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As a professional pilot, I spend four or five days a year in multimillion-dollar flight simulators being examined by specialized training pilots. Since professional pilots already know how to fly, much of the testing focuses on what are called “non-normal situations.” Let’s imagine you find yourself on an airplane, in the sky, without a pilot. You are in a non-normal situation. Learn more about yo...

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This story is part of a collection of pieces on how we spend money today. Will you sign up for the Apple Card? You probably will, frankly. Apple’s latest innovation, which arrives this summer, is a credit card that comes with all kinds of conveniences: No late fees! No long strings of numbers! No wait to qualify! No card, either, if you’re using it the way Apple intends. Learn more about your ad c...

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First, a fair warning: This piece has Game of Thrones spoilers. If you didn't watch last night and don't want to know what happens, close this tab. Now that they are gone, and it's just us, the shell-shocked, left to consider last night's 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recently I downloaded an app that was supposed to help me find people to carpool with. I'm not someone who relishes the idea of coordinating with strangers for my commute but, still, I wanted to give it a shot. For two weeks, I asked drivers—many of whom, the app indicated, had signed up but never actually accepted any carpool requests—for rides between my home in San Francisco's Castro neighborho...

It takes far more than 280 characters to describe Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s disputes with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Late Friday, Musk and the SEC reached a settlement in their latest clash over his tweets. The dispute stems from February, when the agency asked a federal judge to hold Musk in contempt of court for violating a September agreement that a Tesla lawyer would pre-approve al...

The reviews for Avengers: Endgame—the final installment in a decade-long run of Marvel films—have already landed. The movie itself hits thousands of theaters Thursday night. All of which means that the internet is about to become a very treacherous place for anyone who doesn't want to know the ending before they've seen it for themselves. Fortunately, ridding the internet of spoilers is a snap. Le...

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You can finally make money surfing the web, and Elon Musk says you could be picked up by a self-driving Tesla taxi as soon as next year. What a time to be alive! Here's the news you need to know in two minutes or less. Elon Musk delivers more promises ahead of earnings report Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted there will be 1 million self-driving Tesla "robotaxis" on the road by next year, a number...

No one ever wants to know about the secret lives of tax preparers, or bank branch managers. But since the journeys of Anthony Bourdain, everyone wants to learn the secrets, and wield the tools, of commercial cookery. Who wouldn’t want to be a swaggering night pirate that can also bake a perfect pie? The $599 Gozney Roccbox is one of those tools that looks great on paper. I’ve met pizza chefs who u...

Sure, you might have brought home a 4K television just last week. But there's no stopping the march of progress, and Samsung is at the vanguard with this set. It's an 8K panel—roughly 8,000 pixels wide and packing four times as many points of light as a 4K TV. Anyone with cash to burn can plop this 125-pound beast onto a stout pedestal and be engulfed by the 85-inch display. Learn more about your...

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Since the clothing brand Everlane was founded in 2010, it has achieved great success selling basics for sophisticates: wide-leg pants, cashmere sweaters, silk shirts, and the like. But the label's ambitions don't end at defining a fresh silhouette—it has also put substantial effort into a company-wide sustainability initiative. Everlane has created puffer jackets from recycled water bottles, and i...

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Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: The first foldable phone is here OK, so it might look like twin beds in a hotel room, but Samsung has actually come out with a phone that fully bends: the aptly-named Galaxy Fold. It goes on sale April 26, and while it's not the first foldable phone concept, you can actually get your hands on this one. Get ready to blow your friends' minds—if you have...

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Greetings, and welcome to another installment of Replay, WIRED's look at everything happening in the world of videogames. This week we've got news about Fortnite, PlayStation IDs, and the coolest fighting game moment ever. Let's get going! You Can Finally Change Your PlayStation Network ID, But You May Not Want To PlayStation has finally, after much ado, launched a feature allowing players to chan...

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Let’s get this out of the way: I am sleeping with a robot. (No, not like that, you sicko.) I hold it in my arms each night and feel its chest rise and fall against mine. Without arms to hold me back, it is forever my little spoon. Without a voice to bid me sweet dreams, it simply sits there, purring against me. The robot with which I sleep is called the Somnox. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: Winter is coming It's true: The final season of Game of Thrones begins this Sunday. We collected the biggest GoT fans in the office to chat about their hopes and dreams for the future of Westeros. Haven't caught up on the show? We recommend binge-watching it backward. Disney+ is ready to take over the world Disney's long-discussed streaming service, D...

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It's a big day for astronomy (and all humans, really). The first image of a black hole has been released. It was created using the Event Horizon Telescope—a collaboration of radio telescopes around the world. This image shows the material around a super massive blackhole in the center of a galaxy some 55 million light-years away. Yes, there is a ton of cool physics here, involving the crazy gravit...

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