Logan Paul's video of Japan's "suicide forest" was a nadir for the YouTube star—and the platform that enables him.

Braun's latest hand blender blows through foodstuffs that lesser sticks can’t crack.

Photographer Seph Lawless traveled the world to capture images of childhood paradises lost.

In the food industry, innovation frequently means *imitation*. But that's not the best thing for your taste buds, or the planet.

What's one good way to bring down a botnet? Send that traffic to a sinkhole.

The creators of Appolition want to help free people who are jailed because they can't afford bail amounts as low as $100.

Super-hard ceramic meets super-smart design in a lovely set of kitchen knives.

Is there anyplace where the tech news is radiant with old-fashioned optimism? Where good cheer abounds? Why, yes, there is: clean energy.

Simple math can help scheming politicians manipulate district maps and cruise to victory. But it can also help identify and fix the problem.

A guide to making the shifting world of mobility work for everyone.

Culture coverage seemed to be dominated by memes, *Star Wars*, memes, streetwear, memes, streaming, and, well, more memes.

Assess any sauce, sugar solution, or sauté pan in seconds with a quick-reading thermometer.

What the famed Futurama tells us about how to get where we're going next.

The topics that most resonated with WIRED readers this year included privacy, social media, surveillance, and hacking.

From Equifax to Crash Override, it was a banner year for cybersecurity fails.

"The idea is: If we can’t bring real-world cannabis into the lab, let’s bring the lab to the people.”

Deep dives into brain science, pain science, bad science, and biased science.

Whether you have a PS4 Pro or Slim, these tips and hidden features may surprise you!

The Fox comedy, which stars Seth MacFarlane as the captain of a 'Star Trek'-style starship, starts off slowly, but gets much better over time.

Make perfect pizza from scratch in your home with these essentials.

AI could save medicine up to $100 billion a year, if we can only figure out how to apply it.

Trolls, bots, and fake news posed a serious threat to internet freedom this year—and there's no easy answer in sight.

"Hang the DJ" will break your heart—but especially if you're single.

Numerous tales of hacking and breaches proves just how permeable the digital membrane can be.

From Cardi B's ascent to the top of the Hot 100 to Lady Gaga's Coachella domination, it was a pretty good year for pop.

Our guide to getting the most out of Microsoft’s gaming console.

“What if there’s nothing? Then we learned, there is nothing.”

When the augmented reality revolution begins, a lot more people will be prepared—thanks to the dancing hot dog.

The practice of using a website visitor's device to mine cryptocurrency has expanded—and evolved—at an alarming rate.

Welcome to the trough of disillusionment.

Ready-to-cook meal kits are the epitome of internet-fueled instant gratification. But the recipe still needs tweaking.

Elon Musk creations Tesla and hyperloop dominated the news cycle.

The year's best shows were unburdened by the pressure of audience—and next year needs more of that quiet confidence.

Trouble abounds for the ridehailing company, but a trip to Pittsburgh reveals it's making real progress toward driverless cars.

From Donald Trump to Russian hackers, these are the dangerous characters we’ve been watching online in 2017.

The past year was one of the worst on record for natural disasters. Blame greenhouse gases, and start planning for a hotter future.

The future of jobs weighed heavy on everyone's minds.

The nearly perfect role-playing game tells a story about war, tragedy, and life in humanity's late stages using every part of itself, wasting nothing in the telling.

WIRED Photo featured some amazing places and people this year. These were the best of the best.

This sublimely forgiving coup of highway engineering is all over the Lone Star State—but why?

Researchers found that network configuration errors have left thousands of high-end speakers open to epic audio pranking.

Triangles fit effortlessly together, as do squares. When it comes to pentagons, what gives?

When programmers introduced Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek to the 1970s-era computer system, they quickly realized he was no Spock.

When Xerox PARC debuted its Alto personal computer system, many were skeptical. They had no idea what was coming.

Peter Thiel has become an odd founder out, but his political ideas are quite mainstream in Silicon Valley.

Teens now have so many ways to connect and communicate that there’s no need to gather in person. The party is constant, and it’s on social media.

To interact with the next wave of tech, companies want us to just act natural.

Here are five more technology books that Backchannel loved, plus an excerpt from each—just in time for the holidays.

The World War II-era FBI may have taken credit, but it was really the work of Elizebeth Smith Friedman.

For most of human history, one’s social circle was mostly confined to family and neighborhood. Thanks to Twitter, that's all changed.