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From online voting to frictionless taxes, Estonia's government services can sound like sci-fi to outsiders. Its chief information officer talks about how it works-and what other countries might learn.

The fish may be a harbinger of dramatic warming in the north-and rapidly transforming ecosystems.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind's climate lead about techno-utopianism, ways AI can help fight climate change, and what's currently standing in the way.

German startup Vay is pushing teledriving-in which cars are remotely operated by humans-as easier to achieve than fully autonomous driving.

Companies are designing AI to appear increasingly human. That can mislead users-or worse.

X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it's not fit for that purpose.

Scientists use microphones and AI to automatically detect species by their chirps and croaks. This bioacoustics research could be critical for protecting ecosystems on a warming planet.

The American government has tightened its restrictions on exports of chips and chipmaking equipment, closing loopholes that let Chinese companies access advanced technology.

Avian influenza can wipe out entire poultry flocks. An early experiment with Crispr suggests that gene editing can protect chickens against infection.

Shikhar Sachdev wanted to reveal what made the process so draining-so he spent 11 hours filling applications. Now he has tips for both job seekers and hiring managers.

The AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately guess a user's personal information from innocuous chats. Researchers say the troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

Yoshua Bengio's pioneering research helped bring about ChatGPT and the current AI boom. Now he's worried AI could harm civilization and says the future needs a humanity defense organization.

When disturbing online profiles appeared in her name, Melissa Trixie Watt was sure she knew who was behind the harassment. But she had to fight to get help from the police-and prove it in court.

Myanmar's military junta is increasing surveillance and violating basic human rights. The combination of physical and digital surveillance is reaching dangerous new levels.

Humans are teaming up with dogs to eliminate the blood-sucking pests, but there's no overarching strategy, just eye-watering costs.

After 24 years with the company and the launch of Starfield, Peter Hines, Bethesda's head of publishing, is leaving.

Tools like Google's Pixel 8 AI photo editor are ushering in a deepening distrust of everything we see. Welcome to our new counterfeit reality.

Extreme heat and droughts are cutting into hop plants' yields and making them less bitter. But scientists and farmers are brewing up clever solutions.

Some doctors warn that personalized nutrition apps like Zoe can cause otherwise well patients an unhealthy amount of worry.

New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing-and the world's biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes.

Berlin-based Ecosia carved out a niche as a carbon-negative search engine. To adapt to the ChatGPT era, it's moving closer to Google and exploring how AI could help users cut carbon emissions.

From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Your home's draftier than a submarine with a screen door. Be greedy with your warm air and keep it indoors with a little DIY work.

The preferred handedness" of biomolecules could have emerged from interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces on primordial Earth, new research suggests.

The problem with email newsletters is there are so many good ones.

From Lies of P to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Microsoft's subscription service includes a bounty of fun games for both console and PC.

Plus: Hamas raised millions in crypto, Exxon used hacked data, and more.

Twenty-one US states tax products like tampons, pads, and cups. These companies are trying to fight back.

Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they're coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts.

A billion acres of old farmland-an area half the size of Australia-has fallen out of use. Ecologists say the lands and degraded forests are neglected resources for rewilding and for capturing carbon.

The new REI Co-op Cycles DRT e3.1 is a buttery smooth e-MTB that can comfortably take you anywhere a traditional off-road bike can go.

Nikola Tesla once dreamed of transferring electrical energy through the air. Now, a company called Wi-Charge is beta-testing a prototype technology, and I'm testing it in my bathroom.

The rapid spread of violent videos and photos, combined with a toxic stew of mis- and disinformation, now threatens to spill over into real-world violence.

Experts say a new advertising format on the platform formerly known as Twitter is misleading for users and could fall foul of FTC rules.

UK regulators have cleared the way for Microsoft to complete its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest such deals in decades.

The Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home.

Dear David, the 2023 film adaptation of a 2017 viral Twitter thread by a BuzzFeed cartoonist, must be seen to be believed. Or not.

In an attempt to wrest control from raucous far-right hardliners amid the fight for a new House speaker, Republican Party leaders are instituting phone bans to keep backroom deals secret.

In her new book Extremely Online, Taylor Lorenz argues that everyone can be an influencer. The history of the internet suggests relatively few will strike it rich.

On the morning of October 14, an annular solar eclipse will be visible to people in the Americas, creating a fiery halo of light around a darkened sun.

Marvel is taking its Daredevil reboot in a whole new direction. The show's evolution says a lot about the future of television.

It might not be repairable, but this beautiful smartwatch does pretty much everything I want, and does it well.

The annular solar eclipse will render more than a third of US solar energy capacity unavailable at some point tomorrow-enough to power about 20 million homes. Grid operators have backup plans.

Dubbed HTTP/2 Rapid Reset," the flaw requires issuing patches to virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.

The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.

The prosecution used star witness Caroline Ellison to drive home just how much power Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly had in orchestrating financial decisions at FTX and Alameda.

Kudurru, the new tool from the creator of Have I Been Trained?, can help artists block web scrapers and even poison" the scraping by sending back the wrong image.

The comprehensive collection of 21 studies attempts to map all the brain's cell types and offers hope of one day being able to trace brain diseases to their genetic roots.

Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.