The company has hired AmEx's former VP of global advertising and is looking to nab Apple's former PR star.After an exodus of high-level executives at Twitter over the weekend, which caused the company's shares to drop as much as 4.6% on Monday, it appears the social media company is on a high-profile hiring spree to stack its deck full of experienced leaders which can move the company past this turbulent period.Read Full Story

When you're haunted by a duplicate account or impersonator, prepare to find more questions than answers. The post The Mysteries of Getting Instagram to Delete Fake Accounts appeared first on WIRED.

Imaging studies and other research suggest that there is a biological basis for transgender identity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Three experienced journalists offer their advice for getting revealing answers.What do hiring managers and investigative reporters have in common? More than you may realize. Whether out in the field or inside a fluorescent-lit office, they both need to open interviewees up quickly, ask the tough questions, and suss out deception.Read Full Story

"Song of the Deep" is a new Metroid-ish undersea action game from the maker of Sunset Overdrive that will be published by the game retailer. The post GameStop Will Publish Insomniac’s New ‘Metroidvania’ appeared first on WIRED.

Pride and compassion on a day to remember.

Without government resources, basic science will grind to a halt -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Patent filing reveals a drone "delivery receptacle" to securely store packagesGoogle's Project Wing is the code name for the company's drone delivery service it hopes to launch in 2017. The company first publicly announced Project Wing in a YouTube video back in 2014, but since then has been keeping mum about how this service will work. Now a new patent filing from the company reveals how part of Project Wing deliveries could deliver your packages.Read Full Story

Adam Summers is uploading CT scans of fish into an online database, for science. The post Print an Army of Giant, Articulated Fish From This 3-D Database appeared first on WIRED.

What sparked their curiosity, and what experiences threatened to put out that flame? The answers might be somewhat unexpected -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky is more than a great read—it's an survey of ideas that might not be that far off. The post The Books That Made an Epic New Sci-Fi Novel So Plausible appeared first on WIRED.

The creators of Beauty Lies Truth are advocating for better—and bolder—natural beauty products.It sounds like the start of a joke: A rock star and a Harvard business school student team up and start a beauty blog. But Beauty Lies Truth is a real site started by Alexis Krauss, one half of the band Sleigh Bells, and Harvard Business School student Jessica Assaf. Their goal? To advocate for a beauty industry that is inclusive to getting dolled up, but with makeup that has safer and more natural ingredients.Read Full Story

Let's talk disaster! A few geological disaster-related items have come across my newsfeeds lately. Discover why dictators need geologists, and which volcanoes might be out to get you. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Get read for a whole lot of first-person video in your News Feed. The post Facebook Livestreaming Opens Up to Everyone With an iPhone appeared first on WIRED.

Examining infidelity.

A rundown of the changes we've seen at Twitter since Jack Dorsey returned to the helmIt's been only seven months since Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey returned to the company as interim CEO—and three months since that role was made permanent—but we've already seen major changes taking shape at the social network. And we're not just talking about Dorsey's epic beard. As Twitter molds its product (and overall strategy) in an effort to jump-start its stagnant growth, we'll undoubtedly see even more shifts throughout 2016.Read Full Story

The space agency just released an image of the spherical Tethys and the lumpy Janus, with the planet's rings in the foreground -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Chomp is ostensibly for kids---but then, the appeal of seeing your face superimposed on a dinosaur's body is pretty universal. The post Addictive App Called Chomp Gets You to Laugh at Your Own Face appeared first on WIRED.

Websites are freaking out over billions in lost revenue and starting to fight back, but there are still legit reasons to block ads.This January marked the 10th anniversary of AdBlock Plus, a browser plug-in that banishes ads from web pages. It isn't the only ad blocker; but AdBlock Plus dominates, with 500 million downloads, according to Eyeo, the company behind the software.Read Full Story

The death rate among Americans who have lived to age 100 or older has decreased -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com