If you're in your home office for the long haul, you can still get the TLC you need for your IT. Here are some options.

It won't prevent teens from later becoming smokers. But some health experts say that focusing on the risk of addicting new smokers cuts off a chance to help adults quit.

It’s not just about the pandemic. How the new administration handles Covid-19 will be a test of every one of its policies—and its values.

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.

The supply chain threat was just the beginning.

The two major investigations into the origins of the pandemic are compromised by potential conflicts of interest. Those problems need to be fixed—fast.

Social media gave the Real Dr. 6ix a stage on which to show off liposuctions and breast lifts. But when cosmetic surgery becomes entertainment, who owns the story?

This winter, I’m lighting a new fire in old Hyrule with my five-year-old.

An algorithm discovered dozens of Martian craters. It’s a promising remote method for exploring our solar system and understanding planetary history.

Does the algorithm know you too well? Here’s how to shake up your recommendations for a more varied listening experience.

If you’re thinking, “Oh, I just need to suck it up,” stop. What you’re feeling is real. Here’s how to cope.

In Pixar’s new film, Soul, the protagonist wakes up in the body of a cat. It’s a common enough trope—but it gets messier the more you think about it.

The robo-vessel will map the ocean floor, and its solar-powered sensors will sample fish DNA and collect climate data.

Over the course of his presidency, he managed to be consistently wrong, outrageous, and dangerous in equal measure. We look back at his most notorious remarks.

Reopening in the fall was a massive gamble. At one high-poverty elementary school, navigating the risks paid off.

Elemental reactions, like shooting a dynamite-filled barrel or using an ice spell to cross a stream, are an important way for designers to bring worlds to life.

Launching rockets from planes is a decades-old concept that never really took off. Billionaire Richard Branson thinks its time has come.

Our nation’s failure to invest in information technology has severely limited our Covid response. A federal chief experience officer could change that.

Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?

We spoke to two award-winning authors for their tips on how to make it from start to finish. Here's how they take notes, organize chapters, and—yes—get comfy.

Here's how to keep your recommendations and history at least semi-private. No one needs to know how much Bridgerton you watched.

In an interview with WIRED, former secretary of defense Ash Carter discussed how to build morality into AI—and make sure other countries do too.

If the Covid vaccine push has proved anything, it’s that big government works.

Plus: A dark web takedown, a bitcoin scam, and more of the week's top security news.

Everyone in the game may be hot, but some of the characterizations we see aren't as subversive as you might think.

The Mini 2 is still lightweight yet has enough flying power for some windy conditions, and it comes equipped with a better camera.

If the dots on the loading screen were planets, is their motion realistic? And can we actually model it?

As tech companies scramble to tackle the extreme far-right, police and law enforcement are encasing Washington, DC, in a ring of steel.

In botanic gardens around the world, the reproductive future of the famously smelly plant is threatened. A new collaborative program wants to save it.

Platforms are scrambling to avoid being used by right-wing extremists targeting the inauguration. But the seeds of this crisis were sown long ago.

Nintendo is releasing a new version of the game in April. But nothing can replace the magic of the rental store's printed-out pocket monsters.

It’s a long weekend. These discounted picks will help you sit down, tune out, and tune in to your screens to while away the time.

Should it have happened at all?

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

Check out the replays of our talks with former US defense secretary Ash Carter, Nobel laureate Jennifer A. Doudna, Slack CEO Scott Butterfield, and more.

In an interview with WIRED, the famously fired DHS official shared insights on election security, disinformation, SolarWinds—and what to do about Trump.

The show's third season jumps forward 1,000 years into the future. It helped the show not stay mired in old ideas.

Plus: Zuckerberg’s community manifesto, how to hold platforms accountable, and an accidental admission in Congress.

Google researchers say the campaign, which booby-trapped sites to ensnare targets, was carried out by a “highly sophisticated actor.”

This week, we recap the news, trends, and stand-out gadgets from the first-ever virtual CES.

Officials from NASA and NOAA say the warming of both the planet’s air and water are driving weather disasters.

A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans.

Sure, the metaphor is imperfect. But as the encyclopedia enters its 20th year, it's worth reflecting on the "rules of the game"—and how they might change.

Researchers are finally getting good data on how severely SARS-CoV-2 affects children and how they transmit it. What does it mean for reopening classrooms?

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

It has a lot to do with unity—and a little something to do with earworms.

The consumer electronics show was virtual this year, and the WIRED Gear crew watched all the Zooms to bring you this list of nearly 80 products, trends, musings, and photos.

Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system.

A trio of new Android phones—the S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra—are joined by new Bluetooth earbuds and a Tile-like tracker.