Новости за 21.05.2016

In the new 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast, author Mark Adams discusses how the aversion to the subject of Atlantis in academia lead to his last book. The post Searching for Atlantis Really Isn't the Best Career Move appeared first on WIRED.

American Pharoah's Triple Crown victory last year wasn't just a win for him. It brought a new, online-savvy generation—and their money—to horseracing. The post Nyquist Must Win the Preakness to Make Horse Racing Cool Again appeared first on WIRED.

Maria Bamford's new Netflix comedy is about mental illness, Hollywood, and various other states of arrested development. And it's absolutely Bam-tastic. The post Lady Dynamite Is Your First Must-Binge Show of the Summer appeared first on WIRED.

An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most baffling features of the subatomic universe. The post New Evidence Could Overthrow the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics appeared first on WIRED.

Each Saturday we round up the biggest security news stories of the week. The post Security News This Week: Russia's FindFace Face-Recognition App Is a Privacy Nightmare appeared first on WIRED.

Space photos of the week, May 15 - 21, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Neon Nebula Struts Its Stuff appeared first on WIRED.

In addition to the city it consumed to earn its name, the Fort McMurray fire has burned forest over 500,000 hectares of land across northern Alberta. The post In Case You Forgot, Canada's Massive Fort McMurray Fire Is Still Burning appeared first on WIRED.

DOOM is one of the most iconic and influential videogames in history. This month, id Software and Bethesda have created a worthy followup. The post Bloody New Doom Will Send You Screaming Back to Hell appeared first on WIRED.

The gang talks Dooms old and new on this episode of WIRED's gaming podcast. The post Game|Life Podcast: All Doom All the Time appeared first on WIRED.

Google engineers believe coating the front of a car with adhesive could improve road safety, but it's not the best way to tackle the problem. The post Google's Got Better Ways to Protect Pedestrians Than Glue-Covered Cars appeared first on WIRED.

Google is already building mobile webpages that work like apps. Now it's building apps that arrive like webpages. Someday the two will meet in the middle. The post With Instant Apps, Google Aims to Make the Web and Apps One appeared first on WIRED.

Institutional review boards have long governed research ethics, but do they need to evolve in the digital age? The post Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You appeared first on WIRED.