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Internet shutdowns in India prove it's not just authoritarians who repress online.

It was a devastating start to the year for fans. Also, did you hear about PopeSlapGate?

A study challenged the evidence for this mysterious force, despite its wide acceptance as part of the cosmos. Then physicists shot back.

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NASA's HiRise camera captures white carbon dioxide frost on a scarlet wonderland.

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news.

The second season of HBO's 'His Dark Materials' promises to bring the second book in Philip Pullman's series to life.

The Japanese government still doesn't know exactly how Carlos Ghosn, who was under house arrest, managed to flee to Lebanon.

The annual consumer tech showcase will be awash in shiny gadgets, but it's what those products tell us about the future that matters most.

Router security has improved a bunch in recent years, but there are still steps you can take to lock yours down even better.

In addition to securing physical structures, the Diplomatic Security Service runs simulations of protests in a model city in Virginia.

A physicist dilates on the delights of nature’s intricate geometry.

From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal.

A California law aimed at requiring gig economy companies to classify workers as employees took effect January 1. That hardly settled the matter.

Australia’s bushfires have scorched millions of acres, putting millions of people at risk. Welcome to the hellish future of life on Earth.

You'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand up.

Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.

The Gadget Lab crew discusses what they expect to see next week in Las Vegas: facial-recognition tech, 5G everywhere, and self-driving scooters galore.

ABC. Always be clicking.

Director Sam Mendes' World War I epic is edited to look like one continuous shot. The strange thing is, that totally works.

The app says it didn’t receive any requests for user information from China during the first half of 2019. That might not reassure skeptics.

The phone uses electrochromic glass to pull off its vanishing act. Just don’t expect to get your hands on one anytime soon.

The studio's head honcho, Kevin Feige, reportedly said one of the films he's working on will feature a trans character. But he may have been misunderstood.

Scientists are going to great lengths to try to make gravity fail, so as to link Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics.

Like humans, female killer whales stop reproducing decades before the end of their lifespan. Grandmothers might show why.

Helsinki, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Singapore, and other metros have been experimenting with on-demand buses—and not seeing a lot of success.

A wave of startups wants to make brain-computer interfaces accessible without needing surgery. Just strap on the device and think.

These six visions from humans today span space colonies, a genetic panopticon, and straight-up apocalypse.

Mayors across the world say we all need to consider how urban planning and climate intersect with well-being.

The California Consumer Privacy Act, which goes into effect today, gives state residents some new rights over their data.

You don't need special glasses to see what it looks like when smart people run out of ideas.

The number of satellites in orbit will double. Lots more people will get Crispr'd. Organoids might demand of bill of rights. No big deal\!

Social media platforms toppled the reign of the album. The 2010s were all about singles—rewriting how we metabolize music and the culture that surrounds it.

In the early aughts the internet was less dangerous than it was disruptive. That's changed.

As the world warms, scientists say that abrupt shifts in weather patterns, like droughts followed by severe floods, are intensifying.

These swirling patterns, likely caused by heat rising from the water below, look like frozen Jackson Pollock paintings.

Recent progress in AI, many believe, makes the promise and peril of transhumanism increasingly possible.

From themes and formats to storylines, television isn't as straight and narrow as it used to be. Welcome to the messy, vibrant age of queer TV.

The latest Nokia phone is cheap, but it will get Android updates far longer than many expensive flagship devices.

Fake followers. Fake news. Foreign influence operations. The last decade revealed that much of what's online is not as it seems.

Ten years ago, the entrepreneur-savants running Silicon Valley were treated like royalty. Now we know just how badly their bright ideas can backfire.

Two related events shaped the last 10 years in science fiction and fantasy—the most transformative we've seen in the history of the genres.

Space is getting closer, thanks to small, cheap “satlets” that network themselves to solve problems in flight.

Longform stories are more popular than ever. Here are the baker's two dozen WIRED readers spent the most time on this year.

New technology yielded a historic first as well as increasingly detailed imagery of our universe.

'Fortnite' was a big deal—a very big deal—but it wasn't the only one.

Tech leaders need to innovate on their apologies. But given the state of the internet, is a meaningful mea culpa even possible?

The HBO show demonstrates the ability of fiction to deal with serious themes like race and trauma.

A growing industry might take over the job of predicting sunny days and snowstorms. Are you ready for Big Weather?

Archaeologists say the 43,900-year-old cave painting might also include the oldest known religious images.