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When you?re an insomniac freelance writer who works from home, you end up seeing a lot of infomercials, and eventually, those things will wear you down. No matter how skeptical you might start off, you will eventually get to a point where you?ll start to wonder if there actually is somebody out there with a better way to fry eggs, chop tomatoes and make milkshakes in the comfort of your own home. I mean, television?s never lied to us before, has it? That?s why I wanted to actually check out a...

This week, the broadcast TV networks announced their new shows for the 2013/2014 TV season. If you're overwhelmed by the choice, here are ten to watch.

Oh hey, there's yet another trailer for Pacific Rim and it's even more awesome than the previous trailers for Pacific Rim. Also, it has a kaiju origin story.

NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact on the moon that they have seen in eight years of monitoring.

Design freaks (and freaks of any persuasion, really) can find a digital treasure chest of entertaining content in the realm of the podcast. Allowing for interested parties to expand beyond radio/tv/print restrictions, the format continues to grow in professionalism and regard.

No longer will anyone have to hire Tobias F?nke -- his new web site lets people insert him into any available openings they have.

Come fly with the new Landsat satellite as it records images over a 9,000-kilometer swath of Earth, and zoom in on any point along the way with a Gigapan version of the trip.

Artist Robert Xavier Burden spent eight months making a massive painting of Optimus Prime. Here's all that work presented in less than two minutes.

Forget telling Glass to search images of kittens. You need to work those 15 extra winter-pounds off and Recon's new HUD (Heads Up Display) sunglasses will help you getting into fighting shape without dragging $1,500 out of your bank account.

Beneath the checkout counter, down in the tubes that contain the ancient electronic infrastructure of the global financial system, the sap is rising.

Every fan has their favorite Star Trek episode, but there are a lot that don't get nearly as much love as they deserve. Here are just a few.

ABC has released a new, nearly three-minute trailer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as agent IDs for the main cast. Coulson lives!

The sun has unleashed three strong solar flares since Sunday evening, punctuating a short period of increased solar restlessness that comes as scientists are keeping an eye out for this cycle?s solar maximum.

With the IdeaPad Y500, Lenovo says to hell with the modern laptop diet plan and pumps out a high-performance machine primed for gaming.

International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield has spent the last year charming the pants off the earthbound public with his tweets and Tumblr posts from the International Space Station. Now, it turns out he?s got pipes, too: to celebrate the end of his tenure on the I.S.S., he?s recorded a gorgeous and touching tribute to David Bowie?s ?Space Oddity.?

If the fast-cut footage from the trailer to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD left you confused last night, here's our guide to what (and who) you maybe missed.

Some nonprofits try to change the world by collecting signatures on petitions, others by blocking whaling ships, but Thought Caf? is trying to better the world through design ? specifically by using YouTube and Vimeo to share their animated infographics to help explain complex issues. The project seems to be working; their flagship series has just crossed 30 million views, and they've recently announced a new infographic-driven movie that features Jane Goodall among others.

A new season of Arrested Development is coming to Netflix in less than two weeks. Not a moment too soon the streaming service has released a trailer for the upcoming episodes. Check it out here.

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley's latest film Sightseers is a darkly funny road-trip horror-comedy -- just the kind you'd expect from someone who got his start online.

A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

Privacy activists are battling to stop Western surveillance technology from filtering out to oppressive regimes. But Russia is also hard at work developing all sorts of surveillance tools and selling them to the West.

Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing dominoes, robbing authorities of the chance to bring him to justice with his alleged co-conspirators.

The Army says Afghan poppies -- the source of much of the world's heroin -- can be a "source of stability" for the war-ravaged country.

Elements of Shadow of the Eternals were created at game developer Silicon Knights and were sold to new developer Precursor Games, Wired has learned.

Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! Not a holiday special! Venture Brothers season five is premiering at select locations around the country on May 28 and 29, nearly a week before the season?s network premiere on June 2.

Marco Tempest sees the marriage of science and magic as a way to envision where technology might take us.

Legendary visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen passed away today in London at the age of 92.

Pebble is slowly living up to the hype and expectations from its $10-million-plus, record-breaking Kickstarter campaign with the launch of RunKeeper for Pebble.

The WIRED Business Conference is live from NYC today.

It may have happened on land, but the Navy's demonstrator for its aircraft-carrier drone of the future caught the arresting gear on a mock deck. That's a positive sign.

At present, there is no Breaking Bad Lego videogame. So animator Brian Anderson made one. Sort of.

A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

A Japanese company has produced a robotic mecha suit for kids, and yes, it is exactly as awesome as it sounds.

Sure, so you'll never be able to fight alongside Thor or Captain America. That doesn't mean you couldn't try to be a real-life Iron Man anyway. Here's how.

Mexico's drug war isn't just a conflict between the government and heavily-armed cartels. There's a third faction: vigilantes who operate in the space between the law and the lawless. Now the vigilantes are getting legalized.

YouTube's Comedy Week will bring together web celebs and established TV stars for a new kind of programming.

First teaser for Thor: The Dark World arrives full of Jane Foster, Loki, and -- well -- darkness.

While Google is content with not being evil, its subsidiary YouTube is focused on actively doing good. Since 2009 YouTube has hosted a competition called the "DoGooder Awards" ? Oscars for well-made public service announcements ? and the winners for the 2013 competition were announced this month.

Forget everything you thought you knew about the Boston bombings. The real story behind the attack involves a world-spanning conspiracy of Michelle Obama, a network of Russian oligarchs and a naked Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The first Lamborghini was not a low-slung, overpowered sports car that looked like sex on wheels. It was a tractor, and a damn fine one at that.

For nearly two decades the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has marked the occasion by celebrating the top 10 "green" projects built over the previous year.

Transforming vice into virtue, Facebook Home ads are social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake. This isn't an academic concern: Zuckerberg's vision (as portrayed by the ads) is being widely embraced -- if the very recent milestone of half a million installations is anything to go by. But let?s break Zuckerberg?s spell and shift our focus away ... Think off-camera and outside the egocentric perspective framed by the ad. Reflect ins...

While attending the women's rowing competition between the University of Central Florida, West Virginia University, and the University of Alabama, Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain decided to shoot a video and work out some rowing physics.

Rob Sheridan, the art director for Trent Reznor?s side project How To Destroy Angels, is up on stage, but he has no instrument. More accurately, he is playing an instrument, but it doesn?t play music -- it plays light.