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Activist hedge fund advises Intel to outsource CPU manufacturing

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!

Corellium notches partial victory in Apple iOS copyright case

20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2020

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?

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

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

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

CD Projekt Red investors sue company over Cyberpunk 2077 debacle

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

This Year I Found Pleasure in the Work of Looking

2020 had its share of memorable hacks and breaches. Here are the top 10

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

2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr

The Error of Fighting a Public Health War With Medical Weapons

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

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

What Is a 'Role-Playing Game' Anyway?

How to Set Up Your New Android Phone

How to Set Up Your New Amazon Echo

How to Set Up Your New Google Nest Speaker

How to Set Up Your New iPhone

How to Set Up Your New Chromebook

How to Set Up Your New TV

How to Set Up Your Nest Thermostat

How to Set Up Your New Apple Watch

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

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

Can Disaster Movies Survive a Pandemic?

The Master Guide to Setting Up All Your New Devices

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

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

What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn

The F-14 and the Secret History of the First Microprocessor

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

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

Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel?

5 Ways to Monitor Your Blood Pressure Wherever You Are

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

Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists

AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Meaning of Its Deadly Dildos

The Oldest Crewed Deep Sea Submarine Just Got a Big Makeover

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

Move Over Peloton. Myx Plus Is the Better Bargain

Pet Prosthetics Get a Boost From 3D Printing

2020: The Year of Cancel(l)ed Culture

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

Some UK Stores Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Shoppers

How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world

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

Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning

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?

Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic; browser makers fight back

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

The Into the Impossible Podcast Honors Arthur C. Clarke

Google’s Antitrust Cases: A Guide for the Perplexed

The Best Theragun to Buy (and the Best Alternatives)

Check Out These Awesome Objects in the Night Sky

The Best Chromebooks for Every Budget

Why Did the NSA Go (Virtually) MIA?

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

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

Only an elite few SolarWinds hack victims received follow-on attacks

Microsoft is reportedly added to the growing list of victims in SolarWinds hack

SolarWinds hack that breached gov networks pose a “grave risk” to the nation

Russia's Hack Wasn't Cyberwar. That Complicates US Strategy

Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous?

Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase

Uber Faces a Fine for Refusing to Give Details on Assaults

Our Fave Smartwatches Do Much More Than Just Tell Time

“Evil mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks

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

Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy

Russia's Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning

Up to 3 million devices infected by malware-laced Chrome and Edge add-ons

How to Pick the Right Roku for Your TV

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

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

How Cyberpunk 2077 Sold a Promise—and Rigged the System

14 Excellent Gifts for Xbox Gamers

Need a Cheap Laptop? These Are Our Favorites

The 8 Best Books About Artificial Intelligence to Read Now

The New Surface Pro X Has Improved—a Bit

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

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?

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

SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi factor authentication

No One Knows How Deep Russia's Hacking Rampage Goes

~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers

A Letter to My Pandemic Baby

How to Use ProRAW on Your iPhone 12 Pro

The Streaming Wars Could Finally End in 2021

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

The Best Fantasy Books of an Unfantastic Year

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

Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack

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

Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years

The 14 Best Google Assistant Speakers for Your Home

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

Facebook says hackers backed by Vietnam’s government are linked to IT firm

The First Shots, Grim Milestones, and More Coronavirus News

The Hollow Earth Theory Isn't So Funny Anymore

Everything You Need to Make Beer, Wine, Cider, and Mead

The 14 Best Electric Bikes for Every Kind of Ride

Looking for the Best Smart Scale? Step On Up

Mark Zuckerberg’s Blue Christmas

Charlize Theron and the Best Movie Never Made

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

Wormable code-execution flaw in Jabber has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10

Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)

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

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

Ongoing malware attacks are hitting users of 4 major browsers

Brave browser-maker launches privacy-friendly news reader

These Are Our 7 Favorite Robot Vacuums

Antitrust Litigation Isn't Enough. Biden Needs to Go Further

The Best High-Tech Socks to Tackle Your Next Run or Workout

A Rocket From 1966 Has Found Its Way Back to Earth’s Orbit

Something Was Wrong. My Nightgown Was in Flames

Gaming on a Budget? Try Your Local Library

14 Gifts for People Who Are Perpetually Cold

There Are No Real Rules for Repairing Satellites in Space—Yet

The Dark Side of Big Tech’s Funding for AI Research

Hello, World! It Is ‘I,’ the Internet

Get Rich Selling Used Fashion Online—or Cry Trying

A Cyberpunk Founding Father Isn't Surprised By Its Comeback

Apple's HomePod Mini Falls Short As a Smart Speaker

The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case

SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket

Hackers unlawfully access data related to promising COVID-19 vaccines

Bees Paint Animal Poo on Their Homes to Repel Giant Hornets

Pornhub blocks uploads and downloads in crackdown on child-sexual-abuse videos

In 'The Mandalorian,' Stormtroopers Have Finally Discovered Tactics

Out of the Box: 10 Fun Gift Subscriptions for Kids

Want a More Equitable Future? Empower Citizen Developers

Anova's $600 Countertop Oven Is a Steam-Powered Dream

Toxicity in Gaming Is Dangerous. Here's How to Stand Up to It

25 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear

“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

Marvel Puzzle Quest Might Just Be My Forever Game

Brawn on a Budget: The New Mac Mini With Apple Silicon

Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe

The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube's Radicalization Trap

Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction

Chuck Yeager’s 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions

Security powerhouse FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers

Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private

Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher's Firing

Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ for 2020: A $549 Pair of Headphones

GE puts default password in radiology devices, leaving healthcare networks exposed

The 8 Best Science Books to Read or Gift This Holiday Season

This Guy Is Taking Viewers Along for His Driverless Rides

The 22 Best Bike Accessories to Kit Out Your Ride

VR Meetings Are Weird, but They Beat Our Current Reality

New Vaccine Data Is Coming: Watch Out for These 3 Claims

The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition Is Samsung’s Best Phone of 2020

The Perfect Strategy to Fight Covid-19 Is … Everything?

Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?

Get a Better Picture With Our Favorite Webcams

Friends, Fleetwood Mac, and the Viral Comfort of Nostalgia

Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed