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Attention Disney and Netflix: Leave Maleficent and Carmen Sandiego alone. My soul needs villains, those perpetrators of change.

A study finds that only 11 percent of firms that have deployed artificial intelligence are reaping a “sizable” return on their investments.

The Department of Justice has named and charged six men for allegedly carrying out many of the most costly cyberattacks in history.

Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health, no one can yet say.

Hang on to your stomach: In two thunderous dashes, supercar maker SSC set multiple production-car speed records.

If the former veep wins, it won’t be because he had an online meme army behind him. That’s a good sign for American politics.

Here’s how to prepare yourself for the disaster online.

After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday.

On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how better models would help combat them.

I picked up the controller to keep tabs on my fifth-grader. What I got was a window into her world—and a lesson in 21st-century fatherhood.

Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year.

Finally, there’s a better way to find approximate solutions to the notorious optimization problem, often used to test the limits of efficient computation.

If good looks, speed, and affordability matter when you're shopping for an electric bike, this one checks all the boxes.

Step away from the trash bin! There are plenty of ways to repurpose your old gadgets.

Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week’s top security news.

Nagging, giving unsolicited advice, and “ecopiety” are out. But there are better ways to get people to adopt green habits.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020.

The features get a little hotter every year! It's a self-perpetuating cycle that can't ever be reversed.

James Hibberd's Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon draws on more than 50 new interviews with the cast and crew.

Plus: Auction theory at Google, a stalking cougar, and a proposal for breaking up big tech.

This week, the Mouse House laid out a reorganization plan that puts a bigger focus on streaming. Don't look for other studios to make similar moves.

This week, we discuss Apple's new iPhone 12, from the inclusion of 5G in all four handsets, to the super-cute Mini model.

It's not blowing your mind. It's bludgeoning you with shock.

An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global disaster.

With its all-too-familiar webcam views and smartphone shots, Jenji Kohan's new show turns Covid-19 isolation into a drama everyone can relate to.

In an interview with WIRED, Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks.

Walmart started its own deals holiday to rival Amazon’s Prime Day. Here are our favorite discounts.

Prime Day has ended, but these deals haven't. A few of our favorite things are still on sale, like phones, laptops, robot vacs, and more.

Chipmaker Qualcomm and startup Truepic are testing a feature for Android phones that automatically tags the time and location when an image was captured.

WIRED paid a visit to NASA's first probe designed to protect Earth from killer asteroids. It launches next year.

A data detective makes a surprising discovery.

Mailing each other packages of tiny discs filled with music kept us connected.

Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good for young immune systems.

The data on female representation in games looked optimistic—but time will tell if these changes endure beyond a wildcard year.

Before YouTube and TikTok, there were keychain pets and chalky brownies. These classic toys from yesteryear are all still available today.

Smartphones have made our lives easier, but let's face it: telephones used to be so much cooler.

Thanks to this free smart TV app, I never have to pick what to watch.

Want stellar sound that will last a lifetime? Here’s what to consider when building a “new-to-me” system.

Boom Supersonic's sleek prototype craft rolled out this week; the final production model will be quieter than previous supersonics, and a novel fly-by-wire system will keep it stable at low speeds.

Get your Alexa on with these deals on Echo Speakers, Kindles, Fire devices, and more.

Treat yourself! From Echo speakers to robot vacuums, we've rounded up the best discounts from Amazon, and the other sales happening this week.

Need noise-canceling headphones? Or a laptop stand? We've rounded up discounts on remote working gear from Amazon and other retailers.

Amazon isn't the only store with deals today. Here are our top picks from Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and others.

Check out our favorite headphones, cameras, audio gear, and smart home devices on deep discounts for Target's anti-Prime day.

Don't wreck your wallet for a good sale. We've found a lot of discounts on affordable items from Amazon and other retailers.

These are our favorite Windows notebooks, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and accessories on sale during Amazon's big event.

Too tired to shop? Let us do the legwork for you. Here are our favorite deals on Garmins, Roombas, and more.

If you're a discerning cinephile, this is a great price on the Sony A8H OLED TV, one of the prettiest screens of the year.

The faster wireless standard uses different chunks of the radio spectrum—but the technology remains nascent.