Poor Ted Cruz Doesn’t Even Get a Funko Election Figurine
With figurines for Someone With Tiny Hands, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders, the makers of Pop! vinyl collectibles are cashing…
You’ll Eat Bugs. These Investors Are Betting Millions on It
Greg Sewitz and Gabi Lewis are used to people laughing at their plan to get the world to eat bug…
New Tech Could Give Coal a Scrubbing Until Renewables Are Ready
Coal will never be completely clean, but new technology could scrub away some of the nastiness while the world waits…
Watch Us Epically Fail NASA’s Astronaut Test
WIRED decided to take a trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX to see what it takes to…
The Master of Drones Turns Flying Machines Into Performers
Raffaello D’Andrea sees art and entertainment as natural applications for drone technology. The post The Master of Drones Turns Flying…
For Netflix, Discontent Over Blocked VPNs Is Boiling
Customers around the world say they pay the same amount as everyone else, so they should get to watch the…
Meet the People of Transnistria, a Stuck-in-Time Soviet Country That Doesn’t Exist
Transnistria is the country no one’s ever heard of … except for the 500,000 people that call it home. The…
The Kickstarter Kings Who Taught the World to Crowdfund
They created one of Kickstarter’s first successful products—and along the way, they figured out how to run a real business…
Medicare Scammers Steal $60 Billion a Year. This Man Is Hunting Them.
Medicare is a massive pool of underguarded funds ripe for skimming. John Mininno ferrets out shady activity by looking for…
Think You Can Drive Fast Enough to Escape an Erupting Volcano?
Gigantic eruptions from volcanoes strike terror in most people, but new research suggests that you might just be able to…