Electric bikes are broadly designated as Class 1, 2, or 3. Pay close attention, because it determines what's legal to ride and where.

ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.

Authorities in France brought in Tommy Francois, Serge Hascoet, and three others for questioning this week.

As the FTX founder's trial got underway, the prosecution claimed Bankman-Fried deliberately stole customer money and used it for his own trading. The defense countered that he always acted in good faith.

At Stufish, Ray Winkler and his team make stage designs that will work in giant arenas or on vertical smartphone screens.

Android 14 is finally here. Here's what Google has added to the latest version of its mobile operating system.

The new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones have price jumps and a slew of new features, and Google's latest smartwatch and earbuds got upgrades.

Magic Editor and Audio Magic Eraser give you exciting (and kind of scary) new powers over your photos and videos.

Google is adding AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to the humble Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in documents and emails.

Regimes in China and Russia are rushing to repress what chatbots can say. It's an early warning about a new frontier of online censorship.

Last month was so hot, scientists are struggling to find words for it.

For hyperpop artist Hannah Diamond, generative AI isn't a threat. It's another tool in her arsenal-and one that could lower the barriers for emerging musicians.

Journalist Taylor Lorenz talks about her new book, Extremely Online, and what the rise of internet creators means for all of our increasingly digital lives.

Location-enabled tech designed to make our lives easier is often exploited by domestic abusers. Refuge, a UK nonprofit, helps women to leave abusive relationships, secure their devices, and stay safe.

New research has found that some streaming devices and dozens of Android and iOS apps are secretly being used for fraud and other cybercrime.

Elon Musk's brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

There's a Galaxy S23 FE smartphone, a few Galaxy Tab S9 FE tablets, and Galaxy Buds FE wireless earbuds. All are priced lower than their flagship counterparts.

Criminal defendants often decline to testify at trial for fear of incriminating themselves. For FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, that could be the best option.

The tiny Tenuto Mini vibrator improves on its predecessor's attempts to satisfy both born-male people and their partners.

This XLR microphone is the perfect stepping stone between hobbyists and Twitch streamers.

WIRED takes an exclusive ride on this groundbreaking 233-mile-range electric motorcycle with a wormhole generator for a back wheel.

Microsoft's most ambitious Surface yet is a well-designed graphics powerhouse, but all that brawn comes with trade-offs in size, weight, cost, battery life, and lap feel.

Meta and Apple have zeroed in on mixed reality headsets and augments as their next frontier. But allowing wearables to collect data about their surroundings is going to cause problems.

Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine.

This high-end turntable made me re-think how seriously I took my record collection.

Police seized laptops and phones from reporters working for the anti-establishment Newsclick website-the latest outlet to be raided during a crackdown on media in India.

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it easier to clone and generate voices. It has huge implications for voice actors.

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.

On streets and in malls, browsing was a way of withholding commitment. But online, no act of browsing is ever really idle.

Everyone's favorite starship captain is back in the hot seat-this time as the author of a revealing, open-hearted memoir, Making It So.

Researchers say that it's too easy to evade current methods of watermarking-or even to add fake watermarks to real images.

A developer in Austria created a comparison website that helped open up the opaque world of food costs as regulators investigate the food industry.

Foam rubber-like the filling inside your couch-produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution.

The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV.

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by ... the UK government.

White-collar defendants use three main defenses: It wasn't me, I didn't mean it, and the people that say I did are lying." FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to go for I didn't mean it," experts say.

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.

If your child is at high risk or if community transmission rates are high, you may want them to wear face masks. These are the styles my little ones will tolerate.

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

Hardshell rain jackets don't stay water resistant forever. This is how to give new life to your old outdoors outerwear.

Testimony during Google's antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate search results that will get you to buy more stuff.

It weighs a little more than 5 pounds, but this beefy laptop is a gaming powerhouse-if you can get used to the keyboard.

Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial on charges of overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do smart people buy into bad companies?

Covid seems to spike twice a year-but unlike with flu season, not in a predictable pattern. That could be due to the virus, the environment, or the people it is infecting.

Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.

Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.