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The Amazon series Upload shows a comedic—and probably more realistic—version of what would happen if humans could live online after they die.

To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work.

This week we talk about non-fungible tokens, digital art collectors, and what it's like to sell one of your tweets.

Their inner ears turn wonky when they grow up in carbon-rich water, which could keep juveniles from finding their way to the reefs. That could mean trouble.

The human brain is fallible. Which is exactly what gives social deduction games their voltage.

For a year now, we’ve been living in constant fear of Covid-19. But when you get that vaccine in your arm, it’s not like your stress will magically melt away.

There’s no cool gear with my method, but it has other advantages.

Danielle Messer carried a mitochondrial mutation that left her son severely disabled. Before even daring another pregnancy, she tracked down an “egg specialist.”

A crop of eco-creators is bent on educating their followers about the looming global disaster. Can their message translate into action?

Following in the footsteps of visual novels like Hatoful Boyfriend and Dream Daddy, this cryptid romance subverts expectations for the genre.

The lack of sexual orientation and gender identity data captured in the health care system makes it difficult to develop treatments tailored to different needs.

New turbines proposed for a development off Cape Cod could provide green energy, but the science of how they might affect the environment is a bit murky.

The right time to buy is when the season is winding down. It’s not just cold-weather picks but also backpacks, headlamps, sporks, and more.

Now that authorized versions are available, it’s tough to recruit volunteers for trials that might give them a placebo. But there are other options.

Some urban designers have long wanted to reduce the area set aside for cars. Covid is giving them a chance.

Just because you don't hear about them doesn't mean no one's trying.

Deepfake technology can make convincing replicas from a limited amount of data, and the show has 30 years worth of audio to work from.

Just because you devoted 100 hours of your life to it, doesn't mean you have to finish a video game that now bores you.

In this week’s Out of Office column, Megan explains how to stand up for yourself when you’re mired in extra work.

New documents show the company has grand plans for its Boca Chica launch site, providing more evidence that Elon Musk is bullish on SpaceX's future there.

New SSD technology helps developers bend space and time—and creativity.

By sensing the subtle changes in the finger’s own magnetic field, this new technology could one day make for ultra-sensitive prosthetic hands.

Crypto art is huge right now—and it’s moving far beyond digital images.

Lightmatter says the computing and power demands of complex neural networks need new technologies like these to keep up.

A patch for the vulnerabilities China exploited has been released. Now, criminal groups are going to reverse engineer it—if they haven’t already.

If you are missing out on serendipity in your remote work, try ramping up your 2-D audio copresence.

Appointing Lina Khan to the FTC would add an anti-monopoly crusader to a crucial position—as does Tim Wu’s installment at the National Economic Council.

If you've been looking for a better TV setup, our favorite streaming devices are discounted.

Sonos has stood out in the crowded speaker market by selling high-end Wi-Fi speakers. Now it’s fully aboard the portable Bluetooth train.

The cryptocurrency depends on the integrity of the blockchain. But China’s censors, the FBI, or powerful corporations could fragment it into oblivion.

Like many parents, I've had to constantly advocate for my children's education this year. These are the structural changes that parents actually want to see.

Now that it’s warping my portals to the outside world, Wikipedia has me more worried than ever.

I was surprised at how readily a game could transport me back to my youth—and to a place I always wanted to return.

Walter Isaacson’s account, out Tuesday, is a thrilling tale of scientific discovery. He talks about gene-editing tech—and the future of the human race.

Eliminating Covid globally means navigating a minefield of competition, limited supply, and suspicion that some vaccines aren’t as good.

As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career—and his genre’s place in society—have gone through the looking glass.

There’s no “right” way to deal with loss, whether it’s the loss of a job or a loved one. Here are some resources and practices for managing the pain from home.

It will be hard pointing to a specific line the Kremlin crossed that the US hasn't crossed as well.

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to WIRED about AI, Crispr, and his hopes for humanity.

The 2018 report in Nature claimed to have found evidence of an elusive subatomic particle. A review found that the group had omitted key data.

Showing off their best impressions of Deadpool, the animals survived for weeks without organs, only to regrow everything and go about their business.

It involves calculating some very, very tiny numbers in order to find some super huge big ones.

The WIRED crew will be playing a little Sea of Thieves too, matey.

The next entrepreneurial revolution will arise to combat the crisis of our lifetime.

Federal law allowed Both the Trump and Biden campaigns to hide where their ad spending went. Either Congress or the FEC needs to close the loophole.

The fundamentals haven't changed much. But the rules have evolved over the centuries—from timer usage to the ways that pieces are moved.

In the latest Assassin's Creed installment, I'm playing a Viking during the Dark Ages. Why am I bored?

Facebook, Amazon, and Google ads are blanketing inside-the-Beltway newsletters in a bid to rehab their tarnished reputations.

Companies pledged money and support for people of color. But some say they still face a hostile work environment for speaking out or simply doing their jobs.