Technologies like hydropanels could keep us hydrated in a hotter, drier future.

Ghostery, Edward Snowden’s preferred ad-blocker, details how a privacy tool can actually make money without being gross.

The world—and Netflix viewers—just needed to catch up.

Researchers want to know how ride-hailing companies are affecting their streets, but don't have much information to help them.

WIRED’s newest columnist Renee DiResta on the similarities between ISIS and Russia’s social media strategies—and what needs to be done to stop them.

The robo-trucking startup moves closer to starting commercial deliveries, no humans needed.

While some writers blame Facebook's ever-shifting algorithm, sketch comedy has evolved in the social-media age to favor the person, not the premise.

A new working paper considers whether environmental factors can actually increase returns on investment.

WIRED columnist Felix Salmon on how Serial paved the way for a new generation of daily news podcasts.

Leaders at the Catholic Church organized VHacks to use technology to solve issues of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and resources for refugees.

As MoviePass shoots from 20,000 subscribers to 2 million, lapses in customer service have begun to take a toll.

Sea levels are rising. But the San Francisco Bay Area has another problem: It's sinking. By 2100, it could lose 165 square miles to the sea.

Scientists are experimenting with everything from microwave sterilization to blasts of plasma to ensure food stays appetizing longer.

From drones to duffel bags, we got your back.

EternalBlue leaked to the public nearly a year ago. It's wreaked havoc ever since.

Scientists want to know more about risk factors, gun epidemiology, and whether laws work.

Proposal would grant publishers an antitrust exemption to seek concessions from tech giants, who dominate online advertising.

A leaked NSA tool offers a glimpse into what the NSA knows about the hacking operations of adversaries—some of which may still be secretly ongoing.

Attendees at Crypto Sanctum in New York last week consumed "infused" food and drink, many without realizing it.

It's also stuffed with fancy features and a turbocharged V-8 engine good for a 5-second sprint from 0 to 60 mph.

It turns out that kleptopredation is an environmentally friendly strategy. Perhaps there really is honor among thieves.

At the ultra-flashy Geneva Motor Show, the revived Polestar, VW, and other automakers showed off cars they hope will let them dominate the growing electric car market.

And the ride-hailing giant is hard to beat when it comes to piling up data about where and when things go.

To understand Bernoulli's principle, it helps to think of air as a bunch of tiny balls.

Radiosonde enthusiasts use a software and huge antennae to track balloons that have parachuted back to earth.

First Moore, now Lass: As machinery gets cheaper and more digitized, could the number of fab labs, or such tools, really double every year and a half?

It teaches readers about the volatile compounds in food, and how to combine them in their cooking.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee Monday signed the nation’s first state law intended to protect net neutrality.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the ride-hailing giant Monday for failing to disclose a massive hack for over a year—and may not be the last

Women helped create web domains and bookmarks, a neglected history explored in Claire L. Evans’ new book “Broad Band.”

Frances McDormand's acceptance speech was just one of the moments that made last night's Oscars feel like real change was happening.

A clever system uses lasers and algorithms to map out-of-sight objects in 3-D. That could be great news for self-driving cars.

Privacy advocates and venture capitalists want to circumvent the tech giants with apps using encrypted data stored on networks of computers.

When you're sending a $500,000 vial of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting cells, a safe delivery can mean the difference between life and death.

WIRED columnist Maryn McKenna on how offshoring drug and medical supply manufacturing puts patients and hospitals at risk.

Huge wins for 'Get Out' and 'The Shape of Water' prove genre fare can grapple with Big Ideas, and still connect with moviegoers.

From the president to Jared Kushner to Hope Hicks, the Trump administration kept the internet on its toes last week.

We need more intense attention on how artificial intelligence forestalls the ability to see what kinds of choices we are making.

The British automaker's latest supercar is all about function—and fun—over form.

Two teams of physicists have figured out how to create a "mini universe," which could help researchers understand the strange behavior of deeply quantum systems.

Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they aren’t delusional.

After a star forms, a leftover ring of dust and gas eventually forms into planets.

A higher Equifax tally, Apple vulnerabilities, and more of the week's top security news.

The movie is fiction, but according to Daniel Ellsberg the scenarios involved aren't far from reality.

Turn yourself into a songwriter with one of these great apps.

In a crowded social media landscape, Snapchat needs to reinvent itself as the internet's favorite camera app.

As the island struggles to come back online after Hurricane Maria, commercial quadcopters do the job quickly and safely.

A white male former employee has sued Google for allegedly favoring women and minorities in internal policies—this time within YouTube.

Less than a year old, Hims has found a profitable niche in treating male insecurity.

Facebook has had some bumpy years. Critics, especially Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, have no intention of letting the crisis go to waste.