Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls.

2017 may not have been the calmest of years, but it was an incredible one for videogames.

The mysterious augmented reality company has finally revealed its headset, dubbed the Magic Leap One, and its 2018 plans

Science is going to be tightening belts and looking toward the private sector to for funding. Here are some watchdog-vetted organizations that could use your help.

They can be hacked. They're a privacy nightmare. This year, it's not too late to keep the IoT toys away from the tree.

Meet Kengoro, the humanoid that is strikingly lifelike not just in how it looks, but how it moves.

To safeguard AI, we’re going to need to solve the problem of ‘adversarial examples.’

WIRED readers seemed to be no more interested in Donald Trump than in bananas, which they cared about less than Apple.

You're heading into a holiday break, right? There's no better time to go back and play the standouts you didn't get to.

Opinion: Lower taxes don't spur businesses to create jobs and train workers. But tax credits for training could re-invigorate the American workforce.

Ideas for the car nerd in your life (or yourself), even if you've left your shopping to the last minute.

From our favorite phone to the best smart-home innovation, this is all of 2017's best gear.

Shamed by Dieselgate, VW is headed down Electric Avenue with a trio of battery-powered concepts, including a new spin on its famed hippie-mobile.

German scientists are teaming up with a Belgian dredging company to design robots that won't disrupt fragile seabed ecosystems.

Rather than feud over net neutrality, highly profitable internet companies and telecom providers should work together to create a fast, and fair, internet for all Americans.

Instagram fame can be enviable—but it comes at a cost. Excerpted from Brooke Erin Duffy's (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love.

Here are six of the best tech books of 2017, plus an excerpt from each.

Venture capitalists invest like lemmings. These are the trends they'll flock to in 2018.

Microsoft said it will no longer require employees to resolve sexual-harassment claims through private arbitration, a practice blamed for hiding workplace misconduct.

As the US government points the finger at North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware epidemic, it also needs to acknowledge the role of its leaked hacking tools.

A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.

By the time the ISS makes its fiery return to Earth, it will have become a stepping stone to lunar colonies and the first human mission to Mars.

­People assume AR will deliver flashy, exciting cultural creations, but it will likely be more mundane—and thus more powerful.

This crazy parkour move, where a guy bounds up between two walls by jumping from one to the other, is based on the momentum principle and friction.

They escaped the factory floor and started conquering big cities to deliver food. Self-driving cars swarmed the streets. And even bipedal robots strolled out of the lab and into the real world.

Our thumbs are already itching for next year's standout titles.

A growing corner of YouTube seeks to teach people about screenwriting, directing, and cinematography—tuition free.

The urge to fight one decisive battle has undone countless real-world rebellions—and those in the Star Wars universe as well.

The writer-director also gives up the goods on easter eggs and Mark Hamill's secret second role.

As the U.S. population ages, people in need of 24/7 monitoring will outnumber available caregivers. One company's answer: Let an avatar do the job.

The company's pod just clocked 240 mph, topping Elon Musk's 220-mph mark.

The V-22 Osprey-inspired aircraft could replace the Army's aging Black Hawk helicopters.

With more than 1,000 flights canceled, airlines struggle to get everyone and everything back in place.

Pull up a chair, we've got processing to do.

Now that 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' is in theaters, it's time to begin dissecting it. Start here.

Observations suggest the interstellar asteroid is encased in a dry, carbon-rich crust that could have protected a water-ice core from being vaporized as it passed our sun.

"Battleship Island," as it's known, has a tale almost dramatic as the plot of 'Skyfall.'

Between 'Ready Player One' and three (three!) Marvel movies hitting theaters, 2018 is shaping up to be a big year for big movies.

The Shapa scale captures your health data over time. But don't expect it to show you any numbers.

The California Academy of Sciences is no static natural history museum—it's a place where living, breathing science happens. Well, sort of.

WeWork is quietly recruiting startups to a project called Area 51 Paradise Ranch, an incubator and "launchpad."

The best flu models still can't project the infection's trajectory more than a couple of weeks into the future. Here's how that could change.

Technology companies and other employers are crafting their own curricula and sharing them with colleges and universities.

The fall of 2017 brings with it six excellent books for making coffee, instant-pot dinners, and Thai drinking fare.

Roy Moore's horse's name is Sassy—and the horse has a Twitter account now.

The new generation of the classic off-roader gives drivers exactly what they want—and other automakers should do the same.

An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics.

The universe is full of nurseries incubating new stars—and when they finally explode, their remnants tell scientists about their stellar lives.

Science writer Britt Wray has spent the last few years investigating "de-extinction"—the effort to bring back long-lost species.

A Facebook bug, the Kaspersky ban becomes law, and more of the week's top security news.