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Regimes in China and Russia are rushing to repress what chatbots can say. It's an early warning about a new frontier of online censorship.

Last month was so hot, scientists are struggling to find words for it.

Location-enabled tech designed to make our lives easier is often exploited by domestic abusers. Refuge, a UK nonprofit, helps women to leave abusive relationships, secure their devices, and stay safe.

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days shopping holiday is coming on October 10 and 11, but early discounts have kicked off.

For hyperpop artist Hannah Diamond, generative AI isn’t a threat. It’s another tool in her arsenal—and one that could lower the barriers for emerging musicians.

Journalist Taylor Lorenz talks about her new book, Extremely Online, and what the rise of internet creators means for all of our increasingly digital lives.

New research has found that some streaming devices and dozens of Android and iOS apps are secretly being used for fraud and other cybercrime.

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

There’s a Galaxy S23 FE smartphone, a few Galaxy Tab S9 FE tablets, and Galaxy Buds FE wireless earbuds. All are priced lower than their flagship counterparts.

From The Lost Boys to Meg 2, here are our favorite movies on the streaming service.

Criminal defendants often decline to testify at trial for fear of incriminating themselves. For FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, that could be the best option.

The tiny Tenuto Mini vibrator improves on its predecessor's attempts to satisfy both born-male people and their partners.

This XLR microphone is the perfect stepping stone between hobbyists and Twitch streamers.

Target's big Circle Week sale gets out ahead of Prime Day—running from October 1 through 7. We've rounded up our favorite discounts.

WIRED takes an exclusive ride on this groundbreaking 233-mile-range electric motorcycle with a wormhole generator for a back wheel.

Microsoft's most ambitious Surface yet is a well-designed graphics powerhouse, but all that brawn comes with trade-offs in size, weight, cost, battery life, and lap feel.

When Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange collapsed, customers lost billions of dollars. A New York court will decide whether it was fraud.

Meta and Apple have zeroed in on mixed reality headsets and augments as their next frontier. But allowing wearables to collect data about their surroundings is going to cause problems.

Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-size counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing and advance the quest for personalized medicine.

This high-end turntable made me re-think how seriously I took my record collection.

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

Police seized laptops and phones from reporters working for the anti-establishment Newsclick website—the latest outlet to be raided during a crackdown on media in India.

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it easier to clone and generate voices. It has huge implications for voice actors.

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.

Everyone’s favorite starship captain is back in the hot seat—this time as the author of a revealing, open-hearted memoir, Making It So.

A research team found it's easy to evade current methods of watermarking—and even add fake watermarks to real images.

On streets and in malls, browsing was a way of withholding commitment. But online, no act of browsing is ever really idle.

A developer in Austria created a comparison website that helped open up the opaque world of food costs as regulators investigate the food industry.

Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution.

The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV.

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.

White-collar defendants use three main defenses: “It wasn’t me, I didn’t mean it, and the people that say I did are lying.” FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to go for “I didn’t mean it,” experts say.

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.

If your child is at high risk or if community transmission rates are high, you may want them to wear face masks. These are the styles my little ones will tolerate.

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

Whether you’re pushing your kid down the street or running on a trail, we have a stroller for you.

Hardshell rain jackets don't stay water resistant forever. This is how to give new life to your old outdoors outerwear.

Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate search results that will get you to buy more stuff.

It weighs a little more than 5 pounds, but this beefy laptop is a gaming powerhouse—if you can get used to the keyboard.

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

Covid seems to spike twice a year—but unlike flu season, not in a predictable pattern. That could be due to the virus, the environment, or the people it is infecting.

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial on charges of overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do smart people buy into bad companies?

Get that box spring off the floor with these WIRED-tested frames.

Avoid the blaring alarm and make waking up a pleasant start to your day with an artificial sunrise.

Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.

Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.

Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.