It's amazing how much physics fun you can have with basic everyday stuff. Next time you’re watering the yard, stop and look at that simple spinning sprinkler. Watch the jets of water as th... Read more

In a speech late last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared blockchain “an important breakthrough,� and promised that China would “seize the opportunity.� He detailed the ways th... Read more

At WIRED25’s Saturday slime workshop, adults were invited to give in to the powerful, long-suppressed urge to squish gooey things and smell a variety of nostalgic eaux de childhood. Bins f... Read more

Inaugurating a very black moment, Vine began much like any other social network, and not until its demise was it realized what would be missed. Founded in 2012 by a trio of entrepreneurs—a... Read more

That’s because Filoni has been behind what, to me, are some of the most iconic moments in all of Star Wars—and if you only watch the movies, you missed them. In Rebels, he turned the fin... Read more

In the long run, that could place a cap on Disney’s streaming appeal. “Disney+ is not going to be a generalist service like Netflix or, to some extent, even Amazon,� says Tony Gunnarss... Read more

One of the most important people at the rally on December 14 was neither a politician nor an Amazon employee. Running operations behind the scenes alongside workers was a 23-year-old college... Read more

Last week, when Google gobbled up Fitbit in a $2.1 billion acquisition, the talk was mostly about what the company would do with all that wrist-jingling and power-walking data. It’s no sec... Read more

Dismissing Uber’s own self-driving errors as mere “mistakes� feels wrong, too (although on a different order of magnitude). Especially given the raft of documents released last week by... Read more

Fish are dying and Surface users are crying, but first: a cartoon about a modern-day death wish.Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute round... Read more