Security News This Week: WhatsApp Is Caught in Its Own Crypto War in Brazil
Each Saturday we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth at WIRED, but which…
Space Photos of the Week: A Star Like Rainbow Brite, Only a Bit Bigger
Space photos of the week, March 1–7, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Star Like Rainbow Brite,…
After Two Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
Is the flash just a cosmic coincidence, or will it force astrophysicists to rethink what black holes can do? The…
This week on AI: Apple & FBI testify to Congress, future iPhone tech, Apple's auto project & more
The battle over whether Apple should help the FBI unlock Syed Farook’s iPhone once again intensified, but in the meantime,…
Calligrapher monk Robert Palladino, who inspired Mac typography, dies at 83
Rev. Robert Palladino, whose work as a master calligrapher influenced a young Steve Jobs and subsequently the typography of Apple’s…
Space X rocket fails again at a sea landing
It was close, but close doesn’t cut it when you’re dealing with a space rocket. For the fourth time, Space…
SpaceX’s Rocket Loses Its Battle Against a Robot Boat (Again)
On the fifth encounter between Space’s Falcon 9 rocket and its autonomous drone barge, the rocket’s first-stage booster crashed into…
HTC One A9 not coming to Verizon after all
Sad news, Verizoners. You know that One A9 that HTC promised would arrive on Verizon this year? Yeah, well… This…
77 percent of users never use an app again 72 hours after installing
Nobody’s really arguing anymore over whether the future will be mobile. Apps have become one of the primary ways we…
Industrial IoT still needs humans — and user interfaces
IoT is getting more automated, but not everything can be done by machines. An engineer who’s been working with a…