The first prank was extremely popular, but Rober had to re-post the video after discovering that several of the "victims" were actually friends of a volunteer who agreed to place the packages on his porch. "That is totally on me and I will take all necessary steps to make sure it won't happen again," he…

Billboard Woman of the Decade Taylor Swift: 'I do want my music to live on' Jason Lipshutz,Billboard Taylor Swift is in the middle of a heated battle with her former label over the rights to her masters. She's planning to re-record them in 2020, but that's just part of the saga. Her fight could change…

Just because 2019 is finally winding down doesn't mean the flurry of activity in the world is slowing one bit. In the past seven days alone there's been a shooting in Jersey City, a new trailer for In the Heights, and an announcement from Nike that the company is now making shoes just for health…

Sometimes, it’s nice to see humans working with machines.This week, WIRED Transportation took you to Austin, where professional drone racers—yes, they exist!—raced against robot-directed ones on a complicated course. Sure, there was a winner in the end: the human racers. But Lockheed Martin, which sponsored the race, is hoping the technological advances pushed by such…

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again.The Collatz conjecture is quite possibly the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics—which is exactly what makes it so treacherously alluring.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine,…

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You've probably been hearing the hype about lightning-fast 5G for years now. And while the new wireless networks still aren't ubiquitous in the United States, 5G is slowly cropping up in cities from Boston and Seattle to Dallas and Kansas City. With the faster connection speeds will come increased security and privacy protections for users,…

Chances are you spend a lot of your computing time inside a browser window, and quite possibly inside a Chrome tab; Google's browser has come from nowhere in 2008 to dominate the browser landscape on desktop and mobile. Part of Chrome's appeal is its ease-of-use, but it also has more advanced features just below the…

“Hey, I can see my house from up here!”It’s a joke so tired you’ll hear it from someone jumping on a trampoline, but that’s what came into my head as I banked a small turboprop airplane above my neighborhood in the new version of a revived classic, Microsoft Flight Simulator.Because there it was indeed: my…

Our solar system has amazing moons. Our own moon is pretty great, but no offense to our planet, the outer solar system is where all the action is. Our two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, have dozens of moons, some of which are the most bizarre and scientifically interesting in the entire solar system. Some…