Three 5.25-inch floppy disks help keep Muni running every morning. A tech upgrade could take until 2030.

The 2024 Watches and Wonders event featured a timepiece as thick as a 25-cent coin, one accurate for 45 millions years, and another with a carbon-sucking case.

Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky.

These child-friendly stories will keep your little ones entertained and ease the stress of long road trips.

Your smartphone or wearable could help you out in a truly dangerous situation. Here are some options to consider.

We've tried dozens of litter boxes, pet cameras, and fancy cat furniture. These are our favorites.

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.

This wearable, touch-activated second brain" is too bare-bones and not all that useful.

Prepare flavorful fried food with little to no oil using this modern kitchen staple.

A toxic mix of disinformation, digital tools, and generative AI is challenging election officials across the country.

Transparency advocates say that Eric Schmidt's pursuit of personal" connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest.

Violent threats, rampant disinformation, budget shortfalls, and mass resignations: Election workers have a long road to November.

Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan's new show keeps Fallout's gallows humor. He also packed the first season because you have to be careful not to leave too much down the road."

An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law.

The sun and the moon aren't the only circles worth talking about this week. Target's Circle Week deals event has a bunch of discounts on our favorite gear.

Horror game Content Warning is a metanarrative about the things streamers will do to get clicks.

The founding CEO of DWAC has accused his former assistant of hacking into his accounts as part of a coup d'etat," the latest legal mess for Truth Social.

Noor Siddiqui founded Orchid so people could have healthy babies." Now she's using the company's gene technology on herself-and talking about it for the first time.

There are many reasons why you'd want-or need-to nuke a Google account. Thankfully, breaking up with Google is pretty easy.

Digital assistants with access to everything you do on your phone can use that knowledge to remember the life details you'd otherwise forget. But with that great power comes great responsibility.

Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials.

Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it's happening at an uneven rate. That's bad news for its sprawling public transportation system.

By combining a century-old idea with cryptocurrency tech, Sarcophagus aims to create a foolproof way to send messages from beyond the grave.

Under threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI-enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders.

The US Congress will this week decide the fate of Section 702, a major surveillance program that will soon expire if lawmakers do not act. WIRED is tracking the major developments as they unfold.

A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers, but what remains incontestable is social media's impact on the music we hear most.

SpaceX has made significant progress toward what once seemed an unattainable goal.

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found that Switzerland had not done enough to protect its citizens from climate change-blowing open the door for further cases against governments.

The company's first stage keyboard is just its Analog Lab software instrument in hardware form, but that's not a bad thing.

The internet is a mess. Ignore the algorithm, and distill the web down to the things you actually care about.

The app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Tumblr.

Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content.

Experts warn, They are trying to use Brazil as a laboratory on how to interfere in local politics."

In Yanis Varoufakis' latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

Whether you're in the path of the totality or keeping track from afar, these are the best total solar eclipse photos we've found.

Here's how to make sure your coffee really is the best part of waking up.

KitchenAid's new compact espresso machine is thoughtfully designed and reliable-after you tune it a bit.

AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

We're not sharing intimate details of our lives on the internet anymore. We don't have to-despite the flood of tech companies looking to fill the vacuum.

Groups like True the Vote and Michael Flynn's America Project want to mobilize thousands of Trump supporters by pushing baseless claims about election fraud-and are rolling out new technology to fast-track their efforts.

When I started coding, I was suspicious of all the abstractions. Then I discovered the Django framework.

By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.

The Chinese EV giant has arrived in Europe with the Atto 3-an acceptable and good-value alternative to better-known rivals. But beyond the funky interior there's little to get truly excited about.

While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.

Cherry's revamped MX2A improves its iconic MX mechanical keyboard switch line in every way. But it introduces some conundrums.

Fender's digital modeling amp is so easy to use and sounds so great, it's as if Apple made a guitar pedal.

If God came down to Earth tomorrow to deliver 10 more commandments, the TP-7 is what we'd use to record them-if we could afford one.

Here's how to view the total solar eclipse on April 8 as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada.

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

If you want to jump into virtual reality, this headset and these games are a great place to start.