Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms-leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.

Election betting is big, and people across the aisle are all in.

China is racing to unseat the United States as the world's technological superpower. Not if Jake Sullivan can help it.

He's very intelligent, very innovative. He understands what's happening to the United States. And he truly cares about the future of our country," one Trump supporter said of Musk at a Pennsylvania rally.

Now that the Mounjaro and Zepbound shortage is over, Eli Lilly is going after the cottage industry selling compounded" versions of its meds.

Former KKK members, the founder of the antisemitic Goyim Defense League, and a QAnon promoter are all advising Irish far-right communities, which are increasingly looking to the US for inspiration.

The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital-and legal-attacks.

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Tired of carrying around physical books? Our favorite Kindles are on sale during Prime Day Big Deals, which ends tonight.

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Milton's reclassification to a Category 3 storm suggests it is weakening, but the scale accounts only for wind speed and not hurricane size, storm surge heights, or rainfall-which are all catastrophically large.

Some of the hottest styling gadgets are on sale for Big Deal Days-these are the WIRED Gear team's favorites.

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This is the latest chapter of the Kamala Harris campaign's effort to reach young male voters.

It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton change broader scientific incentives?

The windows dim, and the rear seats turn around to face a wall-to-wall display at the back. The concept vehicle clearly shows the growing EV ambitions of Sharp's parent company, Foxconn.

Amazon's massive sale ends today and the WIRED Reviews team is working in shifts to bring you the best deals on products we've tested and tracked.

If you have an iPad or MacBook on your wish list-or maybe you want a case for your new iPhone 16-we have the best Prime Day Apple deals here.

Tampa, Florida is the most vulnerable US city to hurricane damage. Delays to floodwater defenses and relentless development only made the situation worse.

Nintendo's new alarm clock lets you choose from a variety of characters from Mario to Zelda and reacts to your movements, so you can snooze with gestures or end it by jumping out of bed.

Here are the best WIRED-tested, reader-approved deals from Amazon Prime Day.

The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.

Whether for emergencies or to recharge while camping, now's a good time to buy a power bank or power station.

Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.

The Amazon-owned home-surveillance business will offer users the ability to search footage for specific objects and actions. WIRED gave it a try.

On Thursday, Tesla will reveal its Cybercab, a self-driving robotaxi. But running an autonomous ride-hailing fleet involves much more than teaching cars to drive themselves.

When the movie review site removed an anime classic, it put its community's loyalty and passion to the test.

Brazil's Supreme Court has lifted its ban on X after the company paid a $5.1 million fine and blocked accounts accused of breaking the law.

Mounjaro and Zepbound are now out of shortage. This should be good news-but because so many patients are taking compounded versions of these GLP-1 medications, it's a complicated situation.

More than 200 health care facilities in impacted areas are moving patients and residents in what the state's chief of emergency medical oversight calls our largest evacuation ever."

Gravity, Children of Men, the best Harry Potter movie-and now a seven-part miniseries? With Disclaimer, director Alfonso Cuaron has set out to conquer TV in the name of cinema.

A new HBO documentary takes a swing at uncovering the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin. But without incontrovertible proof, the myth lives on.

Atlus' new game from Persona designer Katsura Hashino is about to transform fantasy games-with anxiety.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and a whole host of conspiracy theorists are claiming the hurricane was planned in order to harm Republicans. Climate experts tell WIRED that's impossible.

While he doesn't refer to it by name, Carlson is clearly promoting Project 2025 in a paid ad read-despite the unpopular policy plan supposedly having been wound down after Donald Trump distanced himself from it.

Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.

The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations.

This tiny Chromebook is now one of my favorite laptops for basic tasks.

In 2014, the team at Blizzard began work on a Diablo III follow-up code-named Hades that never saw the light of day. Here's why.

While some residents in hurricane-impacted areas can't send texts or make calls, amateur radio enthusiasts are helping communicate requests for help and messages between loved ones.

A US judge has authorized a plan for fallen crypto exchange FTX to return money to former customers, as the drawn-out bankruptcy process approaches its end.

Since 2002, birders have relied on the online bird-watching log eBird. As Hurricane Helene tore through North Carolina, bird-watchers continued to post.

Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn't have to come at a cost-and that reframing attempts to hit net zero as a way of generating profit could be key to hitting targets.

OpenAI built a reputation for making bold research bets before others. After a recent brain drain, it needs to attract a new generation of researchers to keep this going.

The sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga has proven to be both a critical disappointment and a box office one.

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days starts tomorrow, but we've already spotted the best Prime Day deals on products we've tested and loved.

This robot mower let me lollygag all summer and I don't want to say goodbye.

Whether you went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL or even bigger with the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, we've got a selection of cases, including MagSafe, to kit out your new Android phone.