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These are the three key things that any person should know about the nature of science.

North think its $999 Focals are the anti-Google Glass. But can it convince people to wear them?

Getting the rest of the world online turns out to be harder than the UN anticipated, despite advances like mobile internet. Blame the patriarchy.

You don't have to spend six figures—or even buy a shiny new car—to have a lot of fun with a battery.

To call hyperinflation strictly an economic problem is to overlook its wrenching cultural implications and a general collapse in a system of values.

This isn't the way product releases should happen: quarter-­baked cookie dough that’s, what, just gonna finish cooking outside the oven?

The upcoming PlayStation 4 game builds on Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s past work to get you as far out of your head—and as absorbed into the experience—as possible.

Artificial intelligence could be the ultimate authoritarian tool. But one thing's for sure: Charging into an AI arms race against China is a huge mistake.

Instead of butane heat sources, Bodum’s Mocca uses the red-hot glow of its 430-watt halogen Beam Heater to bring the water to just below boiling.

After using an app-powered sous vide wand to cook your Thanksgiving turkey in a temperature-controlled bath, you’ll never go back to roasting.

A $1.50 wager on a "Call of Duty" match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry.

How organizers are using Silicon Valley–style tactics to get people (read: Democrats) registered to vote.

The new lower-priced iPhone XR is a good buy, as long as you don’t mind making a few compromises.

The US may be leading the discoveries in AI—but Chinese entrepreneurs are better at implementing them.

Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes.

HTC's long-hyped blockchain smartphone is finally on sale—but for now it's still experimental.

The retailer can learn a lot about shoppers' habits from its growing line of cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores.

Turkish Airlines Flight 800 went over Greenland on its way from Panama City to Istanbul, a testament to the power of the jet stream.

Netflix knows what it's doing hiring the master of macabre to tell the story of everyone's favorite puppet-turned-boy.

A new study suggests that microplastics routinely show up in our food—and our digestive tracts.

Algorithms design robot legs tailored to walk on specific surfaces. The results are at once logical, counterintuitive, and bizarre.

A lot of details are starting to leak about the new streaming show.

Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer?

Caavo rethinks the universal TV remote for the second time this year. Our full review of Caavo's new, much cheaper, Control Center.

It’s still too expensive and unproven, but it has the potential to prevent antibiotic overuse and keep people healthy.

The novelist's sci-fi may feel old-school, but it's distinctly calibrated to make change happen now—so the future in his books doesn't come true.

Google Assistant lives inside this smart-home controller with a seven-inch screen (and no camera).

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.

Last week, the internet spent a lot of time sorting through the fact and fictions in President Trump's Twitter feed.

Tesla makes yet another non-$35K Model 3, battery swapping somehow comes back, yet more evidence 'semi-autonomous' driving is confusing people, and more car news.

If you're going to look at an advanced fitness tracker, why not just get a smartwatch?

Last year's brief interstellar visit from a cigar-shaped thing named 'Oumuamua is confounding astronomers in new ways.

Google's latest flagship smartphone includes the Titan M, a security-focused chip that keeps users safe against sophisticated attacks.

North Korean bitcoin theft, Fake FCC complaints, and more security news this week.

Their spin rate is so consistent that people who navigate spacecraft around our solar system use them as mile markers to know exactly where they are.

It's no longer just valued in game stores and comics shops.

Opinion: Despite YouTube’s crackdown, extremist groups are still exploiting other Google platforms.

New console bundles, discounted wireless headsets, and a bunch of game sales are happening now.

We may not all be wildly successful, wildly problematic YouTubers, but we all live inside (and contribute to) the system that created them.

The Microsoft cofounder never replicated his early success in business, but carved a path in research and philanthropy.

It’s an engineering fix designed to make the vehicles more attractive to officials and regulators.

The first installment of our podcast interviews taped at WIRED’s 25th anniversary festival.

Elon Musk's unexpected version of the Model 3 will offer 260 miles of range for around $45,000, and carves out a new niche in an expanding product line.

The latest indictment against Russian trolls shows how they sowed division in the US on wedge issues, including the investigation into their activity.

Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige accused the company of a “political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views," but he says Republicans have received his message all wrong.

The iPhone XR is now up for preorder and we have the details, along with a few affordable alternatives.

A new cookbook from the chefs at the famed Copenhagen restaurant explores all things pickled, cured, brined, and fermented.

A new report suggests that spammers, not nation states, may have been behind the Facebook hack. That could be even worse news.

Airbnb rolls out a set of new illustrations to better reflect its users—and the world.

It's the first to recapture the unfussy rigor of John Carpenter’s 1978 original.