Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy.
https://www.wired.com/story/voice-recognition-privacy-speech-changer

When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people gravitate toward cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health.
https://www.wired.com/story/rising-food-prices-worse-obesity-rates

Graphic images have long been tools of campaigns against smoking and STDs. Researchers want to know if can they work for infectious diseases
https://www.wired.com/story/can-disgusting-images-motivate-good-public-health-behavior

Mobile games are designed to hook you, and I’ve fallen for it.
https://www.wired.com/story/merge-mansion-mobile-games

The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries.
https://www.wired.com/story/bring-back-the-aim-away-message

Platin's tiny, wireless surround sound system effortlessly outperforms your basic soundbar setup, without making you drill into your walls.
https://www.wired.com/review/platin-monaco-5-1

Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their re
https://www.wired.com/story/google-brain-ai-researcher-fired-tension

If you go mega-vi, there are ways to make money off of your content. But be warned: It relies on going viral often, and consistently.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-i-monetized-viral-baby-yoda-tiktok-account

When it comes to issues like climate change, too many let the perfect become the enemy of the good, while the world burns.
https://www.wired.com/story/technology-policy-thinkwashing

He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradict
https://www.wired.com/story/multifarious-multiplexity-taika-waititi

Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.
https://www.wired.com/story/ios-chrome-android-windows-update-may-2022

While the feature makes spoken exchanges more clear, having to keep your AirPods in your ears during in-person chats sends the wrong social
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-conversation-boost

Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-ants-inspired-a-new-way-to-measure-snow-with-space-lasers

Electricity costs more, Bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong?
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-crisis

Summer is within reach. Save on WIRED-Recommended hair dryers, TVs, hot-weather essentials, and more this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-memorial-day-sales-2022-3

Importing formula will provide quick relief, but reforming the program that provides free formula to low-income families would help more in
https://www.wired.com/story/baby-formula-crisis

The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.
https://www.wired.com/story/chip-shortage-hacks

It's a tough digital world out there for a musical group called the Viagra Boys.
https://www.wired.com/story/viagra-boys-name-spam

For most cooking tasks, a backyard flattop is more versatile—and easier to manage—than a grill.
https://www.wired.com/review/cuisinart-36-inch-four-burner-gas-griddle

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we start prepping for summer fun with titanium chopsticks and foldable kayaks.
https://www.wired.com/story/rei-anniversary-sale-may-2022-2

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and pot
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-scammer-alert

This sci-fi-worthy electric ride has gone from cool concept to the street almost unchanged.
https://www.wired.com/review/bmw-ce-04

The 2020 indie darling provides players with thoughtful romantic plots seldom seen in gaming.
https://www.wired.com/story/hades-inclusivity-polyamory-kink

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of
https://www.wired.com/story/chicken-ground-bone

Summer is within reach. Save on WIRED-Recommended hair dryers, TVs, hot-weather essentials, and more this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-memorial-day-sales-2022-2

Test your digital green thumb with farming simulators, cozy growing games, and peculiar indies.
https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-gardening-plant-video-games

It's time to build the Poop Ark, a centralized collection of the entire animal kingdom's feces, for research, de-extinction, and more.
https://www.wired.com/story/lets-get-our-shit-together-literally

The platform has a history of standing up to governments. Its billionaire suitor wants to follow their rules to the letter.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-free-speech-twitter-global-censorship

Whether you've picked up the messaging app recently or you've been using it for ages, these tools can help you make the most of it.
https://www.wired.com/story/10-telegram-tips-tricks

Summer is within reach. Save on WIRED-Recommended Bluetooth speakers, TVs, hot-weather essentials, and more this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-memorial-day-sales-2022-1

Is it the end of setting levels? Just another recording gimmick? Well, it's somewhere in between.
https://www.wired.com/story/32-bit-float-audio-explained

Tragedies converge, apocalypse colors the air, and digital realities no longer suffice. Eventually everything, and everyone, cracks.
https://www.wired.com/story/buffalo-uvalde-shootings-breaking-point

Here’s everything you need to know about switching from Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T to the search giant’s cell phone service.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-switch-to-google-fi

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.
https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-bush-assassination-whatsapp

New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning. It could devastate farmers.
https://www.wired.com/story/flash-droughts-are-the-midwests-next-big-climate-threat

Plus: Google Assistant comes to the Samsung Galaxy Watch4, and a new virtual space for streaming 360-degree audio invites you to jack in.
https://www.wired.com/story/finding-a-playstation-5-gets-easier

The game tackles housing inequality, gentrification, racism, and generational trauma with elegance and empathy.
https://www.wired.com/story/dots-home-game

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there! Give your music a bath with this handy guide.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-clean-vinyl

Here’s how to recognize monkeypox’s symptoms, how to prevent and treat the disease, and what to do if you think you’ve been exposed to it.
https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-need-to-know-about-monkeypox

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we start prepping for summer fun with titanium chopsticks and foldable kayaks.
https://www.wired.com/story/rei-anniversary-sale-may-2022-1

What if the best headphones for gaming, movies, and music are the kind studios use to make them?
https://www.wired.com/review/beyerdynamic-dt-700-pro-x

Summer is within reach. Save on Bluetooth speakers, TVs, and hot-weather essentials this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-memorial-day-sales-2022

We asked the engineer who invented cookies what they mean and how to handle them.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-do-cookie-preferences-pop-ups-mean

This plug-and-play mesh system delivers fast Wi-Fi and features, like motion sensing, that we’ve never seen before in a router.
https://www.wired.com/review/plume-superpods-with-wi-fi-6

The recent act of racist terrorism in Buffalo has raised the stakes on how science is communicated and sold.
https://www.wired.com/story/quashing-racist-pseudoscience-is-sciences-responsibility

Plus: The early days of Y Combinator, a world without electricity, and a frightening new norm.
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-south-park-commons

Social media users have adopted terms like “unalive” to avoid platform censorship. But not using the word “suicide” can stigmatize it.
https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-suicide-unalive

The incident in San Francisco cost first responders valuable time, and underscores the challenges Cruise and other companies face in launchi
https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicles

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-urged-stop-tracking-location-data-roe-reversal

While the infamous imageboard's ties to mass shootings have long been clear, its relationship with a Japanese toymaker has remained remarkab
https://www.wired.com/story/who-owns-4chan