To declaw a cat, you amputate each toe at the first knuckle, taking off bone along with tendons and the claw. This is a controversial operation, and some veterinarians say it can lead to lifelong complications, pain, and lameness. Declawing is illega ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Demis Hassabis has revealed his ambitions for DeepMind and explained why the AI startup "joined forces" with Google in 2014. Speaking at a recent Google ZeitgeistMinds event, Hassabis said that DeepMind ...

At least five people died Tuesday night when a passenger train carrying 238 passengers and five crew members derailed in Philadelphia. The tragedy that took place some time after 9 p.m. ET and forced Amtrak to shut down all service in the busy corrid ...

A 55-year-old Virginia man died early Sunday after an Enfield police officer used a Taser on him during his arrest, the State Bureau Investigation said Monday. Officials said Lt. Jerry Powell, 52, was responding to a report of a break-in at a Whitfie ...

Morgan Freeman doesn't understand why marijuana isn't legal. During a recent interview with the Daily Beast, the actor detailed his support for the movement to legalize pot, reasoning that pot has "many useful uses," unlike alcoho ...

Zenefits, a cloud software startup that helps small companies manage health insurance, compensation and other matters related to their employees, has raised a stunningly huge $500 million series C investment at an implied valuation of $4.5 billion. T ...

Down an alley just outside the WIRED offices in San Francisco, Darwin Cafe is one of those coffee shops that gleefully resists technology. The place runs on an old-fashioned register, with big keys that thunk and a drawer that ka-chings. Jack Dorsey ...

ALAN IS a car thief. He is a drug user, a football hooligan, a thieving barman and a chauffeur. A white male in his thirties, he looks like Lemmy out of Motorhead after an evening out with Johnnie Walker. He spent several months last year plotting an ...

Littering is a serious problem in Hong Kong. Residents toss nearly 15,000 tons of trash per day, and the city's three landfills are dangerously close to capacity. Much of the garbage also winds up in the ocean as marine debris, despite littering ...

The 3D printing market just aggregated an estimated revenue of 3.3 billion US-dollars worldwide in 2014. That´s over a third more than in the previous year 2013. Prices for 3D printers are going down, and as the machines get much more affordable, the ...

On a fall afternoon in 1971, Gail Hartwig and her husband, Don, drove out of their farm, northwest of Edmonton, Canada, to run an errand. As they rode along, a goat in the back of the family pickup truck peered over the tailgate, craning its neck to ...

The new version of Google Glass, the search giant's Web-connected eyewear, may be here soon. The chief executive of Italian eyewear company Luxottica, Massimo Vian, said his company is working on the new product, according to a report by The Wal ...

'This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged,' prosecutor says. During a dramatic first day of the penalty phase in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, federal prosecutors showed the jury an image of the convicted Boston M ...

he FBI has admitted "errors" in evidence provided by its forensics laboratory to US courts to help secure convictions, including in death penalty cases, over more than 20 years. A report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) noted &q ...

A year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long, shared table. It felt like my boss had ripped off ...

At least 33 people have been killed and 100 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. The blast happened outside a bank where government staff and military personnel were collecting their salaries. A spokesman for a gr ...

Seventy of them will see their salaries increased, and 30 will actually have their salaries doubled by the new policy. “Is anyone else freaking out right now?” said Dan Price, the owner of a small Seattle-based credit card processing company, to a ro ...

Pranksters be warned. Eight-grader Domanik Green was arrested on felony charges in Holiday, Fla. Wednesday after breaking into his teacher’s computer to change the background picture to two men kissing. Green, 14, who was released the day of his arre ...

I've spent most of my adult life looking to Formula 1 for tech things innovative and buzzworthy. The mind-bending designs of Gordon Murray and Adrian Newey spawned teenage fantasies of moving to Europe and training to become an aerodynamicist. B ...

Meet Sydney Smoot, a 9-year-old fourth grader in Hernando County, Fla., who has more confidence than many adults. Smoot wrote (with help from her mom) and powerfully delivered (all by herself) a speech about Florida’s new standardized test, the FSA, ...