Russia expects as many as 2 million visitors during the 2018 World Cup, most of whom should take extra precautions against the country's many cyber risks.

In a Boeing-sponsored competition, teams designed personal flying machines that look more like jetpacks and flying motorbikes than the boring planes we use today.

As recent events have shown, using an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal is no privacy panacea.

Opinion: "Good" automation assigns tasks that are dirty, dangerous, or dull to robots. But shifting responsibility often makes surrounding jobs less fulfilling.

Congratulations! You’ve just found the perfect go-anywhere summer travel shoe.

Juggernaut franchises like 'Call of Duty' and 'Battlefield' are trying to capitalize on the success of Epic's phenomenon, but battle-royale games tap into something deeper than just skins and emotes.

With the release of its new Snap Kit developer platform, Snap promises it will keep your data safe from prying third-party apps.

Truly useful robots will have to be able to tackle everything humans can, so they've gotta have legs. Easier said than done, though.

The automaker plans to use the startup's laser sensors to help its autonomous vehicles see and understand the world.

Under Armour equipped a Swiss star with ceramic bedsheets and sleep monitors to boost his performance

Residents are divided over whether the city's dockless bike share program is revolutionizing transit—or creating an unwieldy, dangerous mess.

The combined results of 24 different surveys of Antarctic ice loss suggest that the rate of melting has *tripled* in the last five years.

Seattle repealed its just-enacted "Amazon tax," San Francisco elected a tech-friendly mayor, net neutrality is dead, and AT&T is buying Time Warner.

A bizarre idea that never made the cut turns Netflix’s new-again docuseries into a true hoo-dunit.

The scientists aren't there for the pythons: They're there for the pythons' food.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

How do you keep a tunnel safe? Hundreds of cameras, 17 jet fans, and a sprinkler system that can out-hose Splash Mountain.

As the world becomes infused with tech, a fleet of companies are racing to build maps that help users navigate.

A new study shows how sites like Instagram and Pinterest struggle to moderate pro-ED content—or even keep recommendation algorithms from surfacing it.

Amazon tries to translate its homegrown voice assistant into a global success.

A new method makes negative emissions more of a reality than ever before.

A new report finds that while some jobs, like trucking, will eventually fade, autonomous tech will benefit the economy overall.

Current and former employees say computers at Clarifai, which is analyzing drone images as part of Project Maven, were hacked last fall.

While Tesla struggles, Chinese automakers like Byton are aiming to gobble up its market share with electric, someday self-driving cars.

A judge's decision will likely be seen as good news for other pending and potential mergers but could be a wash at best for consumers.

The arrest of dozens of alleged Nigerian email scammers and their associates is a small, but important, first step toward tackling an enormous problem.

It's Tuesday, which means the E3 show floor is now open—and the press conferences, where most of the announcements and news live, just ended. Here's what you missed.

Of all the Dungeons & Dragons quests out there, finding a copy of "Palace of the Silver Princess" may be the hardest.

Donald Trump got out of Kim Jong Un a promise that North Korea has already made—and broken—multiple times.

Researchers at MIT, actualizers of all things science fiction, have taken a different tack to seeing through walls: radio waves.

Melody Yang knows that bubbles are a lot like us—they need water, air, and a loving touch in order to thrive.

Nope, this YouTube video hasn’t just changed everything we know about energy.

The Furbo helps you keep an eye on your dog and reward them, too.

David Liu is a scientific superhero on a mission to knock out genetic mutants.

With climate change on the horizon, Los Angeles is rushing to pull water from surprising sources. The goal: aqueous independence.

As Google and Facebook ban ads for cryptocurrency projects, and the SEC cracks down on hype, backers are employing unconventional strategies to find investors.

A new book describes how a Mechanical Turker used alarms and shortcuts to make $20 an hour, at the cost of her health.

Uber Lite should make the ride-hailing service easier to use in emerging markets where service is spotty and data is limited.

The non-profit will soon start evaluation systems like Tesla's Autopilot not just on how they drive, but on how easy they are to understand.

It's unclear still what the historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un might yield. But holding North Korea accountable will be tricky no matter what.

Benjamin, as the AI is known, assembled 'Zone Out' from thousands of hours of old films and green-screen footage of professional actors—in 48 hours.

Other nations report and track exactly how and where antibiotics are given to livestock, but in the US, that data is tied up in political football.

Photographer Adam Kasteff puts his own spin on landscape photography.

You might think this is just a boring physics problem—but you'd be wrong.

The Moto G6 still reigns supreme as the best cheap Android phone for $250 or less. Our full WIRED review.

Efforts continue in Congress, the states, and the courts, to prevent internet providers from blocking or favoring certain content.

This was supposed to be the election where the city rebelled against years of tech-fueled growth. It's not turning out that way.

Every bit of uranium ore has a chemical fingerprint specific to its source on Earth. Track the metal, and you can track the ne’er-do-well who took it.

Over four months, police in Ensenada, south of Tijuana, used a DJI drone to help make 500 arrests and cut robberies by 30 percent.