Motorola's first flagships in years are fantastic in many ways, but the Edge and Edge Plus have high price tags and too many quirks.

A top Trump adviser outlines a blueprint for experimenting with wireless tech on bases and using software to counter China's lead in hardware.

They won't grow a magic beanstalk, but the Galaxy Buds Live offer a unique fit, good sound with decent noise-canceling, and a price that's easy to stomach.

Adobe is adding technology to tag images with metadata, part of an effort to identify deepfakes and other efforts at manipulation.

Nandini Jammi’s advertiser boycotts scared brands away from journalism and into shady ad tech. Now she wants to teach marketers to think for themselves again.

A group of ecologists and biologists say the world's ticks, leeches, and tapeworms need love and conservation, too. Now they've got a 12-point plan.

Amazon has patched the flaw, but its discovery underscores the importance of locking down your voice assistant interactions.

I never want to watch this movie again. 5/5 stars.

A cable cut a large gash into the radio telescope this week and it’s uncertain when it will be back in working order.

Months into the pandemic, webcams are still hard to find. But if you're a shutterbug, you already have a better option.

Microsoft has had to shift its sales pitch from a “work” product to “staying home indefinitely” device.

A new feature will allow Android devices to collect readings from smartphone sensors and warn users when a tectonic shake-up is imminent.

This is a powerful electric bike for fun, mostly on-road romps around town.

Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second. The result is a stunning glimpse at the past.

Social media platforms repeatedly use so-called dark patterns to nudge you toward giving away more of your data.

When it comes to blocking germs, not all cloth masks are created equal. A new, low-cost testing device literally illuminates which ones won’t get the job done.

Scarred by trauma and devoted to Trump, a man began mailing explosives to the president’s critics on the eve of an election. Inside the race to catch him.

The senator and her team have earned a reputation for savvy online organizing. That could come in handy for a socially distanced presidential campaign.

Civil rights activists warn of "mission creep," as cameras installed to prevent break-ins are increasingly used to monitor protesters and communities of color.

In the early months of Covid-19, Google's video conferencing platform grew exponentially. Keeping the lights on was no easy task.

The rules banning movie studios from owning cinemas have been overturned—just in time for theaters in need of a bailout.

A Stanford University report shows that teens and young adults who use e-cigarettes are five to seven times more likely to test positive for the virus.

Their swipes at fake-meat products—Impossible Burgers, Beyond Meat, and all the rest—are pretty much the same.

For decades, governments and private organizations like Xprize have put up prizes to spur scientific innovation. But how much can contests help in a crisis?

Why did an American city beset by inequality and dysfunction face the onset of the pandemic so well? Because history left it ready for this moment.

The Pentagon will share part of the wireless spectrum, allowing telecom carriers to reach more areas with fewer cell towers.

Google's discontinued handset likely won't be available much longer, but it will still get years of software support.

Human rights organizations have blamed the Belarusian government for widespread outages.

Qualcomm has released a fix for the flaws in its Snapdragon chip, which attackers might exploit to monitor location or render the phone unresponsive.

But our new survey found that just 20 percent of gamers say they stand up to harassment when they see it.

Moog Music's Subharmonicon is a mashup of two legendary synths that can help unblock your stifled creativity.

The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note.

Solar facilities kill tens of thousands of birds every year, and no one is quite sure why. An artificial-intelligence-powered birder is on the case.

On the Get WIRED podcast, the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder tackles everything from Covid-19 vaccine development to TikTok.

Scientists have been studying treatments for the disease for half a year. Lack of coordination and a broken system mean they still don’t know very much.

Field Trip offers supervised, in-clinic drug experiences to treat some mental illnesses. But if you want to keep your social distance, an app to stand watch could be the next-best thing.

A government-funded system known as Most Serious Violence was built to predict first offenses but turned out to be wildly inaccurate.

New computer simulations model an alternate way of thinking about the cosmos: as a cyclic universe that has no beginning or end.

You don't have to stay inside Google and Apple's walled gardens. But if you choose to venture out, proceed with caution.

Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions.

Not only is the app many Americans' primary means of communicating with China, it's also been the mobilizing arm of Chinese Trumpism.

Plus: A Canon ransomware hack, a nasty Twitter bug, and more of the week's top security news.

Good news! An orbiter saw signs of almost a dozen previously uncounted colonies in Antarctica, boosting known numbers for a threatened species.

The leak contains information that the company makes available to partners and customers under NDA. A researcher says it came from a breach.

Thousands of eateries are closing amid the pandemic. Delivery specialists are popping up, but some observers worry about a loss of culture and community.

From $5 iPhone cases to a discounted LG OLED, we've rounded up sales on some of our favorite gear.

By apparently compromising moderator accounts, the attackers were able to post MAGA materials all over at least 70 popular subreddits.

The president’s latest actions against China may affect US tech firms, and Americans who communicate overseas through the social apps.

Need proof? 'Spam Spam Spam Humbug,' a podcast dedicated to the computer role-playing games, is now in its fifth year.

At the beginning of quarantine, it was a lifeline for folks missing the thing people used to call “going out.”