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Twitter’s pseudo-democracy has failed to live up to its grand ideals, but the dream of a digital town square lives on.

Expert players of the popular vehicular soccer game have been caught out by lesser players using a superhuman bot built on cutting-edge machine learning.

Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks.

Your body generates enough energy to power wearables, medical sensors, and implanted devices—and tech designers are plugging in.

Investigators found that conditions in three of the company’s facilities risk “serious physical harm” to workers.

There are discounts on vibrators, lube, and other accessories—it’s a great time to stock up for Valentine’s Day.

This Siri speaker comes with upgrades to audio quality and smart home automation—but yes, it’s still expensive.

Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 team has had to navigate war in Ukraine while developing the sequel to their hit shooter.

I’ve gone through Stanley tumblers, Nalgenes, and older Yetis. The Yeti Yonder beats them all.

Fakery spans “beautified” data, photoshopped images, and “paper mills.” Experts and institutions are employing tools to spot deceptive research and mitigate its reach.

Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to operate.

A shortcut to going public, called a SPAC, helped early-stage tech companies raise money. Now some are suffering slumps.

These assistants won’t just ease the workload, they’ll unleash a wave of entrepreneurship.

The company’s flagship laptops are more powerful than ever, and its tiny desktop computer is now cheaper.

Britishvolt promised investors it would be the cornerstone of the country’s battery industry. Now it faces bankruptcy.

Decades-old visa rules mean that job cuts disadvantage workers, companies, and perhaps the whole country.

WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on whether digital tools can solve a health crisis they helped create.

The company’s budget tablets keep improving. The latest 8-inch models are good value for Prime subscribers.

Today’s devices can be thrown off by the slightest environmental interference. Algorithmiq is developing ways to counteract this and harness quantum’s power.

As the heart of a distributed energy network, EVs will be hard at work, even when they’re stationary.

Digitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of.

Technology, corporate greed, and supply-chain chaos are transforming life behind the wheel of a big rig. I went on the road to find exactly how.

Video editing gets a lot faster when you’ve got a wheel.

One year later, researchers are marveling at the power of the Hunga Tonga explosion—and wondering how to monitor hundreds of other undersea volcanoes.

To succeed in home settings, domestic mechanical assistants will need humanoid attributes.

By reinstating banned accounts and selling blue checks, Musk has supercharged “the most dangerous” Covid disinformation.

Cupertino puts privacy first in a lot of its products. But the company still gathers a bunch of your information.

Climate change is straining the world’s two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew’s existential crisis?

The Department of Justice warned a provider of tenant-screening software that its technology must comply with fair housing law.

In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers—strange entities that mimic the primes.

In 2023, people will remember how to think for themselves—and Big Tech will help.

Shrug off your anxiety with these power-saving tips to extend the juice of your iPhone or Android phone.

Plus: Samsung sets a date for the next Galaxy Unpacked, Xbox gets a power-saving mode, and the right-to-repair fight rages on.

Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more.

Scientists want to pinpoint the technology that marked when humanity became a “geological superpower.” On the short list: the H-bomb and the modern chicken.

These great discounts will help you start the year right.

Machine learning has already proven useful, but its real-world applications are just beginning.

The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier.

Far from ushering in the death of cinema, AI can help film the “unfilmable" and make cinema more collaborative.

Here’s why your social media feeds might be haunted by posts about 26-year-old nursing assistants.

The chair of the Federal Trade Commission explains why she wants to ban companies from locking up employees with noncompete clauses.

Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that.

Gracefully avoid sketchy situations and score a deal on the post-holiday gadget turnover.

The loquacious bot has Microsoft ready to sink a reported $10 billion into OpenAI. It’s unclear what products can be built on the technology.

Activision-Blizzard’s ambitious, much-hyped initiative has stalled. Recent upheavals reveal the instability of esports—and a murky future for the league.

In a post-Roe world, bodily autonomy must include control over personal data.

Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a novel way to help people avoid getting swindled online: grassroots education.