The president, his family, and company are trying to stop the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.

Telsa says it will raise up to $2.7 billion in new capital, and Uber prepares for its IPO.

Opinion: We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, and a good use of some of that money would be on robots, drones, and AI.

Marcia Brady’s pro-measles platform has become a staple of the antivax community—because everyone should take medical advice from a '60s sitcom.

If you give graphene a twist, you get superconductivity—and many giddy physicists, all clamoring to work in the new field of twistronics.

Security firms are increasingly touting application shielding as an important layer of defense. But it may be better suited to DRM.

May the Fourth Be With You as you read this analysis of every time a Jedi used The Force to jump higher than a normal person could.

Plus impact craters, a Martian sunset, and a view of Uranus.

Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week.

Stay safe and text your friends and family from every corner of the globe with these satellite messengers (and a beacon) on the Iridium and Globalstar networks.

Celebrate Star Wars Day with by picking up a lightsaber, Legos, and more.

The franchise feels stuck in the past. Let's observe this May Fourth by considering the future. Face forward, True Believers.

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A report says Facebook is seeking investors for its planned cryptocurrency, and merchants who might accept the virtual coin.

Trevor Paglen’s highly anticipated space sculpture made it to orbit, but a shutdown-induced lag at the FCC kept it from inflating as intended.

The host of the new Discovery show "Savage Builds" and author of the new book "Every Tool’s a Hammer" joins us to talk about the joy and agony of making things.

A new exhibition charts the history of moon photography—just in time for the 50th anniversary of the NASA mission.

Also, Microsoft's trash talk guidelines are great.

Half of injuries to 190 scooter riders in Austin last fall were to the head; only one of the injured riders was wearing a helmet.

Organs on a chip were created to expedite the process of drug discovery. Sending them to the International Space Station can speed things up even more.

When animated boobs are everywhere, it helps to have a woman in charge.

The city that fought AT&T to open its cable lines in the 1990s is now considering a publicly owned open-access fiber network.

Architects' pitches for how to restore Notre Dame are spurring a debate over when to hew to tradition and when to, say, put a beehive in the spire.

A group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned the software of seven companies in just the last three years.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence techniques to create puns. Today's aren't so funny, but tomorrow's might be better.

Here’s what we learned, including some surprises, in year one.

A pilot project to test the DNA of migrant families raises concerns about the rise of a genetic surveillance state.

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Alex Jones, Infowars, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos are expelled from Facebook and Instagram, but the ban's rollout went awry.

Facebook is using artificial intelligence to police offensive speech and other tasks. But the technology brings its own unintended consequences.

Groups like Anonymous are still trying to make waves in Sudan and elsewhere, but the old tools don't work as well as they used to.

Sophie Turner wed Joe Jonas at A Little White Wedding Chapel. Also, Jaden Smith might play Kanye West in a new show.

The new documentary 'I Am Human' chronicles how neurotechnology could restore sight, retrain the body, and treat diseases—then make us all more than human.

Opinion: Programmers whose code is used to commit a crime face new and perilous legal threats.

It's about the size of an eraser, but don't underestimate its formidable practicality!

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.