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As 2018 came to a close, the government was heading for a shutdown—a fitting end to a tumultuous year.

2018's biggest transportation stories include mathematicians willing to chat airplane peeing, clock-watching RAF pilots, and, of course, Mr. Musk.

A new experiment showed for the first time that quantum messages can indeed be speedier than what's seen in regular computing.

The ecommerce company is also a cloud computing provider, TV producer, fashion designer, wind-farm backer, and organizer of crowdsourced micro-labor tasks.

The helmet that collapses to half its size is easy to stash in a backpack—and have ready for any way and time you ride.

Scandals of all stripes dominated the news, from Facebook's data leaks to Google's diversity war.

The gas giant could hold clues to the formation of our solar system.

Amazon sends Echo recordings to the wrong person, Russians tried to get US Treasury dirt on Clinton donors, and more of the week's top security news.

The latest from James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein looks at the scientist's work through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl.

From 'The Incredibles 2' to indie breakouts like 'Eighth Grade,' Hollywood is finally starting to understand how completely technology shapes our lives.

They'll use AI and millimeter wave technology to speed you through the lines and even monitor crowds from afar.

From our favorite phone to the best smart-home innovation, this is all of 2018's best gear.

As employees and researchers push back, companies including Google and Microsoft are pledging not to use powerful AI technology in certain ways.

Wired’s Gadget Lab team sums up this year in tech. Plus: An interview with the CEO of a futuristic fitness company.

A major election, holiday travel, and violent clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are confounding all attempts to contain Ebola's spread.

The battery-powered ride may not revolutionize how we get around, but it could make life on the road a lot more enjoyable.

Elby asked: How do you get people on an electric bike who have never biked before?

The Defense Department wants to use AI in warfare. In the aftermath of Project Maven, it still needs Big Tech’s help.

YouTube has had a harrowing, high-profile year, and its growing pains reflect the garbage mess that is America in 2018.

Juul, maker of the best-selling e-cigarettes, agrees to accept a $12.8 billion investment from Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes.

Obama-era regulation was supposed to curtail livestock antibiotics. But consumers are pushing Perdue, McDonalds, Tyson, Walmart, and more to change.

A new DOJ indictment outlines how Chinese hackers allegedly compromised data from companies in a dozen countries in a single intrusion.

Plus: 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' gets a Netflix sequel and 'Aquaman' rules the box office.

The mapping startup wants to pay a volunteer mapping army in cryptocurrency to carry out its data missions.

Good ol' trig: that bastion of angles and triangles is essential to calculating velocity, momentum, and much more.

This year had great blockbusters—'Black Panther'! 'A Star Is Born'!—but there are a few top-notch movies you might've missed.

Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered.

The narrative around tech addiction has been driven more by fear than facts. But that's finally starting to change.

Nine months after an Uber self-driving car killed a woman in Arizona, the company has resumed testing in Pittsburgh.

Just because it's bitter and nasty outside doesn’t mean you have to ride the bus. Stock up on this list of helmets, jackets, and warm stuff.

Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.

Bet you already forgot half of Facebook's crises this year.

The space company spent several days retrieving and inspecting a rocket booster that made an unplanned ocean landing. Now it appears to be toast.

Victims of online harassment are using their experiences to inform their work—subverting spiteful comments to create meaningful art.

Be on the lookout for emails that claim to be from the App Store.

Facebook has spent much of 2018 apologizing to people. A recent *New York Times* investigation calls all those apologies into question.

The magic ingredient isn’t glue, or a material that mimics the pad of a gecko’s foot, but voltage. Specifically, electroadhesion.

From Facebook to Mueller, from Theranos to Yanny and Laurel, WIRED readers flocked to the articles that defined a new era.

The new battery-powered luxury ride is capable, comfy, and clever.

Amazon's voice assistant made considerable gains in 2018 through the continued refinement of machine learning techniques.

Amazon conducted a very public beauty contest for mini-headquarters, while Apple and Google worked more quietly for planned expansions.

China and South Korea are hurtling toward a cashless future. But in Japan, where physical money is a crucial artifact, the transition is complicated.

After a year of disappointing experiments, the dominant theory in dark matter physics is losing its sheen while others gain prominence.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO showed off the details of his latest scheme to slay traffic.

Using footage shot by The Slow Mo Guys, you can get a pretty good estimate of the speed at which cracks travel through a sheet of glass.

The new 5G+ service won't be as fast as the emerging network can be, and will only be available in limited areas.

Alfonso Cuarón's epic is the biggest theatrical release Netflix has undertaken—and the process has laid bare some weaknesses in the company's offline strategy.

The former Googler and Uberista launches Pronto AI, and sends his robot on a cross-country trip to prove its skills.

This year, we reviewed and rated dozens of products, but these ten are the ones our readers were most curious about.