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Records show police agencies tap license-plate readers hundreds of thousands of times a year.

A tether connecting a drone to the ground liberates the aircraft from reliance on short-lived batteries, allowing it to stay aloft for weeks at a time.

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AI has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.

Internet companies used to grow big and die—fast. But now a few of them are huge and entrenched, because regulators didn't foresee their dominance.

We’ve spent years teaching neural nets to think like human brains. They’re crazy-smart, but what if we’ve been doing it all wrong?

Though we can point to a lack of rainfall to explain the devastation from the fires in California, they're ultimately a product of a warming world.

Corporations have taken the lead over nations on governing the internet: The initiative might not have counted the US as a signatory, but did include Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others.

When the pilots of Flight 1388 lost control of their Embraer 190, they spent a scary two hours in the air over Portugal before making it down safely.

The avuncular, controversial longtime writer and publisher of Marvel Comics dies in Los Angeles.

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The US has worst rate of gun violence among all developed countries, and still we fail to regulate.

Now in its fourth year, the conference moved its festivities to Los Angeles, where hundreds of aspiring musicians convened to learn new tricks.

From his love of the Cheesecake Factory to his take on religion, writer Jim McLauchlin looks back on two decades of conversations with the Marvel Comics chairman emeritus.

At least, it is if you’re in Pilobolus, a dance company that specializes in shadowy illusions.

Berlin-based photographer Lena Kunz set out to chronicle the world of meticulously crafted baby dolls and the people who love them.

Opinion: Science shows the sound of TV streaming or a chip reader blaring can be as distressing as nails on a chalkboard.

It's hard to entice people with a calm portrayal of a crisis avoided, so more medical officials are employing a technique long used by anti-vaxxers: personal narrative.

With the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continuing to spread, neighboring Uganda deploys its health care defenses.

Gone are the days of the 30-second clip. Today’s most viewed YouTube videos last 20 minutes or longer, a trend cemented by the platform's algorithms.

New research suggests women in New York spend up to $50 a month more than men do on transportation, largely to feel safe and avoid harassment.

Many students trek to classrooms or local businesses to do their homework. Going without isn’t an option.

The Camp Fire, Hill Fire and Woolsey Fire share an origin in the jet stream, which has produced extreme winds that are spreading the flames and hampering firefighting efforts.

Oh, these crazy elections. Oh, that crazier White House.

Elon Musk puts Tesla in the black, cities rein in scooters, and a car engineer spends a lot of time throwing up.

Game designer Rob Daviau turned a popular horror-themed board game into a spine-chilling saga.

A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough.

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It was a sensation when it was first spotted in 1744, but now we know much more about the effects of solar wind on comet dust.

More realistic films could raise awareness about real-world threats.

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Black Twitter has grown into a vibrant digital community shaping political and cultural discourse. Does that place exist for Latinxs?

Jaguar Land Rover is investigating how to detect and curtain motion sickness, and that meant emptying an engineer's stomach a few times.

Lots of wind along with very dry vegetation turned the Northern California wildfire into a high-speed menace that tore through Paradise and Butte County.

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The British thrill-seeked endured more than a few crashes—and broke some concrete—on the way to designing the jetpack suit he's now using to launch a racing league.

The director of Mother! and Black Swan talks about the new VR series, Spheres, which he produced.

In an expansive on-the-record interview with WIRED, the principal deputy director of national intelligence made her pitch for public-private partnerships.

Louis De Belle photographed 32 gimmicks for his new book *Disappearing Objects*.

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