The trailer for *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* didn't disappoint: The universe's physics remain as quirky as ever.

The company famous for its rice cookers introduces a 6-quart multicooker to take on the Instant Pots of the world. And it's pretty great.

Don't expect it anytime in 2019, but the next PlayStation console is well on its way—and it's packing ray-tracing support and a loadtime-killing solid-state hard drive.

The state legislature used a method that's designed to capture the intensity of a voter's preference as a way to fix some of traditional voting's big problems.

Google's AutoML software uses machine learning to generate better machine learning. It competed last week against high-powered data scientists.

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.

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The fire turned the thousand-year-old roof to ash. But a digital replica of the cathedral could help make its restoration all the more complete.

Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft's customer support platform.

The one-time King in the North still sees the world not as it is, but as he is.

A massive effort to catalog the number of male-female births shows that 23 million women were never born who should have been, according to the natural sex ratio.

When cynicism and ironic detachment are the dominant modes of social discourse, it can feel frankly transgressive to earnestly celebrate passionate people who are trying to change the world.

The voice of L3-37 is punching up the script. Also, 'Big Little Lies' has a new trailer.

In the remote French Pyrenees, scientists are finding tiny bits of plastic—likely blown from big cities like Barcelona, 100 miles to the south.

Also, a bunch of trailers dropped during Star Wars Celebration. Watch them here.

The long-awaited folding smartphone goes on sale April 26. We got to spend some time with it first.

If common sense hasn't convinced you that using a moped to spin a merry-go-round is a bad idea, perhaps the physics of circular motion will.

South Korea-based photographer JeongMee Yoon explores targeted advertisements to children through their inventories of pink and blue things.

The department saw a lot of shakeups last week.

Uber revealed its filing for an initial public offering, Tesla changes its sales strategy again, and Ford's CEO joins the caution chorus on fully self-driving cars.

Don’t want a computer buzzing your wrist all day? Withings has an affordable fitness tracker for you.

Mebrahtom Keflezighi, who retired from competitive racing at age 42, can convince almost anyone that they can run forever.

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's legacy moonshot, an aircraft to carry rockets to space, hit 17,000 feet.

Netflix's series of sci-fi shorts is good, but it missed out on some of its potential.

Space Photos of the Week: Black Holes and Jellyfish Rainbows

Plus: Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, Silk Road 2's founder, and more of the week's top security news.

This fuzzy robot promises to help its bedtime companions fall asleep more quickly, sleep more deeply, and wake up more refreshed—all by simply cuddling.

If you've been looking for a great pair of wireless headphones, now is your chance.

Young people benefit from their online interactions. Locking them out of the internet isn’t the answer to commercial bad actors.

Tesla said it would remove the $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan from online ordering forms, weeks after a back-and-forth over closing showrooms.

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President Trump says the US "must win" the race to 5G. But a plan outlined by FCC Chair Ajit Pai is a modest expansion of existing programs.

WIRED Transportation reporter Aarian Marshall joins the Gadget Lab podcast to talk about what Uber’s IPO means for the future of ride-sharing ... and everything else Uber does.

The ninth installment places the mantle in Rey's hands.

When the author interviewed the WikiLeaks cofounder in 2010, what happened online still seemed remote and relatively unthreatening. Today it’s deadly serious.

This year's Star Wars fan convention in Chicago is sure to be full of surprises—and a first look at *Episode IX*.

Netflix and Amazon have a lot of titles for subscribers to enjoy—Disney has a whole universe.

Also, you can finally change your PlayStation ID—but you may not want to.

Sony's newest affordable phones may not be ready for wide release.

It's not just Jordan Peele. Everything from Atlanta to The Last Black Man in San Francisco draws on a central question: How do we find a way to survive?

A push to calculate a 'genetic income score' using giant DNA databases raises a raft of ethical questions.

Here are all of our predictions for who will live, who will die, and who should take the Iron Throne.

Uber revealed its plans to go public, just weeks after rival Lyft. The filing shows Uber dwarfs Lyft, but continues to post operating losses.

The first commercial flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy ended with two boosters touching down on land while a third alighted on its drone ship out at sea.

A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t.

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With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship.

Amid a wave of petitions and walkouts among tech workers, Amazon employees proposed a shareholder resolution around the company's impact on climate change.

Scientists around the world compared the genomes and health changes of twin astronauts. Scott Kelly (left) flew in the International Space Station for a year while Mark Kelly stayed on Earth.

This is the second time SpaceX is flying the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket by a factor of two, but it's the first time it's doing real work.