Nor did Nintendo's racist-imagery snafu or Square Enix's 'Final Fantasy' expansion plans. Plenty of wrong to go around!

Angry about climate change, activists shut down an oil pipeline in Minnesota—and then tried to convince a jury that their illegal actions were necessary.

An MIT professor argues that misinformation boils down to one simple thing: mental laziness, exacerbated by social media.

Organizers of last week's walkout say ending mandatory arbitration for individual harassment claims still thwarts collective action, among other concerns.

The former head of New York, London, and Hong Kong transit signs on with the hyperloop company.

Plus: 'Swamp Thing' casting details, the 'Missing Link' trailer, and more.

A video distributed by Sarah Sanders to justify revoking the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta was altered in ways that made it misleading.

A novel system monitors the dynamics of colonies exposed to imidacloprid, a neurotoxin that belongs to the infamous neonicotinoid group of pesticides.

It's all about perception.

Facebook starts publicly testing its dating service with users in Colombia today.

Centuries-old ideas about force and motion have an intuitive appeal that is enduring but oh-so-incorrect, as these simple experiments show.

Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September.

Microsoft’s ultralight PC is back with faster processing and longer, 10-hour battery life.

Autonomous vehicles use several technologies to create their maps of the world, and (hopefully) not run over humans.

This Thanksgiving season, the Butterball hotline adds Amazon Alexa to its turkey toolkit, among other new features.

One in five American farmers has some sort of disability, and they rely on a cornucopia of tools from services like AgrAbility and Breaking New Ground to keep putting food on everyone's table.

“Hopefully we will no longer see the science committee used as a messaging tool for the fossil fuel industry,” says Rep. Bill Foster, a science committee member.

A series of successful ballot initiatives should create more districts where voters get to choose their representatives—not the other way around.

Proposition C, which will raise an additional $300 million a year for homeless services, was approved with roughly 60 percent of the vote.

In the face of big lines, bad weather, and extra-long ballots, perseverance is key.

The plane builder wants pilots to brush up on what to do if a faulty sensor sends a 737 MAX into a dive.

In 2018, we should worry less about bot-nets and more about the oldest political tricks: misdirection, misinformation, and outright voter suppression.

The next Congress could have majorities in both houses that support net neutrality, but the outlook for legislation is bleak.

At a developer event today, Samsung showed off a smartphone with a folding screen that points to a possible future for mobile computing.

Washington voters will likely shoot down a ballot initiative that would tax carbon emissions, but carbon pricing is still likely to reach the US.

Major environmental ballot measures passed in Florida and Nevada, but not in Washington and Arizona.

A win for marijuana in Michigan, Utah, and Missouri may foreshadow a win for cannabis nationwide.

The tech industry faces a notably less cozy environment in the Senate after election night, but the biggest changes could come under a Democratic House.

Forget haggis, whisky, and 'Braveheart.' This photo gallery shows the real Scotland—a country in eco-transition.

The new device has a sleeker design, more storage, an updated processor—and now it’s waterproof.

This month, HawkEye 360 will send up satellites that monitor the radio transmissions of ships, planes and other things on Earth, allowing them to be tracked by their communications.

Elon Musk's Model 3 is the 19th best-selling vehicle in the country, as 15-year-old Tesla moves beyond its niche.

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We don't know how it works or how much it will cost, but we've heard it bends.

WIRED is looking out for the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge throughout the day.

Americans watched their voting technology break down right in front of their eyes—or on social media—Tuesday, but it's too soon to tell if the problems reached historic proportions.

Here's how engineers might have deliberately derailed it.

The outcomes of these contests could shape issues like net neutrality, data privacy, and the tech industry’s business practices for years to come.

Voting machines in one polling place had no power cords. The problems follow a big purge of voter rolls by the secretary of state, who is running for governor.

If Democrats take back the House on Tuesday, it will have been against all odds thanks to gerrymandering that has skewed so heavily toward Republicans.

Tinder, Ariana Grande, The Rock, and many more are exhorting the masses to cast their ballots.

AMD and Intel are combining modular pieces of silicon into a single chip, like assembling Lego blocks.

Alphabet's longevity lab Calico trawled through Ancestry's massive genealogy database to study human longevity—and found that DNA matters less than people have long believed.

The $84,000 luxury sedan can sense an impending crash and adjust its suspension to protect its occupants in under a second.

Take some simple measurements, add a dash of algebra, and you basically have a way to measure an unknown mass.

Cities are experimenting with fees for scooter companies desperate to leave their electric mobiles on their sidewalks. And that money could help them keep up with the evolving world of mobility.

Ninety-four district election officers. Thirteen hundred electoral jurisdictions. Multiple law enforcement agencies. The fight to keep the midterms safe has an unimaginable scope.

Speech on the internet must flow a little less freely if we care about harm or truth.

Surely we weren't the only ones holding our breath throughout Amazon's new series, right?

Startups like Swing Left and Crush the Midterms wanted to maximize volunteers’ impact. On Tuesday, they find out if it worked.