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.

Oh, and it can whoop the Lamborghini Gallardo on the track.

Cannabis can treat inflammation, pain, and nausea, among other ills. But an estimated 9 percent of users will develop a dependence on the drug.

The nominations aren't official, but with Hulu getting shortlisted for two documentaries, odds are good that next year's Academy Awards will feature all three major streaming platforms.

As perplexing to diagnose as it is to treat, acute flaccid myelitis may foreshadow whether our surveillance systems could uncover a severe epidemic.

An uptick in potentially Iran-related hacking since the nuclear deal collapsed spells trouble for the US and allies.

Artificial intelligence has proved effective at keeping nudity and pornography off of Facebook. But recognizing hate speech and bullying is a much tougher task.

Science often progresses not because of ideas or insights but because more precise tools for measurement are invented, and those tools open new frontiers.

VW's self-driving division Audi AID picked Luminar's system from a crowded field, impressed by its range and resolution.

Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse against women, Amnesty International crowdsourced its own data and found that the platform was especially toxic for black women.

'Mortal Engines', however, is not faring so well. Plus: details on Netflix's 'Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance' and Apple's 'Peanuts' project.

It's more than just a program—it's perhaps the most transformative software Hollywood has ever seen.

A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans.

A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.

Solve this *Captain America* physics puzzle.

Time's ticking, but it's okay! Here are some great tech Christmas gifts with free 2-day shipping.

Werner Herzog is involved with this show. Yes, you read that correctly.

A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election.

The automaker's AI and robotics-focused investment arm expands its view to what's happening on the water.

For all its faults, the internet compares favorably to earlier generations of TV and radio.

Satellite imagery of penguin poop is helping scientists see how climate change affects the birds' diet and the food chain more broadly.