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Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like. The post See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves appeared first on WIRED .

Google Home and Amazon Echo's Alexa are both great, but which one's better if you need to know what a whale sounds like? Or if you want to buy canned peas? The post OK, Alexa: A Google Home Versus Amazon Echo IQ Test appeared first on WIRED .

In a year of accusations and scandals, listeners have flocked to a medium that prides itself on authenticity and intimacy. The post Fed-Up, Freaked-Out Americans Find Comfort in Politics Podcasts appeared first on WIRED .

You thought that 10th inning rain delay was unique? Somebody on Twitter called it back in 2014. The post This Apocalyptic Tweet Predicted the World Series 2 Years Ago appeared first on WIRED .

An emerging tracking technique uses inaudible sounds to communicate with apps on your phone and track you. Here's how to stop it. The post How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You appeared first on WIRED .

Gal Gadot's Diana Prince whips up some serious action in the new trailer for Wonder Woman's 2017 standalone movie. The post No More Waiting for Gadot: The New Wonder Woman Trailer Is Here! appeared first on WIRED .

Google is offering new tools for cleaning up on the dirtiest places on the Internet. The post You Watching, Twitter? YouTube Just Cleaned Up Comments appeared first on WIRED .

Home is where the heart is, or at least where the Google Assistant is. The post Review: Google Home appeared first on WIRED .

For scientists talking to submarines, robots, and other instruments, data travels at dial-up speeds of single bytes per minute---far slower than the megabits per second we use in the office or at home. The post The Ocean’s Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet appeared first on WIRED .

Government alliances make the sharing economy's implicit bias problem a much bigger deal. The post Uber's Discrimination Problem Is Bad News for Public Transit appeared first on WIRED .

Designing for the homeless---and learning from them The post Strikingly Imaginative Structures for Housing LA’s Homeless appeared first on WIRED .

The digital display rethinks and improves how the driver interacts with and sees the world around him. The post Cadillac’s All-Seeing Rearview Mirror Peers Into the Future of Cars appeared first on WIRED .

This time around, our little book club is diving into Kelly Sue DeConnick's 'Bitch Planet' and 'Sex Criminals' by her husband Matt Fraction. The post WIRED Book Club: Time for a Break. Time for Comics! appeared first on WIRED .

Pediatricians and early childhood educators say it's great to experiment with new reading formats. But Amazon Rapids still can't replace a good old paperback. The post The Amazon Rapids App Gets Kids Reading—But It Can’t Replace Books appeared first on WIRED .

AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to acquire media giant Time Warner spotlights a hole in American Internet policy: zero-rating. The post Big AT&T Deal Proves It’s Time to Stop ‘Zero-Rating’ appeared first on WIRED .

If successful, the Standing Rock protest could be a minor boon for the economics of weaning the world off oil. The post The Dismal Science of the Standing Rock Pipeline Protests appeared first on WIRED .

The filmmaker's second feature isn't just a genre festival darling—it's a rare look inside a nation many people simply aren't familiar with. The post Mattie Do, Laos' Sole Female Director, Scares Up Attention With Dearest Sister appeared first on WIRED .

NASA astronauts prepare for missions through planetary analog campaigns in harsh conditions on Earth. The post Before Going to the Moon, Astronauts Used to Practice on Iceland appeared first on WIRED .

Sadly for DC, this week's roundup of superhero movie news is full of Marvel updates-and one bit about The Flash losing his director. The post Cape Watch: Another Director Runs Away From The Flash appeared first on WIRED .

The hacker-artistic creation is meant to illustrate the privacy flaws of the cellular signals we all depend on. The post This Evil Office Printer Hijacks Your Cellphone Connection appeared first on WIRED .

On this week's WIRED Culture podcast, we're trying to figure out if too many fan theories are making TV shows less fun. The post Too Much Internet Speculation Is Ruining TV appeared first on WIRED .

Don't believe everything you read on Twitter. The post Ignore the Trolls: You Definitely Cannot Vote Via Text appeared first on WIRED .