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How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Their Victims Up Close
A new indictment details how Russian agents camped outside hotels when remote hacking efforts weren't enough.
A Mushroom Extract Might Save Bees From a Killer Virus
Two types of mushroom seem to help bees fight a major virus contributing to colony collapse disorder.
California Is Fighting the Trump Administration on Car Emissions
The state’s Air Resources Board passes new measures that reinforce its vehicle emissions rules—and maintain its collision course with the federal government.
Swarms of Supersize Mosquitoes Besiege North Carolina
These mosquitoes are monstrous in size, hyperaggressive, and hatching by the millions in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Historian Yuval Noah Harari and ethicist Tristan Harris discuss the future of artificial intelligence with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson.
Zunum Aero’s Hybrid Plane Uses a Helicopter Engine Cut Fuel Use in Half
The Washington-based startup is using a modified helicopter engine to generate power, supplementing the batteries packed in its fuselage.
Why Didn’t I Get an Emergency Presidential Alert Text?
If you didn't get a message from the president on your phone Wednesday, don't freak out.
Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac
By only checking a file's code signature when you install it—and never again—macOS gives malware a chance to evade detection indefinitely.
Honda's Helping GM on Its Quest to Deliver Self-Driving Cars
The Japanese automaker will help develop a new design for a self-driving vehicle, and pitch in $2.75 billion.
How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test
If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround.
There's Some Dodgy Physics in Solo: A Star Wars Story
Chewbacca is falling out of a moving train! Han rushes to save him! Turns out, ordinary physics would have saved him, too.
The Russian Town That's Now a Shrine to Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Photographer Daria Garnik documents the museums and monuments dedicated to the first man in space.
Fiction Excerpt: A Prince Goes on a High-Tech Job Interview
Something is fishy at Anahata—and it’s not just the giant squid that serves as a mascot for the world’s largest tech company.
America’s Clergy Are Teaming Up With Scientists
Scientists and religious leaders joined forces to create programs on neuroscience, cosmology—and even some evolutionary science.
The YouTube King of Useless Machines
Joseph Herscher builds ridiculously complex machines to make his life easier.
It’s Time to Talk About Robot Gender Stereotypes
How gender biases manifest in the design of voice assistants is well-worn territory. But scientists are just beginning to consider how these gender biases materialize in physical robots.
BitTorrent's Creator Wants to Build a Better Bitcoin
Bram Cohen is the founder of Chia, a cryptocurrency, and ledger protocol designed to attract banks.
Judge Kavanaugh and the Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America
The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon. Now it’s backing Brett Kavanaugh.
The Presidential Text Alert Has a Long, Strange History
While the presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first of its kind, it's part of a decades-long lineage of official government Doomsday alerts.
Intra Gives Older Versions of Android Important DNS Protections
Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw is using a new app to give DNS encryption protections to any Android smartphone from the last seven years.
Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15
The company didn't act purely out of the goodness of its heart.
Physicists Win Nobel Prize for Lasers That Stretch, Bend and Blow Up Molecules
A trio of laser physicists—Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland, and Gérard Mourou—nab the prize for their work on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification.
Microsoft Updates Its Surface Line, Adds Surface Headphones
Get ready for faster processors and new designs on the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Studio computers.
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' Russian Trolls, and the Disintegration of Discourse
A new study finds half of the negative tweets about the film were "likely politically motivated or not even human."
A Brain-Eating Amoeba Just Claimed Another Victim
Naegleria fowleri lays waste to cells in the brain, leading to a grisly demise in the very rare cases when it manages to lodge itself in a victim's nasal cavity.
Tesla's Good Model 3 Numbers Prepare It for Harder Tasks Ahead
Tesla made a record 53,239 Model 3 electric sedans this past quarter—but it's the coming months that will really test the automaker as it aims for stability and expansion into China.
Hackers Can Stealthily Avoid Traps Set to Defend Amazon's Cloud
In the cat and mouse game of protecting cloud services, attackers find a sneaky advantage.
The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure
Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse.
Garmin Vivosmart 4 Review: Gauge Your Energy
Garmin uses its fantastic fitness data collection abilities to tell you how much energy you (don't) have.
Now 5 Years Old, the Hyperloop Industry Keeps on Whooshing On
The oldest hyperloop company is five years old, and we still don't have hyperloop—but these loop dreamers aren't giving up.
New Self-Driving Truck Startup Ike Wants to Keep It Simple
The company, just out of stealth, is licensing its software stack from the automated delivery robot company Nuro.
From TED Talks to Snoo, 15 Histories of the Future
Get inside the heads of our editors: Here's a crash course in the history of the WIRED world.
How to Use Snapchat: Critical Tips for New Users
Master the art of Snapchat Stories, filters, stickers, Snapcodes, and those ephemeral photos.
How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones
Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia.
These Tech Companies Will Need More Women on Their Boards
A new California law requires more representation for women in the boardroom for companies like Apple and Facebook, but the law may face legal challenges.
Farmers Can Now Buy Designer Microbes to Replace Fertilizer
Pivot Bio is the first company to offer US corn farmers a new 'probiotic for plants' as a replacement for expensive, greenhouse-gassy fertilizer.
How Ants Turn Into Zombies
Allow us to explain the gruesome process by which ordinary ants become the pawns of an insidious and spectacularly clever fungus.
Nine Seasons in, 'Bob's Burgers' Remains as Well Done as Ever
After 150 episodes, Loren Bouchard's family sitcom is still primetime animation's perfectly off-kilter moral center.
Why Cops Can Use Face ID to Unlock Your iPhone
For the first publicly documented time, law enforcement has used Face ID to forcibly unlock someone's iPhone. It won't be the last.
Top Stories in September: Infinite Loop and Beyond
An Apple story a day keeps readers clicking away.
HP Spectre Folio Leather Laptop: Price, Specs, Release Date
It's called the HP Spectre Folio, and it'll set you back at least $1,300.
Ex-Apple Engineers Build a Speed-Spotting Lidar for Self-Driving Cars
The young startup Aeva has $45 million in funding and a sensor it says can give self-driving cars a whole new view of the world.
It's Not Just Telltale Games: We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Studios Shutting Down
Games are made by people. And if we care about games, at all, we need to care about the people who make them.
The Human Cell Atlas Is Biologists' Latest Grand Project
The goal is to create a massive map of everything we know about all the cells in the human body, like the human genome did with DNA.
Majestic Photos Capture the Golden Age of the Space Shuttle Program
Photographer John A. Chakeres attended nearly every launch from 1982 to 1986.
The Physics of Launching a Lunar Lander From the Moon's Surface
How fast was the acceleration of NASA's lunar lander when it took off from the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission? Using video analysis, we can figure that out.
Inside The Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings
Want to become a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic? A WIRED investigation finds government jobs are one of the last holdouts in using—and misusing—otherwise debunked polygraph technology.
California Governor Signs Nation's Toughest Net Neutrality Law
The Justice Department immediately challenged the law, saying only the federal government can regulate broadband providers.
Elon Musk's SEC Lawsuit, Lyft’s Giveaway, and More Cars News
Plus, a secret cabal of flying car advocates, and a bridge that soldiers can build in 12 minutes.
The Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Top This Week's Internet News Roundup
But at least Zendaya is Meechee, amirite?
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