On Monday, a small but consequential rebellion unfolded in the world of online safety. Six of the nine independent experts serving on the advisory board of the Global Internet Forum…
As WIRED’s resident wearable tester, I’ve strapped, clipped, and tapped my way through more smartwatches than I can count. I know there’s life beyond…
Once upon a time, the name Bose was practically synonymous with wired headphones. The company built its reputation on over-ear “quiet comfort” models and…
Imagine a neighborhood being built far beyond the last streetlight, where every house must bring its own generator. That is the situation currently unfolding…
Browser tabs are one of the best inventions in the history of the web. They’re also, quite possibly, one of the worst. I mean…
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess. We spend our days inside the strange, sprawling world of…
White elephant gift exchanges are one of those peculiar holiday rituals that somehow manage to be both completely predictable and endlessly chaotic. You gather…
Being a father myself—and someone who gets paid to evaluate gadgets for a living—I’ve come to realize that I am an absolute nightmare to shop for. It’s not something I’m…
Anthropic just lost an important round in its fight against the Pentagon, and the consequences are anything but abstract. On Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., refused to…
Growth in tech is oddly simple and painfully competitive at the same time. Simple because the path is clear: get in front of the…
The recent ruling by US District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall declaring the FBI's warrantless searches of US citizens' communications under Section 702 of…

Child predators occupy a uniquely dark place in the public imagination. They are, arguably, the most reviled demographic in society,…
Paragraph 1: It is not every day that the government of the United States formally steps into a courtroom in…
It began as one of those small, unsettling glitches in the rhythm of daily life—the kind that makes you question…
The first time I met Paulina Borsook, in the fog of a December afternoon, she was somewhere deep inside what…
Paragraph 1: The Vision Versus the Vehicle At first glance, there was something almost comical about the scene unfolding on…
A year ago, Maddie Kowalski was just another college sophomore navigating the ordinary chaos of life at the University of…
Leaving WIRED after years of writing about artificial intelligence felt like stepping out of a fast-moving river and into a…
Imagine a family portrait taken not of people but of planets, captured around a distant star some 63 light-years away.…
Venus has long been known as Earth’s twin, a world so similar in size, mass, and rocky composition that astronomers…
Paragraph 1: The Dawn of the Digital Receptionist Remember the summer of 2018 when Google unleashed Duplex upon an unsuspecting…
At a crowded Manhattan bar, where the happy-hour hum of conversation and clinking glasses made intimacy feel possible, 23-year-old Gary…
Imagine waking up to the sound of wind rattling your windows, rain hammering the roof, and the ocean roaring just…
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