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The fireflies of Moriyama City have long been prized (and hunted) for their yellow-green glow. To bring populations back up, amateur conservationists are hitting the books.

The decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta's empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.

To honor the genre's 50th anniversary, WIRED contributor C. Brandon Ogbunu and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco paint two scenes of how the duality of AI will shape the art form in five decades.

GitHub has spent two years researching and slowly rolling out its multifactor authentication system. Soon it will be mandatory for all 100 million users-with no opt-out.

Geoffrey Hinton left Google so he could speak more freely about AI's dangers. He argues that building analog computers instead of digital ones might keep the technology more loyal.

Forty years later, the books are still influential. In Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop, Ian Livingstone talks about their success and about Games Workshop's other hit: Warhammer 40,000.

Artists in the visual effects industry have been talking about unionizing for more than a decade.

If you're worried that one of Apple's trackers is following you without consent, try these tips.

A wearable, portable breast pump with only three parts to clean? Sign me up.

The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here's how it happened-and how engineers worked to bring it back.

The Galaxy Tab S9 series includes the insanely massive 14.6-inch Tab S9 Ultra, but the prices of these slates are off-putting.

In simulated environments, smell is often the neglected sense. Scentient's wearable device aims to bring a whiff of authenticity to virtual reality.

Robotaxis can offer paid rides in San Francisco around the clock after Alphabet's Waymo and GM's Cruise got approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.

In 2008, Boston's transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.

The outcry over Zoom's tweak to its data policy shows how the race to build more powerful AI models creates new pressure to source training data-including by juicing it from users.

Wildfires were once rare across the Aloha State. But drought, invasive species, and human development have pushed Hawaii into a fiery new age.

From charging adapters to external monitors, we've gathered the essential peripherals for your Apple laptop.

Zoom is populated by our faces, our voices, and more. If companies like it want to use customer data to train their AI-now or in the future-they need to let people choose if, and how much, to opt in.

If you don't mind the high-pitched whine of the motor, this reliable electric scooter satisfies with its power, torque, and range.

By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.

This week, we talk about pending changes to how driverless taxis can operate on city streets, and how a loosening of the rules would impact road safety, rideshare drivers, and your commute.

Temperature is one of the hardest aspects of touch to re-create for prosthetic users. This tiny patch could help people with amputated limbs sense coldness.

Since taking over Twitter, Musk has made mistake after mistake. His latest decision proves that he has never understood the average Twitter user-or doesn't care to build a platform for them.

As the international tech giant moves toward Russian ownership, the leak raises concerns about the volume of data it has on its users.

The father of modern computing would have opened his arms to ChatGPT. You should too.

From vinyl to photos, blogs to music streams, chronicling 50 years of culture involves reckoning with what can and cannot be saved-and the tools that can do it.

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order-and the hand of every player at a poker table.

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made-including their login details.

The internet celebrity is the first Twitch streamer to be charged with inciting a riot. It joins a long legacy of disastrous internet meetups.

Take advantage of these discounts for your end-of-summer biking, hiking, and outdoor adventures.

Wastewater fuels blooms of reef-smothering algae. Better engineering and an army of funny-looking fish can come to the rescue.

Booming popularity in pre-owned luxury watches has led to a new breed of companies mining market data to turn timepieces into stock portfolios.

Lexie's B2 over-the-counter hearing aids work well-the audio is powered by Bose-but their overly conspicuous design is uncomfortable and off-putting.

Robots, computers, and algorithms are hunting for potential new therapies in ways humans can't-by processing huge volumes of data and building previously unimagined molecules.

C, better known as Grimes, talks with us on Have a Nice Future about everything from AI-generated music and art to education and politics-and about the idea of traditional masculinity."

UK unicorn Synthesia offers clients a menu of digital avatars, from suited execs to Santa Claus. But it has struggled to stop them being used to spread misinformation.

The TikTok hearings made clear that the American imagination of foreign espionage has become Chinese. Who stands to benefit? Data-hungry companies and the security state.

They started out as dubbed cassettes of live performances. Decades later, they're still integral to the careers of emerging artists.

Nobody knows what around a fifth of your genes actually do. It's hoped they could hold the secret to fixing developmental disorders, cancer, neurodegeneration, and more.

The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.

STEM scholars with startup dreams struggle to find support. A new type of professorship may be the solution.

Think US health data is automatically kept private? Think again.

3D printing's complicated cousin-laser cutting-finally gets its noob-friendly entry point.

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 are much improved over last year, but now that competition among folding phones has heated up, these Galaxies have less star power.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb details how scientists led humanity to a new era of destruction. Artificial intelligence safety researchers say it offers valuable lessons for humanity's current plight.

The test, which consumers can order on their own, measures a protein linked to Alzheimer's called amyloid beta. But it can't diagnose cases, and the results may be needlessly stressful.

Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.

Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.