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NES Classic Hands-On: This Tiny Console Is 8 Bits of Awesome
After getting some hands-on time with Nintendo's tiny "NES Classic," I can finally say it: This thing plays as good as it looks. (Which is good.) To be released on November 11, the lengthily-named Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition is an HDMI-enabled, USB-powered, tiny little game machine that houses 30 classic games from Nintendo's first console, including Super Mario Bros. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WIRED Book Club: It’s Time for the Hugo-Winning Hard Sci-Fi of Three-Body Problem
If you’re a sci-fi reader living in China, you’ve long known about Liu Cixin, the best-selling author that The New Yorker once called the country’s Arthur C. Clarke. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Powell Email Shows Clinton Was Hardly First to Break Security Rules
A new piece of evidence surfaced Wednesday night in the imbroglio over Hillary Clinton’s controversial use of a private server and Blackberry during her time as Secretary of State: A friendly message from Colin Powell detailing how he had used his own unapproved devices and private email during his time as head of the State Department years earlier. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hands On: Apple’s AirPod Wireless Earphones Look Crazy, But Work Great
In retrospect, it makes sense that Apple couldn’t kill the headphone jack [1] without some kind of replacement. And, in fact, alongside the iPhone 7, the company actually announced three different wireless options: two new Beats models, both with improved processors and super-long battery life, and the new Apple AirPods. I tried on a pair of AirPods in Apple’s brightly lit hands-on room, a few minutes after the main event concluded. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Why You (Might) Want the New PlayStation 4 Pro
Okay, so Sony has announced a new PlayStation. Do you want it? That depends: What are you going to use it for? Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a difficult question for a certain segment of the population. A new game machine? Why, of course I want that! But the PlayStation 4 Pro, which Sony announced at an event in New York City yesterday, is a sort of new game machine we don’t often see. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Legendary Designer Tom Tjaarda on the Eternal Beauty of Italian Cars
Tom Tjaarda didn’t plan on spending his life designing cars. Though he grew up in Detroit, where his father John penned cars for Ford and Lincoln, Tom majored in architecture at the University of Michigan. But in his senior year, he decided to create a sports car for an industrial design course. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits
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The iPhone 7: More Camera, More Colors, Less Headphone Jack
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The Death of Project Ara Shows Google Is All Grown Up
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How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech
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Forget Software—Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics
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Astronomers Don’t Think That So-Called SETI Signal Is Aliens—and Neither Should You
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Parents Didn’t Just Dislike Super Nintendo 25 Years Ago—They Thought It Was a Scam
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The Flying Bum Just Crashed—So Why Are We Building Airships?
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Of Course Everyone’s Already Using the Leaked NSA Exploits
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At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality
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Android Nougat Proves How Good Google’s OS Already Is
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WIRED ENDORSES OPTIMISM
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Trump Hates the Media, Right? But Now a Media Exec’s Running His Campaign
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Ford Says It’ll Have a Fleet of Fully Autonomous Cars in Just 5 Years
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Sorry, But Your Astute Election Posts Aren’t Changing Anybody’s Mind
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The Adorable Island Fox Is Back—But Saving It Meant Going to War
This is the story of the little fox that came back from oblivion, and the people who have dedicated their lives to protecting it. This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
Garcia and a new team of researchers are back with another paper that shows how Volkswagen left not only its ignition vulnerable but the keyless entry system that unlocks the vehicle’s doors, too. And this time, they say, the flaw applies to practically every car Volkswagen has sold since 1995. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Trump’s Second Amendment Line Probably Won’t Land Him in Jail
Donald Trump addressing supporters at a campaign event in Wilmington, North Carolina, this afternoon, suggested that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and people disagree with her Supreme Court nominees, well … If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death-metal band and worked in a planetary science lab. One day, while comparing different satellite images of a single Martian crater taken at various times of year, he noticed something odd: a set of dark streaks in the soil that grew in the Martian summer and shrank in the winter. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Stop Trying to Psychoanalyze Donald Trump
Humans are naturally inclined to try explaining things that don’t make sense, and Donald Trump’s behavior falls far beyond what anyone expects of a politician. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices