Data Propria will continue the behavioral targeting pioneered by Cambridge Analytica—but founder Matt Oczkowski says this time will be different.

The smart speaker gets a much-needed update.

Plus: Robert Mueller continues to captivate, and people clearly have unlimited interest in Moviepass Unlimited.

Going on vacation? Set your "out of office" autoreply for your email, then try these hacks to do the same for texts.

Flying in the face of fans' expectations, Lucasfilm is using its new movies to make the prequels essential to the saga.

Facebook and Google's business models and flaws evoke a Darpa project shuttered in 2003. Americans didn’t want the government vacuuming up their data then—so why are we OK with private companies doing it now?

The hardest part of deploying a new Ebola vaccine is teaching people what it’s for. The second hardest part is getting it to them.

For the first time, researchers will be able to access Facebook's data and publish their findings without pre-approval from the company.

Project Maven, which uses artificial intelligence to identify objects in drone footage, has sparked protests among Google employees.

New details from Uber's self-driving crash highlight the difficulty—and importance—of ignoring what doesn't matter, while recognizing what does.

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are redefining the underground culinary world, and young chefs are eliminating gatekeepers while they cater to poor communities and celebs alike. Exhibit A: Ghetto Gastro.

The parasitic fungus that drives ants to sabotage their own colonies has adapted to zombify their quarry better in different climates.

Summer has begun, and so have a lot of 2018 Memorial Day sales on TVs, laptops, robovacs, appliances, and more.

After a run of lackluster episodes, HBO's series regained its footing with its most recent installment.

Did anyone see that coming?

Alexa’s fine, but if you want superior audio with your AI, try one of these chatty speakers.

Rather than worrying about robo-taxis, researchers at places like MIT are making ships self-piloting to save fuel and prevent accidents.

We mined roughly 13 bitcoins and then ripped up our private key. We were stupid—but not alone.

Social media is destroying our notion of an agreed-upon Truth, taking us back to the oral tradition of pre-literate days.

Detailed images of disks swirling around young stars show the details of how solar systems come to be.

Monthly car subscriptions through startups like Carma Car, Fair, and Flexdrive offer all the utility of ownership with none of the hassle.

North Korea, mansplaining, and all the other online brouhahas you may have missed this week.

A rich ecosystem of Switch add-ons makes Nintendo’s compact console even more fun.

Opinion: Given the dearth of women receiving the top science prizes, it's time for the Nobel Committee to revamp how it awards great work.

Researchers are working to identify behavioral and neurological indicators that determine which lil puppers will grow into good bomb-sniffing doggos.

Google, Facebook, and others didn't join a "Red Alert" day earlier this month, but they are backing a lawsuit to restore net neutrality rules.

A century ago, the great mathematician David Hilbert posed a probing question in pure mathematics. A recent advance in optimization theory is bringing Hilbert’s work into the modern world.

NASA's satellite takes on the exploratory work of the Kepler mission, which so far has discovered more than 2,000 planets orbiting other stars.

Whether you’re beaming up to the *Enterprise* or crashing your friend’s destination wedding from your sofa, these headsets take you there.

Hacking back, Trump's poor security hygiene and more of the week's top security news.

Telepathy has been a common trope in sci-fi for decades, but how would it work if it was real?

When companies ask for sociable, flexible, compassionate workers, they’re silently signaling women to sign-on to an undervalued job that powers the digital economy.

Tactical Robotics' autonomous aircraft may not look too cool, but it might make battlefields safer, and eventually help civilians fly around town.

WIRED’s Alex Davies and Aarian Marshall join this week’s Gadget Lab podcast to talk all things transportation–and yes, that includes Elon Musk.

Michael Caputo is helping launch a video startup that involves a bunch of Russians. He’s also sending a Russian ballerina on tour. But that doesn’t make him a Putin stooge, he insists.

Internet users fed up with flooded inboxes are turning wonky policy changes into Twitter gold.

Don’t leave your latest gaming obsession at your desk. With these powerful laptops, you can level up wherever, whenever.

There are no pew-pew lasers or faster-than-light space travel here—just serious science.

Fiction. Nonfiction. Science! Looking for some beach reads? This list is a good place to start.

Plus: updates on Tesla Model 3 production, Porsche's new Cayenne hybrid, and college kids make the Camaro into a tree-hugging muscle car.

Leading an evidence-based life just might help us have a less-polarized national conversation.

Based on the amount of media attention they’re getting, the worms might work to bring attention to the upending of ecosystems by invasive species.

A new study, by a respected scholar on internet culture, winds up a penetrating indictment of journalism's internal inconsistencies.

New isn’t always better, but there are three key things to consider before you take the pre-owned plunge.

Businesses and entrepreneurs are racing to deploy blockchain technology against all manner of problems, and perceived opportunities.

In a federal court in San Francisco, a judge heard a motion to dismiss from five fossil fuel companies, the defendants in the suit brought by San Francisco and Oakland.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the car had trouble identifying Elaine Herzberg as a human, and then wasn't made to hit the brakes to avoid hitting her.

Researchers are cooking up pill-sized sensors to detect medical molecules and possibly diagnose other gastrointestinal ailments.