Elon Musk has a chance to create the world's first “circular car.”

Passenger jets and cruise ships normally gather key weather data. But full docks and empty skies make it hard to predict the details of incoming storms.

For some, it's a sort of mental self-preservation, for others it’s a concerted strategy to win the former category over to their way of thinking.

You know those videos of musicians rocking out from their living rooms, laid out in a grid? Here's how they're made.

There isn't always time, during a crisis, to be reflective in the face of harmful information. Here's a useful rule of thumb.

Your body is well adapted to handle temporary stresses, but is overwhelmed by the constant, unrelenting pressures of this horrible year.

Researchers say the stay-home orders can encourage police abuse and pit residents against law enforcement.

The videoconferencing company says it wants to be able to work with law enforcement to catch bad actors on its platform.

A large, double-blind study examined 821 people who had been exposed to the virus. The drug was no better at stopping Covid-19 infection than a placebo.

WIRED’s video team reached out to doctors, physician assistants, and paramedics, and asked them about their experiences treating Covid-19 patients.

Prebuilt gaming computers are more affordable and more powerful than ever. Before you shell out for one, here's some advice.

Why is he abetting Trump while civil rights leaders and his own employees rebuke him? It's about dominance.

Early on Tuesday, social media users began posting black boxes with hashtags meant to support Black Lives Matter—they ended up drowning out years of resources.

Over several decades, the 1033 program has shipped over $7.4 billion of Defense Department property to more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies.

Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker-skinned people.

Rubber bullets and tear gas are billed as relatively safe. They're anything but.

The president says the US will designate antifa a terrorist organization. Can he do that? Probably not.

The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time.

Amid a pandemic, users have turned the subreddit r/LastImages into a digital shrine to remember loved ones lost to the disease.

Here's how to open all your files—so you can switch between your phone and laptop seamlessly.

The simplest hygiene tasks are the toughest to maintain—take it from the health care experts who have advice about how to make the habit stick.

Too many Covid-19 buzzwords? Here’s what they all mean.

With record numbers of Americans jobless, some are turning to nontraditional programs that offer rewards for completing short courses on specific skills.

Worried about infiltration from extremist groups or police surveillance, residents are turning to pre-internet tactics to help protect homes and local stores.

Some workers at the social media giant are publicly criticizing decisions not to remove or flag misleading posts by President Trump.

The killing of George Floyd elicited corporate outrage, and some donations. But well-intentioned rhetoric has not always been followed by meaningful action.

Since January, scientists have published more than 700 studies to figure out the molecule’s link to risk for the disease—and to find possible treatments.

Yes, the current experience is full of terror. But there's room for catharsis, too.

This month's list features four reporters sentenced to death in Yemen, among other news professionals whose civil rights are being threatened.

The Grit X's FuelWise reminders will prevent your body from crashing, but the lack of onboard maps make this a difficult tracker to recommend for the backcountry.

Never before have humans lived more comfortably. And yet today we're overwhelmed by crises, be it inequality or economic collapse or Covid, all exacerbating one another.

Hot spots are emerging in urban areas across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where social distancing is challenging and missing work can mean not eating.

Don’t touch, but keep in touch! The pandemic has us living in an alternate corporeality.

Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here's how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Such studies could speed up the development of a vaccine—but would mean deliberately giving people a disease that could kill them.

The under-sung heroes of the country's rail system keep vigilant watch from colorful mini-castles.

Last week, social media did some sleuthing to figure out who recorded a haunting cover of the singer's “Look What You Made Me Do” for the BBC America show.

Why the weighted exercise vest is the best piece of home workout gear you're not using.

Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis?

Internet outages, blackouts, and other accidents can make working from home more complicated. Here's how to protect yourself.

Streets arranged in grids, with few dead-ends, encourage walking and transit. But in developing countries, growing cities are taking the opposite route.

The test mission will clear the way for regular crewed launches from the United States for the first time in nearly a decade.

The occasion will mark the first time a private company blasts NASA astronauts into space. Here's everything you need to know.

A new analysis revealed what scientists believe is a passage from the book of Ezekiel.

As we sunset this weekly series, we take a farewell tour of the outer planets—and pay tribute to one of the most famous last looks at Earth.

Plus: A LiveJournal hack, Qatar's contact-tracing privacy failure, and more of the week's top security news.

Though his executive order follows a line of misguided, bipartisan swings at the protections for online platforms, this one is distinctively terrible.

The fanbase is fractured and the future seems unclear.

Rats, weasels, and other imported mammals have destroyed native bird populations. Local group Predator Free Wellington wants to turn the tables.