Director Peter Jackson and FXguide’s Mike Seymour reveal how a pivotal seven-minute action sequence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was created with a combined 98 hours of footage from aerial shots, green-screen sets, live-action shoots, and complex CG environments.

Lead systems engineer Jason Lopes walks us through the process of creating a maquette—a 10 to 18-inch 3-D figure—which gives the team a tangible and highly detailed representation of the creature.

We've all been there: You dropped your iPhone on the ground and sometimes it shatters into a billion pieces, but sometimes it's completely fine. What happens if you drop a 55-lb safe on top of it? YouTuber KuSh SuDrA dared us to test it, and we did. Find out what happened.

Justin and Erik ask fans for their picks on upcoming items to smash.

Tech writer Brent Rose debunks a study claiming smartphones are as good as wearables at tracking activity. From the Fitbit Charge HR to the iPhone 6, Brent's stress tests uncover compelling results that demonstrate why wearables with heart rate monitors win.

Action cams can handle a lot—or so they say. See which camera comes out on top when we put the GoPro Hero4 Silver, Sony HDRAS20/B, and Contour Roam3 up against one another.

Learn how to use light and position your subjects for stunning smartphone images. Retouch your photos with VSCO Cam, one of the best free photo editing apps.

Security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger can hack into TrackingPoint self-aiming rifles and make the famously accurate guns miss the intended target.

The Wove Band by Polyera is the first wearable with a flexible touchscreen display. The devices won't be publicly available until 2016, but Polyera CEO Phil Inagaki gave us a behind the scenes look at some prototypes, and talked with us about his design philosophy.

In Star Wars Episode III the TIE starfighter suffered a devastating blow from asteroid impact. Watch a slo-mo Lego replica of the crushing scene.

Until truly great natural-recognition gesture tech catches on and we get RFID chips embedded in our forearms, smart rings could be the closest thing to truly seamless wearable technology.

The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco and Oakland, is being methodically dismantled, piece by incredibly heavy piece. Here's how 2,500 ton truss supports will be removed.

The Super Bowl is as much about the commercials as it is the football, but this year the ads weren't made for your big TV.

"Big things getting smaller" was the overarching theme for Apple's latest announcements. The company just launched a 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro.

Not everyone loves big phones. In fact Apple sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015. Now you can buy that small phone without having to sacrifice on performance. The iPhoneSE is small, much more affordable and packed with power.

Apple wants you to replace your old iPad, and your old laptop, with a new iPad Pro. With a keyboard case, the new Pencil, and all the features from Apple’s largest tablet, could the 9.7-inch Pro be your next computer?

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.

A team within Motorola has been working on a crazy plan: to let users decide how their smartphone should look, and how it should work. The result is called the Moto Z, and it’s about to hit stores.

The Smart Remote is an intuitive and simple solution to controlling all the smart devices in the modern home.

The Watch Sport and Watch Style from LG are the first to market with the newest improvements from Android Wear 2.0.

Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem.

The Armatix iP1 pistol and its RFID watch, are sold as one of the most secure firearm systems available. But a hacker, who goes by 'Plore', has found flaws in the Armatix that entirely defeat its security measures.

Mouser Electronics Brand Ambassador, Grant Imahara, sat down with our WIRED Brand Lab Editor to identify the global challenges that our major cities are facing. It’s these key challenges that will help dictate where Grant travels to and why. Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab

The city of the future calls for more connectivity. Porto company Veniam is leading that charge by incorporating a wifi mesh network to this old-world city. Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab

How do we feed a growing population in areas where land is scarce? Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab

Hunting plumbing, not cartoons with augmented reality.

You Can't Buy a Better Android Phone Than the Pixel 2. In almost every way, the Pixel 2 is the iPhone of Android phones. And that's a compliment.

We traveled around the world with Grant Imahara to discover global solutions to the challenges that most of our major cities are facing. Now it's time to discuss what we uncovered.

Digital assistants like Alexa and Google home have made sci-fi a reality. At CES 2018, we check out the next generation of products that will make our lives easier and more connected.

Los Angeles to Las Vegas. It’s not just when you get there, it’s how you get there. See Jeff Garlin and Susie Essman race to the Strip in the original short film, "The Bet". Produced by WIRED with The Lincoln Motor Company.

The launch of Apple’s iPhone X brought face recognition, animoji, and the notch into the mainstream.

BRANDED CONTENT | Produced by Glamour and WIRED Brand Lab for smartwater. Entrepreneurs Aminatou Sow, Joe Holder, Billie Whitehouse, and Jessica Nabongo define what success means to them and how to achieve it your way.

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At least three lakh small-scale retail merchants in the state are facing serious threat to their businesses, including imminent closure of their establishments, according to an analysis by Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi (KVVES). The Samithi also demanded immediate intervention of the state and central governments and announce adequate financial packages.

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