By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls' true audience appear artificially low.

Bomb cyclone? Nor'easter? No problem! What looks terrifying from the cabin is more like a bit of fun for pilots who know how to crab and slip.

Add three to five feet of storm surge on top of a very high tide, and you've got a recipe for flooding.

WIRED columnist Antonio García Martínez on how the social media giant could even the playing field for political ads.

YouTube has struggled on multiple fronts with efforts to effectively moderate its platform.

At least, it works for Arnau Rovira Vidal.

Plus: Porsche's supercharging network, Ford's self-driving tests in Miami, and more news from an auto industry trying to rebuild.

This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the innovative Google Clips camera, which uses AI to take fun, short videos of your family.

A story of a woman's first love, *Florence* gains immense power from remembering how meaningful tactility can be.

We can't trust robots to learn everything on their own. For one startup, the solution is a very human touch.

The 24 satellites that keep GPS running in the US aren't especially secure. So private and federal groups are working on alternatives.

Managing electronic medical records is still a pain, but if a start-up can figure it out, better records could lead to new cures

People need help deciding where to place their attention. Tech companies could help ease our time-inconsistency.

The social network is asking experts to help it learn to be a less toxic place online.

How to preorder the Galaxy S9, and a few other weekend tech deals you should check out!

Startup Astranis hopes to blanket the Earth with dozens of satellites the size of a mini-fridge.

If oral argument in *US v. Microsoft* proved anything, it's that no one involved wants the courts to decide—including the justices.

The I-Pace, set to enter production later this year, brings fresh design to a segment long dominated by Elon Musk.

Assuming the 11,500-pound spacecraft makes it into geostationary orbit safely, it'll go by GOES-17.

The latest version of the high-end pickup comes with a host of fancy features, including a bed made of carbon fiber.

One of the members is Kevin Bacon.

While still the best protection against phishing attacks, some Yubikey models are vulnerable after a recent update to Google Chrome.

On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.

Just in time for the Oscars, a new book explores the line between reality and fantasy in Hollywood.

President Obama spent his time in office spreading the gospel of tech around Washington, D.C. Now, he's meeting with Rise of the Rest to take tech's mission further.

A heaving robotic platform adapted from the tech that powers flight simulators could help train other robots to do surgery.

A dispatch from the final hours that the game's online features were available.

Google sibling Verily wants to help insurers; Apple's collecting health data through its apps; and Amazon has joined with other big employers to address health care costs.

It's been a little over a year since they left the White House and nostalgia for Barack and Michelle Obama is spilling over into fervor.

New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.

Prevent Biometrics thinks its smart mouthguard can make contact sports safer for athletes.

WIRED contributor Joi Ito on the importance of developing intuition and common sense in artificial intelligence machines.

The Tesla-fighting sports car will be able to charge its battery using a network of 800-volt fast chargers Porsche is installing around the country.

Calculating fundamental constants used to be a much harder job.

Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.

Plus, the Mueller investigation, Russian bots, and Olympic drones.

Eager for fresh ideas in a rapidly changing industry, Volvo joins the many automakers writing big checks for little startups.

The streaming service's 'The Looming Tower' smartly follows in the footsteps of 'The Handmaid's Tale'.

The FDA is approving artificial-intelligence software to help diagnose diseases and help treat patients.

New rules could make it easier to remove faculty members who harass or assault grad students and postdocs.

New York was supposed to be a model for big-city high-speed internet. Here’s how its deal with Verizon became a cautionary tale for uneven connectivity.

The ride-hailing game isn't just big, it's important—which is why companies like Sony and Bosch are joining the fray.

But the science of genetic compatibility is dubious at best.

After an uproar over how much Trump and Clinton paid for Facebook ads during the 2016 presidential campaign, the social network has shared some—but not all—numbers.

A fake story about a Parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream.

The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.

'Lady Bird,' 'Call Me by Your Name,' 'The Shape of Water,' and more are all available to stream online.

Attention alien hunters: Scientists have identified a deep sea microbe that could possibly survive the ocean floor of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

In announcing his 2020 reelection campaign, Donald Trump has tapped Brad Parscale, architect of his previous campaign's digital efforts, to lead the way.

The Detroit carmaker is set to start testing driverless cars in Florida, with a new maintenance depot to help it figure out how to actually operate robotaxi fleets.