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The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.

The test flight didn’t come close to the edge of space, but the prototype was a big step toward the rocket’s first orbital mission.

What at first seems like terrible housekeeping turns out to be a clever ploy to fend off huge predators, which can otherwise easily destroy a hive.

Imperial troops have finally figured out how to do more than charge straight ahead.

To drive innovation, we need to put technology in the hands of every worker, organization, and public-sector agency around the world.

Move over, air fryers. The use of steam is an exciting and approachable new direction for the home kitchen, and this oven is pointing the way.

Players often rationalize behaviors like harassment as a part of video game culture. But new research shows it has long-term negative effects.

The tiny desktop PC has been relaunched with an Apple-made chip, and boy does it rip.

Despite the raft of new games now available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, a free-to-play mobile puzzler still has the bulk of my attention.

The fallout from the attack may not be as dire as it first sounds.

The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque.

Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored—but it can be examined.

Yeager was the prototype of the American hero, a decorated fighter pilot immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. He died Monday at age 97.

Timnit Gebru was one of seven authors on a study that examined prior research on training artificial intelligence models to understand language.

The future of audio is spatial.

Joel Johnson, who has taken more than 60 rides in Waymo's Arizona taxis, has posted over a dozen videos and says it's been "rock solid."

Here are the WIRED science team's top new picks for this winter.

A new VR app called Arthur allows you and your distant colleagues to collaborate within a 3D meeting space—as long as you all have headsets handy.

Tips on how to read the full results from BNT-Pfizer and Moderna, from an expert in evaluating medical evidence.

By trimming the fat from its highest-end Galaxy handset, Samsung inadvertently made one of the year’s top Android phones.

It’d be great to know which public health interventions against the coronavirus have the biggest bang for the buck. But nobody does.

Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove it.

If there’s one thing that brings people together now, it’s old shows, old songs, and drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice to a 1977 hit.

Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices.

The ride-hail giant invested more than $1 billion in autonomous vehicles. Now it’s selling the unit to Aurora, which makes self-driving tech.

A vulnerability in VMWare has prompted a warning that companies—and government agencies—need to patch as soon as possible.

And explore how it relates to Iron Man’s flight strategy.

When everything is subscription-based, how many news sources will any one person actually read?

On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Lux Alptraum tackles the messy tale of Lora DiCarlo's allegedly game-changing vibrator.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change for the better.

The next, crucial step in beating the pandemic? Having conversations with our vaccine-shy loved ones.

Picking the right cookware can be a soul-sucking research project, but don’t give in to temptation and buy a set. Here’s a short list of unique essentials.

Analysis of 12 papyrus fragments from the Tebtunis Temple suggests that certain paint techniques were developed and used well before the 15th Century.

Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores, or even lodges in rocks.

Romain Grosjean’s F1 car slammed into a wall at 137 mph and burst into flames. He walked away because of decades of work by unsung scientists and engineers.

Search results can be cluttered with ads and other less-useful information. These add-ons strip out the junk to help you find what you're looking for.

Plus: Better Twitter two-factor, a Spotify hack, and more of the week’s top security news.

A new and potentially improved measurement of a proton’s charge radius brings scientists closer to an answer. But the issue is still unresolved.

The Positive Grid Spark will inspire you to step out of your musical wheelhouse.

Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

Erin Lindsey's Rose Gallagher books give America's 26th president the paranormal cowboy stories he deserves.

We combed through every Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal we featured this past weekend. These deals remain—for the moment.

The Oscar-nominated Umbrella Academy star came out as trans this week—a huge moment for the actor and everyone watching his rise.

Plus: A patented pizza box, polarization on Parler, and a sad update.

A device that cleans toothbrushes with UV light is something you probably want. Trust us.