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The website AfterEllen went live in 2002, producing content for and written by lesbian and bisexual women. Since then, other sites like Autostraddle launched aimed at a similar audience and mainstream sites like The Huff...

 Snapchat’s long-rumored camera glasses are actually real. The startup’s first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called “Spectacles” and will go on sale this fall for $129.99, according to The WSJ. T...

Rosetta awoke from a decade of deep-space hibernation in January 2014 and immediately got to work photographing, measuring and sampling comet 67P/C-G. On September 30 it will sleep again but this time for eternity. Missi...

A popular Kickass Torrents clone was just shut down by Mexican authorities. The site, which continues to operate under another domain name, was actually a mirror of The Pirate Bay using Kickass Torrents skin.

Investigators have determined that a "large breach" in the second stage helium system likely triggered the catastrophic Falcon 9 launch pad explosion that suddenly destroyed the rocket and Israeli commercial payload duri...

When bricks fly. The post What's Better Than Legos? Drones Made of Legos appeared first on WIRED.

 A day after a Daily Beast story revealed that he had donated money to an organization supporting Donald Trump’s President run, Oculus founder (and Facebook employee) Palmer Luckey has come clean about his activities....

 We’re approaching a level of social unrest that we haven’t seen since the days of the Civil Rights movement. That means law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out how to manage and circumvent the unrest — ...

Supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are found at the centers of galaxies....

Snapchat gets a new name, Snap Inc., and will soon release camera-equipped glasses that shoot first-person video.

There's yet more evidence that Snapchat might be working on a pair of sunglasses with a video camera built in. A promotional video for the unannounced-but-previously-rumored glasses was apparently just sitting on YouTube...

This year's awards celebrate goofy scientific studies involving itches and rocks with personalities. There's even a dig at the Volkswagen scandal.

When AllMusic launched 25 years ago, it wasn't an obvious big data play. But it became one. Hidden in its millions of entries is music's collective history.

The fedora, the bomber jacket and the consuming quest invite comparisons to Indiana Jones. Blaine Gibson, though, hasn't matched the film hero's triumph in finding the legendary chest containing the stone tablets inscrib...

Facebook is launching its first nationwide voter registration drive in an attempt to urge users in the U.S. to get out and vote. Get ready to see a colorful "registration" reminder on your News Feed over the coming days....

Last night The Daily Beast reported that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is the "NimbleRichMan" behind a group of Donald Trump supporters pushing anti-Hillary Clinton memes, and now Luckey has responded. In a Facebook post ...

To get drones to fly longer and farther, manufacturers have built ever bigger batteries. But a drone is in development in the U.K. that requires no battery at all, all thanks to wireless charging. The post Check out this...

Samsung confirmed it has already replaced around half a million Galaxy Note 7 units in the US, but it's still only halfway there. The company is also taking additional steps to ensure the safety of its customers, includi...

Should Samsung be worried now that Apple plans to move into its South Korean territory? Apple wants to open a retail store in Seoul, close to the Samsung Store.

A team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers has found a significant new relationship in spiral and irregular galaxies: the acceleration observed in rotation curves tightly correlates with the gravitational ...

The four spacecraft orbiting Earth in formation as part of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission achieved a new record recently when the space between them was decreased from just over six miles to only four-...

Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn't break or cover in depth but still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Hackers Take Control of a Moving Tesla's Brakes appeared first on WIRED...