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Squeeze in some outdoor workouts with a nice pair of buds and a wearable to follow your metrics.

Google’s new flagship smartphone is its most secure yet, thanks to a little vertical integration.

Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project scan the sky for signs of extraterrestrial life, but a promising lead turned out to be a false alarm.

Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.

The president's long-awaited nominees are strong proponents of narrowing the digital divide and restoring net neutrality rules.

With CRT at the forefront of national debate, these free online resources will bring you up to speed.

A first commercial test flight shows how fuel made from plants, not petroleum, could make flying cleaner.

It’s been 20 years since they first hit the digital airwaves. Here’s how they came to be part of the series’ legacy.

Having problems with your Android phone or tablet? Recovery mode could be the answer.

Yoti’s tech may be enticing for Big Tech companies: It works out if you’re under or over 13, the age most social media platforms require to create an account.

Operation Dark HunTor spanned eight countries—and put the focus on sellers more than marketplaces.

From Legacy of Kain to Silent Hill, these franchises were killed off too soon.

It’s the perfect introduction to Age for new players, but veterans may be underwhelmed by its campaign offerings.

What tabletop games did our ancestors play in 1000 BC? A new research project wants to find out, and make them playable online too.

In 200 million years, our far-flung continents may join up again. It reminds us of humans' tiny place in this intergalactic drama.

It’s a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas—and climate change—like never before.

Measures aimed at influencer and celebrity culture will reach into the screens of young people.

The renowned author says his genre should inspire solutions. In his new novel, he tackles our most existential crisis.

From the top-end hardware to the improved image processing for people with darker skin, it’s hard not to love the company’s latest Android phones.

If the genre is to return to its former glory, it needs to do more than tweak the formula that made it successful two decades ago.

A WIRED series dives into thousands of internal documents, showing a company rife with issues that it largely failed to address.

The visual effects team invented a process called “sandscreen” to produce epic desert shots. Another group made the worms sound more like god than Godzilla.

Internal research documents provide a blueprint for solving the company’s biggest problems.

Human reviewers and AI filters struggle to police the flood of content—or understand the nuances in different Arabic dialects.

The “badge posts” of the company's former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned.

The celestial storm produced carbon-14 atoms found in the rings of a tree felled by Norse explorers, proving they made it to North America 1,000 years ago.

Can a video game be historically accurate? The team behind the iconic series wanted to give it a try.

Recent public messaging encouraging people to eat more seafood conveniently omits information about the environmental impact of fishing.

Built upon the ubiquitous Fourier transform, these mathematical tools allow unprecedented analysis of continuous signals.

This portable, dedicated videophone is convenient and comfortable to use, and makes a life lived onscreen slightly easier.

Microsoft has rolled out its most secure operating system yet. Here's how to make the most of it.

Plus: Data theft in Argentina, a Sinclair Broadcast Group hack, and more of the week’s top security news.

Young members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community are learning how to identify and save local grasses as part of an effort to restore the land.

A citizen science project based in this MMO space opera has saved scientists almost 500 years of mind-numbing data crunching.

Every retailer thinks it's already time for post-Thanksgiving sales. Get your holiday shopping done early with scores on all the electronics on your list.

Should you match your mask? Can you thrift online? Here are our tips for buying or making costumes, including adaptable and accessible ones.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

This sale on WIRED-approved headphones, TVs, and phones has a pricing guarantee: If the price dips further before Black Friday, Best Buy will pay you the difference.

After the game's success in the 1970s, designers Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson found themselves in a battle over who should be considered its true creator.

Plus: The infamous 2016 Macbook Pro, Gödel’s ontological proof, and a mascot’s moment of weakness.

It took more than a decade to get the comics series adapted. Now it’s been canceled before even finishing its first season.

Give your loved ones the gift of feeling fabulous with these cosmetic tools and sets.

Despite the conventional wisdom, they don’t really float.

This week, we critique—and praise!—the new MacBook Pro models and the Pixel 6, both of which just landed in our laps.

Making your News Feed chronological is an enlightening look at what's really happening on the platform.

The industry now has official guidance on design, materials, and more, but not security and privacy best practices.

From constant surveillance to algorithms that decide what we see, society is entering territory reserved for fictional dystopias. Here's how to push back.

The Acer Swift 3's chip update and long-lived battery makes it one of the best affordable all-around laptops.