With the new Android 5.1 update, which began rolling out yesterday in the U.S., your phone will remember which networks you attempt to connect with have crappy Wi-Fi. The post Google Just Fixed One of Wi-Fi’s Biggest Annoyances appeared first on WIRED.

The BMW Isetta was small, cool and practical. It's too bad cars aren't small and cool anymore. The post Tiny BMW Makes Us Long for the Days When Cars Were Cool appeared first on WIRED.

Cheap phones are already pretty good now. Samsung's latest flash-storage chip, which offers 128GB, will make them even better. The post New Samsung Tech Will Give Cheap Phones Tons of Storage appeared first on WIRED.

The Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) wing has 18 electrically powered propellers attached to it. The post NASA Straps 18 Propellers to a Wing, Because Science appeared first on WIRED.

What's going to change the gaming world more: Steam and HTC's crazy VR headset, or Nintendo making free-to-play smartphone games? The post Game|Life Podcast: Trying Out Valve’s Mind-Blowing VR Demos appeared first on WIRED.

“These dogs won’t just go 1,000 miles for anyone. They have to really love the person they are running for.” The post The Inspiring Sled Dogs and Stunning Views at Iditarod appeared first on WIRED.

Over the past weekend, the massive online black market known as Evolution halted withdrawals of bitcoin from its market site, telling users that it was dealing with technical difficulties. Then on Tuesday evening, both its market and user forum went offline, with no opportunity for drug buyers and sellers to pull out the funds they had stored in their Evolution accounts. The result has been a wave of panic that's shaken the online black market economy as much as any of the law enforcement drug busts of the last two years. The post The Dark Web’s Top Drug Market, Evolution, Just Vanished appeared first on WIRED.

John Maeda has delivered the data to prove it: Design is more integral to good business than ever before. The post Take It From an Expert: Design Is More Important Than Ever appeared first on WIRED.

More than 11 million people may have had their medical records exposed by hackers who breached Premera Blue Cross over a recent 10-month period. The post Hackers May Have Taken Medical Records From Insurer Premera appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook is already the place where you spend your time. Now it wants to be where you spend your money. The post You Can Now Send Money on Facebook. What’s in It for Them? appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook's latest open source project is already winning over the likes of Dropbox and Netflix. The post Open Source Works. Just Ask Facebook appeared first on WIRED.

So long, random string of letters, characters, and numbers. Hello, well, Windows Hello. The post Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Ditch Passwords in Windows 10 appeared first on WIRED.

"The new revolution is really about redefining the interior experience," Fisker says. The post The Coolest Thing About This Custom Aston Is Its…Interior appeared first on WIRED.

How did Jony and Tim dream up the design of Apple's new, crazy-thin MacBook? Turns out, it was a happy accident. Aaaaiiiiii! The post The True* Origin Story of the New MacBook appeared first on WIRED.

Good news, horrible people: Cards Against Humanity now has an app you can play anywhere. The post Now You Can Play Cards Against Humanity on Your Phone appeared first on WIRED.

The attacks on Pao's character during a tough cross-exam are at the heart of Kleiner's strategy to show that her lack of advancement at the firm was not due to gender discrimination. The post Kleiner Lawyer: Ellen Pao Made a Co-Worker Cry appeared first on WIRED.

Google CFO Patrick Pichette's resignation letter has spoken to the frustrations of overworked professionals everywhere by daring to utter a taboo truth: You are not just your job. The post Google CFO’s Touching Farewell Note Almost Redeems Google+ appeared first on WIRED.

As every grade-school kid will confirm, chameleons are special because they can change color. But how these little critters pull off their magic act has always been a little fuzzy. For a long time, scientists thought the color change—which only occurs in males—was controlled by pigment-containing organelles. But it turns out the mechanism actually has more […] The post The Secret to How Chameleons Change Color: Nanocrystals appeared first on WIRED.

Check out the premiere of the first trailer for the South by Southwest documentary Planetary right here. The post Premiere: Check Out the Trailer for the New Space Doc Planetary appeared first on WIRED.

The Pixel will feel amazing to the hardest of hardcore Google fans: people who live in Chrome all day, and heavy users of Google's web apps. For everyone else, it isn't very useful. The post Review: Google Chromebook Pixel (2015) appeared first on WIRED.

Last month, a jury convicted Ross Ulbricht as the ringleader of the notorious Silk Road website. The largest online black market, until it was shutdown by the Federal government in 2013, was the poster child of the so-called “Deep Web” and was best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. Meanwhile, Darpa unveiled on […] The post What’s Lurking in the Deep End of the Internet? appeared first on WIRED.

In 2010, a major earthquake sparked the worst cholera outbreak Haiti has seen in recent history. Five years and nearly 9,000 lost lives later, there’s an interesting question to be asked: Could better architecture have saved lives? A newly opened cholera treatment center in Port-au-Prince might provide a tentative answer to that question. Despite cholera’s […] The post A Building Designed to Solve Haiti’s Cholera Problem appeared first on WIRED.

Slowly at first and then suddenly — that’s the signature of exponential growth. Out at sea, a tsunami is an almost imperceptible swell. But when it rises up and hits you, unlike a normal wave it just keeps on coming. We are all constantly bombarded by hype on technology trends but there are two genuine […] The post When the Internet of Things and Smart Machines Collide appeared first on WIRED.

AT&T made history 63 years ago when it launched the $40 million microwave radio-relay skyway, a network of 107 microwave towers. The post The Abandoned Microwave Towers That Once Connected the US appeared first on WIRED.

Pao sought to portray herself as an employee whose career stagnated not because she lacked the qualifications but because of gender discrimination. The post Pao Testifies to Withering Bias at Kleiner appeared first on WIRED.

As notifications on wrists draws more attention away from smartphone screens, apps will recede even further. The post The Apple Watch Is About to Make Apps an Afterthought appeared first on WIRED.

It’s an auspicious start, but a small step on a 20,000-mile journey. The post Solar-Powered Plane Begins Its Journey Around the World appeared first on WIRED.

In a fascinating panel presentation at GDC last week, Disney’s Bei Yang encouraged game developers to think outside of VR goggles. The post For Disney, the Future of VR Goes Beyond a Headset appeared first on WIRED.

Didn't catch the new Game of Thrones trailer during today's Apple event? No worries, we got it right here. The post Khaleesi Stops Playing Around in New Game of Thrones Teaser appeared first on WIRED.

The Shield, graphics chip maker Nvidia’s stab at a living room box that can play 4K streaming video as well as games, seems a bit odd. The post Why You Don’t Need Nvidia’s Shield—And a Reason You Might appeared first on WIRED.

Apple's going to give us all the details about its Watch on Monday. Here's how to watch the event live from your computer, phone, or tablet. The post How to Livestream Monday’s Apple Watch Event appeared first on WIRED.

It's been an up-and-down week on the web. "George R. R. Martin" sang some Taylor Swift and Twitter reacted to Harrison Ford's plane crash. Read it all here. The post While You Were Offline: The George R.R. Martin/Taylor Swift Mashup of Your Dreams appeared first on WIRED.

In the latest episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, Chappie co-writer Terri Tatchell talks about why the film is an "R-rated fairy tale." The post Chappie Is Pretty Much an R-Rated Fairy Tale appeared first on WIRED.

The world's biggest smartphone show just wrapped up in Barcelona. We look at the best handsets, wearables, and other mobile gadgets from the expo floor. The post The 16 Coolest Gadgets We Saw at Mobile World Congress appeared first on WIRED.

Amazon has been struggling to make inroads in China. Now it’s turned to the same venue as every other retailer hoping to reach Chinese shoppers online: Alibaba. The post Amazon Opens a Storefront on Archrival Alibaba’s Site appeared first on WIRED.

It's powering Delphi's efforts to offer aftermarket connected car systems. The post Cloud Computing Can Make Any Old Beater a Connected Car appeared first on WIRED.

We try our best every week to bring you the best of what you missed on late night TV, but if you think we left anything out ... well, groupsie daisy! The post This Week in TV: Bunnies in Utah Have a Weed Problem appeared first on WIRED.

More than 70 exhibitors showed off dozens of amazing new cars at Geneva this year. Here are some of our favorites. The post Our 10 Favorite New Cars at the Geneva Motor Show appeared first on WIRED.

The first survey of New York City Rats in 90 years finds some have fleas that can carry plague. But don't panic. The post Plague, Fleas, and the Rats of New York City appeared first on WIRED.

Ray Lane---former chairman of HP and president of Oracle, and a partner emeritus at storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers---said in court on Monday that he made a mistake in handling a sexual harassment report that was brought to his attention at the firm. The post Kleiner Partner Didn’t Immediately Investigate Harassment appeared first on WIRED.

This is what some scientists do on their day off: hunt the crawl spaces of New York City for rats. How many rats can you find in this photo? Cadhla Firth, Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University In 2013, New York City’s Health Department made over 95,000 rat inspections. The Health Department keeps tabs on […] The post How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War appeared first on WIRED.

We wanted to know just how magical Magic is. So I was given a mission: Spend $500 stress-testing Magic. Bring it. The post I Spent $500 Trying to Stump the Magic Delivery Service appeared first on WIRED.

A neurosurgeon thinks he can sew one person's head on another person's body, and he thinks he can do it in two years. What's the problem? Um, everything. The post Full-Body Transplants Are a Crazy, Wildly Unethical Idea appeared first on WIRED.

Meet Sony's new Xperia mobiles: a light and slim 10-inch tablet, a mid-range waterproof smartphone, and two low-end phones, all with Android 5.0 Lollipop on board. The post Sony Unveils an Impressive New Generation of Xperia Devices appeared first on WIRED.

SkyWard helps drone pilots navigate local regulations. The post The Internet of Anything: A Shortcut to Your Drone License appeared first on WIRED.

On stage at the Mobile World Congress, the Facebook CEO tried to convince telecom operators that the free services offered by Internet.org won't kill their businesses. The post Zuckerberg Tells Telecoms Not to Fear Facebook appeared first on WIRED.

The Veyron stands as the apex of the old-school automobile, a testament to the power of technology used without conscience or compromise. The post We’ll Never See a Supercar Like the Bugatti Veyron Again appeared first on WIRED.

If you own an iPhone or Android handset and care about your privacy, there’s no longer much of an excuse not to encrypt every conversation you have. Now a free, zero-learning-curve app exists for both text and voice that can keep those communications fully encrypted, so that no one but the person holding the phone […] The post One Free iPhone App Now Enables Encrypted Voice Calls and Texts appeared first on WIRED.

World View broke the record for the highest-altitude parafoil flight late last week and inched closer to making near-space tourism a reality in the process. The post Flight Brings Us Closer to Balloon-Powered Space Tourism appeared first on WIRED.

In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, musician Amanda Palmer talks about her new book The Art of Asking and dealing with Internet backlash. The post Amanda Palmer: Internet Rage Is Just Part of Being a Celeb appeared first on WIRED.