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Metalenz's biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition-and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.

Republicans who run elections are split over whether to keep working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to fight hackers, online falsehoods, and polling-place threats.

As the smart ring race heats up, Samsung has revealed more about its coming health-based wearable, and how it will pimp Galaxy Watches.

When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa's Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

You can see clearly now through the Project Crystal. But what is it for? And is a transparent phone next?

Wirecard whistleblower Pav Gill has founded a startup, Confide, that aims to protect whistleblowers from retaliation-and stop them resorting to the press.

A 1970s plan to grow underwater limestone objects has been repurposed as a way of regenerating the seabed, reestablishing corals, and stopping coastal erosion.

The compact and refined Xiaomi 14 is a very good Android phone, but it fails to stand out among other similarly priced handsets.

The Flitescooter is an easy-to-use eFoil meant to introduce newcomers to the niche sport. It's fun to ride, but staying in control takes some practice.

An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hidden in an as-yet-unseen extra dimension. Scientists are racing to test the theory to see if it holds up.

High prices, a volatile hydrogen market, and the closure of fueling stations have bedeviled many of the California drivers who bought fuel-cell electric vehicles in hopes of going greener.

A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.

If you want a massage gun but don't want to pay Theragun prices-or maybe you just want different features and attachments-then get one of these picks for soothing sore muscles.

Plus: Apple launches a Sports app for the iPhone, Sony is testing its PlayStation VR headset on PC games, and Hamilton has a fancy new watch to celebrate the arrival of Dune: Part Two.

Plus: Scammers try to dupe Apple with 5,000 fake iPhones, Avast gets fined for selling browsing data, and researchers figure out how to clone fingerprints from your phone screen.

Los Angeles saw 592 slides in one week, a reminder that excessive precipitation events set off more than flooding.

Upgrade your movie nights and Netflix binges with these home theater sales.

Upgrade your movie nights and Netflix binges with these home theater sales.

The Biden campaign's TikTok account got off to a rocky start-but they're not stressing the comments.

Xiaomi's top Redmi phone can compete with flagships, but it still has some limitations.

A Houston-based company called Intuitive Machines made lunar history this week.

Presidents' Day is over, but these mattress sales are still going strong. Don't worry, we've price-checked it all to ensure there's no trickery afoot.

Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company's public listing. Some say it's too risky-others say they won't pay a company they've already given hours of free labor to.

The book, from Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, follows an activist who tries to stop Amazon from taking over her Detroit neighborhood.

Just like with AirDrop on Apple devices, you can use Quick Share on Android to send almost anything to your contacts close by, or even to your Windows computer.

Craig Wright has claimed for years to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. This week in the UK High Court, Nakamoto's early collaborators took the stand.

BetaVolt's nuclear battery lasts for decades, but you won't see one in your next iPhone-powering a mobile device would require a cell the size of a yak.

Charlotte, a round stingray that lives in a male-free tank in North Carolina, currently serves as TikTok's Good News mascot amidst a Bad News week.

Consumer technology has trained users to expect and deal with crashes and other bugs. When the whole world runs on AI, the inevitable glitches will have greater consequences.

Getting these climate superheroes into more US homes would massively cut emissions, and it would be cost-effective. Here's how the revolution would play out.

Tech companies can't get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its CEO, Jensen Huang.

Americans eat too much sugar. Food tech company Zya is developing a substance to add to sweet foods that can convert some of that sugar into fiber in the digestive system.

Google says its new designs comply with the Digital Markets Act, which bars platforms from favoring their own tools. Yelp says tests show one tweak made people even more likely to stick with Google.

The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology.

Only one of Reddit's two cofounders is named in a new filing that puts the company weeks away from going public. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, now CEO, fell out in 2020.

Pat Gelsinger says that Intel's renewed investment in cutting-edge manufacturing technology will allow it to become a leading supplier of AI chips. Microsoft is already onboard.

Google has hit pause on Gemini's ability to generate images of people after a far-right backlash to its historical depictions.

The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then a wild Russian threat appeared.

The AT&T network outage shows no signs of improvement, and the company has given no details about the cause.

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI's chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

Square Enix's latest installment in the Final Fantasy VII reboot trilogy raises the stakes with huge open-world maps, more side-quests-and of course, chocobo.

This week, we talk about the recent job cuts across the tech industry, the increased challenges of landing a tech job, and how those shifts are affecting the workforce.

Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has shifted. Engineers say that getting hired can require days of work on unpaid assignments.

I watched a steady diet of sad movies in Apple's headset. It was strangely emotional, but the weight of the headset-and aloneness-distracted from the movies.

Beyonce's new single seems tailor-made for viral dance crazes. It also comes at a time when Universal Music Group artists are still muted on the platform.

The biggest chipmaker in the US is hoping that generative AI-and US government concern about China's tech ambitions-will revitalize its business.

The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.

Elon Musk says Neuralink's first human trial subject can control a computer mouse with their brain, but some researchers are frustrated by a lack of information about the study.

Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That's just the beginning of its small-screen plans.

Useful quantum computers aren't a reality-yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage.