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.

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.