Find out how the visual effects came together for the end of season five on Game of Thrones, including Daenerys' elaborate and cinematic escape with her drogon.

The Force Awakens isn't even in theaters yet but the new Star Wars toys are already out. None is more exciting than Sphero's swivel-headed ball of cute, the BB-8 robot. Here's how the little toy company built the droid we are all looking for.

Do you get 8.7 hours of sleep every night? Spend a daily total of 30 minutes in the bathroom? Use Facebook for 40 minutes (and Tinder for 77 minutes) each day? If so, you just might be the most average person in the U.S.

A physics professor re-imagines the size and shape of an NFL football in an effort to optimize it for flight. It turns out a couple of small changes can add a whole lot of distance, but how would that change the way the game is played?

“We beat the hell out of each other for weeks.” James Bond stars, Dave Bautista and 007 himself, Daniel Craig, explain how they ended up with a fractured nose and an emergency knee surgery by not holding back during the fight sequences in the new “Spectre” film.

Find out how camera lenses take after moths by mimicking the way they absorb and hold in light.

The rise of ADHD diagnoses over the years has generated $13 billion in revenue for the companies that produce ADHD medication in the United States. Find out how the increase in attention deficit hyperactivity disorders is resulting in a big payday for big pharma.

No foreign data while traveling abroad? No problem. From navigating map apps in offline mode, to saving digital copies of your important travel documents, this episode of Good As Gold has you covered. Use these tips from travel vlogger Peter Bragiel (pdrop) to survive abroad when your data doesn’t follow you.

Print those selfies immediately! Polaroid's Snap camera is perfect for any party and it costs less than $100.

Robot museum guides, bitcoin ATMS, and levitation trains – no this isn’t a sci-fi movie, its a travel guide. In this episode of Good As Gold, we give tech-lovers the thing they’ve been missing: tech-centric travel recommendations. Get a closer look at two of the most advanced cities in the world with the help of travel pros Claire Marshall and Peter Bragiel.

Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers.

Thanks to "room-scale" VR, full-body gaming is coming. WIRED's Peter Rubin tries out "Raw Data," a first-person shooter that turns players into jumping, shooting, crouching, katana-slicing action heroes. Your living room will never be the same again.

Captain America: Civil War trailer

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.

Canon's new ME20F-SH has bananas low-light capabilities. We shot some footage to show off its see-in-the-dark skills but be warned it'll cost you over $20K.

These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes.

Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent.

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.

If humans are going to get to Mars, they're going to need rockets with some serious liftoff power. NASA’s Space Launch System is the most powerful rocket in the world and engineers are going to blast it, for testing purposes, of course.

GoPro's Hero4 Black costs $500, and the Yi 4K costs $250, which one is better? Not the expensive one.

This 238-foot beauty isn’t just oddly comfortable—it comes equipped with some serious tech for some serious oceanography.

The iPhone 7 is here. It has a great new camera, a bunch of new color options, but let's not talk about the headphone jack.

Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting.

America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers.

The tech giant released a slew of new hardware, including two new smartphones, a VR-headset and a home assistant. Here's everything from the Google event.

GoPro's new 4K cameras, the Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, aim to deliver the best GoPro experience yet. Brent Rose takes them through their paces, and compares the Hero5 to Garmin's impressive Virb Ultra 30.

Chameleons are deceptively great hunters, with a tongue that can snipe prey in a split-second.

At the White House Frontiers Conference, Raj Chetty, an economist at Stanford University described where the 'American dream' is thriving the most and seems like it's across US the border.

Politicians make a lot of wild claims about undocumented immigrants in the United States. Our advice? Take a deep breath and have a look at what the numbers tell you.

Former "Top Gear" and current "The Grand Tour" hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May gather up their courage and reveal the last things they did with their phones.

Within the space of 72 hours, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers were shot and killed. WIRED looks the three days that shook America and the role live-streaming, video and social media played in the tragedies.

Snap, the company formerly known as Snapchat, just released its sunglasses with built-in cameras. They're tough to get, but fun to use and they just might be the first face computer you'll actually want to wear.

Former "Top Gear" and current "The Grand Tour" hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May put their driving skills to the ultimate test...by racing toy cars.

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" star Alan Tudyk plays K-2SO, an Imperial droid who was reprogrammed and finds himself with the rebellion. Alan explains what it was like controlling K-2SO, and how they went about making the best movie they could.

Last year was the hottest year since scientists started keeping records in the 19th century. It's no fluke---because it's humanity's fault.

The GOES-16 atmospheric satellite is a super-powered machine that can predict the future. At least as far as weather is concerned.

Elmo, Big Bird, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Rosita, Abby Cadabby, and Oscar the Grouch hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about 'Sesame Street' and themselves. New episodes of Sesame Street’s 47th season air every Saturday on HBO, and viewers can watch Sesame Street everyday on HBO Family and PBS Kids.

The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.

For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet.

The new Ford GT is the spiritual successor to the GT40 which dominated the 24 hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s.

DeepMind's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system beat the world's top Go player in Wuhzen, China with a new architecture that the company says is more efficient in both energy use and computing power.

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Contra, Street Fighter II, Doom and more!

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from the Legend of Zelda, Half-Life, The Sims, Minecraft, Dota 2 and more!

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds.

The iPhone is 10 years old! Take a look back at how the smartphone grew from gadget to essential.

A man dressed as a car seat to fool pedestrians and drivers into believing his van was driving itself. It's hilarious, but it's all in the name of autonomous vehicle research.

A decade ago, the idea of self-driving cars on American city streets was almost unthinkable. But a series of contests spurred the development of software and hardware that have brought us to dawn of the next automotive revolution.

Ever wonder how the puppets on Sesame Street operate? The puppeteers for some of Sesame Street's most famous characters share their insights on how they bring their iconic characters to life. The puppeteers for Elmo, Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Abby Cadabby, and Rudy explain the various functions and features of their Muppets. You can catch Snuffy and all his friends in the new season of Sesame Street on HBO or everyday on HBO Family or PBS Kids.

Ernest Cline, author of the best-selling novel 'Ready Player One,' and one of the screenwriters behind the upcoming film, deep dives into his book and explains the stories behind every video game referenced in 'Ready Player One.' From Yars' Revenge to Asteroids to Quake, Ernest goes into the history of each game and reveals why he included it in the book. 'Ready Player One' is in theaters now