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50 years after the first spacecraft touched down on our super hot neighbor (and promptly died), NASA has a plan for a tougher mechanical lander.

Amateur and professional cryptographers, including those at the FBI, had been trying to decode the infamous serial killer's message to the media for decades.

Without any need for steering wheels or pedals, the cubes give passengers room to maneuver inside. The latest entrant, from Zoox, can hold 4.

The electric version of Ford’s legendary sports car is a lot of fun to drive. But road trips can be derailed by an underpowered charging network.

A supply chain attack against IT company SolarWinds has exposed as many as 18,000 companies to Cozy Bear's attacks.

On this week's Get WIRED podcast, an editor captures the bizarre world of 2020 for his unborn daughter.

Apple’s update that enables RAW camera capture—and makes your photos more editable—is now available.

With Disney’s announcement of 22 new series, and Warner Bros. teaming up with HBO Max, the battle for every last subscriber will come to a head next year.

It remains unclear how effective the warnings will be, but the attempt alone is a promising development.

In the midst of a global pandemic, the genre got a lot more real.

In-person gatherings will resume eventually, but innovations born during the pandemic will remain.

Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was able to flag signs of their conditions.

Whether you've heard of this retail holiday or not, you should check out these tech deals.

From pig poop to sunscreen to poker to hackers, the books we love dive deep to tell smart stories about how the world works.

Kew Labs’ unique charger installs under your desk, where it sends electrons to your phone wirelessly through the tabletop.

Subways and buses are the lifeblood of dense cities like New York. If the system withers, the region becomes a less attractive place to live and work.

An expedition into a steep, remote mountain area unveils discoveries of strange frogs, snakes, and plants—and the return of species thought to be extinct.

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to profound questions in math.

From messaging to maps, many popular apps slurp up your data to sell you ads. There’s a better way.

Artificial intelligence programs typically are power guzzlers. New research shows how to generate computer vision from a simple, low-power chip.

Love caught me by surprise, but we were continents apart.

After four years of Trump kowtowing to Putin, the US has its work cut out for it.

The newest trend in oral care lets you skip the dentist's office by taking molds of your teeth at home and having a protective night guard mailed to you.

And Disney, with its rich in-person experience offerings, is poised to be the biggest winner of all.

Data from 120,000 birdwatchers in 48 countries shows forest birds have expanded their range while area occupied by farmland birds has shrunk.

These devices work like a portable refrigerator, drawing power from AC or DC power (like the 12-volt plug in your car) to keep your food cool and dry.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

Owen Egerton's 2017 book Hollow used the theory to tell its story. Now that conspiracies are everywhere, he's reconsidering that move.

As with so many things in 2020, it all started with a tweet.

Plus: A WhatsApp cofounder’s regrets, the rules of chip hoarding, and a failed attempt at influencer marketing.

Repairing your own console is either impossible or illegal. An exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could change that.

The European Medicines Agency has released limited details about the cyberattack.

This week, we discuss how holiday gift-giving has been influenced by the pandemic. Also, we list the things we’ll be giving, and offer some gift suggestions.

This year’s aggressive fire season wiped out a record number of the endangered birds, as well as a facility wildlife biologists use to track and care for them.

Texas is seeking to overturn the 2020 election based on a shoddy statistical analysis. It's just what you would expect from medical researchers.

We reduce test results to “positive” or “negative.” Some experts think patients, and the community, would be better served by a more nuanced approach.

“The trick was to lift consciousness into a superposition and help it lock into distinct space-time coordinates.”

The agency is close to authorizing Pfizer's Covid-19 shot. That raises questions about the fate of study volunteers and lost opportunities to collect their data.

Antitrust suits, like the one filed against Facebook, are long, costly, and often ineffective. The next president can fix the system—without Congress.

More than 50 years after its course correction failure, Surveyor 2’s rocket booster seems to have reappeared.

When a body is reduced, all at once, to a crude dichotomy of hot and cold, what happens to your soul?

While you may have to wait to check out the most popular releases, libraries across the country are increasingly adding video games to their collections.

Fixing, refueling, and upgrading satellites in orbit is about to become more common. A group is pushing for international standards to keep these missions safe.

Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google is a powerful reminder of how thoroughly companies dominate the field, with the biggest computers and the most resources.

When did “the Internet” become “the internet?” Why did that happen, and how has it changed us?

The social shopping app Poshmark promises women the chance to spin gold out of secondhand threads. The reality is a lot of spinning, and little gold.

Mike Pondsmith, who wrote the tabletop RPG that inspired Cyberpunk 2077, explains why the genre feels vital in 2020.

Apple’s small spherical speaker is a convenient satellite for Siri-loving Apple users, but it doesn't score many points beyond that.