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A company called Baze is offering a bespoke mail-order vitamin service that crafts a plan just for you based on the results of an at-home blood test.

The social network has a plan to merge the worlds of artificial intelligence and real-world machines, so that both may grow more powerful.

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Unless you're Kickstarting a promise to stop bugging me—or the end of capitalism—I'm not interested in your relentless notifications.

NASA's Swamp Works may be humans' best hope for figuring out how to live and work on other planets.

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About a week after the *L* dance was decoded, and 72 hours after the carpool surveillance, my wife and I convened the Fortnite security council again.

Wireless technology is helping audio gear explore new horizons in form and functionality.

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It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff.

The leisure class got tired of looking like jackasses in garish watches—they decided to spare no expense to seem like striving bourgeois warriors.

Countless new wireless transmitters will relay all that data to your phone, and many will connect to the internet through endless miles of new fiber-optic cable.

Our lives are increasingly entangled with our devices; great sound design could make that a more perfect union.

High school is hard; the internet is messing with our self-esteem. Then my friends insisted I download Chess Time.

Welcome to the World Slime Convention, where fans and purveyors of the internet's gloppiest trend gather to network and talk shop—many with their parents in tow.

One family's video empire shows what it takes to shield young YouTube stars from the platform's dark side.

Spurred by regulations that will allow over-the-counter sales, hearing-aid companies are pushing the limits of what their products can be.

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The Rails to Trails Conservancy is trying to assemble a 3,700-mile route that crosses 12 states. It needs help in Wyoming.

The NTSB said a Tesla Model 3 had its Autopilot engaged when it collided with a truck in Florida in March, killing the driver.

The series premiere, "Winter Is Coming," may provide some hints of what's to come in the series finale.

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As the US and China slap tariffs on each other's goods, some tech companies are shifting production to India, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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No one will hear you crying if your mouth is full of meat pie.

Citizen groups in Beirut, Nairobi, Cairo and other cities are crowdsourcing maps of informal bus networks to encourage transit use.

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WIRED’s Emma Grey Ellis joins this week’s Gadget Lab podcast to explain the latest YouTube drama and discuss the implications of “cancel culture.”

Everything from glitter hair spray and nail polish remover to bear repellent will soon ship out of specially designed fulfillment centers.

Tardar Sauce was an avatar of the days of the goofy web.

The toxins that leach into seawater severely affect bacteria that provide perhaps 20 percent of Earth's oxygen. That's where things get complicated.

Ahead of the release of 'John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum' this weekend, players in the battle-royale game can now play as the cinematic assassin.

Ten years after the original Minecraft swept the planet, Microsoft unveils an ambitious, global, augmented-reality version.

A lot of blood has been shed, and surely there's more to come.

As the state passed its anti-abortion bill, protestors evoked Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel.

Yes, the world needs to reduce carbon emissions, but that's not enough. Technologists need to step in and start developing work-arounds of all kinds.

Sony's Alpha A7II is a mirrorless, full-frame workhorse of a camera, and a steal at less than $1,000.

Chinese authorities apply facial-recognition programs to surveillance videos to identify subjects. Now, a report says Chicago and Detroit have purchased their own systems.

Thousands of women have joined actress Busy Phillips in sharing abortion stories on social media, fighting stigma by force of mass testimony.

The FCC is clashing with scientists who argue that 5G networks could interfere with weather sensors and compromise weather predictions.