You can tell a lot about a service by what it prioritizes on its home screen. With the new Disney + service the focus is initially organized by fan base,…

The VW electric ID Buggy concept is delightful and bright, stout and smiling. It’s a vehicle fit for the sunshine and sand dunes, or perhaps a less committing slow roll…

Just last week, Disney announced Disney+ will have apps for iOS, Apple TV, Android and Xbox One, along with previously known devices such as the PlayStation 4 and Roku. Here, at the D23 Expo, I had the chance to check out how the Disney+ application works on an Apple TV. As you can see in…

Even in its darkest years, though, Sega made some good calls. Intelligent mid-2000s acquisitions like Creative Assembly (Total War) and Sports Interactive (Football Manager) were joined in the '10s by Relic Entertainment (Warhammer 40,000) and Amplitude Studios (Endless Space) to form a strong division in "Sega West." This policy seems to be continuing: Sega recently…

Netflix has even bigger plans for the future, though its ambition remains largely tied to the Stranger Things franchise. It hired Telltale Games to make a more complex narrative adventure set in the Duffer brothers' universe, but that project fell through when the studio shut down in 2018. There's still a location-based, augmented-reality Stranger Things…

Spoilers for the early chapters (and the very end) of No Man's Sky, although only a couple, because Dan got waylaid.I was so won over by the original trailer that I bought a PS4, returning to Sony after a decade with an Xbox 360. No Man's Sky was a clear reason to buy the console,…

While the cybersecurity world took a collective deep breath after the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, there was still plenty of news to be had this week. After first announcing an iOS-compatible YubiKey in January, Yubico has finally released it. We also took a deep dive into the security and privacy enhancements coming to…

Everyone has a bizarre cooking shortcut they love, and its usually a device of some sort. It might be a mango peeler, a multi-edge brownie pan, or an all-in-one egg sandwich device. (Yup, that's a thing.) My guilty pleasure: the waffle maker.A waffle maker can cook almost anything. National Waffle Day, on August 24, is…

Using a new generation of sensor-equipped crash dummies, Honda's engineers honed their new design to create a faster—yet softer—catching of the human noggin.Eric AdamsSince their explosive debut in the 1970s, airbags have saved tens of thousands of lives—at least 50,000 in the United States alone—and their impact has only expanded with time. Today, they fire…

For many newbies, the first outdoor gear store they set foot in will probably be an REI. One of WIRED's favorite retailers, the venerable customer collective has been around since 1938. Because its shareholders are members, it's able to prioritize environmental stewardship over quarterly profits. In fact, REI donated 70 percent of its profits in…