In 2011, the Golden State Warriors were floundering. Then came SportVU, a startup that offered unprecedented analytics.

Everywhere you turn online, you’ll find technology that congratulates, motivates, and engages you. But it often forgets one thing: context.

A "portable reputation" program would let gig economy workers carry their ratings from one platform to another.

It was a year of hellos—to the iPhoneX and the Essential—and goodbyes—to Flash, to Google's blob emoji, to the iPod, and to wired headphones.

Fears of bias, election hacking, and damaged children have earned algorithms a bad reputation.

National governments are done with gas and automakers are catching on. Welcome to the electric age.

From the Women's March to #MeToo, 2017 was the year that women took back the platforms that had been used against them for so long.

Crispr Classic can be clunky, unreliable, and a bit dangerous. But this year, newer, flashier gene editing tools began rolling off the production line.

A new crop of startups like Clutter and MakeSpace catalog your stuff, haul it to storage facilities, and return it within 48 hours. VCs are taking notice.

Opinion: Companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook need to own up to the harm their platforms have caused.

Activity monitors are getting more addictive—and more motivational.

Let's calculate how much energy your LEDs suck up relative to old-school incandescents.

Just in time for the new year, Americans got a new tax plan—and it was just one of many things the internet was worked up about last week.

There were so many great comics last year, we couldn't pick just five. Here's everything you should have read in 2017.

That 30-second lag on your NFL livestream? It takes a lot more tech than you may think to get rid of it.

A year in the life of America's favorite CEO, from the man himself (maybe).

Over the holidays, an Antarctic expedition is traveling 500 miles to map ice sheet thickness and sea level rise.

Galaxy NGC 5256 contains two merging galaxies. In between the two is a supermassive black hole that’s quickly sucking up material from the impact.

A fake *Cuphead*, a WhatsApp privacy blow-up, and more of the week's top security news.

Streaming services, network TV, cable—really exceptional programming showed up all over the place this year. Here's what kept us glued to the tube.

Rian Johnson's movie has more moral complexity than any of the previous films—and gives audiences a lot more to think about.

Edward Witten reflects on the meaning of dualities in physics and math, emergent space-time, and the pursuit of a complete description of nature.

How to build a transportation system that handles peak demand—and why you really really shouldn't.

As the debate over Section 702 continues, those deciding its fate don't know basic facts about how it works.

Facebook released a tool that shows users if they’ve liked or followed accounts linked to a Russian troll farm.

Eric Schmidt was the hired-gun CEO whose balancing act with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin propelled Google to great heights.

On this week's show, we talk about the services, apps, and companies that went belly-up in 2017.

Thanks to advances in batteries, brain-controlled robotics, and AI, today’s mechanical limbs can do everything from twist and point to grab and lift.

We get a look at how humble Honda puts these little birds together.

We say goodbye to all of this year's tech casualties.

Don't worry, 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' is in there too.

WIRED transportation stories you might have missed this week.

Microsoft, Slack, Atlassian, and others are bolstering their workplace-chat offerings, hoping to make them "platforms" for business apps.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was once the world's most valuable startup. Then it stumbled. Now, Xiaomi is clawing its way back.

The NSA leaker's latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks.

SpaceX may have missed its deadline for launching the triple-booster Falcon Heavy, but launching deep space vehicles is only half the battle.

The company has admitted it's been slowing the performance of older iPhones. But here's why it shouldn't have to.

Magic Leap's mixed reality system looks like space-age steampunk. But experts are unsure how they'll create big experiences in a such a small package.

From Macedonian teens mastering fake news to how one woman's digital life was weaponized against her, the dozen most-read magazine stories of the year.

Thermoelectric generators with no moving parts are small and reliable—which makes them perfect for spacecraft like Voyager and Cassini.

Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa’s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be restored from "silent engrams."

It's hard to catch everything that gets released. These are the gems that might've escaped your attention.

The efforts to deliver Elon Musk's tubular travel system are already creating solutions that could make other forms of transit faster and comfier.

A small group of scientists have dedicated their careers to unraveling the conifer's genetic secrets.

A Health and Human Services hackathon produced smart ideas for the fight against opioid addiction—but can only do so much in the face of a collapsing health care system.

From a de-icing timing app to laser beams, these innovations will make your experience (a little bit) better.

With polls suggesting that the public favors net neutrality rules, Democrats are poised to make the recent repeal of the rules an issue in 2018 campaigns.

AI researchers are looking for the meaning of our words, defenses against hacking, and teaching robots right from wrong.