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By 2050, 95 percent of North Jakarta could be submerged. Blame rising seas, but also the fact that the city is sinking 10 inches a year.

Chronicling the internet's worst impulses can be depressing, and every remedy only seems to make things worse.

As America argues about the security of the nation’s southern border, Iraq and Syria grapple with a wall of their own, one that’s keeping people safe—and tearing them apart. One writer journeys across the divide.

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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson expounds on surveillance, drones, and the cutting edge of plane-painting.

Meet the asteroid-impact planners who hope to protect humans from murderous space rocks and the fate of the dinosaurs.

An Alaskan telco is building a 270-mile fiber-optic line that will connect with Canadian carriers and ultimately the Lower 48.

Nineteenth-century glassworkers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made very accurate educational aids. Don't feel bad if they fool you.

They can turn videogames into a whole new experience.

The entertainment behemoth applies its adaptive streaming algorithms to sound.

When Facebook kicks off its annual developer conference with a keynote address on Tuesday morning, we'll be liveblogging it right here.

The laws governing DNA data in the US are patchy and incomplete. Yet people keep putting their DNA on the internet, compromising everyone's genetic anonymity.

WIRED is proud to stand with a group of editors and publishers to spotlight journalists under attack worldwide.

He was going to sell his antivirus software company to Symantec for $20 million. But Sonja Hoel had a smarter, better offer.

Insanely precise atomic clocks are letting astrophysicists image black holes, steer spacecraft, and maybe one day hunt for gravitational waves.

OpenAI, a research institute cofounded by Elon Musk, aims to create artificial intelligence that's better than people at everything.

Whether you're into Zelda or Star Wars, the entire site is 25 percent off (and 81 percent off clearance items) until midnight.

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Mueller is done and Rosenstein is on his way out the door, but federal and state authorities around the country are still investigating the president and those in his orbit.

At TED 2019, Hannah Gadsby gave a speech full of contradictions, jokes, and harsh truths.

To mark this supposedly new era, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a subtle redesign for Facebook that places more emphasis on Groups and new products like Secret Crush.

Halving the orbital altitude of its broadband satellites will ensure rapid re-entry and latency as low as 15ms.

The new stand-alone virtual-reality headset lets you roam without wires. This is the VR you've been waiting for.

The new dating feature will let you express romantic interest in up to nine friends at once.

On Tuesday, Facebook's F8 developer conference will kick off with a Zuckerberg keynote. You can watch it right here.

The Apache Software Foundation, steward of the world's most popular web server, has moved most of its open source projects to GitHub.

Scientists propose a framework for modifying AC units to suck in carbon dioxide and spit out fuels for use in vehicles like cargo ships.

Ryan Young captured the drifting action in his series 'Home on the Grange'.

A new report enters the debate over whether an EMP from a nuclear blast or a solar flare would cripple the power grid and concludes that actually, we'll probably be OK.

Securepairs.org is pushing back against a tech industry that wants independent repair legislation to be scary.

Future Fertility, the first company to use artificial intelligence to grade the viability of women’s harvested eggs for use in IVF or for freezing, unveils its system.

The platform has helped artists and founders collectively raise over $4 billion for a variety of art projects, movies, hardware startups, and naughty board games.

Print this out and bring it with you on your next flight. Just in case.

With so many great inexpensive phones out there, it depends on why you want a pricey flagship model. Here are the most common justifications we hear.

A third major home robotics outfit shuts down in a year. Why is it so hard to build a companion droid that everyone wants?

Airbnb announces a move into hotels, at the same time that Marriott reportedly plans to get into home-sharing.

The Department of Labor says workers for one company are sufficiently independent to be considered contractors, in a move that could ripple across the gig economy.

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A self-taught coder dedicated a CPU core to performing continuous computations for three years to crack the puzzle, beating a competing team by mere days.

How could anything matter now?

Privacy advocates worry that a slate of proposed changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act may impede the law's effectiveness.

Does it really matter if Arya Stark is the Princess Who Was Promised?

If you're going up against an army of the undead, maybe plan a little better.

It has made more than $1 billion worldwide already.

You can make a simple water heater using a battery and a wire—here's how.

As vaccine hesitancy grows, some individuals are responding by volunteering to take part in experimental vaccine trials.

One startup in the growing climate services industry lets you pull up a map and design your own disaster, to help put a price on climate change's impacts.

Meet Jenny 8. Lee, an advocate who urges inclusion and representation in emoji, and a subject of the new emoji documentary, “Picture Character.”

The strategies I learned to control my spending after I was diagnosed with bipolar II can help anyone crack down on their spending.