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Peat is the organic material that gives Scotch its characteristic taste. But it's also a potent fuel that's powering unprecedented arctic wildfires.

DJI's new wheeled drone doesn't fly, but it does offer loads of educational fun with Scratch/Python programming, a turret, and innovative wheels.

Former White House top cybersecurity official Tom Bossert reveals his new startup, Trinity. Its focus: "active threat inference."

Bosch and Daimler introduce a garage where cars park themselves, carmakers sign on to tough mileage standards, and a Ford F-150 tows a train.

The text on it translated to "45 is a puppet." Plus: #NoToBoris, the latest on Jeffrey Epstein, and more.

Finally we are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like. It ain’t magical.

Some physicists believe that our experience of the universe is just a big game of subatomic survival of the fittest.

Google Maps, Find My Friends, and other such apps promise peace of mind. Instead, monitoring our loved ones becomes a nail-biting exercise in anxiety.

High-frequency light helps researchers spot and study amazing astral bodies.

More importantly, does anyone need them to?

Russian election hacks, Amazon's police partnerships, and more security news this week.

Our favorite weekend tech deals, including fans of every size to keep you cool during these late-summer months.

While a major auto plant can stamp out thousands of cars a day, Bentley makes just a few dozen, with a heavy dose of TLC.

This rehearsal clip is amazing, but something in the hero’s motion might set your Spidey senses tingling.

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The state of New York officially criminalized the spread of nonconsensual pornography, but WIRED’s Emma Grey Ellis tells the Gadget Lab team this new law is only a partial victory.

The Justice Department approved the $26.5 billion deal, with conditions. But it still faces a lawsuit from 13 states and DC.

A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure it pay ups.

If you’re trying to model an uncertain economic future, consider using a machine that runs on probability.

The Joy-Con drift is finally being addressed. Plus: A new study confirms you should play games with your mic on mute.

Opinion: Amazon's prevailing business strategy is to try everything—even what's been done before—to reshape retail. Sound backward? It's actually brilliant.

The new show turns comic-book heroes into villains—and runs up against a supersize challenge.

Gatik isn’t a long-haul trucker and doesn’t want to transport people. It’s hoping to carve a niche moving goods from warehouses to stores.

The circuitry could act as control mechanisms in safe, smart cells programmed to kill tumors and treat brain injuries.

The prototype, called Starhopper, hovered in the air for a few moments. Next stop: Space.

Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW agree to tougher California mileage standards, potentially disrupting Trump’s proposal to relax US rules.

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Apple said it is buying the Intel unit that makes smartphone modems. The deal allows the iPhone maker to further customize the components inside its devices.

The big Fortnite finals tournament begins Friday and concludes Sunday. Here's how to tune in from anywhere in the world.

Omar Martinez's photograph captures the liminal space of migrants at the border, perpetually unsure of their fate.

WIRED asked the Duffer Brothers to break down their inspirations. From 'Alien' to 'The Thing,' did you catch all of these?

In a special extraterrestrial edition of WIRED’s Tech Support series, the legendary SETI astronomer takes questions from Twitter.

Also, speaking of crime families, there's new hope for a 'Sopranos' reboot.

A study by the Pew Research Center finds that videos including children younger than 13 get three times as many views as others.

Opinion: Researchers used Google's AI tool to rank the harmfulness of tweets by white nationalists and drag queens. The results were discouraging.

The audio company teams up with the furniture giant on two new products: a bookshelf speaker and a combo lamp/speaker.

The delivery giant is done experimenting and is petitioning the FAA for the right to launch revenue-generating drone flights without today’s restrictions.

Researchers didn’t know if it would work, but they had little to lose when they tried a new drug known as a CAR-T—a living cell reprogrammed to recognize and kill leukemia—on a dying 6-year-old.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras teamed up with a London nonprofit developing machine learning tools to identify lethal weapons in online videos.

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.

The company will make its folding smartphone available to consumers—once again—this fall.

In nearly six hours of testimony Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller stuck to the facts.

The electric vehicle maker said it set a record for deliveries, which more than doubled from a year earlier. But few were luxury models, leading to a quarterly loss.

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His monologue in Blade Runner turned Hauer—who died this week at the age of 75—into a go-to actor for lending gravitas to genre for the next four decades.

All but four states in the US now have a revenge porn law on the books. But advocates say precious few get it right.

The new documentary about Cambridge Analytica uses thoughtful narration and compelling visuals to create a dystopian horror movie for our times.

As part of a $5 billion settlement, Facebook agreed to potentially sweeping changes in how it manages privacy. But some doubt they'll alter the company's culture.