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Spoiler: The robot did a pretty good job, and hit its deadline.

The post We Asked a Robot to Write an Obit for AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky appeared first on WIRED.

Wiktoria Wojciechowska's quirky images capture the rainy-day cyclists in Hangzhou and Beijing.

The Arab Spring was supposed to jumpstart democracy via social media. Five years later, the promise has faded. What happened?

The company's new program, called Quill, allows an illustrator to create work directly in VR—and then turns the drawings into animations.

Ride-hailing service Uber says it uses smartphone gyrometer data to double-check if drivers on its platform are speeding.

The New York City museum is the latest institution to be digitized by Google.

Xtreme livestreams.

The post GoPro and Periscope Team Up So You Can Livestream Being Extreme appeared first on WIRED.

Xtreme livestreams.

The post A New GoPro and Periscope Team-Up Gives Both a Lift appeared first on WIRED.

New features from Amazon and Apple protect you from yourself, by shifting the light on your screen.

New calculations shows there is just a 0.01 percent chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations.

Spike Lee's new documentary about Jackson's early solo career brings new influences to light.

Planned obsolescence is so last year. This year, let’s resolve to try to reuse, reduce, and recycle more. We can start with your beloved headphones.

The company has open sourced the AI it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.

A new virtual reality experience debuting at Sundance lets users experience all sides of an officer-involved shooting—including the victim's.

Heavy snow and plowing patterns create "sneckdowns"—a traffic calming device many would like to see made permanent.

Pawel Zaluska captures the whimsical magic of soap bubbles crystalizing in mere moments.

People really do want to talk to companies via Facebook's text message-style Messenger app, according to the first businesses to use it.

Neurologist Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process he almost lost his mind.

Sony will merge Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment into a single company, Sony Interactive Entertainment, on April 1.

Star Wars and hip hop together as they were meant to be. WIRED's Eric Steuer demonstrates how to get original trilogy action figures doing sick headspins.