More than 50 buildings and soundstages sprawl across the 44 acres of the Sony Pictures lot. That's a lot of window­less oblongs, and even more distance between them. If you need to get from, say, the Jimmy Stewart Building to Stage 15, golf carts and Sprinter vans are the customary mode—even on sunny days. On…

In January, Liz O’Sullivan wrote a letter to her boss at artificial intelligence startup Clarifai, asking him to set ethical limits on its Pentagon contracts. WIRED had previously revealed that the company worked on a controversial project processing drone imagery.O’Sullivan urged CEO Matthew Zeiler to pledge the company would not contribute to the development of…

Starting at $25,470 the 2020 Accord Hybrid continues the automaker's tradition of well priced, solid vehicles. During a drive in Austin, Texas I was immediately impressed with the build quality of the car. It's on par with luxury vehicles from Germany and of course Toyota (another company known for high build quality). That's sort of…

There's a scant 68 days until Christmas is once again upon us, and 65 until Hanukkah begins. There are likely plenty of people left on your shopping list, including those few who are always impossible to buy for (looking at you, Dad) so we want to lend you a helping hand: If you find yourself…

In a major reversal for the franchise, Activision has announced that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will not include a loot-box system. Specifically, the company says that "all functional content that has an impact on game balance, such as base weapons and attachments, can be unlocked simply by playing the game."ARS TECHNICAThis story…

If experiments on the ground are cool, experiments in the sky are cooler. And so we can count ourselves extra icey this week, as we got to see to high-flying studies. First, we chatted with aviation company UAV Turbines, which is building mini, watermelon-sized jet engines. Pourquoi? Turns out 500- to 1,000-pound drones need power…

The Takeaway: As absolutely crazy as Giuliani's week has been, here's a somewhat staggering possibility: All of this is just prologue to what could be even more dramatic in the near future.Lady Gaga Doesn't Know What Fortnite IsWhat Happened: As a welcome palette cleanser, let's take a look at what Lady Gaga is up to…

Rokus are the most popular TV streaming boxes for good reason: They're super easy to use, and they offer a very wide array of streaming channels.Figuring out which one to buy, well, that's not so easy. There are nine different Roku streaming devices available now (not including TVs and soundbars), and you'll find a ton…

We're living in a golden age of mobile photography. Every smartphone keynote kicks off with companies like Apple, Google, and Samsung trying desperately to one-up each other in a never-ending photographic arms race. The winner here is you, and me, and everyone else who leaves the house every day with a killer little camera in…

In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren’t very good at understanding the written word. Sure, they had become decent at simulating that understanding in certain narrow domains, like automatic translation or sentiment analysis (for example, determining if a sentence sounds “mean or nice,”…