Have Pollsters Cleaned Up Their Act in Time for the Midterms?

G. Elliott Morris, a writer and top election forecaster, wants you to trust the polls a little less.

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Nothing's New Phone Is Everything a Phone Should Be

Simple. Attractive. Affordable. This new Android smartphone is more of what the world needs.

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What Happens Next for Vaping

This week, we look at how regulatory pressure might deflate—or even kill—the nicotine vaping industry in the US.

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F1 22 Perfectly Simulates the Morality Vacuum of Formula 1

The new game is great at capturing the excitement of motor racing. It's even better at mirroring the sport's rampant commercialism.

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A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser

Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.

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Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry

An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond.

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The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?

As Covid swept ICUs, doctors prescribed antibiotics to ward off secondary infections. Now bacteria have evolved resistance—but hospitals are fighting back.

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Meet the Lobbyist Next Door

What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, and a doula have in common? They’re all being paid by an ad-tech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.

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What Germany's Lack of Race Data Means During a Pandemic

Due to its history with the Holocaust, calling race by its name has often been contested. Black Germans say that this policy can ignore disparate impact.

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The First—and Last—Time We Rank the Star Wars Movies

All ranked lists are lazy, lame, and lacking. Except this one.

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Turkey Probably Hasn’t Found the Rare Earth Metals It Says It Has

The deposits discovered reportedly contain enough resources to meet global demand for 1,000 years—surpassing even China’s reserves. But experts are skeptical.

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When AI Makes Art, Humans Supply the Creative Spark

Fears that artificial intelligence tools could displace creatives such as illustrators, designers, and photographers seem unfounded—for now.

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What Humans Can Learn From the Sea Cucumber’s Toxic Arsenal

Sea cucumbers are squishy and soft. They also employ lethal strategies to protect themselves.

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The 20 Best Headphone and Speaker Deals for Prime Day

Want to upgrade your audio? Here are the best-sounding items on Amazon this shopping holiday.

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How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

WIRED’s editor in chief reflects on how digital surveillance infrastructure could be used to prosecute abortion, plus more thoughts on this month’s headlines.

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Our Favorite Prime Day Mattress and Sleep Deals

Get your beauty rest with these sales on sheets, pillows, and snooze-enhancing tech.

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21 Best Prime Day Deals on Amazon Devices

From Echo speakers and Fire tablets to Kindles, this is the best time of year to snag the retailer's own hardware.

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The 48 Best Prime Day Deals Under $50

Do you already have a TV, mattress, or laptop? From smart bulbs to board games, these are the best cheap deals to fill your shopping needs.

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The 59 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals

Amazon’s annual sales event is here. From Alexa-powered Echo Dots to gaming laptops, here are all the greatest discounts we’ve found.

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How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tablet

These slates are cheap but hampered by the retailer's limited app store. Here's how to get a broader selection.

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The Climate Anxiety Discussion Has a Whiteness Problem

Marginalized groups often think about the mental impact of the climate crisis in different terms—meaning they end up crowded out of the conversation.

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Quantum Advantage Showdowns Have No Clear Winners

A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning.

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Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine

The pro-Russian group Killnet is targeting countries supporting Ukraine. It has declared "war" against 10 nations.

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Juul Nears Its Last Gasp—After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping

The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over.

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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

'The Dawn of Everything' fundamentally shifted my view of … everything. I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.

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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.

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Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro

Gear can make or break your home office setup. Here’s our ultimate list of nearly 100 items, from monitors and desks to webcams and chairs.

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Travel Back in Time With Street View and Map Archives

These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

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‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some

States are trying to automate criminal record clearance. But what if they end up amplifying racial disparities?

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How to Earn More Than $50 in Amazon Credits Ahead of Prime Day

Most of these promotions require you to spend some money, but they’re a relatively easy way to redeem some extra cash.

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A Long-Lost Rare Crayfish Resurfaces in an Alabama Cave

Thought for decades to be extinct, the tiny animal has stayed hidden in a former subterranean speakeasy.

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The Quarry and Evil Dead: The Game Lure You Into a Scary Movie

The games take different approaches to the horror game genre, but both are informed by their love for slasher flicks.

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The Hype Machine That Turned Minions Into a $4B Juggernaut

The #GentleMinions and the #minionscult have overrun TikTok, taking the franchise’s impact to all-new levels.

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Thor: Love and Thunder’s Biggest Drawback? It’s Just for Fans

Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok follow-up is full of inside jokes that make it almost impenetrable to outsiders. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s not great either.

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9 Great Early Prime Day Deals on Tremendous TVs

Need a new 4K screen? Some of our top picks are on sale right now.

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Speedway's Mini 4 Pro Is a Great City-Friendly Electric Scooter

This relatively lightweight escooter gets nearly everything right.

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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

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Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

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Could Your Old Poop Cure You of Future Diseases?

Fecal transplants can fix gut diseases, but finding the right donor stool is tricky. The solution, some scientists believe, is to keep a store of your own.

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It’s Time for Fans to Watch Superheroes Like They Read Them

Thor: Love and Thunder is out Friday; Ms. Marvel wraps up on Disney+ next week. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, it’s time to pick faves and stick with them.

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Europe's Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part

Enforcing the sweeping Digital Services Act will be an uphill climb—and the Commission is not yet equipped for it.

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The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America

Known as ALPRs, this surveillance tech is pervasive across the US—and could soon be used by police and anti-abortion groups alike.

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Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers

Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.

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Lenovo's Latest AMD-Powered ThinkBook 13S Is on Sale Right Now

It's not often we see the latest Ryzen 7 chip in a laptop at this price.

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After Thor: Love and Thunder, Read These 5 Comics

Want to know more about how Jane Foster came to wield Mjolnir? Start here.

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Abortion Pills May Force States and the FDA Into a Standoff

Under the Constitution, federal laws overrule state ones. But challenges to medication abortion will test the agency’s ability to make nationwide regulations.

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The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse

The Limits to Growth argued that rampant pollution and resource extraction were pushing Earth to the brink. How does it hold up 50 years later?

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Permanent Birth Control Is in Demand in the US—but Hard to Get

After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, more people are seeking to get their tubes tied—assuming they can find a sympathetic doctor.

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Why Some Video Game Companies Are Staying Silent on Abortion

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, many in the industry piped up. But for Texas studios, the potential for legal retaliation looms.

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The Digital Divide Is Coming for You

More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.

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How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams

Fake sellers. Competitions. Crypto cons. There are plenty of grifts on the platform, but you don’t have to get sucked in.

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The Best Barefoot Shoes for Walking or Running

Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.

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How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet

The pioneering satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our world.

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End-to-End Encryption's Central Role in Modern Self-Defense

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

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Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos

Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God?

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Climate Change Breaks Plant Immune Systems. Can They Be Rebooted?

When temperatures rise, plants mysteriously lose their ability to defend against invading pathogens—but there may be a fix.

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Instagram Keeps Showing Me Children’s Tragedies

After I became a parent, my social media feeds filled up with videos of kids who are sick or have died. Why couldn’t I look away?

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TikTok’s Latest Cringe Trend: Gen Z Critiques Their Former Selves

The first generation to grow up on Instagram and Snapchat is already taking stock.

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Scientists Are Trying to Grow Crops in the Dark

Powering plant growth with solar panels instead of photosynthesis could be a more efficient way of using the Sun’s energy for food. But it’s not all good news.

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The Surface Laptop Go 2 Offers Style on a Budget

Microsoft’s updated midrange model is a top-tier student pick and cheaper MacBook alternative, but its battery leaves much to be desired.

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The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far

From cryptocurrency thefts to intrusions into telecom giants, state-backed attackers have had a field day in the year’s first half.

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Gorillas’ Retreat Signals a Reckoning for Delivery Apps

Quick-delivery empires are crumbling across Europe as investors put an emphasis on profits.

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The Best Webcams for Looking Brighter and Better

Zoom into peoples' offices and living rooms with the best version of your on-camera self.

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How to Set a Maximum Limit on Your Phone's Volume

Whether you want to protect your ears or just standardize sound across apps, these tips can help.

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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

Robots will venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to find ancient water ice, while studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky worlds.

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Citizen Sleeper's Creator Was Inspired by Our Modern Dystopia

Gareth Damian Martin sat down with WIRED to explain the "passive cruelty" of corporate culture and the game's visceral economic fears.

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What, Exactly, Is the Metaverse Standards Forum Creating?

No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it.

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130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat

By studying the so-called mean temperature of restaurant seafood, scientists have shown how the species that fill our plates have changed with time.

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The 31 Best Fourth of July Deals on Kitchen Gizmos and Tech

Independence Day is here, and so are the savings. We've rounded up plenty of sales on air purifiers, smart speakers, massage guns, and more.

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The Quarry Blurs the Line Between Video Games and Cinema

With impressive digitized performances and seamless storytelling, Supermassive Games' newest title hints at the future of both mediums.

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How to Shop Like a Pro on Amazon Prime Day

The big sale event is notoriously full of lackluster deals. Here's how to cut through the clutter to find the real gems.

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21 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals

From TVs and smartphones to laptops, we found great discounts on some of our favorite products ahead of the retailer’s big sales event.

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What’s Going on With RadioShack’s Twitter Feed?

It's a sign of the times: the off-kilter '90s nostalgia that's also bringing back Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.”

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How to Use an eSIM for Dual Phone Numbers

The era of removable SIM cards will come to an end. It's time to get acquainted with its next, tinier evolution.

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The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger.

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Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along

Abortion access groups and activists say they have been dealing with algorithmic censorship for years.

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Is Your New Car a Threat to National Security?

Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue. Just ask Tesla.

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The Race to Build Wind Farms That Float on the Open Sea

There’s huge potential to generate renewable energy far out in the ocean. But designing turbines that can survive rough waters isn’t exactly a breeze.

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Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic

Scientists show how microbes living in a salty spring near the North Pole might resemble those that could have survived on the Red Planet—or in ocean worlds.

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Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy

As Uber and its ilk face high prices, increased regulation, and labor shortages, a new cooperative model is thriving.

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The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium

China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”

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Netflix’s Spiderhead Lacks the Charm of the Story It’s Based On

The movie takes itself far more seriously than the George Saunders story at its core.

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You Need to Update Windows and Chrome Right Now

Plus: Google issues fixes for Android bugs, and Cisco, Citrix, SAP, WordPress, and more issue major patches for enterprise systems.

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How to Make Your Musical Magnum Opus on an iPad

From recording to mixing tracks, Apple’s tablet might be all you need to get a song out of your head and in front of your fans.

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The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy

New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way.

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China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future

The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but first it has to figure out how to keep them charged.

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China Is Tightening Its Grip on Big Tech

The country’s regulatory measures range from vetting medical and financial influencers to algorithmic audits. What, if anything, can the West learn?

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Young Thug and What Happens When Prosecutors Use Social Media

The rapper and several members of his group Young Slime Life are facing criminal charges, many of which are based on lyrics and Instagram posts.

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Shopping for a Router Sucks. Here’s What You Need to Know

How much speed do you need? And what’s a MU-MIMO? We decipher the jargon and explain what to look for.

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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language

Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs.

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Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder

A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters.

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Democracy Is Asking Too Much of Its Data

The latest US Census—used to decide representation in Congress—is flawed. One surprising solution? Enlarge the House of Representatives.

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The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King

Zeng Yuqun is China’s most prolific battery billionaire. His ascent has major implications for a world increasingly reliant on electric vehicles.

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China Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?

Gadget manufacturers are getting into the car-making business. That could shake up the auto industry, global trade, and geopolitics.

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DALL-E Mini Is the Internet's Favorite AI Meme Machine

The viral image generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.

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Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound

From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave.

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Before Starbucks Baristas Had Unions, They Had Coworker Petitions

A platform called Coworker has helped effect change for nearly a decade. As the coffee chain’s workers organize, its role has evolved in kind.

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How to Use Microsoft Defender on All Your Devices

If you use a mix of Apple, Android, and Windows gadgets, you're in luck: The security tool is now available to any Microsoft 365 subscriber.

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The Best Wired Gaming Headsets for Every System

A simple corded headset will lend depth and drama to your gameplay, no matter what device you have.

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Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Observations of faraway worlds have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of our solar system.

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