How gameable recommendation systems mislead customers about health information.

It's also dishing out all the dragons you can handle.

For years, your dongle life has been a confusing mess. The comingling of USB4 and Thunderbolt 3 will (mostly) fix that for you.

To take pressure off endangered lemurs, researchers are encouraging the people of Madagascar to embrace bugs as a source of protein.

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers.

The German automaker’s MPV has room for eight, 249 miles of range, and makes the kiddie karter look good.

A Google study found some male engineers were set to receive smaller raises this year. The finding comes amid analyses that the company discriminates against women.

Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory.

The new HBO Michael Jackson documentary challenges notions of believability.

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots.

Twitter plans to test a feature that will let tweeters hide replies, but allow other users to view them.

Some of those sequences are worth millions of dollars, but fortunately the hack isn’t easy to deploy—yet.

The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into President Trump includes the now defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans.

Also, the battle between Steven Spielberg and Netflix rages on, and fans could get an 'Edge of Tomorrow' sequel.

Topher Grace's fan-edit trailer is everything you want and more.

Samsung's big 2019 flagship Android phones deliver in more ways than you'd think.

If you measure the polarization of a photon, you instantly change it. Utility companies could use this fact to detect snoops trying to invade the system.

Huawei says Chinese law prohibits the government from ordering it to install backdoors for spying. US lawyers say a law's text isn't always the final word in China.

Start with a sort of crash test dummy that has creepily realistic human ears, then add a bunch of road noise. Repeat.

The vice president of the Law Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says fears that Huawei is helping the government spy on others are unfounded.

New research from IBM shows that several visitor management systems had a rash of vulnerabilities.

Elon Musk hits a milestone and gets in trouble with the SEC, Lyft files for its IPO, cities investigate congestion pricing, and more.

In other headlines: Michael Cohen went to Washington and some people said things they (probably) shouldn't on Twitter.

Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to WIRED's editor-in-chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day.

The latest way in which wealthy countries are profiting off developing nations is by harvesting useful genetic samples without paying a cent.

A new wave of smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold use plastic polymers, not glass, for their displays. That could cause some unexpected headaches.

At the Lesbians Who Tech conference, Susan Wojcicki said the platform takes children’s safety seriously and has restricted comments on videos featuring kids.

Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for #DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news.

The Hulu series about an underachieving gamer combines 'Back to the Future' with 'There's Something About Mary'.

Plus, Jovian storms, terrestrial airglow, and gravitational lensing.

Fight off the winter doldrums with our favorite bargains on everything from robot vacuums to camping gear.

Facebook is reportedly exploring issuing its own cryptocurrency, which could be pegged to real currencies to cut down on speculation.

Brogan BamBrogan's company promised Colorado a hyperloop-inspired transportation, then shut down.

Getting Amazon to take down counterfeit product listings can be a pain. With Project Zero, the company wants to streamline that process—by playing a smaller role in it.

Microsoft's second-generation mixed reality headset has made a significant leap. Microsoft's Alex Kipman goes into details on the Gadget Lab podcast.

Attention legislators left and right: Hearings like Michael Cohen’s should be fact-finding missions, not conspiracy-minded fishing expeditions.

Those things are unrelated. Also happening this week in videogames? Pokémon!

Plus: a blockchain smartphone, a new way to buy glasses, and your new favorite multicooker.

This mobile gadget puts a stabilized, drone-style camera into a handheld grip, enabling you to shoot super-smooth video as you walk, run, ski, or skydive.

Wearing a haptic feedback glove, I pilot a robotic hand from across the world, feeling what it feels. The sensation is almost too weird to be real.

No humans will be onboard this time, but SpaceX hopes this trip will show it can be trusted with people's lives.

The once-thriving resort city of in Mexico has become a somewhat lawless place. It is, in many ways, a perfect yet imperfect place for crypto-loving anarchists to gather each year.

The Momo challenge isn’t the first hoax about kids to go viral, and it won’t be the last. Don’t panic: Here’s what to remember.

Some US cities might start charging extra to drive on crowded, busy roads.

Elon Musk’s automaker is also introducing a slightly more capable version of the car, moving its sales process online, and shuttering many of its stores.

The Seattle City Council last year repealed a per-employee tax after Amazon threatened not to occupy a new office tower. Now, Amazon won't occupy the tower anyway.

The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work.

If you're looking for a killer TV deal, one of our favorite LG 4K televisions is $1,100 right now

A popular gene editing technique may produce lots of unintended changes to DNA, but the good news is we now have a better way of finding such errors.

New advances in virtual humans are making corporate training incredibly lifelike, a little bit awkward—and hopefully a lot more human.