Growing up making friends on AIM and in chatrooms, I know the internet can foster human connection. Here are some tips that translate to teaching online classes.

After getting fully inoculated against Covid-19, here are some scenarios that prove the New Normal isn’t normal at all.

The full extent of the SolarWinds hack and Hafnium’s attack on Microsoft Exchange Server may never be known.

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.

Most image recognition algorithms require lots of labeled pictures. This new approach eliminates the need for most of the labeling.

WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on narcissism, Nabokov, and what it means to exist—really exist—for other people.

A new study modeled whether we could find intelligent life on another planet—by looking for its pollution.

Video games have long struggled to handle sexuality, but a growing number of indie developers are changing that.

The company's cordless vacs are touted as affordable Dyson alternatives. I'm not so sure about that.

As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.

Attack of the Murder Hornets plays out like a spooky murder mystery. But the insects are scary enough; they don't need horror movie tropes.

The state’s independent rural drugstores are showing the power of small.

That old Microsoft Zune? Not so much. That old iPhone? Definitely.

A review of the open source code shows an account under the executive's name made a mistake that could lead to the kind of breach reported this weekend.

The rocket lowered the rover onto the surface of Mars before it shot away from the landing site. So where did it end up?

The platform's absorbing endless scroll and karaoke features have built an overlooked disinformation machine.

From engaging audiences to building bridges, tech has helped my small, rural faith community weather the storm. Here's how it might help yours too.

In this week’s Out of Office column, Megan tackles guilt, bad policies, and the rules of zoomfood.

In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon’s mission to preserve the soul.

MiHigh's portable infrared sauna is warm, wet, and weird.

You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.

Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interactions by far compared to other news sources, new research shows.

The Covidologist-in-chief says we can’t relax on masks and social distancing yet. Hear that, Texas?

What was supposed to be all the rage in graphics quickly turned into a meme. But will it actually improve your gaming experience?

The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place.

Microsoft’s new Mesh software platform helps faraway coworkers meet up and interact in mixed reality. The results are, well, still mixed.

People once folded their correspondence in intricate ways, known as “letterlocking,” to keep out snoops. A fancy new imaging technique sees right through it.

Here’s a look back at some of the earliest games for girls—and the role women played in the game industry’s early days.

The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service.

Shows like Bridgerton and Hollywood alter the past in the name of inclusion. It would benefit us more to write the world as it was, as it is.

Overly restrictive “yellow cards” could end up disproportionately excluding Black and Latinx citizens from jobs, schools, or even the neighborhood market.

In 2014, more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped. It hardly made global headlines—until a Twitter hashtag took off.

From PCs to smartphones, office tech has always promised to make us more productive. But time and again, it's come with unexpected side effects.

Ultimately, their management styles were similar: Don’t talk about doing things, just do things.

The small but boisterous slice of Twitter that's preoccupied with politics imagines @jack, the author of our collective Twitter being, as all-powerful. He's not.

The CEO behind the viral success discusses how it became the top-selling game on Steam—and the game's biggest weakness moving forward.

“Eventually, the Americans would find them. But by then it would be too late.”

The European Space Agency wants to make sure its new astronaut class is more diverse. But it will take redesigned gear to make space accessible to everybody.

The game follows the arc of a romance—and only when it ends can the puzzles go free.

After decades of staying out of industrial policy, a Pentagon-appointed commission recommends more spending on research and support for US chip makers.

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis discuss their inspirations, personal experiences, and what keeps them up at night.

Instagram is finally giving creators their most requested feature—which the company hopes will make it a more dynamic destination for viewers.

One couple living in Yangon explain the impact of the military coup's terrifying censorship measures.

Female journalists around the world are telling important stories, in spite of the danger of harassment or attack. This month focuses on their cases.

It's not just about penalizing the former president. It's about protecting democracy—in the US and around the world.

In The Empathy Diaries, the pioneering computer researcher finally studies her own life. She tells WIRED why now was the right time.

Fighting the pandemic isn’t only about vaccines and drugs. It’s about understanding how viruses mutate and change inside us, and among us.

AI programs that analyze language have difficulty gauging context. Words such as “black,” “white,” and “attack" can have different meanings.

The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70 GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.

Twenty years ago, physicists began investigating a mysterious asymmetry inside the proton. Their results show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom’s core.