Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.

Star Wars fans waited for days to get into the Mondo Gallery in Austin, for an exhibition of limited edition prints from a galaxy far, far away by artist Michael Mitchell.

It could very well be the best scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story— Darth Vader violently pursuing rebels as they try to escape with the Death Star plans. But, as Director Gareth Edwards reveals, the scene fans saw in theaters almost didn't happen.

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.

NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data.

Bertha, the largest boring machine in North America, has reached the light at the end of the tunnel, after getting stuck, and sitting motionless underneath the city for two years.

Artificial intelligence and automation stand to upend nearly every aspect of modern life, from transportation to health care and even work. So how did we get here and where are we going?

Steve Lacy is a pretty big deal. He's part of the band The Internet, he's a producer for J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, and he just put out his first solo album which he made on his iPhone.

Autonomous driving technology could make getting around safer, more efficient, and less expensive. What will it mean for the millions of people who drive for a living and is it really ready for the road?

Robots can learn to do tasks just fine. Getting different kinds of robots to share knowledge, though, is another challenge entirely.

Apple recently announced that they have a $250 billion in the bank. This is what that amount of money actually looks like.

Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated, to the point where they’re fooling even security experts. Here's how to avoid them.

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.

At Apple's annual WWDC conference CEO Tim Cook and others unveiled its most powerful Mac yet, a long-awaited Siri speaker, and tons of new software upgrades across all of the Apple platforms.

Five years ago, as its voice recognition tech took off, Google realized it would have to double its server space to handle even three minutes of speech from every Android user. Even Google couldn't afford that. So Urs Hözle and his team built a super chip to parse all that data more efficiently.

Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change.

Supercars are usually super thanks to monstrous power. The engineers at Lamborghini turned to some smart air scooping tricks to send the production Huracan around the Nurburgring track in record time.

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!

The future of train transportation might be pneumatic tubes and magnets. Meet the 89-year old entrepreneur who wants to disrupt the railroad with a modern twist on a very old train idea.

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!

Sean Spencer is a pretty successful entrepreneur in LA's startup community but he also struggles with depression. He and many others use ketamine to help with their lows.

Instead of just yelling at you, Amazon's Alexa now can show you things with a new flashy screen. Here's WIRED's review of the Amazon Echo Show.

A guide to busting through confirmation bias, the cognitive fallacy that's destroying our discourse.

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

Jeff Lewis, a former Wall Street guy, is the founder of the American Flag Football League. It’s a new, teched-out version of the game and he believes it's the future of football.

James Vlahos' father was dying, so he set out to save his dad's memories and code them into a 'Dadbot' that lives on his phone.

'Valerian' star Dane DeHaan shows us the last thing he did with his phone. Luc Besson’s epic sci-fi 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' comes out in theaters July 21st.

The Perlan II, a specially designed glider meant to climb to higher than any plane has ever flown, is attempting to reach altitudes of 90,000 feet.

Apartments are getting smaller and smaller. To combat this ever shrinking urban dilemma, a company called ORI is building modular, movable and totally automatic furniture for people who live in cramped quarters.

Lo: move a little clockwise Lo-High: move further clockwise High-Lo-High (fast): move a little counter-clockwise High-Lo-High (slow): move further counter-clockwise High: hold that line, slow down Two mid notes: walk on to the sheep High falling: lie down

Want to take your upcoming camping trip to the next level? Brent Rose packs a car full of high-tech gear and attempts to pull off the ultimate camping trip. Correction: The jacket is actually called Eddie Bauer EverTherm Down Jacket. We regret the error.

All of the big announcements from the 2017 Apple event including the iPhone X, the iPhone 8, the series 3 cellular Watch and 4K Apple TV.

Blade Runner director Ridley Scott dissects the scene when replicant Rachel meets Blade Runner Deckard. The original Blade Runner is now available in 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray.

New pop-up exhibits like the Museum of Ice Cream and Color Factory are ditching the traditional gallery barriers and "no photography" rules for interactive, picture perfect installations.

WIRED looks at the latest and greatest gadgets unveiled at Google's Pixel 2 event.

Here's how a heavy lift vessel will scoop up the damaged USS John S. McCain and ferry it to Japan for repairs.

Built Robotics, a San Francisco startup, is developing an autonomous skid-steer loader that can be set loose to dig a trench, no operator needed.

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ star Andy Serkis is the world’s greatest motion capture performer. His abilities are so in-demand that much of the technology behind motion capture has evolved along with his performances. Andy breaks down some of the major moments of his career along with how the filmmaking tools have changed alongside it. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' is now available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD #WarForthePlanet

'Stranger Things' stars Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin show us the last things they did with their phones. What was the last emoji they used? The last text message sent? What was the last thing they searched?

The iPhone X is packed with some of the most cutting edge smartphone tech, including its camera. Naturally, we tested Face ID, its selfie mode and full HD slo-mo while bouncing around at a trampoline park.

The robotic snake has 16 windpipe-constricting actuators, but this serpent bot is more likely to save your life than suck it out of you.

Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen test the limits of everyday AI by using children of a variety of ages in linguistics tests designed to determine which AI is the best at understanding the most people. Featuring Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Siri. Check out more of Matt and Andy on their podcast at http://www.probablyscience.com

A new robot-avatar combo is helping deaf children learn to communicate during a crucial time in their development.

Why whirl a cheap plastic fidget spinner when you could twist with a premium toy made of tough titanium or milled from aerospace grade aluminum?

Downsizing VFX Supervisor Jamie Price breaks down the history of people miniaturization in movies.

Two and a half years after Chimp competed in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, it remains one of the weirdest humanoid robots on Earth.

Shape memory alloys could make plane wings that flap, to reduce drag, or increase stability in supersonic flight.

NOAA's latest GOES satellite will help researchers study, track, and predict storms, fires, floods, and other weather systems.

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain breaks down the physical forces that allow electric cars to drive.

This Is Us stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about This Is Us and themselves.