The Justice Department is in court trying to block AT&T's planned purchase of Time Warner. Both sides cite Comcast's 2011 acquisition of NBC Universal, but the earlier deal is an imperfect model.

WIRED columnist Felix Salmon argues the time has come for Mark Zuckerberg to step aside and give Facebook the fresh start it needs.

Zipline is already making life-saving deliveries in Africa and Europe. Now it wants to start flying in its home country.

A lot of games try to capture the way the world works—but precious few try to distill how it feels.

Goodbye, dystopian Craigslist. There's a new Reddit, and it's all grown up.

As cryptojacking takes over the web, Google will put a stop to cryptomining extensions that prey on unsuspecting installers.

British photographer Dan Holdsworth uses geological mapping software to render three-dimensional point clouds of glaciers.

Flaws in a study about unintended gene editing snips have led to its retraction. But that’s not the end of the story.

WIRED columnist Jason Pontin on an audacious theory of sentience that offers a new way to understand consciousness.

The most significant thing about Monday's cargo run may be that there is little novelty to it whatsoever

Online food-delivery service spent eight years resolving a classic problem of unstructured data.

Catch up on the Stormy Daniels saga, Julian Assange's connectivity problems, the Mueller investigation, and all of the internet's other favorite topics of conversation here.

For some African American police officers, a false positive can leave their careers dangling on a thin strand.

My time in rehab left me humiliated and desperate to know why my friends were dying. Now, a wave of app developers are trying to tackle opioid addiction.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nyan Cat, Doge, and the art of the Rickroll.

As always, we’ve rounded up all the news we didn’t break or cover in depth this week.

The superhero flick's strength lies in the fact that it didn't shy away from addressing issues of black identity.

42 percent of plastic surgeons have seen patients specifically looking to up their selfie game. You don't need surgery; you need math.

When you're done painting eggs and munching on candy, check out these Easter tech deals.

A surprise discovery announced a month ago suggested that the early universe looked very different than previously believed. Initial theories that the discrepancy was due to dark matter have come under fire.

Autonomous vehicle crashes don't look like human driven ones.

American prosperity depends on what we will make in the future, not what we made in the past.

In an interview with WIRED, French President Emmanuel Macron describes his plans to enhance the country's AI efforts—and differentiate them from those in the US.

The EPA may be able to roll back regulations in the US, but other forces will push automakers to keep making electric cars.

The self-driving system was engaged when a Model X SUV hit a highway barrier, killing the driver.

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare appears to be preparing to launch a service to encrypt traffic to the computers that look up web addresses.

If Under Armour had protected all passwords equally, its 150-million-user MyFitnessPal breach wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.

"The Paper Airplane Guy" John Collins shows us how to fold planes that do loops, flap their wings, and fly world-record distances.

Publication of a 2016 memo stating "maybe someone dies" in a terrorist attack coordinated on Facebook reveals just how thoroughly its quest for growth influenced the company.

Automakers recall cars all the time, but Tesla just doesn't need any more problems right now.

This week, we ask: Can Apple re-win the hearts and minds of educators?

Large swaths of Earth are already safe from falling space debris.

WIRED columnist Virginia Heffernan on how a hacker flattered his way into taking over her Twitter account.

There are other ways to write #MeToo.

Atlanta isn't the SamSam ransomware strain's first victim—and it won't be the last.

For those who have recently injured or lost their dominant hand, everything from apps to bungees exist to ease the frustration.

A ban for Uber, a challenge to Tesla, and Jaguars for Waymo.

Baby herring adapt to extra carbon dioxide in the water; cod and clams, not so much.

After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.

Facebook has been updating its privacy settings for more than a decade. Will this time be different?

Was the movie everything we hoped it would be? Two WIRED editors (and proud ’80s kids) hash things out.

This week the USDA announced it has no plans to regulate gene-editing technologies like Crispr, opening the door to a boom in designer foods.

John Collins shows you how to fold the innovative paper airplane design that earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The social media giant Thursday outlined several attempts to help protect the midterm elections, but still has a long way to go.

It goes from 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds, and it has fatter tires and updated aerodynamics to match.

When and where will the Chinese space station land? We can’t know for sure—but we can examine some variables.

Certain frog species are rebounding after a fungal invasion, probably not because the fungus got any less deadly—the frogs may be evolving to resist the pathogen.

The new "following" tab shows you pins from people you follow in reverse-chronological order.

Photographer Giulio di Sturco's latest subject is a humanoid named Sophia—and capturing her essence took time.

The new camera, called simply GoPro Hero, can't do 4K, but it's a great value at $1`99.