To spectators, Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before Congress marked a crisis at Facebook. To tech's elite, it was a demonstration of how the Valley operates.

Rube-Goldbergesque IoT hacks are surprisingly simple to pull off—and can do a ton of damage.

The black-and-white portraits capturing more than 100 WIRED staff members in profile were created by New York–based artist Simone Noronha.

The photographs of Britney Spears, Donald Trump, and others aren't what they seem.

New research shows just how prevalent political advertising was from suspicious groups in 2016—including Russian trolls.

Almost none of them are about wigs.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli had to learn in a hurry in order to capture footage for the NatGeo docu-series 'One Strange Rock.'

SoftBank's $93 billion Vision Fund is making big bets on real-estate-focused startups.

The TESS satellite will hitch a ride atop a Falcon 9 rocket to search out new worlds.

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share info—and the much coveted curb.

Last week, the internet was locked in heated discussions about Michael Cohen, Facebook, and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

With the Nokia 3310 and 8110, feature phones are back and better than ever.

Reed Hastings, CEO and founder of the streaming giant said he believes in sharing information broadly, while Apple locks everything down tight.

Decades after stumbling upon a stunning coincidence, researchers are close to understanding the link between two seemingly unrelated geometric universes.

From Theodore Roosevelt to John Kennedy, presidents have often taken on big business, in both word and deed.

Russia bans popular encrypted chat app Telegram, China's facial recognition system flexes, and more security news this week.

'Ready Player One' isn't that movie.

No matter if you're looking for a Kindle or an OLED TV, we've got what you're looking for this weekend.

Unearthly celestial events, Martian craters, and Jovian storms.

Many anti-Trump protesters have turned their attention toward recruiting scientists to run for office in local, state, and congressional offices.

The social network's battle with a pair of conservative bloggers show that for the ultimate amplifier, moderation is a necessary game it can't win.

The recent Facebook drama has shown that people need more explicit information before they give access to apps.

Facebook employees watched the hearings closely, and were pleased by what they saw.

On this episode, we discuss Facebook's future relationship with its users, and with the governments who seek to regulate it.

Emboldened by silent colleagues and apologist supporters, music artists and executives continue to misbehave with impunity.

The comedian's new show 'Problem Areas' takes a serious look at the problems plaguing law enforcement.

Stephen Tourlentes has spent more than two decades photographing the bright glow of prisons on the periphery of society.

With 'Automata,' Taro created a game that wasn't just thorny and ambitious, but humanistic.

Plus: Aistream's cozy new trailer, Luminar starts cranking out lidars, and more.

Pepper is part of the first wave of intelligent machines that promise to not only make our lives easier, but to bring a strange new form of interaction into being.

"In 2017 we marched for science. In 2018, we vote for science."

All that noise in Washington won't mean much for Facebook's bottom line.

Elon Musk's automaker has quit the investigation led by the agency, and the sniping is getting serious.

The social network has pushed back against consumer-focused legislation in places like Illinois and California.

Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, and Facebook's problems, are the talk of the annual TED conference.

New techniques could help researchers outsource the grunt work of neuroscience.

The compact, lightweight Nest breaks with the aluminum tradition in favor of fiberglass.

Advances have fueled a dramatic upward trend in world-record athletic performances, but the baseball pitch is stuck. The reason is physics.

One of the internet's biggest infrastructure companies is expanding its protections beyond the web.

Opinion: Before we start colonizing other planets, we have to deal with all the trash we've hurtled into the atmosphere.

In the past, researchers typically discovered new deadly viruses when they overwhelmed the healthcare system. A new initiative is trying to do things differently.

America's Test Kitchen new cookbook for Instant Pots and other multicookers is a great way to navigate the pressure-cooker trend.

The company run by a 23-year-old photonics genius is ramping up production as self-driving cars get closer to reality.

A study finds that Android phones aren't just slow to get patched; sometimes they lie about being patched when they're not.

RISC-V wants to do for chips what Linux did for software.

What if some of the Earth-like planets discovered by Kepler aren’t there at all?

Russian agents used Facebook to influence the 2017 election. Congress missed the chance to delve into what the company knows about it—and how they’ll stop it in 2018.

Facebook didn't notify the Federal Trade Commission when it learned that Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained personal information of users.

In his second day of Congressional testimony, Democrats wanted to know about privacy. Republicans wanted to hear about Diamond and Silk.

Give the internet some credit: people watched hours upon hours of testimony just to get some jokes off.