Long ago, your parents probably gave you some advice: never borrow money from a friend. More importantly: never let your friends borrow from you. If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that mixing money and friendship rarely ends in anything other than blood and tears. The post This App Wants You to Borrow Money From Friends, Not Banks appeared first on WIRED.

Simple, hands-off rules for testing self-driving cars could draw new investors to English shores. The post The UK Just Made Itself a Fantastic Place to Test Self-Driving Cars appeared first on WIRED.

Today Facebook announced that you can choose an heir to run your page after you die. This move has many practical, important implications, not least that it empowers families to either delete or moderate a loved one’s page in a way that they feel is right. The post How to Ask Your BFF if She’ll Run Your Facebook Page When You Die appeared first on WIRED.

This week's best music videos are a tribute to doing more with less. More specifically, they're a testament to the fact that you don't need a lot of money to bring your music to life visually, you just need a lot of heart and a handful of friends who are down for whatever. Or you need to be a witch. Being a witch also increases your odds of making something worthwhile—or at least attention-getting. The post The Week’s Best Music Videos: Haim Teams With Calvin Harris to Channel Stevie Nicks appeared first on WIRED.

That new Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack is kinda bangin'. (Pardon the pun.) The movie, not so much. It's not the first time that's happened. The post Fifty Shades of Grey Isn’t the First Soundtrack To Outshine Its Movie appeared first on WIRED.

Patrick Smith's games constitute an alternate universe where curiosity and delight rule above all else. The post I Wish More Games Were as Weird as This Guy’s Interactive Alphabet appeared first on WIRED.

As strange as it might seem, there really have been things happening in the world of superhero movies recently other than the Sony/Marvel Spider-Man deal. Don't take our word for it, though. Read on to catch up on the biggest stories of the past seven days' worth of superhero movie news. The post Cape Watch: Angelina Jolie Just Might Direct Captain Marvel appeared first on WIRED.

Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It’s also what allows those same hackers’ dangerous malware to be deconstructed and neutered. Now a new encryption trick could make both those tasks much, much harder. At […] The post A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer appeared first on WIRED.

Lego X, a new project that uses a set of networked Lego bricks to build digital 3-D files. The post Software That Turns Your Lego Masterpiece Into a Digital Building appeared first on WIRED.

You’re a fan of Kick-Ass. You’re a fan of X-Men (First Class, not X3 or the Wolverine dreck). You might not know it, but that means you’re a fan of Jane Goldman. She’s the screenwriter behind every comic book turned Matthew Vaughn-directed movie. The post The Master Screenwriter Who Transforms Your Favorite Comics Into Movies appeared first on WIRED.

Even though every caution label and trigger warning screamed at me not to, and even though I knew what would happen to my head and my stomach if I did, I watched the video of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by ISIS militants. (The video is not linked there, by the way.) In another […] The post Why I Can’t Stop Watching Horrifying ISIS Decapitation Videos appeared first on WIRED.

Earlier this week, 48 people were stranded for hours before being rescued from a subway train that suffered a power failure in the midst of a blizzard. Firefighters were forced to clear a path through the snow so passengers could make their way to shuttle buses and continue their journey. Part of the problem? A significant portion of Boston's subway cars aren't made for running in heavy snow. The post How Snow Can Cripple Boston’s Subway Cars appeared first on WIRED.

What would make you run for your life? A natural disaster? Being chased? Gunfire? Though few people have had an Indiana-Jones-rolling-boulder-experience, everyone understands the primal fear that can rip through you in a heartbeat. Steven Brahms experiments with that panic and perception in his series The Evasion Studies, raising the question of what is “real” and what […] The post Photographer Imagines What It Looks Like to Run for Your Life appeared first on WIRED.