Are Rock Band and Guitar Hero really coming back? And is that a good idea? WIRED editors discuss it on this week's Game|Life podcast. The post Game|Life Podcast: Is It a Good Idea to Bring Guitar Hero Back? appeared first on WIRED.

An Israeli man arrested last month for allegedly hacking Madonna’s private accounts and stealing demos of her unreleased album first began targeting the singer way back in 2012, according to authorities. He apparently hacked not only cloud storage accounts to steal and sell her music but also breached more than a dozen email accounts associated […] The post Aspiring Israeli Singer Indicted for Hacking Madonna Since 2012 appeared first on WIRED.

The Parks and Recreation finale, the end of awards season, and Conan O'Brien's virgin voyage on Grindr—it's all here in this week's best TV roundup. The post This Week’s Best TV: Conan O’Brien Goes Boyfriend Hunting appeared first on WIRED.

The idea of industry-specific Top Level Domains (TLDs) has always been a bit of a novelty. Purchasing the rights to your very own domain always seems like a great idea at the time – but experts reckon it doesn’t make a lick of sense from a branding or SEO point of view. Well, Google’s latest […] The post Is Google’s Latest TLD Purchase a Game-Changer? appeared first on WIRED.

In 2015, one thing is clear, startups are continuing to dominate. Entrepreneurs are using their visions and abilities to overturn industries. But for all that makes entrepreneurs different, the successful ones share one common practice: they are able to learn and adapt while making their vision a reality. Below, I list some of the lessons […] The post What I Wish I Knew in My 20s as an Entrepreneur appeared first on WIRED.

Our first look at Google's new headquarters. The post Your First Look at Google’s Reconfigurable, See-Through HQ appeared first on WIRED.

Leonard Nimoy, the legendary actor known to the world as Star Trek's Mr. Spock, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83. Almost as soon as word of his passing hit the Internet, friends, former co-stars, and fans began expressing grief over the actor's passing. The post How the Internet Is Remembering the Legendary Leonard Nimoy appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook is releasing a new iPhone app through the Apple App Store, but it’s not for everyone. It’s for the world’s software designers. This morning, the social networking giant unloaded an app-ified version of Origami, the primary design tool the company used in creating Facebook Paper—the rather impressive news reader it released last year—as well […] The post Facebook Shares Its Design Secrets in the Apple App Store appeared first on WIRED.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden didn’t mince words during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Monday when he said the NSA and the British spy agency GCHQ had “screwed all of us” when it hacked into the Dutch firm Gemalto to steal cryptographic keys used in billions of mobile SIM cards worldwide. “When the NSA […] The post Snowden: Spy Agencies ‘Screwed All of Us’ in Hacking Crypto Keys appeared first on WIRED.

UAVs let volcano scientists get unprecedented views of molten craters. The post Drone Vs. Volcano: How Robotic Flyers are Changing Exploration appeared first on WIRED.

The new generation of “maker” tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything—from prosthetic limbs to firearms—in the privacy and convenience of his or her own home. But first, those tools have to get to customers’ homes. That’s going to be difficult for at least one new machine with […] The post FedEx Refuses to Ship a Digital Mill That Can Make Untraceable Guns appeared first on WIRED.

The rapid recovery of the land after a volcanic eruption means that some impressive eruptions can be obscured geologically quick. The post New Volcano Identified in Central Colombia appeared first on WIRED.

People will more readily dismiss unwelcome evidence if it is psychological in nature, than if it is from neuroscience. The post People Are More Willing To Dismiss Evidence From Psychology Than Brain Science appeared first on WIRED.

Pebble's next gen smartwatch, Pebble Time, hopes to simplify the smartwatch user experience in an affordable, water-resistant design. The post Pebble Rethinks Its Smartwatch With a Colorful, Easier to Use Model appeared first on WIRED.

In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy a panel of sci-fi fans discusses whether or not geeks should go out and see films like Jupiter Ascending. The post Should Sci-Fi Fans Support Bad Movies Like Jupiter Ascending? appeared first on WIRED.

On the evening of 23 March 1983, President Ronald Reagan addressed the people of the United States from the Oval Office. Citing aggressive moves on the part of the Soviet Union, he defended proposed increases in U.S. military spending and the introduction of new missiles and bombers. He then called for a revolution in U.S. […] The post Strategic Defense: Military Uses of the Moon & Asteroids (1983) appeared first on WIRED.

Without a true Titan in the mix recently, a small herd of festival darlings, documentaries, indie ventures, and TV projects are dominating this week's best trailers. If that's your jam, come on in! The post Week’s Best Trailers: M. Night Shyamalan’s New TV Show Kind of Looks Good appeared first on WIRED.

The latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy goes deep into the world of horror podcasts. The post Inside the Insomnia-Inducing World of Horror Podcasting appeared first on WIRED.

This week the Internet was all aflutter with talk of Big Bird, Jessica Williams, YouTube's 10th anniversary, and ... murder? Read all about it here. The post While You Were Offline: An Epic Supercut Celebrates 10 Years of YouTube appeared first on WIRED.

On this week's episode of the Game|Life podcast, Bo Moore and Peter Rubin join me for what can only be called a wide-ranging discussion. The post Game|Life Podcast: Awkward VR Porn Conversation, Then Kirby appeared first on WIRED.

Last week we published an investigation into the vaccination rates at day care facilities associated with Bay Area technology companies. Of 12 facilities associated with Silicon Valley firms, six—including those for Pixar and Google—had subpar vaccination rates. Our report drew on official numbers provided by those facilities to the California Department of Public Health. But soon after we published our story, some of the companies with low rates contended that the DPH data is out of date, and that the numbers do not reflect a refusal on the part of their employees to vaccinate their kids. The post Pixar and Google Employees Are Vaccinating Their Kids, Say Pixar and Google appeared first on WIRED.

“Someone stole my BlackBerry yesterday. It has since been returned.” … “What did the iPhone say to the BlackBerry? iWork.” Admit it. You’ve made fun of a BlackBerry user before. It might’ve been a smug smile to a fellow subway passenger or a covered smirk at your uncle. The uncle whose BlackBerry is from corporate […] The post The BlackBerry Classic: Brain or Blunder? appeared first on WIRED.

Pinterest has built a system called Stingray, a platform that streams events in real-time so that Pinterest’s Black Ops spam team can catch any activity that looks suspicious and shut it down within milliseconds. The post Pinterest Unveils Its New Spam-Fighting Tool appeared first on WIRED.

Spring evenings in New York City can be magic. Sometimes a lingering winter chill will settle in just after dark, but I remember one Tuesday in April1 2010 as particularly spectacular: The air was cool instead of cold, carrying the first hint of a thaw, and it was crystalline—the better to watch the sun set […] The post Letter From the Editor: What It’s Like to Fall in Love in the Digital Age appeared first on WIRED.

It took this chair 7 hours to fully assemble itself. Not lightning fast, but an impressive starting point. The post Mad Scientists at MIT Are Designing Chairs That Assemble Themselves appeared first on WIRED.

You’ve probably heard about duck penises—that they’re shaped like corkscrews, and that females have vaginas that corkscrew in the opposite direction. That one’s easy. But animal sex gets a whole lot weirder, with sexual dismemberment, servitude, and freaky parasitism that makes the duck’s corkscrew seem practically…um…straight? The current issue of our magazine is all about […] The post Animal Sex Is Dangerous and Horrifying. So Why Does Sex Exist at All? appeared first on WIRED.

Marc Lore, CEO of Jet.com, wants to do more than compete with Amazon. He wants to help small merchants compete, as well. The post Crushing Amazon Would Be Nice, But Jet.com Also Wants to Boost Small Merchants appeared first on WIRED.

What do rigidity detectors, VHS tapes, and penile strain gauges all have in common? Aside from making people uncomfortable, they are all part of the collection of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Sarah Sudhoff photographed these and more for her series Wired, in which she clinically documented these somewhat wonky-looking devices used for experiments in sex research. The post Penile Strain Gauges and Other Strange Devices of Sex Science appeared first on WIRED.

Ecology has always been a bit doughy compared to subject like physics, chemistry, and hell, even biology. But cut ecologists some slack. The places they study, like alpine prairies, peat bogs, or oases, are the diametric opposite of controlled lab settings. So how do you bring hard data to the study of life on our soft planet? A new map. The post New Map Shows the World’s Ecosystems in Unprecedented Detail appeared first on WIRED.

Ferrari put Sebastian Vettel behind the wheel of the FXX K on its private track at Fiorano. The post Watch Ferrari’s F1 Star Take Its $2.9M Supercar for a Spin appeared first on WIRED.

WIRED editors discuss the ongoing troubles of Sonic the Hedgehog, Peter Molyneux, and more. The post Game|Life Podcast: Sonic the Hedgehog, Godus, and Other Dying Things appeared first on WIRED.

President Barack Obama announced a new Executive Order today aimed at facilitating the sharing of information about cyber-threats between private sector companies and the government. Speaking at a cybersecurity summit convened by the White House at Stanford University, Obama signed the order on stage to promote information sharing both within the private sector and between […] The post Obama’s New Order Urges Companies to Share Cyber-Threat Info With the Government appeared first on WIRED.

For dudes who like to notch their belts or track miscellaneous pants-related data, the fact that men produce 1,500 sperm every second seems impressive. But that comes at a cost: babies. Women can choose among a wide variety of birth control methods, but options for men are limited to slip-ons or snips. For now. A […] The post We’re Closer Than Ever to a Birth Control Pill for Men appeared first on WIRED.

For those who don't want to look like a spaz wearing high-tech ski googles. The post A Pixar-Inspired Projector That Beams VR Into an Entire Room appeared first on WIRED.

Every movie started somewhere as a tiny shadow of an idea, a single-celled organism that evolved into a walking, talking, fighting, exploding, and complex being. And if we look at the DNA, if you will, of these organisms, we can trace their origins. Here is a breakdown of the primordial soup that brought Kingsman: The Secret Service to the big screen. The post Kingsman’s DNA Is Like a Mash-Up of James Bond and Kick-Ass appeared first on WIRED.

For years, the FDA has made it nearly impossible to figure out where serious lapses in medical research has contributed to faulty drugs. The post Infoporn: Proof That the FDA Isn’t Protecting Americans’ Health appeared first on WIRED.

On January 15, Osiris Aristy opened up Facebook, posted a photo of a gun and wrote, “feel like katxhin a body right now.” Later that night, he added, “Nigga run up on me, he gunna get blown down” and followed that with an emoji of a police officer and three gun emoji pointing at it. After […] The post That ;) You Type Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law appeared first on WIRED.

When Andrew Ng trained Google’s army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags. Google’s worldwide network of data centers housed more computers than he needed for the job, but harnessing all that power wasn’t easy. When a server broke down—an everyday occurrence when you’re using 1,000 machines at […] The post The Hot Yet Little-Known Trend That’ll Supercharge AI appeared first on WIRED.

A new study uses Twitter complaints to look at how riders feel about their public transit systems. The post The Best and Worst Public Transit Systems, According to Twitter appeared first on WIRED.

Though there are many ways to have a sexual rendezvous, there are few so varied, convenient, and strange as the love hotels of Japan. From a high school classroom to a Hello Kitty-themed dungeon to the inevitable, and cliched, sexy nurse, the options are endless and often creepy. Misty Keasler captured this surreal underworld in Love Hotels: […] The post Japanese Sex Hotels Cater to All Kinds of Fetishes, Even Hello Kitty S&M appeared first on WIRED.

In what is arguably the most famous scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur faces the Black Knight, relieving him of his limbs even though he’s wearing some nice chain mail. But there’s a Black Knight in the depths of the Indian Ocean whose armor doesn’t yield to blows quite so easily. […] The post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Badass Snail That Has a Shell Made of Iron appeared first on WIRED.

Yesterday, an unmanned experimental spacecraft from the European Space Agency took off from French Guiana and, 100 minutes later, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos Islands. The spacecraft, called the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, or IXV, didn’t look like your standard cone, though. It looked more—well, cinematic, for lack of a better word, kind of like a miniature space shuttle minus the wings and tail. And that odd shape might presage the future of space travel. The post Why Europe’s Experimental Spaceship Is Shaped So Weirdly appeared first on WIRED.

LinkedIn is changing the way outside services plug into its popular business-centric social network. The post LinkedIn Follows Twitter’s Lead and Cuts Lines to Outside Apps and Sites appeared first on WIRED.

It defies all conventional wisdom, producing a new design that motorsports badly needs. The post Nissan’s Outlandish New Race Car Is a Much-Needed Dose of Insanity appeared first on WIRED.

There’s been a lot of shaming and blaming of the anti-vaccination crowd in response to the Disneyland measles outbreak (even we did it). And when we released our investigation of vaccination rates at Silicon Valley preschools, people were justifiably angry: Every unvaccinated kid at those schools threatens the greater community’s protection against disease. But yelling at anti-vaxxers […] The post How to Get Silicon Valley’s Anti-Vaxxers to Change Their Minds appeared first on WIRED.

It’s hard to read a blog or news site these days without stumbling across an article about why everyone should learn to code. It’s a rallying cry that’s given rise to organizations like Codecademy and Code.org. It’s even cracked the national political agenda, with ex US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor having declared that “becoming literate […] The post Should We Really Try to Teach Everyone to Code? appeared first on WIRED.

Companies are using IBM Watson to grow and transform their businesses in huge ways that are making a lot of professionals nervous. Instead of writing it off as “another new supercomputer,” let’s take a look at what actually makes Watson unique. Watson is a cognitive technology that processes information much more like a smart human […] The post What Can Watson Do for Your Company? appeared first on WIRED.

A new study shows how dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry faces, the first strong evidence that an animal other than humans can discriminate between emotional expressions in another species. The post If You’re Happy and You Know It — So Does Your Dog appeared first on WIRED.

This new iPad case isn't a touchscreen typing revelation, but it is an intriguing look at how we might supercharge our flat glass gizmos in the future. The post This iPad Case Makes Real Buttons Rise Out of Your Keyboard appeared first on WIRED.