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The possibility of a global pandemic will reveal our inability to make and distribute the things people need—just in time for a presidential election.

It’s the last time candidates will meet on the debate stage before Saturday's South Carolina primary, as well as Super Tuesday.

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The World Health Organization has urged other nations to learn from China's handling of the Covid-19 epidemic. But would an aggressive quarantine work here?

Users of Gmail get 300 billion attachments each week. To separate legitimate documents from harmful ones, Google turned to AI—and it’s working.

Sellers report receiving messages from the company that their face masks are too expensive, while users on Amazon's forum debate the ethics of raising prices during emergencies.

The short answer is maybe. The long answer won't make you feel any better.

Giphy and peanut butter brand Jif are reigniting the argument over the pronunciation of “GIF.” It's exactly what the internet needs right now.

We played with tons of gizmos at the annual trade show (for, uh, work reasons of course).

With the highly anticipated *Animal Crossing: New Horizons* and E3 on the horizon, Nintendo has become “increasingly aggressive” combating leaks over the last couple of months.

As the recent lawsuit between Kesha and Dr. Luke proves, your texts can get you in trouble.

Lazarus Group hackers have long plagued the internet—using at least one tool they picked up just by looking around online.

The author’s collection of speculative short fiction skips across worlds both real and ethereal, often coming back to the parent-child dyad.

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From San Francisco's de Young Museum to the pages of a new wave of memoirs, the creative class grapples with the role of human labor in the tech industry.

Quarantines and fear could decimate voter turnout. Congress needs to fund mail-in ballots nationwide now.

Microsoft shed a little light on its next-generation console, including the ability to suspend and quickly resume multiple games at once.

It's part of the deal that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss made with the streaming giant.

The wildfires weren't just unprecedented—scientists didn't think such catastrophic conflagrations would happen until the end of this century.

It's loud, but Feltham's residents are more annoyed by the planespotters who storm their town than the aircraft themselves.

Every 10 years, astronomers weigh in on the state of their field. For the first time, they're tackling Earth-centric issues like gender bias and diversity.

The site's channels are a reminder of the days when cultural events, whether local or international, happened around TV screens.

Natan Dvir's photographs capture commuters inventing new ways to ignore each other.

Also, SpaceX has formed a partnership to send average citizens into orbit.

Plus: A new helicopter ditches the traditional tail rotor for four fans, which could make the devices safer and quieter.

For the first time using this new technique, astronomers have identified an Earth-size planet by observing telltale solar flares.

Too cold or hot at the office? This wearable tricks your brain into thinking your body is at a comfortable temperature.

Be generous, but also be careful.

Changing a single word can alter the way an AI program judges a job applicant or assesses a medical claim.

First it was lithium, now it's cobalt. Factories are churning out as many batteries as possible, and it's creating a bottleneck.

An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, and more of the week's top security news.

The HBO drama has the kind of fleshed-out characters every show should strive for.

11-hours of battery life, upgraded sound, and excellent call quality make these fantastic go-anywhere earbuds.

A ‘solar sharing’ pilot project in Colorado is testing whether farmers can profit from growing vegetables and harvesting green energy on the same plot.

Need new gear? There are a lot of great sales going on, from discounts on the OnePlus 7T to Lenovo laptops.

The new aircraft, which ditches the noisy tail rotor for four fans, may also be a step toward electric-powered flight.

The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy’s loose seams, and pull.

Both companies cite the health of their employees as the main concern.

An appeals court ordered the FCC to seek comments on whether its new regime hurts public safety or low-income consumers.

A new pack from HoverGlide looks like magic. But there's a perfectly good physics explanation.

Acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell is just the latest in a cascade of temporary or vacant personnel in critical government positions.

From snowboard bindings to the best balaclava we've ever tested, here is our favorite ski and snowboard equipment.

Plus: Remembering Larry Tesler, the qualities of a successful founder, and the business of houseplant styling.

With the help of a new kind of drone, marine biologists can sequence DNA found in the ocean to reveal what's living in an ecosystem—and what's missing.

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder talks to WIRED about training computers to make human language more inclusive.

Game over.

Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.”

Using clever chemical wizardry, researchers have made human organs see-through. The dazzling 3D maps could one day lead to organs made in the lab.

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The world’s richest man committed $10 billion to fighting climate change. We’ve got some ideas about how to spend it.