A research team built a device that can emit an ultrasonic pitch and pick up its echoes to tell if a person is sitting, standing, or walking.

Opinion: Framing our concerns with tech as issues of privacy or responsibility focuses narrowly on symptoms, not on the systemic issue—we need digital trust.

It's the fifth-largest Memorial Day weekend opening ever.

Photographer Kevin Frayer documented the company's facilities and work culture in southern China over five days in April.

The latest version of Ring’s camera aims to replace your home security system—no wires or drilling necessary.

The traditional structure of the pharma business doesn't work for antibiotics. The answer might lie in removing profit from the equation.

A nationwide fight between wind developers and the military highlights the challenge of transitioning to a future of renewable energy.

One way to tell if an image has been faked? Bake the tamper-proofing into the camera itself.

Our journalism machine works best when we hit our deadlines. Here are some of the WIRED ones' tips and tricks for optimizing their work/time ratio.

Almost all of the cellular functions in your body run on a 24-hour schedule. Keep that clock regular, and you could stay healthier, and maybe even live longer.

You don’t have time to read all these books on how to carve out more time, so we did it for you.

I like a good efficiency hack as well as anyone, but sometimes we should take the long way around.

A bowel movement, above all human projects, is the body’s way of making time for the mind to roam.

China's government has to plan to wean itself from reliance on Western technology. Blacklisting Huawei will only accentuate that impulse.

Since the first attempt to ascend the Himalayan mountain Makalu in 1955, climbers have tried less than 300 times. No wonder—it's two and half months of hell.

After training to hand-write Japanese characters, the robot could then copy words in Hindi, Greek, and English just by looking at examples.

Tech gurus are obsessed with treating bodies like machines—something a 30-year-old cartoon about a tricked-out detective suggests won’t work.

Appliance maker Dyson has offered few details of its promised electric car. Newly public filings reveal some of the company's thinking.

YouTube says it will begin displaying rounded subscriber totals, which may take some steam out of disputes between creators.

Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from knowing your location, web browsing, and more.

Our favorite Memorial Day sales on grills, kitchen gadgets, and appliances for the home.

Las Vegas goes into the digging biz with Musk, GM unveils a new electric nervous system for its cars—plus the Rolls-Royce Champagne Chest of the Week.

There's no end to this battle in sight.

Two programmers played a key role in developing chaos theory and the famous butterfly effect, but they've been left out of virtually all accounts of the work.

New research shows how to create seemingly realistic photos or video from a single image. But it won't be easy to deploy anytime soon.

A look at the life, times, and collisions of large galaxies.

Jeffrey Deaver's new novel 'The Never Game' is one of a rare breed.

Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news.

For a stomach-twisting performance above Manhattan, Red Bull brought in an elite pilot and an unusual sort of helicopter.

Monster Match, a game funded by Mozilla, shows how dating app algorithms reinforce bias—and serve the company more than the user.

From iPads to camping slippers, we scoured the Memorial Day sales on laptops, TVs, outdoor gear, and video games to find our absolute favorite deals this weekend.

Based on my time at ICANN, I know how hard it was to make the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appeared to be obviously wrong.

You don't have to get your hands dirty to do the most important spring cleaning of the year.

Amazon says an item's stars reflect the “average customer review,” but the calculation gets more complicated than that.

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Real estate giant First American left Social Security numbers, tax documents, and more publicly available.

David Eun, president of Samsung’s innovation arm NEXT, says younger consumers are shifting towards experiences, not things. What does that mean for a company that makes devices?

There are at least two material differences in the 2019 MacBook Pro keyboard, intended to fix its sticky keys.

A surprise "visual poem" from Lonely Island embraces late-’80s sports and rap nostalgia—and tightens Netflix's grip on comedy gambles.

And reality won.

We often focus on coastal cities when we talk about rising waters, but massive rainfall in the middle of the US has put millions at risk, harming the nation’s ability to produce food.

A series of tornadoes has brought devastation to the Midwest. Ideally, we could forecast such twisters, but the phenomenon is confounding.

To understand how Star-Lord flies, you have to consider both the forces acting on him (hello, jet boots) and the torque.

It's time to charge up the Kindle.

The world record for unscrambling a Rubik's cube keeps dropping, as fleet-fingered speedcubers hone their pattern recognition and "lookahead" skills.

No, the crank doesn't power it. Yeah, we're a little disappointed, too.

Trump’s former campaign guru said he would unite Europe’s nationalists and show them how to fight Big Tech. Instead, they’ve dismissed Bannon, embraced Big Tech—and are poised to expand their ranks in Parliament.

One good thing about the streaming wars? The return of '80s-style adventure flicks.

Transit agencies and nonprofits are teaming up to expand access to parks and recreation areas.