In particular, the agency plans to monitor how the technology affects "driving behavior and lane change maneuver execution." It will start its tests on smaller passenger vehicles before moving to larger ones. Side and rearview cameras are already allowed in other regions like Europe and Japan, which is why automakers are already working on models…

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018)What sounds better: lugging around a backpack full of books or toting a sleek e-reader to class? The answer is clearly the latter, and Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite is still one of the finest ways to access loads of books in one place. It's slightly slimmer than the model it replaces, the…

As the fitness tracker market matures, it’s gotten easier to differentiate which wearable you should get depending on your lifestyle and needs. If you want to ski the backcountry or run a faster marathon, you get a Garmin or a Suunto; if you own an iPhone, an Apple Watch. If you're on a budget, you…

Climate experts have sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems. Days after, as if to illustrate the point, news…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A US city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, that would have been a reference to…

Microsoft's Surface lineup has gotten stronger over the years with the additions of the Surface Book and Surface Laptop. But the flagship Surface Pro 6 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is still something of a niche device. It walks that tightrope between being a tablet and functional PC, but not without wavering once or twice.With a full…

As the runner's rule of thumb goes, you should always dress like it's 20 degrees warmer than it is. That's why you see racers in singlets and shorts when it's 45 degrees out: Once your furnace gets going, winter turns to spring and spring turns to summer.But what do you do when it's already summer?…

It’s a puzzle of public health that we don’t take flu seriously. Every year, only about half of American adults get the vaccine that prevents it. And yet, every year, at least 37 million Americans catch the flu, more than 500,000 become sick enough to be hospitalized, and somewhere between 36,000 and 61,000 die. Let’s…

Capitalism rarely meets something it can’t put a price on. Goods and services, like cars and housecleaning, those have a price. Health insurance puts a price on your well-being—and worse, slavery puts a price on a human being. Exotic plants and animals have their own prices on the black market (or on Facebook).The Amazon rainforest,…

Two weeks shy of a year ago, researchers revealed a serious flaw in the security of Tesla's vehicles. With little more than some standard radio equipment, they were able to defeat the encryption on a Model S's keyless entry system to wirelessly clone the sedan's key fob in seconds, unlocking a car and driving it…