China's biggest smartphone manufacturer comes to the US, but leaves a few key features back home. The post China’s Biggest Phone Maker Comes to the US … With a Caveat appeared first on WIRED.

More bad news for the medical-technology "unicorn."Another day, another snag for Theranos, the blood-testing startup with a $10 billion valuation.Read Full Story

Konnikova studies the art of the con—and what it reveals about every one of us -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

By Craig Malkin, Ph.D.

It's email, any way you want to email. The post New iOS App Airmail Gives You Hardcore Control Over Email appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook will rely on users to report content that violates the new policy.Facebook on Friday changed its policy to ban all private sales of guns through its platforms, said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Facebook will rely on users to report content that violates the new policy, Watts told Fast Company.Read Full Story

Rocketing along at more than 960,000 miles per hour, the rare star is stained in mysterious carbon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

On the eve of the Iowa Caucus, Cruz emphasized her husband's authenticity, which is what matters most to young voters. The post Heidi Cruz Promises College Kids That Her Husband Is Legit appeared first on WIRED.

Before you make a drastic change, take the time to figure out what's really wrong and how to fix it.Jumping ship may sound like a great option when you're knee-deep in discontent with your career, but is starting over really the right option?Read Full Story

The late Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, was a paradoxical figure, who once said Freud was his favorite theorist of mind.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The MythBusters lifted a car with a vacuum cleaner. Could you do the same thing by replacing the vacuum cleaner with a human sucking through a straw? The post Psst: You Could Probably Lift a Car by Sucking Through a Straw appeared first on WIRED.

The Paris climate agreement might be lacking, but the former vice president argues that it has at least pointed us in the right direction.Ten years ago this week, at the world premier of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore was possibly the gloomiest man in America, explaining to a blithely unaware world how climate change was dooming the planet.Read Full Story

Exclusive: An interactive map, based on data from 50 state health departments, details how the mosquito-borne disease made its way to America in travelers’ bloodstreams -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The former Secret Service agent convicted of stealing bitcoins from Silk Road seems to have been planning to skip his prison sentence and leave the country. The post Corrupt Silk Road Investigator Re-Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Flee the US appeared first on WIRED.

Break up the top 1% layer of chocolate, and mix it into the 99% of mint ice cream below.Bernie's Yearning is a new ice-cream flavor from Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen, created in support of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who is running for president this year. And although Ben's new flavor has nothing to do with either Ben & Jerry's ice cream, nor Sanders's campaign, one look at the packaging tells you where it comes from.Read Full Story

Strategically placing solar and wind farms across the U.S. could compensate for power lulls during cloudy or calm days -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Flight AND fight. The post So, Dutch Cops Are Teaching Majestic Eagles to Hunt Drones appeared first on WIRED.

The disease is not normally infectious, but people who received grafts from cadavers did show telltale markers in their brains -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com