How robots mess with our minds
Robots can make you do surprising things, says Alexander Reben, whose talking bots have elicited secrets from passers-by, festival-goers and even astronauts.

July 17, 2015 at 03:54AM
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You Need to Buy a Weather Radio
If you’re reading this at home, chances are you can look up from the screen and see at least one smoke detector. These life-saving devices are able to alert you to smoke from a fire, letting you get out before it’s too late. Weather radios do the same thing for hazards like tornadoes and floods.

July 16, 2015 at 09:15PM
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The Fastest Spaceships, Real And Fictional
Our actual space technology just can’t keep up to the space technology we dream up, as this infographic shows all too clearly.

July 16, 2015 at 02:27PM
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A close look at Marshall’s gorgeous new London smartphone
From nowhere, Marshall leaked plans this morning for a smartphone called London, which it designed with all of the retro style and texture of one of its classic guitar amps. It’s a seriously cool look for a smartphone that no one else has really tried before.

July 16, 2015 at 08:50AM
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Oh Good, Someone Built A Drone The Fires A Handgun
For the record, attaching a firearm to a civil aircraft is, in the words of the FAA, “super illegal.” What’s scary is this thing seems to work reasonably well.

July 16, 2015 at 08:16AM
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This Biotech Discovery Means You’ll Never Need a Painful Flu Shot Again
The worst part about getting vaccinated is the shot. I don’t care how much of a badass you are, it’s still painful and annoying. But now a group of researchers in Japan have tested a new “dissolving needle” that is basically a painless patch that you stick to your arm. And it works.

July 16, 2015 at 07:38AM
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How Better Technology Can Help Fix US Immigration
A technology research team assembled by the White House just released a report on how to use technology to streamline the immigration process. Sounds like it could get technical right? Well, the US immigration process is almost all paper based, so the proposed fixes are pretty simple. Wired explains what some of the easy fixes are.

July 15, 2015 at 11:15PM
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Why The Death Of The Blog Is Threatening Democracy
Hossein Derakhshan spent six years in an Iranian jail for writing a revolutionary political blog. When he got out seven months ago, he was shocked to find that the vibrant blog community that he went to jail for was dying, and was being replaced by social media. Here’s why he believes this is a political death.

July 15, 2015 at 10:12PM
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The End Of Payday: How Activehours Is Giving Freelancers More Freedom
Most on-demand companies are focused on creating greater efficiency for employers, not employees. But Activehours hopes to buck that trend, making payday as flexible as the future of work is supposed to be.

July 15, 2015 at 07:29PM
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The New Head Trip
Virtual-reality travel might just revolutionize tourism — while turning us all into shut-ins.

July 15, 2015 at 06:16PM
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