Platin's tiny, wireless surround sound system effortlessly outperforms your basic soundbar setup, without making you drill into your walls.

While the feature makes spoken exchanges more clear, having to keep your AirPods in your ears during in-person chats sends the wrong social message.

Electricity costs more, Bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong?

Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or even falsified.

Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.

Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.

When it comes to issues like climate change, too many let the perfect become the enemy of the good, while the world burns.

He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradictions.

Summer is within reach. Save on WIRED-Recommended hair dryers, TVs, hot-weather essentials, and more this weekend.

Redesigned for 2022, this lightweight backpacking tent still feels a few years behind the competition.

It's the unofficial start of summer in the US, and it’s a good time to score a deal on equipment for your next adventure.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we start prepping for summer fun with titanium chopsticks and foldable kayaks.

The 2020 indie darling provides players with thoughtful romantic plots seldom seen in gaming.

For most cooking tasks, a backyard flattop is more versatile—and easier to manage—than a grill.

This sci-fi-worthy electric ride has gone from cool concept to the street almost unchanged.

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it?

Importing formula will provide quick relief, but reforming the program that provides free formula to low-income families would help more in the long term.

The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.

It's a tough digital world out there for a musical group called the Viagra Boys.

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and potentially on the hook.

Ring in the summer with a brand-new bed, mattress topper, or cover.

Test your digital green thumb with farming simulators, cozy growing games, and peculiar indies.

It's time to build the Poop Ark, a centralized collection of the entire animal kingdom's feces, for research, de-extinction, and more.

The result could help researchers answer a larger question about flattening objects from the fourth dimension to the third dimension.

The platform has a history of standing up to governments. Its billionaire suitor wants to follow their rules to the letter.

Whether you've picked up the messaging app recently or you've been using it for ages, these tools can help you make the most of it.

Plus: Google Assistant comes to the Samsung Galaxy Watch4, and a new virtual space for streaming 360-degree audio invites you to jack in.

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

Here’s everything you need to know about switching from Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T to the search giant’s cell phone service.

New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning. It could devastate farmers.

The game tackles housing inequality, gentrification, racism, and generational trauma with elegance and empathy.

Tragedies converge, apocalypse colors the air, and digital realities no longer suffice. Eventually everything, and everyone, cracks.

During the protests in Hong Kong, young people carried laser pointers, umbrellas, and plastic ties—objects that sometimes led to their arrest, and years of legal limbo.

The publication runs a version of “‘No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” after every mass shooting in America.

Plus: The early days of Y Combinator, a world without electricity, and a frightening new norm.

The results won’t be high fidelity, but you can definitely turn sound into electric signals using an N95 and some physics knowledge.

This plug-and-play mesh system delivers fast Wi-Fi and features, like motion sensing, that we’ve never seen before in a router.

We asked the engineer who invented cookies what they mean and how to handle them.

What if the best headphones for gaming, movies, and music are the kind studios use to make them?

The recent act of racist terrorism in Buffalo has raised the stakes on how science is communicated and sold.

Social media users have adopted terms like unalive to avoid platform censorship. But not using the word suicide can stigmatize it.

The incident, which cost first responders valuable time, underscores the challenges that Cruise and other companies face on the road to driverless taxis.

Slide into summer with a bang this year, riding the wave from Masturbation May right into the long weekend.

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections.

While the infamous imageboard's ties to mass shootings have long been clear, its relationship with a Japanese toymaker has remained remarkably murky.

After the actor’s NFT and licensing agreement were stolen, he suggested going to court to win back intellectual property rights. Not so fast.

A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.

The Chinese government recently began saber-rattling about American cyberespionage. The catch? It’s all old news.

Early theories suggested an underwater landslide caused a catastrophic mix of magma and seawater. Recent evidence reveals an explosion unlike anything studied before.