Mark Zuckerberg gave an address about free speech at Georgetown University on Thursday. The self-analysis was skin deep; his historical parallels were, in fact, perpendicular; he mischaracterized his opponents with arguments made of straw. And he offered a favorite refrain of the widely reviled—hey, if both sides hate us we must be doing something right!A…

Virtual reality may not yet be a mainstay in your average home, but that doesn't mean VR is limping. People are still putting on headsets and entering fantastic worlds—they're just doing it at dedicated facilities, where bespoke equipment and high-end experiences have turned "location-based" VR into a moneymaking enterprise. And no one has led that…

Everything was great, but it just wasn't a very exciting problem. The change in momentum of the spaceship was very small as it moved past the asteroid. Really, he could just have assumed a constant gravitational force and gotten pretty much the same answer. So, we came up with that astronaut scenario to spice things…

Apple's laptops have long been held up as a gold standard for portable computers. MacBooks were the first to bring technologies like aluminum unibody construction, super-sharp IPS screens, backlit keyboards, and multitouch trackpads to the mainstream. The problem with Apple's current lineup is that the company has a variety of models with different capabilities, making…

Welcome to Replay, WIRED's weekly column devoted to everything gaming. This week, we've got a lot of big game announcements in one small package, and a lot of Fortnite. Fortnite never ends, my friends. Even when it does. You'll see what we mean.Riot Games Went and Decided to Announce Just, Like, All the GamesFor most…

The alien glare of bioluminescent bacteria bathes David Ishee’s face in green as he holds a petri dish over an LED light. Around him, the thick Mississippi gloom swallows the plywood walls of the shed where Ishee spends nights and weekends trying to cut and paste a jellyfish gene into the sperm of one of…

Arctic sea ice acts as a massive parasol for the planet, its white surface reflecting the sun’s rays back into space and keeping the air and ocean cool across the top of the globe. As the atmosphere warms, however, that ice has shrunk to historically low levels, according to satellite data. What if you could…

The 14-hour, mid-October Qantas flight from Sydney to Los Angeles probably went as most do: peanuts, in-flight viewings of the latest Spider-Man, a restless toddler, some overtippling business travelers. Four days later, though, workers at a facility three hours east of Seattle were, in the words of AeroTec President Lee Human, working to have the…

Looking for good news about the college admissions process these days? You won't find much of it. Not only has the cost of attending college doubled on average since the 1980s, but also it's gotten considerably harder to get in. The majority of colleges in America have witnessed a plummeting acceptance rate as the number…

WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann didn’t plan for his family’s control of WeWork to end at his death but he expected it be controlled by future generations of Neumanns, too, says…