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RIP Google Play Music, Gone Too Soon

Neck-Deep in Stress? Try This Heated Massager

The Wisconsin GOP Lost $2.3 Million in an Email Scam

Is It Better to Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow Naturally?

17 Tips to Help You Survive Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

As Cars Get Smarter, Massachusetts Votes on Their Future

A Guide to Safely Holiday Road-Tripping Through a Pandemic

A Ton of Our Favorite Headphones Are on Sale This Weekend

Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit

A Holiday Season Covid Surge, Outbreaks in Swing States, and More

Why Are Lines at Polling Places So Long? Math

It's Hard to Escape Facebook's Vortex of Polarization

Dinosaurs Are Even Scarier When They're Zombies

What's Worse Than Foreign Election Interference? QAnon

Election Interference Talk Should Start with QAnon

Which Tablet Should I Get for My Kids?

Quantum Computing Is Bigger Than Donald Trump

The Robot Ships Are Coming ... Eventually

The New Kim Kardashian Meme Lives on the Darkest Timeline

The 9 Best TVs (and Helpful Buying Tips)

Solve coding challenges at Runcode.ninja online competition, Nov. 6-9

The 15 Best Horror Movies to Stream This Halloween

The Right to Repair Is Back on the Ballot

WFH or Work at the Office—More Tech Employees Can Now Choose

How to Escape a Sinking Ship (Like, Say, the Titanic)

How Humanity Spent Its First 20 Years in Orbit Aboard the ISS

A Navy SEAL, a Quadcopter, and a Quest to Save Lives in Combat

In Embryos, Crispr Can Cut Out Whole Chromosomes—That's Bad

Hackers are on the hunt for Oracle servers vulnerable to potent exploit

TikTok Witches Are Hexing the Election This Halloween

Ransomware Hits Dozens of Hospitals in an Unprecedented Wave

@Team_Trump45 and the Hazards of Online Sleuthing

How Octopuses Use Their Suction Cups to Taste Through Touch

All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It

It Looks Good, but the Pricy Our Place Pan Flops

The Senate’s Section 230 Circus Sent a Bad Global Signal

How to Get Started With Dungeons & Dragons

These Hassle-Free Speakers Add Cinema Sound to Your Home

The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About

A New Way to Plug a Human Brain into a Computer: via Veins

Gamers Forge Their Own Paths When It Comes to Accessibility

Advisories: “Brazen” Russian ransomware hackers target hundreds of US hospitals

'Watch Dogs: Legion' Tackles Surveillance Without Humanity

In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code

Surprise! The Section 230 Hearing Wasn’t About Section 230

What to Wear When You’re Battling Giant, Venomous Hornets

Trump’s website defaced with claim that Trump admin created coronavirus

What Did Pterosaurs Eat? Look Very Closely at Their Teeth

New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews

The Best Pizza Ovens to Make the Perfect Slice

Among Us Was Hit With Pro-Trump Spam

The Most Glorious Video Game Music to Level Up Your Workday

22 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear

Why The Queen’s Gambit Is the No. 1 Netflix Show Right Now

The AI Company Helping the Pentagon Assess Disinfo Campaigns

How to Stop Getting Into Pointless Arguments Online

What Should You Do About Holiday Gatherings and Covid-19?

Big Tech’s Election Plans Have a Blind Spot: Influencers

The GOP Makes an Unlikely Closing Pitch: Amend Section 230

Backbone One Is an iPhone Controller Worth Gaming On

SpaceX Starlink public beta begins: It’s $99 a month plus $500 up front

The Queer Appeal of Dead by Daylight

The Science That Spans #MeToo, Memes, and Covid-19

These Oceanographers Want to Turn Marine Slime Into Drugs

The Chromecast With Google TV Is a Welcome Streaming Upgrade

To Save the Planet, Get More EVs in Used Car Lots

What Comes After the International Space Station?

Why So Many Esports Pros Come From South Korea

A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes

Study shows which messengers leak your data, drain your battery, and more

The Russian Hackers Playing 'Chekhov's Gun' With US Targets

SpaceX Starlink to go South for first time with planned deployment in Texas

Anatomy Opens the Creaking Door to Haunted House Tales

There May Be Far More Water on the Moon Than NASA Thought

Upon My Death, Play the Following Messages

Boston Dynamics' Robots Won't Take Our Jobs ... Yet

How to Get the Most Out of Virtual Doctors' Visits

Wikipedia's Plan to Resist Election Day Misinformation

Pandemic Quiet Is Helping Humans Eavesdrop on Rare Dolphins

Google's Lower-Cost Pixel Gets a 5G Upgrade. Here's Our Take

How to Carve a Pumpkin—From a Pro Sculptor

My Twitter Addiction Got So Bad, I Had to Block Myself

Mark Kelly’s Been To Space. Can He Make it to Capitol Hill?

An Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients

The 15 Best Wireless Headphones for Everyone

How to Shop for Halloween Costumes in This Bizarre Year

On the Week of the Election, Social Media Must Go Dark

Scientists Discover the First Room-Temperature Superconductor

4 Ways to Sell or Trade In Your Old iPhone

I Didn’t Want to Love Zooming on My Facebook Portal—but I Do

How to Clean Up Your Digital History

The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google's Bug-Hunting Badass

Did a Security Researcher Guess Trump's Twitter Password?

There's No Turning Back on AI in the Military

The iPhone 12 Finally Gets Magnets Right

The Best Locks for Protecting Your Bike—or Ebike

Russia's Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now

It's OK to Play One Game Forever

The 14 Best Weekend Deals on Cold Weather Gear, TVs, and More

Hackers behind life-threatening attack on chemical maker are sanctioned

The US Sanctions Russians For Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware

Trump's Strangest Lie: A Plague of Suicides Under His Watch

T-Mobile screwups caused nationwide outage but FCC isn’t punishing carrier

Another Covid Surge, Vaccine and Treatment Progress, and More

Bot orders $18,752 of McSundaes every 30 min. to find if machines are working

In Synchronic, Time Travel Is Anything but Nostalgic

The DOJ Is Fighting Google on a Shifting Battlefield

'Amnesia: Rebirth' Has Evolved Beyond Jump Scares

Everybody Hates Chris(es)

How the Venus Flytrap ‘Remembers’ When It Captures Prey

'Star Wars: Squadrons' Is the Soaring Antidote to Force Fatigue

How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

How the Google Antitrust Case Trickles Down Onto Your Phone

The Best iPhone 12 Deals (And Which Model to Pick)

How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information

18,000 Years From Now, People Will Still Play Football

The Case for Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps

Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced

AT&T loses another 600,000 TV customers as it seeks buyer for DirecTV

Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password—it was “maga2020!”

The New Adaptation of 'The Witches' Is Almost Too Much Fun

Why Is Everyone Building an Electric Pickup Truck?

How to Use Blood Oxygen Data on Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung

Trump's Un-American Failure to Protect Internet Freedom

Your Brain Prefers Happy Endings. That’s Not Always Smart

The Tech Issues You Won’t Hear About at Tonight’s Debate

ClickHole Started as a Meat Joke. Can It Avoid Being Offal?

The TikTok Teens Trying to Meme the Vote

12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election

How to Watch the Final 2020 Presidential Debate

The Left and the Right Speak Different Languages—Literally

How the ‘Diabolical’ Beetle Survives Being Run Over by a Car

Samsung Galaxy A71 5G Review: A Drab, but Reliable Phone

What Even Is Friction, Anyway?

A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women

The Improbable Appeal of TikTok Tarot

The Horny Internet Wants You to Vote

Americans Took Prevagen for Years—as the FDA Questioned Its Safety

Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo Review: An Audio Nerd's Dream

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Storms Twitch

Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive

The Anticlimax of the Google Antitrust Suit

Deals. Profits. Lock-in. Behind the DOJ Case Against Google

Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now

Microsoft’s new data center in a box will use SpaceX Starlink broadband

How Video Games Are Saving Those Who Served

Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That’s Normal

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Review: Apple’s Awkward Middle Child

Apple iPhone 12 Review: Solid, but Don’t Buy It Just for 5G

PC Gaming Doesn't Have to Be More Expensive Than Consoles

Can Placebos Work—Even When Patients Know They’re Fake?

It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again

The Fate of Gig Workers Is in the Hands of California Voters

Is 5G Available for You? Here's How to Find Out

How Online Extremists Could Interfere With the Election

Six-Word Sci-Fi: A Story About the Next Big Security Leak

3 Great Gaming Chairs for Any Budget (2020)

What AI College Exam Proctors Are Really Teaching Our Kids

My Roomba Has Achieved Enlightenment

Panic's Playdate Is a Retro-Modern Handheld-Gaming Delight

Angry Nerd: Stop Turning My Favorite Antiheroes Into Heroes

It's Time to Pick Classes for the 2073-74 School Year!

Companies Are Rushing to Use AI—but Few See a Payoff

Six Russians accused of the world’s most destructive hacks indicted

QAnon/8chan sites back online after being ousted by DDoS-protection vendor

US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit

The Hair-Raising, Record-Setting Race to 331 MPH

Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day

The Internet is full of business cats: Dealing with the breakdown of the work/home divide

The 5 Best Photo Printing Services (2020): Tips, Recommendations, and More

Joe Biden Is Very Offline—and That’s OK

The Election Will Bring a Hurricane of Misinformation

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid

The New Science of Wildfire Prediction

‘Wait, Sylvie’s Dad Plays?!’ The Joy of Fortnite Parenting

Give These Apps Some Notes and They'll Write Emails for You

12 Best Wireless Earbuds WIRED Has Tried (2020)

Wing Freedom X Review: Speedy and Pretty

Computer Scientists Break the 'Traveling Salesperson' Record

What to Do With Old Phones, Cameras, Laptops, and Tablets

A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia's Voter Registration Site

Fancy Bear imposters are on a hacking extortion spree

Want Some Eco-Friendly Tips? A New Study Says No, You Don’t

Hackers are using a severe Windows bug to backdoor unpatched servers

Treatment and Vaccine Trials are Halted, US Cases Rise, and More Coronavirus News

Twitter's 'Hacked Materials' Rule Tries to Thread an Impossible Needle

The iPhone 12 Is a Smartphone Made for Our Terrible Times

This Book Will Change How You See Game of Thrones

Best Dog Tech & Accessories: 14 Essentials for Your Pup

Clarence Thomas Wants to Rethink Internet Speech. Be Afraid

Disney’s Pivot to Streaming Won’t Change Hollywood

Thousands of infected IoT devices used in for-profit anonymity service

Do You Need a 5G iPhone? No, but You’re Getting One Anyway

What Digital Doping Means for Esports—and Everything Else

Television Like 'The Boys' Is Destroying You

The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Google Pixel 5 Review: The Best Pixel Yet

In the US, 50 States Could Mean 50 Vaccine Rollout Strategies

Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree

One Woman’s High-Touch Bid to Upend the Sex-Toy Industry

Cruise Will Soon Hit San Francisco With No Hands on the Wheel

Judge Says No to Putting 'Fortnite' Back on Apple's App Store

Next-Gen Gaming Is an Environmental Nightmare

Netflix's 'Social Distance' Captures All Your Quarantine Feels

Verizon forced to pull ad that claimed firefighters need Verizon 5G

The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago

Prime Day 2020 Is Over: Here Are the 33 Best Remaining Deals

This Camera App Is Designed to Fight Fake News

How to Build a Spacecraft to Save the World

Was the ‘Surprised Pikachu’ Meme a Stealth Marketing Campaign?

MiniDiscs Helped Me Keep in Touch With My Brother, a World Away

What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us about Kids and Germs

More Video Games Featured Women This Year. Will It Last?

Our Favorite Retro Toys and Games: Tamagotchi, Spirograph, Easy-Bake Oven, Furby

Ring Ring! Our Favorite Landline Phones Are Calling

How to Build a Vintage Audio System That Will Last Forever

Pluto TV and the Nostalgic Joy of Drop-In Television

How to Design a Supersonic Plane for the (Fairly Rich) Masses

Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Target 'Deal Days' 2020: 15 Discounts We Like (Prime Day Rival Sale)

The iPhone 12 Mini Marks the Triumphant Return of the Good Small Phone

The 19 Best Amazon Prime Day (2020) Deals for $50 or Less

Apple iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro: Price, Specs, Release Date

Everything Apple Announced, October 2020: iPhone 12, HomePod Mini, Beats Flex

13 Great Deals at Best Buy, Target, and Other Amazon Prime Day Rivals

AT&T has trouble figuring out where it offers government-funded Internet

The Man Who Speaks Softly—and Commands a Big Cyber Army

Amazon Prime Day 2020: The 38 Absolute Best Tech Deals

Facebook bans Holocaust denial amid rapid rise in “deceptive” content

The Best Amazon Device Deals for Prime Day (2020): Kindle, Echo, and More

Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century

The 18 Best Walmart "Big Save" Deals We've Seen So Far (Prime Day Rival Sale)

A Plan to Fix the US Bike Shortage

Trump’s ‘Miracle Cure’ for Covid Is a Logistical Nightmare

Undocumented backdoor that covertly takes snapshots found in kids’ smartwatch

Apple iPhone 12 Event (2020): How to Watch, What to Expect

His Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them

The Delightful, Painful Nostalgia of Radio Archives

New York Is Trying Targeted Lockdowns. Will It Curb Covid?

Facebook Tweaked Its Rules, but You Can Still Target Voters

Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot

How to Disinfect Everything: Coronavirus Home Cleaning Tips

How We Came to Live in a Split-Screen Reality

Zojirushi Pressure Induction Heating Rice Cooker & Warmer Review: Makes Nearly Perfect Rice

Researchers Found 55 Flaws in Apple's Corporate Network

How to Customize Your iPhone Home Screen in iOS 14 With Widgets

Amazon Prime Day 2020: 11 Best Early Deals and Shopping Tips

Apple’s T2 security chip has an unfixable flaw

Testing Alone Won't Stop Covid. Just Look at the White House

A Superspreading Presidency, Experimental Treatments, and More Coronavirus News

'Palm Springs' is 'Groundhog Day' With a Twist

AT&T plans thousands of layoffs at HBO, Warner Bros., rest of WarnerMedia