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The pugnacious-porcine meme is the latest example of people on social media embracing absurdity to cope with intense sadness.

Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption.

The aircraft flying loops off the Oregon Coast on Monday was likely testing potential fixes for the troubled MCAS system, implicated in two crashes.

Researchers have begun to see a trend: The rate of mass shootings is consistently much higher for places with fewer restrictions on guns.

As the accuracy of such algorithms improve, governments use facial recognition in more ways—and prompt increasing privacy and fairness concerns.

HBO's drug-addled teen drama forces viewers to reckon with a lot of bad habits.

James Clark Maxwell's equations are a big deal in physics, explaining the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism. Here's the gist of how they work.

Tired of Netflix's algorithms telling you what to watch? HBO has a solution for you.

At this year's Defcon Medical Device Village, hackers will attack real medical devices at a pretend hospital.

Apple revives the original name of its software subsidiary, which it abandoned in 1998. The rebranded Claris also is acquiring an Italian software company.

Zupagrafika's new book captures modernist and brutalist architecture in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.

Kodiak Robotics will begin commercial service between Dallas and Houston, though a host of other self-driving startups have already been testing in the state.

Researchers have clear policy suggestions on how to see fewer gun deaths. They'd have many more, if they weren't starved for funding and data.

Scientists believe Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier is teetering on the brink of collapse, though just how fast that could happen remains an open question.

A select group of iPhone users are getting early access to Apple's digital credit card. Everyone else will get it later in August.

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The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?

A new survey of 900 active devs provides some surprising clarity into the technology's constraints.

The Rock's muscles brought in more than $60 million domestically. Plus: *Spider-Verse* duo signs with Universal, *Batwoman* is the future, and *Dune* gets delayed.

Huawei last week touted a 23% increase in first-half revenue, despite US sanctions. But smartphone sales fell outside its home country.

The new wearable from Samsung adds even more health-tracking features to better compete with the fitness-forward Apple Watch.

Opinion: Brands that do away with printed currency are unintentionally self-selecting their users.

The third generation of the novel device is smaller and has a much-improved remote control.

Used car shopping site Shift says EVs accounted for 4 percent of sales in the first half of 2019, triple their share of a year ago.

Services such as TweetDelete and Tweet Archive Eraser can wipe out old tweets and retweets, but they can't reach all of your Likes.

In an interview with WIRED, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains his decision to stop protecting 8chan—and where the notorious forum goes from here.

The more oxygen these manifestos get, the wider their messages spread. And no one understands that better than the people posting them.

A $287 billion transportation bill approved by a Senate committee includes $10 billion for preventing and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Internet, meet "Moscow Mitch." Also, here's how social media reacted to the Democratic primary debates.

Digital-first. Open source. Subscription. The way textbooks are bought and sold is changing—with serious implications for higher education.

With a stunningly simple proof, a researcher has finally cracked the sensitivity conjecture, "one of the most frustrating and embarrassing open problems."

Plus: The Hubble, the ISS, and a red moon rising.

Facial recognition hits minors, Facebook takes down Saudi accounts, and more security news this week.

The show may not be a cultural juggernaut like 'Stranger Things,' but the multigenerational saga is one of the most rewarding things on TV.

This high-performance electric bike is built to meet the demands of long trips across gravel roads and trails.

August is the start for end-of-summer sales on everything from camping stoves to affordable headphones.

5G was supposed to offer new protections against so-called stingray surveillance devices. New research shows it's anything but.

Everyone vies for curb space: taxis, Ubers, delivery trucks, buses, bicycles, and residents. In Washington, DC, CurbFlow is testing spots reserved via app.

Facebook has long allowed Instagram and WhatsApp to operate independently. Now, it's "Instagram from Facebook."

Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras.

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It's not so crazy to want Big Tech to ask for your data—and conversations with AI assistants—before they take it.

A report from Pew Research Center shows that Americans have great confidence in scientists—except for Republicans when the issue is the environment.

The pro gamer is going to Mixer. Also, the tenth season of 'Fortnite' will have giant robots and a classic open-world game finally gets an English version.

Opinion: Asking presidential candidates *how* they'll pay for the cost of climate change is naive. We should be asking, “*who* is going to pay?” and “how much?”

Sony's latest flagship Android phone is nice—just not nice enough to justify its $950 price tag.

WIRED writer Alex Davies joins us to discuss the challenges companies face as they race to get self-driving shuttles and delivery vehicles onto streets.

HBO's new series is part of an ongoing, long overdue evolution.