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From Marvel hopefuls to mind-bending dramas, here are all the series you'll need to keep an eye on this year.

Employees admitted to using stolen passwords and URL guessing to access confidential data.

This electric scooter offers a stable ride at a relatively affordable price, though its bulky design isn’t the best for apartment-dwelling city slickers.

Academics often research minority communities in the hope of helping them. But too much time under the microscope can cause its own harms.

Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to President Obama, says good ideas come from everywhere—but Trump has dissuaded tech workers from coming to the US.

The self-driving vehicles smashed, burned, flipped, and tipped. But the ambitious race through the Mojave launched an industry.

Immunization against Covid-19 is not going perfectly, but at least it's going. Let's give credit where it's due.

WikiLeaks successor DDoSecrets has amassed a controversial new collection of corporate secrets and is sharing them in the name of transparency.

This month’s focus is on Zhang Zhan, who had been posting reports from Wuhan since early February. She was arrested in May.

From Dune to Black Widow, a ton of films got delayed due to Covid-19. Here are the ones WIRED is hoping to see, whether at home or (finally) in a theater.

The software helped create an amateur internet. It’s a far cry from the glossy, corporate one we know now.

Kick over this robot and it’ll quickly right itself—not because someone told it how, but because it taught itself to overcome the embarrassment.

If your budget is tight, this Android smartphone is a smart buy.

Candidates and organizers are flocking to the platform, with the hope of reaching voters who would normally be disengaged.

In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.

Christopher Nolan's latest has lots of mind-bending action scenes, but not much character development.

The ruling is based not on whether the WikiLeaks founder violated the Espionage Act, but on the implications of subjecting him to the US carceral state.

Changes proposed by the Wikimedia Foundation to diversify its community of editors raise existential questions for the online encyclopedia.

About 200 million women in the country are illiterate. But voice memo and image-sharing apps make it easier to connect, communicate, and run businesses.

Researchers slap a living antenna on a drone to give the machine an insanely keen sense of smell. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the “Smellicopter.”

Over the past two years, astronomers have rewritten the history of our galaxy.

An inexpensive, so-simple-it-hurts pan has come to rule our food writer's kitchen.

Director Guy Moshe talks about the ambitious scale and preternatural timeliness of his new sci-fi film.

John Snow showed that London's cholera outbreak arose from bad water, not the moral failings of the poor. His legacy can help tackle new problems like Covid-19.

WIRED asked the writers of five of our favorite 2020 titles what it was like to release a book during Covid-19.

And some Instagram resources to shore up your mental health, if therapy isn't an option right now.

Dungeons & Dragons has spent the past few months pushing a new era of diversity and inclusions, but it’s still got a lot of work to do.

Monks stared at skulls to ponder the inevitability of death. We stare at our phones.

Sorry, folks: Thanks to Covid, next year won’t be much more fun than this one, at least until enough vaccines arrive.

The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here’s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler.

This year radically changed what live events—at least those that weren’t canceled—look like. It also taught organizers some lessons.

From record-beating scientific discoveries to an elephant baby boom, this year was about much more than just a global pandemic.

This year saw plenty of destructive hacking and disinformation campaigns—but amid a pandemic and a historic election, the consequences have never been graver.

If streaming can’t cure your stay-at-home blues, a spinning platter just might do the trick.

Eric Green, head of the nation’s top genomics research institute, looks back on how far the field has come and shares his bold vision for the future.

Last generation, PCs outpowered consoles by a significant margin. This time around, the game is much closer, and the software is catching up too.

2020 was a great year for ransomware gangs. For hospitals, schools, municipal governments, and everyone else, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

After a year of protests against racial inequality and industry vows to do better, Black founders are still getting left out of Silicon Valley’s financial engine.

With lots of research, arrows, and an inviting color palette, artists helped transform complex research into useful information.

Michael Almereyda’s future-minded Shakespeare adaptation (with a WIRED cameo) is 20 years old. Now it feels like an eerie premonition.

This experimental Android phone has a screen that rotates, exposing a second, smaller screen underneath.

Among the misery and isolation of 2020, my secret Instagram became a portal to solace and a newer self.

Between glimpses of a medical cure and winning science’s shiniest prize, this proved to the gene-editing technology’s biggest year yet.

It was a mistake that cost 300,000 lives.

Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware.

These organic LED panels, usually seen on pricier TVs, are finally dipping to more affordable prices.

Mathematicians have long pondered a deceptively easy puzzle about the reach of a goat tied to a fence. Until now, they’ve only found approximate answers.

The pandemic and the election forced social media platforms to police false information like never before—but we have no clue if that solved anything.

From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances.