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Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest

Adobe Flash Player reaches the end of its life

Moscow train carriage helps rehome stray pets

How to check your PC's CPU temperature

Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks

Graphics cards ranked, from fastest to slowest

Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity

How Tech Could Help Us Contemplate Our Own Mortality

Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020

Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI

After 2020, Live Events Might Not Look the Same. Good!

Apple executes New Year's Eve apps purge in China

Ticketmaster fined $10m for business 'intrusions'

Xbox Series X vs. gaming PCs: Fight!

15 movies to stream as we celebrate the end of 2020

Tech that died in 2020

Nanoleaf Shapes – Triangles review: Nanoleaf adds variety to its new line of light panels

TikTok faces legal action from 12-year-old girl in England

Hogmanay drone swarm lights up Scottish skies

Drone users face new rules across Europe and UK

20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2020

UK internet use doubles in 2020 due to pandemic

Los Angeles to offer vaccine record on iPhones

4 Ways to Make Your Home Smart and More Energy Efficient

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2020

How My Record Player Helped Me Feel the Music

30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?

Why 2021 could finally be the year of the Google Pixel

Apple removes app promoting private parties in pandemic

The best smart home products available in 2020

Microsoft's wins, fails, and WTF moments of 2020

Tech 2020: Our biggest stories and what happened next

Boeing 737 Max returns to the skies in the US

Is the Ant Group shake-up a sign of things to come?

Snapchat boss: 'User behaviour protected by free speech'

Vivint Doorbell Camera Pro review: Sophisticated front-door security—for a price

Deepfake queen prompts 200-plus complaints to Ofcom

Cassette sales double in a year with Lady Gaga best-selling album on tape

The PS5 and Xbox Series X Are Closing the PC-Console Gap

How to Get the Most Out of (or Into) Your Robot Vacuum

Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

LG makes shift to Mini-LED television tech at CES 2021

Ratatouille musical: Stars join show that was cooked up on TikTok

Tyne and Wear Metro drivers use virtual reality to test trains

Ransomware Is Headed Down a Dire Path

Yet Another Year of Venture Capital Being Really White

In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible

Hamlet 2000 Has Never Made More Sense

How to find out if your laptop can take an SSD

Audeze LCD-1 planar-magnetic headphone review: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

If you got a Samsung Galaxy S20 or Note 20 for Christmas, you should probably return it

BrillLock Fingerprint Door Lock review: Biometric security on a budget

Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk

The big tech questions for 2021

Zoom: All the times virtual meetings didn't go as planned this year

The 2020 cord-cutter awards: Best streaming services, devices, and more

The LG Wing's Swiveling Screen Proves Phones Can Be Fun Again

This Year I Found Pleasure in the Work of Looking

15 Xbox Series X/S Tips to Level Up Your New Console

2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr

The best Windows backup software

The Error of Fighting a Public Health War With Medical Weapons

How Your Digital Trails Wind Up in the Police’s Hands

Ring Alarm (2nd Gen) review: Still the best DIY home security system

Best hardware of 2020: PCWorld's favorite products of the year

NFL without cable: A cord-cutter’s guide for the 2020 pro football season

Maestro Dudamel takes virtual reality Symphony on tour

Covid lockdown helped teacher Holly King-Mand realise her dream

Mobile roaming: What will happen to charges after Brexit?

Chinese games billionaire dies 'after poisoning'

KFC launches game console with built-in chicken warmer

How Covid conspiracies, 'fake news' and misinformation spread in 2020

Vizio’s First OLED TV Makes Nearly Perfect Contrast Accessible

15 Tips and Hidden Tricks for the PS5 (You Lucky Dog)

After Centuries, a Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution

Better Than Nothing: A Look at Content Moderation in 2020

The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year

Put Your Gift Cards to Use With These After-Christmas Sales

A ‘Bulletproof’ Criminal VPN Was Taken Down in a Global Sting

Chatroulette Is On the Rise Again—With Help From AI

Can the Paris Agreement Still Avert Climate Chaos?

The Video Games WIRED Loved Most in 2020

How to Return and Exchange Your Unwanted Holiday Gifts

Extreme E: Lewis Hamilton helping make racing environmentally friendly

What Is a 'Role-Playing Game' Anyway?

How to Set Up Your New Google Nest Speaker

How to Set Up Your Nest Thermostat

Best USB-C power adapters for the iPhone 12: How to shop and what to buy

The Power of Kawaii: How Cute, Squishy Things Influence Us

Why HDR Looks Too Dark on Your TV, and How to Fix It

How to set up your new computer

Can Disaster Movies Survive a Pandemic?

The Master Guide to Setting Up All Your New Devices

CyberPower SL700U standby UPS review: Great for keeping your home network going during power outages

SolarWinds: Hacked firm issues urgent security fix

The 20 Most Underrated Movies of the Past 20 Years

Sorry, Facebook. iOS Changes Aren't Bad for Small Businesses

No, You Don't Need a New TV for the PS5 and Xbox Series X

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures

The Biggest Video Game Surprise Hits of 2020

The Latest Nokia Phone Is a Big, Clumsy Mess

The Year of Driving Less—but More Dangerously

A Bold Plan to Save the Last Whitebark Pines

Here’s a Plan to Stop the Coronavirus From Mutating

All the Gear We Fell In Love With During 2020

Nuro set to be California's first driverless delivery service

All the Gear We Fell In Love With During 2020

SilverStone's Redline RL08 flips the script for cases with optical drive bays

The PC games that helped us survive 2020

The 2020 cord-cutter awards: The best streaming services, devices, and more

Twinkly Strings 250 LEDs Multicolor review: These smart string lights deliver dazzling effects

Alibaba being investigated by China over monopoly tactics

Pete Evans: Facebook removes celebrity chef's page over conspiracies

Games of 2020: The Press X To Continue awards

OtterBox Fast Charge Qi Wireless Power Bank Premium review: A rugged battery pack for rugged times

The Race for a Covid Vaccine Was More About Luck Than Tech

Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro

How Would Deadpool Jump Into a Moving Vehicle?

The Death of FOMO As We Knew It

The Biden Administration Needs a VP of Engineering, Not a CTO

Twitter to wipe Trump's followers before Biden handover

SolarWinds Sunburst: UK data watchdog issues hack alert

A Unique Alliance Could Help Warn Us of Toxic Algae

The Best Indie Games You May Have Missed This Year

Amazon’s Fourth-Gen Echo Looks—and Sounds—Even Better

2020 Shows the Danger of a Decapitated Cyber Regime

Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 Is Buggy. But Mostly, It Has No Heart

Crypto-currency firm Ripple charged by US watchdog

How to check your graphics card's GPU temperature

Konka U5-series 4K smart TV review: The (street) price is about right

Smart home guide for beginners: Make your home more convenient to live in without spending lots of time or money

Android 11 tips: The 8 new features to explore first

Putting a jetpack to the test

Elon Musk says Apple's boss snubbed takeover deal

France bans use of drones to police protests in Paris

Shopify stores riddled with fakes and fraudsters

Macau gambles on tech for its Covid-19 recovery

Viral 'butt-less' pyjamas ad sparks confusion

Epic's 15 days of free games continues with Metro 2033 Redux

5 Ways to Monitor Your Blood Pressure Wherever You Are

Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption

The Best Kindles to Take Your Library Anywhere

My Year Watching Submarine Movies

How Much Will Data Caps Hurt Game Streaming?

Test Positivity Is a Bad Way to Measure Covid’s Spread

Uber and Lyft’s Gig Work Law Could Expand Beyond California

Video Game Hell Isn’t Nearly Agonizing Enough

The Best Cheap Phones for (Almost) Every Budget

Super Last-Minute Gift Ideas—and Excuses—for Procrastinators

The Newest Weapon Against Covid-19: AI That Speed-Reads Faxes

25 of the Best Longreads of 2020

Apple Fitness+ Is Either Right on Time or Much Too Late

Watch me build a $1,200 video production PC

Software worth paying for: 10 programs you won't regret buying

Astell&Kern KANN Alpha review: This digital audio player delivers the high-res goods

Best high-resolution digital audio player: Which DAP reigns supreme?

SLS: Crucial test for Nasa's 'mega-rocket'

Tanzania 'using Twitter's copyright policy to silence activists'

UK government 'likely to miss' broadband and 5G targets

Tech trends in 2021: Fast planes and homeworking

How tech can just about save Christmas Day

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Meaning of Its Deadly Dildos

The Oldest Crewed Deep Sea Submarine Just Got a Big Makeover

Facebook child abuse detection hit by new EU rules

Epic's 15 days of free games continues with Alien Isolation, one of this generation's best games

Zoom update for Apple silicon Macs now available

The Best Chef's Knives to Level Up Your Home Cooking

Move Over Peloton. Myx Plus Is the Better Bargain

Al Jazeera journalists ‘hacked via NSO Group spyware’

Pet Prosthetics Get a Boost From 3D Printing

2020: The Year of Cancel(l)ed Culture

Kyle Rittenhouse: YouTube struggles with hero worship

This Was Supposed to Be the Year of the Female Movie Hero

Kyvol Cybovac S31 review: This self-emptying robot vacuum can mop, too

Wemo WiFi Smart Outdoor Plug review: This plug’s performance problems kill it from the start

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe SSD review: Fast on PCIe 4, fast on PCIe 3

'Gaming helped me learn tactics for HK protests'

US cyber-attack: Around 50 firms 'genuinely impacted' by massive breach

'Yes, people have Zoom fatigue but it's not our fault'

Some UK Stores Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Shoppers

Want to Start a Podcast or Livestream? Here's What You Need

A Massive Fraud Operation Stole Millions From Online Accounts

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

12 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear

How to Tame Those Distracting Notifications on Your Computer

I Took a Zoom Cooking Class With a Roman Chef. It Was Awesome

Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. Why Do Humans Have It?

Budget smartphones: What do you get for £100?

15 Gifts for PlayStation Lovers

Russia's SolarWinds Hack Is the Big One

Unlock Your Cycling Fitness Goals by Upgrading Your Bike

Will Rising Temperatures Make Superweeds Even Stronger?

The Right Way Hook Your Laptop Up to a TV

Gear to Safely Make It Through a Pandemic Winter

18 Eleventh-Hour Holiday Deals on Games, Headphones, and More

19 Last-Minute Gift Ideas for the Truly Desperate

How to Understand the Russia Hack Fallout

US cyber-attack: Russia 'clearly' behind SolarWinds operation, says Pompeo

US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events

HBO Max Is Now on Roku. Thanks, Wonder Woman!

OneWeb satellite company launches into new era

Our Tech Predictions for 2021

A New Field Guide for Earth’s Wild Microbes

Cyberpunk 2077 Revives the Dystopian Fears of the 1980s

The Future of Work: ‘ars longa’ by Tade Thompson

Discord Gaming Parties Are Better Than Zoom Meetings

Airlines’ Pandemic-Driven Cargo Business Will Keep Flying

Millions struggling to pay phone and internet bills

The AI blob opera and other technology news

Tested: How Apple's M1 chip performs against Intel 11th-gen and AMD Ryzen 4000

The Full Nerd awards: Our favorite PC hardware of 2020

The best holiday movies to stream over the 12 days of Christmas

Focal Arche headphone DAC/amp review: It doesn't get much better than this

US cyber-attack: Hack of government agencies and companies poses 'grave risk'

Alibaba says its technology won't target Uighurs

Electric cars will leave hole in tax revenues, says Treasury

Openreach creating 5,300 new jobs to speed fibre rollout

Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation store

Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlaySation store

Creating animal food from a greenhouse gas

The best laptops: Premium laptops, budget laptops, 2-in-1s, and more

Google sued again over anti-competitive search practices

Facebook and Instagram disable features in Europe

Google's Fitbit takeover approved by EU

People's Energy data breach affects all 270,000 customers

Uber Faces a Fine for Refusing to Give Details on Assaults

Our Fave Smartwatches Do Much More Than Just Tell Time

These Are the Gifts Teens Actually Want

A Clever Strategy to Distribute Covid Aid—With Satellite Data

The Best TikToks of 2020

18 Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Terrible Roommate

Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects

How Restaurants Retooled for Takeout—and Survival

Lian Li's O11 Dynamic Mini has arrived at last, and it was worth the wait

Why you may not be getting the SSD you paid for

FuboTV has a cheaper live TV alternative to Hulu (if you can find it)

Davis Instruments AirLink air quality sensor review: A professional air quality monitor for your home

One in four UK homes 'can access 1Gbps broadband'

IT error blamed for missing Welsh Covid-19 cases

Bitcoin hits all-time high rising above $20,000

Dancing starling spectacle solves power cut mystery in Airth

Google ad practices under fire in new lawsuit

E-scooters: What are the rules and can they be safer?

Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy

Russia's Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning

How to Pick the Right Roku for Your TV

Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims

Google buys Neverware to turn old PCs into Chromebooks

How NASA Scrambled to Save OSIRIS-REx From Leaky Disaster

14 Gifts to Cheer Up Your Favorite Cinephile

Orwell's Animal Farm Sticks a Bit Too Close to the Book

Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing

Trick Out Your iPhone 12 With These Cases and Accessories

Trump Could Torpedo a Bill to Boost Funding for AI

Huawei: Uighur surveillance fears lead PR exec to quit

The Future of Social Media Is All Talk

The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020

24 Gifts We Love From BIPOC-Owned Businesses

The First Americans Are Being Vaccinated. Now, the Hard Part

Uber fined over withholding sexual assault records

Proscenic M7 Pro review: Watch your back, iRobot

Is a holiday PowerPoint party the worst or the best idea for 2020?

Basketball without cable: A cord-cutter's guide to the NBA

Coronavirus creates boom in digital fitness

MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.2bn in four months

Watch us build an all-AMD PC!

Facebook to move all UK users onto US agreements

SolarWinds: Why the Sunburst hack is so serious

The 8 Best Books About Artificial Intelligence to Read Now

The New Surface Pro X Has Improved—a Bit

SolarWinds Orion: More US government agencies hacked

Coronavirus: Contact-tracing apps can now work on older iPhones

22 Gift Ideas for People Working From Home

The Longing Is a Video Game of Transcendent Slowness

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms

The Race to Get a PlayStation 5 Is the Year’s Best Game

Tested: How badly Windows on Arm compares to the new Mac M1s

The ‘Healthy Building’ Surge Will Outlast the Pandemic

The 7th Jackbox Party Pack Is the First Perfect Pack

The Steampunk Rover Concept That Could Help Explore Venus

The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Is Finally Cracked After 51 Years

Why Do Many Self-Driving Cars Look Like Toasters on Wheels?

Vizio OLED TV review: Velvety blacks and effective HDR, but a wee bit lacking in fine detail

Emporia energy-monitoring smart plug review: Power management on a budget

Who should buy the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT?

The Mustang Mach-E Delivers a Jolt—If You Can Find a Charge

Rappers dominate YouTube's top 2020 UK music videos

Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK

EU Digital Services Act set to bring in new rules for tech giants

How AI could increase IVF treatment success rates

A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests

Apple's App 'Privacy Labels' Are Here—and They're a Big Step Forward

Apple forces apps to display what they do with data

Pornhub removes all user-uploaded videos amid legality row

The Best Fantasy Books of an Unfantastic Year

Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are 'institutionally racist'

4 reasons why you probably shouldn't buy a gaming laptop right now

Conferences After Covid Will Be Shorter—and Smarter

An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness

Switching to Windows? These Are the Best Mac Alternatives

20 Great Green Monday Deals on Apple, Bose, Sonos, and More

26 of the Best Books WIRED Read in 2020

This ‘Invisible’ Charger Juices Your Phone Through Your Desk

Mass Transit Is in Jeopardy—and So Are Cities

A Bolivian 'Cloud Forest' Reveals a Bonanza of New Species

Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline

Cyberpunk 2077 makers apologise for game glitches

Vizio Elevate review: This Dolby Atmos soundbar's swiveling drivers are no gimmick

AMD mobile Ryzen 5000: Rumors say Zen 2 and Zen 3 will be mixed

EA to buy Dirt-Rally-maker Codemasters for £1bn

US treasury and commerce departments targeted in cyber attack

How clean is the air in your office?

Breathe Easy—We Found the Best Air Purifiers

17 Gifts for People Who Just Need a Good Night's Sleep

Super Slow Computer Programs Reveal Math's Fundamental Limits

6 Gaming Laptops That Pwned the Competition

Ditch Your Data-Hungry Apps for These Privacy-Focused Swaps

AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge

My Highly Unexpected Heterosexual Pandemic Zoom Wedding

The Biden Administration Will Have Its Hands Full With Russia

Electric Gamebox booths bring group gaming to the high street

Call of Duty: US and British military go head to head

The 14 Best Google Assistant Speakers for Your Home

8 ways to make Cyberpunk 2077 run faster

2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy

A Delivery Service for Dental Night Guards? I Wouldn't Bite

15 Table-Ready Gifts for Board Game Lovers

An Atlas Shows Climate Change Is Pushing Birds Further North

10 Laptops We've Tested—and Loved

Give Ice the Cold Shoulder With an Electric Cooler

Charlize Theron and the Best Movie Never Made

Copyright Law Is Bricking Your Game Console. Time to Fix That

Oculus Facebook account row prompts German competition probe

Hackers Accessed Covid Vaccine Data Through the EU Regulator

Severe Wildfires Are Devastating the California Condor

This Season’s Most In-Demand Gifts

Republicans Are P-Hacking the Supreme Court

YouTube lets users mute gambling and alcohol ads

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 review: Fast and affordable, with discrete graphics

I Tested Positive for Covid-19. What Does That Really Mean?

The FDA's Green Light for a Vaccine Might Tank Ongoing Trials

‘Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love’

Looking for a Tablet? These Are Our Absolute Favorites

Last of Us 2 wins big at The Game Awards

SpotCam Eva 2 review: a much-improved security camera

Robot chef cooks and washes up and other technology news

Keanu Reaves on Cyberpunk 2077 and 2021 optimism

Pornhub: Mastercard severs links with pornography site

US telcos ordered to 'rip and replace' Huawei components

Drone completes first freight flight to Isles of Scilly

Football star Griezmann severs ties with Huawei over Uighurs

Disney ramps up Star Wars and Marvel franchises

Ridley Scott inspires Network Rail’s cave-exploring drone

Gaming on a Budget? Try Your Local Library

14 Gifts for People Who Are Perpetually Cold