To make realistic fake blood for Halloween, it helps to understand why actual blood looks and flows the way it does. https://www.wired.com/story/water-flour-syrup-dye-mastering-the-elements-of-fake-blood
Kurt Steiner holds the record for the most consecutive skips of a stone—but physics suggests the upper limit is actually much higher. https://www.wired.com/story/swift-stone-skippers-could-in-theory-skip-100s-of-skips
It all started when the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper outlining a digital currency, secured by something called the blockchain. https://www.wired.com/story/after-10-years-bitcoin-changed-everything-nothing
Through Creators for Change, YouTube gives a small group of tolerance-building filmmakers funding, training, and publicity. The hope? That an influx of meaningful content will help drown out the more nefarious crap on the streaming-site. https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-creators-for-change-counterspeech
The probe just broke the record to become the fastest human-made object, relative to the sun. Here\'s what that record really means. https://www.wired.com/story/just-how-fast-is-the-parker-solar-probe-astonishingly-fast
Plus: The carousing Texan who won a Nobel, a brain-eating amoeba claims another victim, and Netflix finally cancels some shows. https://www.wired.com/gallery/top-stories-wired-october-2018
It’ll take LA as much as $6.4 billion to fortify itself against an impending increase in coastal flooding, with moves such as nourishing its beaches with extra sand and elevating its ports. https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-sea-level-rise
The MacBook Air looks like a great computer. But it\'s not what a great computer will look like in the future. https://www.wired.com/story/macbook-air-versus-ipad-pro
The migrants almost certainly do not have smallpox or leprosy, a claim that is just the latest attempt to dehumanize foreigners. https://www.wired.com/story/calling-the-caravans-migrants-diseased-is-a-classic-xenophobic-move
A series of high-profile cases involving alleged Chinese recruits shows how the country identifies and develops potential spies stateside. https://www.wired.com/story/china-spy-recruitment-us
The social media giant expects growth from its Stories platform, plus Messenger and WhatsApp, as it confronts big challenges. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-sketches-future-with-diminished-news-feed
The latest lawsuit over Elon Musk\'s semi-autonomous driving feature claims Tesla sales reps oversold the system\'s capabilities. https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-crash-lawsuit-florida-shawn-hudson
The company born as Google\'s self-driving car project is the first with the right to test human-free cars on public roads in the Golden State. https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-self-driving-cars-california
Buy into the heresy of the eCOPO Camaro and you get more than 700 horsepower, 600 pound-feet of torque, and a quarter-mile time in the 9-second range. https://www.wired.com/story/chevys-electric-camaro-to-dominate-the-drag-strip
By cutting off the microphone at the hardware level, recent MacBook devices minimize the chance that someone can eavesdrop https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-security-chip-macbook-microphone
About 60 percent of Twitter activity related to the caravan late last week was driven by bots, according to a new tool aimed at news organizations. https://www.wired.com/story/new-tool-shows-how-bots-drive-conversation-for-news-events
Rejoice! New iPads, plus a much-needed refresh to the MacBook Air and Mac Mini. https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-ipad-pro-macbook-air-mac-mini
Apple has neglected its hockey puck Mac Mini desktop computer for years. Not anymore. https://www.wired.com/story/mac-mini-update-after-four-long-years
We\'re expecting new iPads and a new MacBook. Here’s how you can watch all the action, from wherever you are. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-apple-event-october-2018
Dogs have been trained to detect a dozen human diseases—most recently, malaria—but even these pups may ultimately find their jobs replaced by machines. https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-of-the-sniff-why-dogs-are-great-disease-detectors
New flying robots can pull loads that appear far too heavy for their tiny size. Here\'s the physics of how they cheat friction with their tiny claws and gecko-like grippers. https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-tiny-drone-can-pull-objects-way-heavier-than-itself
You want all the Halloween candy. A bit of data crunching will help you get it. https://www.wired.com/story/halloween-trick-treating-candy-optimization-strategies
CEO Marc Raibert shares the backstory of his company\'s viral videos and how the internet\'s favorite robot dog, SpotMini, came to be. https://www.wired.com/story/how-boston-dynamics-robot-videos-became-internet-gold
Individual acts like eating less meat or adopting solar power won\'t on their own save the planet, but they can inspire new social norms that lead to policy change. https://www.wired.com/story/does-climate-change-mean-you-should-fly-less-yeah-maybe
We\'re expecting new iPads and a new MacBook. Here’s how you can watch all the action, from wherever you are. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-apple-event-october-2018
We\'re expecting new iPads and a new MacBook. Here’s how you can watch all the action, from wherever you are. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-apple-event-october-2018
\"Sealed sender\" gives the leading encrypted messaging app an important boost, hiding metadata around who sent a given message. https://www.wired.com/story/signal-sealed-sender-encrypted-messaging
The outcomes of these contests could shape issues like net neutrality, data privacy, and the tech industry’s business practices for years to come. https://www.wired.com/story/election-2018-races-to-watch
After the Squirrel Hill massacre, the tech industry needs to grapple with a major question: Do platforms like Gab radicalize attackers? https://www.wired.com/story/gab-offline-free-speech-alt-right
Dogs have been trained to detect a dozen human diseases—most recently, malaria—but even these pups may ultimately find their jobs replaced by machines. https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-of-the-sniff-why-dogs-are-great-disease-detectors
The threequel is often the most interesting installment of a long-running horror series, an attempt to break away from its predecessors—no matter how ridiculously. https://www.wired.com/story/in-praise-of-horror-movie-threequels
Forget miles driven and disengagements. It\'s time for a new framework. We just need to figure out what that looks like. https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-safety-metrics-miles-disengagements
YouTube videos with millions of views. Nearly 5,000 bogus websites. V-Bucks scammers have gotten out of control. https://www.wired.com/story/fortnite-scams-even-worse-than-you-thought
Salesforce\'s Marc Benioff and Square\'s Jack Dorsey line up on opposite sides of a proposed tax on businesses to fund homeless programs. https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-tech-billionaires-war-over-homelessness
A new report calls for more research into carbon capture tech. Problem, though: Who will pay to make it happen? https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-capture-is-messy-and-fraughtbut-might-be-essential
Have a Nintendo Switch? You really should get some of these accoutrements. We list the best chargers, screen protectors, cases, stands, controllers, adapters, and more. https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-nintendo-switch-accessories