a surprisingly significant milestone. The post Wildly Expensive F-35 Jet Makes Its First Ski-Jump Launch appeared first on WIRED.

A lamb born to a genetically modified sheep created to express a glowing green protein ended up in France's food supply. But is that really so bad? The post You’d Be Fine if You Ate the French Mutant Lamb appeared first on WIRED.

Keiji Inafune is burning the candle at both ends, these days. The post Mega Man’s Creator Wants to Restore Japanese Games’ Glory appeared first on WIRED.

Morgan's new electric three-wheeler is a futuristic blast from the past. The post Wacky Three-Wheelers Get More Old-School by Going Electric appeared first on WIRED.

This tiny insect lurks in the nests of termites, farting on their unsuspecting prey. The post Silent and Deadly: Fatal Farts Immobilize Prey appeared first on WIRED.

It’s no surprise that careless government employees use their .gov email addresses to sign up for all sorts of personal accounts. But when those insecure third party services are breached by hackers—and if those employees were foolish enough to reuse their .gov passwords, too—that carelessness can offer a dead-simple backdoor into federal agencies, with none of the usual […] The post Hundreds of .Gov Credentials Found In Public Hacker Dumps appeared first on WIRED.

Ily is a communication device that combines the simplicity of a landline with the beauty of a touchscreen tablet. The post This Landline-Inspired Gadget Aims to Outdo Your Smartphone
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Plug in your ingredients, and the computer will churn out recipes you'd never imagined. The post America’s Next Top Chef Is a Supercomputer From IBM appeared first on WIRED.

How can you make your own lightning on demand? Just walk into a storm and send up a rocket on a string. The post Don’t Try This at Home: Making Lightning Bolts With Rockets appeared first on WIRED.

Will emoji will ride their cultural appeal long enough to become a discrete, complete means of communication? The post Emoji—Trendy Slang or a Whole New Language? appeared first on WIRED.

Who is ready for 11 seasons of surviving trauma?! That's what we thought. The post WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Grey’s Anatomy appeared first on WIRED.

The road to the Wassennaar Arrangement is paved with good intentions. Here's a primer on what the rules are and why they could harm the state of computer security itself. The post Why an Arms Control Pact Has Security Experts Up in Arms appeared first on WIRED.

"Gitmo is the best posting a soldier can have," her escort casually mentioned. "There’s so much fun to be had here." The post Inside Gitmo’s Surreal Recreation Spots, Tiki Bar and All appeared first on WIRED.

The composer, who passed away yesterday in a tragic plane crash, gets a fitting elegy from a colleague. The post Remembering James Horner’s Magical Musical Genius appeared first on WIRED.

The chip's ultimate goal is to lessen dependence on animal test subjects and decrease time and cost for developing drugs. The post A Chip That Mimics Human Organs Is the Design of the Year appeared first on WIRED.

The winning proposal of nine dark, low-slung pavilions and a lighthouse tower comes from an obscure husband-and-wife team. The post You’ve Never Heard of the Team Designing the New Guggenheim appeared first on WIRED.

'Star Wars' and 'Lord of the Rings' had a baby, it died badly, and this book is its reanimated remains. The post We Review a Self-Published E-Book About a Lady Clone War appeared first on WIRED.

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have found their new Peter Parker and Spider-Man director. The post Your New Spider-Man Is a…Fresh-Faced White Dude. Great appeared first on WIRED.

The key to an efficient swimming robot is understanding the tiny whirlpools fish push against as they move. The post Making Robot Fish Is Hard When You Don’t Know How They Swim appeared first on WIRED.

Stitched-together images from New Horizons show Charon making a jerky orbit around Pluto over six and a half days. The post 8-Bit Video Shows the Moon Charon Orbiting Pluto appeared first on WIRED.

An exclusive look at how Dropbox designers put users at the center of the redesign. The post Dropbox’s New Android App Is All About Invisible Design appeared first on WIRED.

Last Guardian is the long-awaited third game from Fumito Ueda, the designer of Sony's games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. The post The Last Guardian Looks Like It Was Worth Waiting For appeared first on WIRED.

Yawning before a stressful event seems improbable and also kind of ridiculous. So why do we do it? The post Big Question: Why Do I Yawn When I’m Nervous or Stressed? appeared first on WIRED.

Wonder what it costs to get that little pink pill in your prescription bottle? About the same as building the sprawling 2,400-room Wynn Las Vegas casino. The cost of developing a prescription drug that gains market approval currently runs about $2.6 billion, according to a report by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. With so […] The post A Global Rx for Tackling Rare Diseases appeared first on WIRED.

New research into how owls can silently hunt could lead to more productive wind farms and quieter planes. The post Owls May Hold the Secret to Quieter Wind Turbines and Jets appeared first on WIRED.

"I was so impressed with the loneliness, the air and the silence," Törmänen says. The post Breathtaking Self-Portraits Under Finland’s Northern Lights appeared first on WIRED.

A Mexico City entrepreneur has a pretty good idea for the Nest of temblor alarms, made for civilians. The post A New Earthquake Early-Warning System for Mexico City appeared first on WIRED.

The list of threats to your computer’s security grows daily: Keyloggers, trojans, ransomware...and now the rogue falafel sandwich. The post This Radio Bug Can Steal Laptop Crypto Keys, Fits Inside a Pita appeared first on WIRED.

There's Brad Bird and John Lasseter, but of the Pixar's core directors, is the best of them actually the man behind Inside Out? The post Pixar’s Best Director Is Also Its Most Underrated appeared first on WIRED.

WIRED helps you master the work-life mix, with a little help from Rashida Jones. The post Letter From the Editor: How to Make Work Your Happy Place appeared first on WIRED.

To summon the characters' messy lives, the title sequence mixes footage from the show with aerial views of modern-day California. The post How They Made True Detective’s Opening Credits So Eerie appeared first on WIRED.

The fast-food chain just made it way easier for cyclists to transport their Happy Meals. The post McDonald’s Targets Hipsters With Its Burger Bike Tote appeared first on WIRED.

GE collects sand from all over the world for the express purpose of firing it out of a hose and into its engines. The post GE Uses Sand From Around the World to Test Its Jet Engines appeared first on WIRED.

Last night we learned Dr. Frankenstein's second creation might be more monstrous than his first. The post Penny Dreadful GIF and a Graf: Pet Monsters Will Betray You appeared first on WIRED.

"We're using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry." The post All Airlines Have the Security Hole That Grounded Polish Planes appeared first on WIRED.

It was a fairly light week in trailers, but we still unearthed some treasures, like this clip from the filmmakers known as the Roadkill Superstars. The post Trailers This Week: Turbo Kids Is Full of Gore and Optimism appeared first on WIRED.

Taylor Swift is the harnessed power of the Internet---a lesson Apple just learned in a very public way. The post Taylor Swift Is the Queen of the Internet appeared first on WIRED.