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Ultima artist Denis Loubet knows this for a fact.

These coats, gloves, and other winter essentials will keep you bundled up and under budget.

As the ancient witch Agatha Harkness, she’s pulling off her best trick yet.

These pressure-sensing insoles are a great diagnostic tool for leveling up training or addressing painful running woes.

Plus: The man behind digital money, how to disseminate facts, and a union in the most unlikely of places.

It invites players to "live deliberately" in the woods, as Thoreau did—but it's not an experience you can easily replicate.

Even with breakthroughs like HoloLens and Pokemon Go, we are still a few years away from fulfilling AR’s biggest promises.

The pandemic sapped demand for rides from Uber and Lyft, and government aid has cushioned the blow for workers. Execs are feeling the strain.

After getting fully inoculated against Covid-19, here are some scenarios that prove the New Normal isn’t normal at all.

Growing up making friends on AIM and in chatrooms, I know the internet can foster human connection. Here are some tips that translate to teaching online classes.

It's harder to figure out than you might expect.

The full extent of the SolarWinds hack and Hafnium’s attack on Microsoft Exchange Server may never be known.

Most image recognition algorithms require lots of labeled pictures. This new approach eliminates the need for most of the labeling.

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.

Did you pick up a Switch or Switch Lite recently? Here are some screen protectors, chargers, and other accoutrements for your new best friend.

Video games have long struggled to handle sexuality, but a growing number of indie developers are changing that.

The company's cordless vacs are touted as affordable Dyson alternatives. I'm not so sure about that.

A new study modeled whether we could find intelligent life on another planet—by looking for its pollution.

WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on narcissism, Nabokov, and what it means to exist—really exist—for other people.

That old Microsoft Zune? Not so much. That old iPhone? Definitely.

The state’s independent rural drugstores are showing the power of small.

Attack of the Murder Hornets plays out like a spooky murder mystery. But the insects are scary enough; they don't need horror movie tropes.

As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.

A review of the open source code shows an account under the executive's name made a mistake that could lead to the kind of breach reported this weekend.

Here's all the WIRED coverage in one place, from how to keep your children entertained to how this outbreak is affecting the economy.

You don't need a lot, nor do you need to spend a ton. From harnesses to carabiners, here are our favorites.

In this week’s Out of Office column, Megan tackles guilt, bad policies, and the rules of zoomfood.

The platform's absorbing endless scroll and karaoke features have built an overlooked disinformation machine.

The rocket lowered the rover onto the surface of Mars before it shot away from the landing site. So where did it end up?

From engaging audiences to building bridges, tech has helped my small, rural faith community weather the storm. Here's how it might help yours too.

You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.

Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interactions by far compared to other news sources, new research shows.

MiHigh’s portable infrared sauna is warm, wet, and weird.

In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon’s mission to preserve the soul.

What was supposed to be all the rage in graphics quickly turned into a meme. But will it actually improve your gaming experience?

The Covidologist-in-chief says we can’t relax on masks and social distancing yet. Hear that, Texas?

The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place.

Here's this month's prompt, how to submit, and an illustrated archive of past favorites.

Microsoft’s new Mesh software platform helps faraway coworkers meet up and interact in mixed reality. The results are, well, still mixed.

People once folded their correspondence in intricate ways, known as “letterlocking,” to keep out snoops. A fancy new imaging technique sees right through it.

Here’s a look back at some of the earliest games for girls—and the role women played in the game industry’s early days.

In 2014, more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped. It hardly made global headlines, until the Twitter masses brought it all the way to the White House.

Shows like Bridgerton and Hollywood alter the past in the name of inclusion. It would benefit us more to write the world as it was, as it is.

Overly restrictive “yellow cards” could end up disproportionately excluding Black and Latinx citizens from jobs, schools, or even the neighborhood market.

The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service.

The CEO behind the viral success discusses how it became the top-selling game on Steam—and the game's biggest weakness moving forward.

These child-friendly stories will keep your little ones entertained and ease the stress of being stuck indoors.

Ultimately, their management styles were similar: Don’t talk about doing things, just do things.

The small but boisterous slice of Twitter that's preoccupied with politics imagines @jack, the author of our collective Twitter being, as all-powerful. He's not.

From PCs to smartphones, office tech has always promised to make us more productive. But time and again, it's come with unexpected side effects.