Veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges often find solace in gaming. Research shows it's helpful—and could be used more broadly.

Apple’s $1,000 phone sits in the awkward spot of not quite being the best phone. Nevertheless, it offers compelling upgrades.

The notion that a split between science and politics must exist is largely a fiction—and one of relatively recent vintage.

Apple's new iPhone makes a good upgrade if you're ready for your next phone.

Researchers showed that a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn’t do anything.

Don't buy into the myth: If you consider your options carefully, upgrading your desktop doesn't have to empty your wallet.

In the early days, we furiously scrubbed, afraid we could get sick from the virus lingering on objects and surfaces. What do we know now?

A ballot measure would create a new classification for people who have been contractors. Uber and Lyft threaten to leave the state if it fails.

Far-right factions say they're willing to take action to keep President Trump in the White House. The question is whether those actions are viable—or dangerous.

Each month we publish a six-word story—and it could be written by you.

With high backrests and generous adjustability, these thrones ease the physical strain of epic Doom Eternal sessions while also improving your WFH setup.

Universities are digitally spying on students to make sure they don’t cheat on online tests. A whole generation could be learning to tolerate surveillance.

To my robovac, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same. There is no success or failure—these concepts have merged.

Don't be fooled by the old-school design, with springy buttons and a black-and-white screen. It's the Game Boy for the wireless, open-source era.

Welcome back! Among the many courses offered this semester, students may elect to study essential climate-mitigation skills like underwater basket weaving.

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.