We gave tech writer Brent Rose $500 to stress-test Silicon Valley’s overnight sensation, Magic. From meatballs to medicinal cannabis to Mexican wrestling, see what unfolds when he pushes the new text message-based delivery service.

Peter and Kelli Rubin love TV, movies, and games but don’t always see eye to eye—and the return of Mike Judge's HBO satire is no exception.

Watch New Horizons' historic flyby from the space probe's perspective

Wonder what it’s like to attend Comic-Con? Jake Roper of the YouTube channel Vsauce3 offers an insider’s look at the people who bring the event to life, from the designers who create fan art on Artists Alley to the Doctor Who-obsessed cosplayers. Sponsored by Patrón Tequila

Hackers released the names of millions of users of the infidelity website Ashley Madison. Here's why the hackers say they dumped the data online.

What did we really find out from the Ashley Madison hack? For starters, there were only three zip codes in the U.S. with no registered users, plus the company netted $1.7 million from a full-delete feature (that didn’t actually delete). Find out what else was revealed in the hack, as told by bad stock footage.

“The Martian” director Ridley Scott explains how NASA’s latest discovery on Mars would have affected the film’s plot and why he has zero interest in traveling to the far-off planet himself.

"The Martian" director Ridley Scott counts down his favorite sci-fi films of all time.

Apple's new iMacs looks a lot like its past iMacs but with better screens and best of all, a Force Touch trackpad and a slimmer wireless keyboard.

Procedural animation is used to create unique AT-AT takedowns every time you wrap your tow cable around one of the Empire's giant walkers in Disney Infinity.

Dan Meis explains the challenges of building an iconic building in the back yard of Rome's Colosseum, and how the enduring life of the classic arena should provide a lesson for the future of stadium design.

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

4K is so 2015. This year LG will begin selling an 8K television. We don't know what it will cost yet or what you might be able to play on it, but it's pretty cool.

The Bentley Bentayga sets a new standard of opulence for millionaires and billionaires who demand gobs of power, acres of leather, and the ability to tower over plebeians while fording rivers or scaling dunes.

It might seem like a blunder to try to wring comedy out of a very serious conflict, but in Tina Fey's new movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, she walks the line between humor and heart expertly. The film isn’t the whole picture of the war in Afghanistan, but what it does show, it shows in very sharp focus.

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.

Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason.

For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise.

Look at the nudibranch. Beautiful, right? That's its way of saying it will mess you up. You see, the nudibranch packs a punch–in a very unusual way

Hey listen, we’re all lopsided. You’d look weird as hell if you were perfectly symmetrical. But the strawberry squid is really lopsided, with one tiny eye and one giant eye.

Three opens from Silicon Valley. Courtesy HBO.

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.

For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life.

Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people.

Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, and Adam Devine from 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates' show us the most recent items on their phones - from texts, to safari pages, to emojis, videos, alarm clocks and more!

Dana Carvey, star of the upcoming film 'The Secret Life of Pets,' answers the internet's most searched questions about himself.

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Star Trek Beyond. From the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise all the way down to the extraterrestrials themselves, Mike Seymour takes us into warp drive as he breaks this successful franchise down to its DNA.

It sounds nuts, and maybe you have to be, but six scientists completed a yearlong NASA-funded Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.

Scientists just released robots that look like Minions into the Pacific Ocean. The little bots are on a mission to unravel one of the great mysteries of the sea: what the hell are marine larvae up to?

'Snowden' stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley discuss the making of their new movie, and talk about how technology has essentially taken away our right to privacy.

Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look.

Google's new $80 Daydream View isn't just a more integrated VR headset for mobile devices, it's also way comfy.

The Brown Bess musket was a staple during the Revolutionary War, and the AR-15 is currently one of the most popular semi-automatic rifles in the world. What's changed since then?

The mudskipper is a fish marvelously adapted to terrestrial life. From it's powerful fin-feet to its googly eyes perched on top of its head, it's made for boogying across terra firma.

The Polaroid SX-70 was the go-to camera for instant photography, and the Canon Rebel T5 is currently one of the most popular DSLRs on the market. What's changed since then?

You finish that thanksgiving feast and immediately all you want to do is sleep. Many people blame the turkey for their sudden comatose state, but that may not be 100% true.

The coati is kind of a raccoon but also maybe a monkey with the nose of a pig. In other words, a critter that can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be.

Which coffee maker is king? We teardown the Mr. Coffee 12-Cup automatic and Keurig K55; two coffee machines built decades apart.

Brewer Liam McLachlan from Golden Road Brewing goes through the entire brewing process, from milling to packaging.

Immigrants founded half of the billion dollar startups in the US. Now many worry that Trump's current travel ban and any future restrictions to work visas could hamper growth in Silicon Valley.

MIT researchers are taking a cue from nature to develop a revolutionary new wetsuit material that could change surfing forever.

'The Lego Batman Movie' uses an impressive style of animation that replicates the look of real lego bricks. These digital bricks abide by all the rules of real Lego bricks, so they cannot bend or move in an impractical way. Mike Seymour breaks down a few of the most remarkable scenes, where numerous complex techniques were used to create a believable image.

Self-driving cars will totally eliminate traffic deaths, right? Nope. In fact, on rare occasions they'll choose to kill.

'Life' stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal waste some time with WIRED and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Director Ridley Scott has featured several AI characters in his films. His most recent is Walter in Alien: Covenant. WIRED caught up with Ridley, his son Luke and the President of AMD to talk about AI.

Last year, the San Francisco startup Allbirds released a shoe it calls the Wool Runner. This eco-friendly, merino wool sneaker exploded in popularity in Bay Area. Now, Allbirds is unveiling its second product, the Wool Lounger.

USC houses a collection of twisted, burnt, jagged aircraft wrecks in a warehouse outside Los Angeles and it's where they train students to act as detectives in helicopter and plane crashes.

Artist Trevor Paglen is best known for images of the security state – drones, spy satellites and rendition planes – For a new work commissioned by the Cantor Arts Center he's collaborated with Kronos Quartet and Obscura Digital to look under the hood of artificial intelligence and machine vision.

Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze fast. His goal: to create highly engineered, rapidly prototyped sprits that are unlike any you've tasted before.

Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone.