The latest from Subset Games, the company behind spaceflight-desperation simulator 'FTL,' is a game about going back in time to correct your mistakes.

The company that started off as Google's self-driving car project is now putting passengers in truly driverless cars in Phoenix—and will soon launch a commercial service.

A controversial theory argues that weirdly enough, it’s a warming arctic that’s causing extreme winter weather in the eastern US.

In “Paris Syndrome,” Francois Prost explores Tianducheng, a Paris-inspired housing development on the outskirts of Hangzhou, China.

TheWaveVR has spent the past year refining its live-performance nightclub mechanics. Now it's got a blockbuster new environment.

An uneasy relationship between residents and visitors who think they have permission to do whatever they like? Sounds familiar.

2018 is looking a wee bit notchy for smartphones. We explore all the Android and hardware trends coming to phones this year.

Every fire scientist knows the place where houses meet the wild is dangerous. But people keep putting more houses there.

European Union privacy rules may prompt removal of personal information from Whois lookups.

WIRED columnist Jason Pontin on how the government could tackle economic inequality and create jobs in our techno-turvy future.

Freezing and defrosting snake sperm could be a key to conserving endangered species—but artificial insemination isn't always easy.

This is the Holy See of the 21st century.

An analysis of polls from 32 countries since 1942 finds that they are no more—or less—accurate at predicting election winners than they used to be.

How do you pull off a banking turn if there's no road to bank off?

While some major distributed-denial-of-service attacks have been thwarted this month, the threat remains as critical as ever.

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It turns out universities provide a fantastic model for how politicians should start thinking about this on a state or even national level.

Real talk: Imposing tariffs and fees on the import and export of cars is unlikely to make things better.

A non-profit has successfully built the US's first 3-D-printed home, and now plans to bring it to the world's poorest regions.

Marvel’s first foray into podcasts conveys mystery through meticulously placed voices and sounds.

WIRED columnist Virginia Heffernan on what the history of online harassment can tell us about today’s contrarian crisis.

As Facebook’s share of traffic to news sites has been falling sharply since early last year—and will only decline more—Google AMP has been on the rise.

The only way you *didn't* see former Trump aide Sam Nunberg last week was if you didn't turn on a TV or look at the internet.

Jonk’s photographs in *Naturalia: Reclaimed by Nature* were taken in over 30 countries across four continents.

Opinion: When ISIS uses Twitter to recruit or a landlord uses Airbnb to discriminate, that’s not exploiting the platforms' glitches—that’s using their features.

Lego has introduced its first sustainable elements, but has along way to go before the other 98 percent of the line meets that goal.

The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease.

To generate entire brackets is to tangle not just with the randomness of the game itself, but with the randomness of your betting pool.

It might seem like it would be fun to see Alex Garland's trippy film under the influence. It's not.

Juno has documented clusters of cyclones, including eight around the north pole.

Sex workers are safer and stronger because of social media, but they're locked in frustrating cat-and-mouse games with the platforms they feel they helped create.

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There is no ideal *Homo sapiens* specimen. But the internet had to decide on something.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO says his futuristic tunnel-based system will now prioritize people who don't travel by car.

As Brazil's health authorities scramble to contain the worst yellow fever outbreak in decades, WhatsApp’s misinformation trade threatens to go from destabilizing to deadly.

Autonomous big rigs could make trucking safer, and make Google's sister company some money too.

Reddit has deleted hundreds of Russian troll accounts, but the links they shared remain, forming a digital trail of the Internet Research Agency's actions on the platform.

The multitalented Dot Power Platform could raise crop yields 70 percent by 2050.

A sophisticated hacking campaign used routers as a stepping stone to plant spyware deep in target machines across the Middle East and Africa.

Self-driving trucks make news in Arizona and Florida, plus highlights from the supercar-happy Geneva Motor Show.

Want to create machines that move more naturally? Maybe start by replicating the spinal cord.

And he won't be the last to try to exert control over this sweeping technological change.

With machine learning and other algorithmic approaches, researchers are increasing the speed at which they detect the undulations of spacetime.

Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don't exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too.

The Obama administration allowed the spouses of foreign H-1B visa holders to work. The Trump administration wants to reverse that.

Threading the needle might be tough, but the newly announced project is well within Lucasfilm's powers.

A new report ranking developers' favorite languages shows big gains for Apple's Swift and Google-endorsed Kotlin.

Dutch police detail for the first time how they secretly hijacked Hansa, Europe's most popular dark web market.

The results—and taste tests—have been promising. Now these ultramodern farmers need their science to scale.