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Sony to buy Destiny and Halo developer Bungie for $3.6bn

Global chip shortage: Jaguar Land Rover loses £9m

Wordle: New York Times buys popular word game

Why cows may be hiding something but AI can spot it

Just Got Apple Music? Here’s How to Keep Your Spotify Playlists

Big Tech Needs to Stop Trying to Make Their Metaverse Happen

True story? Lie detection systems go high-tech

Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation

If You Know These Keyboard Shortcuts, You Won't Need a Mouse

What's the Deal With Anti-Cheat Software in Online Games?

These Workout Headphones Let You Crank Up Your Tunes Safely

Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’

The Internet Gave Rise to 'Cancel Culture OCD'

How to Navigate International Travel Now—and in the Near Future

Kombucha Cultures Could Be the Key to Better Water Filters

These Are the 9 Android Phones Worth Buying

What It's Like to Give Up Air Travel to Curb Climate Change

Inside the International Effort to Save One Tiny Mexican Fish

16 Great Deals on TVs, Apple Headphones, Soundbars, and More

Apple unveils AirTag safety guide amid stalker fears

Winter Olympics: Global sponsors quiet ahead of Beijing Games

Twitch: Concerns over streamers' mental health

The scramble for cargo aircraft as shipping costs soar

Spotify Was Never Going to Drop Joe Rogan

The Feds Plan to Reduce Roadway Deaths—With Smarter Road Design

Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad

The Capitalist Trap of Pig Organ Transplants

Did Eating Meat Really Make Us Human?

Synthetic Voices Want to Take Over Audiobooks

LG Energy Solution: Battery giant jumps in market debut

How streaming services left us with too much to watch

What is the quantum apocalypse and should we be scared?

Tesla expects 50% growth despite supply chain woes

Gibraltar Could Launch the World’s First Crypto Stock Exchange

Global chip shortage: US says firms' stocks have plunged

Autonomous-car 'users not legally accountable' call

Safari Flaws Exposed Webcams, Online Accounts, and More

Why the Belarus Railways Hack Marks a First for Ransomware

13 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear

Why Some Animals Can Tell More From Less

Bataclan survivor finds NFT of her X-ray for sale online

The EU Has a Plan to Fix Internet Privacy: Be More Like Apple

The Best Controllers for Microsoft Flight Simulator

NASA’s Newest Spinoff Tech Comes Back to Earth

An Unsung Hero of Gaming History Deserves a Higher Profile

The Beatles and John Lennon memorabilia to be sold as NFTs

AI: Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence

Everyone Wants to Be an Entrepreneur

Online Safety Bill: Harmful and illegal content could evade new laws, MPs warn

Fortescue: Firm owned by Australia's richest man buys Williams F1 battery arm

The people deciding to ditch their smartphones

Hard-Core Home Bakers, This Is the Mixer of Your Dreams

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

The Autofocus on Sony’s A7 IV Makes This Camera Shine

The Prisoner Who Revolutionized Chinese Language With a Teacup

Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Recovery Email Addresses

The Best Ebook Subscription Services for Your Literary Needs

TikTok Has Created a West Elm Caleb Cinematic Universe

Meta and Twitter's NFT Landgrab Could Backfire

How to Order Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests

How to Shut Up Your Gadgets at Night So You Can Sleep

Director James Cameron on the dangers of deepfakes

Like a drone that you sit in – but would you feel safe?

Samsung pulls ad with drag queen after backlash

Peloton pushes back at production pause report after shares plunge

UK watchdog criticises government encryption campaign

Can this app help to keep women safe on the streets?

This Fallout TV Show Is a Terrible Idea—Unless It's a Comedy

10 Great Deals on Robot Vacuums, Mattresses, and Air Purifiers

Apple AirTags - "A perfect tool for stalking"

5G phones: How serious is the threat to US flights?

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Deal and the Post-Console World

Why Airlines Are Fighting the 5G Rollout

A Bug in iOS 15 Is Leaking User Browsing Activity in Real Time

How to Get Work Done—From Anywhere

This Recyclable Boat Is Made From Wool

Gloucester Council cyber attack linked to Russian hackers

75 Years On, the Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking

Should bad science be taken off social media?

Mobile firms agree another 5G delay at US airports

Sony slides on Microsoft-Activision Blizzard tie-up plan

How Nigeria succeeded in clipping Twitter's wings

Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human

Your Medical History Might Someday Include ‘Climate Change’

New campaign aims to stop more encrypted apps

What can we do to get more women into coding?

Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef?

Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced

Tonga tsunami: Communications 'may be down for two weeks'

Amazon halts plan to block UK Visa credit cards amid talks

Inside the Student-Led Covid Walkouts

Yellowjackets Is the Internet's Favorite Anti-Internet Show

How delivery apps created 'the Netflix of food ordering'

How Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Keep You Safe

An Injection of Chaos Solves a Decades-Old Fluid Mystery

The Mega-Guide to Fixing Your Own iPhone

Meet Our New Favorite Travel Mug

Home Cooks, You Should Be Pre-Salting Your Vegetables

When It Comes to Health Care, AI Has a Long Way to Go

Games Bring Space Exploration Home. But They Omit the Full Risks

Our Favorite Period Products

16 Great Deals on Laptops, Cameras, and Video Games

Galloping Ghost Gives Arcade Gaming an Extra Life

15 Great Chinese Dramas to Binge

Google's Alleged Scheme to Corner the Online Ad Market

In Belle, the Internet Unlocks Our Best Selves

Russia Takes Down REvil Hackers—as Ukraine Tensions Mount

YouTube rich list: MrBeast was the highest-paid star of 2021

A Pandemic Historian Warns Us All to Stop Looking at the Past

The Science Behind Dry January’s Zero-Alcohol Hooch

The Gritty, Underground Network Bringing Japan’s Arcades to the US

Ultra-Long Battery Life Is Coming … Eventually

Cities Want Ebikes to Stay in Their Lane—but Which One?

Pregnant People Are Still Not Getting Vaccinated Against Covid

The Mercedes EQS Might Just Have Too Much Tech

Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet

The Best Cheap Phones for Almost Every Budget

The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley

North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400M in Crypto Last Year

This Treadmill Invites You to ‘BYO Screen’ for Connected Workouts

Kylie Jenner becomes first woman with 300 million Instagram followers

Who Do Young Entrepreneurs Look Up To? Elon Musk

Game Studios Are Turning Play Into Work

The Best Starting Words to Win at Wordle

NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador

10 Great Deals for Bundling Up Indoors This Winter

Cozy Grove Saved Me While Stuck on a Train for 35 Hours

The Best iPad to Buy (and a Few to Avoid)

The Search for ET Has an X-Factor: the Evolution of Stars

As Omicron Surges, Parents of the Youngest Kids Wait for Vaccines

The Humanities Can't Save Big Tech From Itself

Fact-checkers label YouTube a 'major conduit of online disinformation'

Omega's New Speedmaster Is the Latest to Cash In on Vintage Vogue

Meta monopoly case from FTC given go-ahead

As Kazakhstan Descends into Chaos, Crypto Miners Are at a Loss

Moxie Marlinspike leaves encrypted-messaging app Signal

Skábma: Snowfall Is a Huge Win for Indigenous Game Makers

Fighting the darknet drug dealers who keep coming back

US-China Trade Tensions Threaten Europe's Biggest Tech Company

Pokémon Go: Police fired for chasing Snorlax instead of robbers

Feeling Overwhelmed? Start a Someday-Maybe-Later List

Earth’s Oceanography Helps Demystify Jupiter’s Flowing Cyclones

Tesla adds chill and assertive self-driving modes

A New Document Reveals More of Google's Anti-Union Strategy

Oculus Quest 2: Meta to discuss children's VR safety with watchdog

When Mind Melds With Machine, Who’s in Control?

The Best Speakers for Kids

The FTC Wants Companies to Find Log4j Fast. It Won't Be So Easy

This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure

Video Games Already Do What the Metaverse Just Promises

Scientists Capture Airborne Animal DNA for the First Time

The Mandalorian Could Use a Watson

The AI software that could turn you in to a music star

The Best Electric Toothbrushes for Your Pearly Whites

Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

Nanoleaf's Lines Bathe Your Walls in Colorful Light

Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate

How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report

How to Watch Movies in Virtual Reality

'Gaymers' Are Taking Brazil by Storm

Reset Your Computer Once a Year for a Happier Life

10 Good N95, KN95, and Surgical Face Masks to Buy Right Now

Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests?

You May Be Able to Own a Self-Driving Car After All

Audi's EV Dakar Rally Car Is Resurrecting the Range Extender

Distance Wireless Charging Made a Minor Comeback at CES 2022

The Future of Tech Is Here. Congress Isn't Ready for It

Bitcoin prices fall to lowest in months after US Fed remarks

The Next Wave of Extremist Cults Will Make QAnon Look Tame

E3: Gaming convention cancels in-person event due to Covid

Astronomers Discover a Strange Galaxy Without Dark Matter

CES: Should the world’s biggest tech show have gone ahead?

Facebook’s Data Center Plans Rile Residents in the Netherlands

Global chip shortage: Samsung expects its profits to jump by 52%

The companies offering delivery to the Moon

Signal's Cryptocurrency Feature Has Gone Worldwide

Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change

I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR. Here’s What I Learned

NFT marketplace OpenSea valued at more than $13bn

The Build Back Better Bill Needs to Do Better for Bikes

Can Being Reminded of My Death Improve My Life?

The Best of CES 2022

Natural History, Not Technology, Will Dictate Our Destiny

How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier

This Is the Year of the Shadow Pandemic

Wordle creator promises viral game will stay simple and ad-free

In Praise of Unglamorous American Invention

How Do You Practice Responsible Astrology?

How Do You Design a Better Hospital? Start With the Light

Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining after blackouts

Hackers Are Exploiting a Flaw Microsoft Fixed 9 Years Ago

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming

The Pixel Art Revolution Will Be Televised

The Best Apps for Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutions

To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade

The End of BlackBerry Phones Is Finally, Truly Here

The Global Economy Ignores Developing Nations at Its Own Peril

Gravity Could Solve Clean Energy’s One Major Drawback

The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI

The Best Movies You Missed in 2021—and Where to Stream Them

Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Is Convicted on 4 Counts

The Best Posture Correctors to Put a Stop to Your Slouch

Could Being Cold Actually Be Good for You?

Welcome to the New WIRED

Public Transit Systems Refocus on Their Core Riders

6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet

Scientists Settled an Old Family Mystery Using DNA From Postcards

To Fight Climate Change, First You Need to Measure It

The Creepy TikTok Algorithm Doesn’t Know You

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Twitter bans congresswoman over Covid misinformation

How Body Farms and Human Composting Can Help Communities

Our Favorite Paper Planners for Crossing Tasks off Your List

Bitcoin’s Libertarian Streak Meets an Autocratic Regime

At the Dawn of Life, Heat May Have Driven Cell Division

Yup, CES Is Happening. Here’s What to Expect

Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past

How to Send Messages That Automatically Disappear

Why Paleontologists Are Getting Into Florida’s Oyster Business

How to Start (and Keep) a Healthy Habit

The 18 Best EVs Coming in 2022

Where Parents Can Get Help with Climate Anxiety

How to Delete Your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok