Everything You Need to Know About the Coronavirus

Here's all the WIRED coverage in one place, from how to keep your children entertained to how this outbreak is affecting the economy.

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The Gaming Platforms That Let Streamers Profit From Hate

WIRED has found dozens of far-right and white supremacist figures monetizing their livestreams through “donation management services” Streamlabs and StreamElements.

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A Coordinated Takedown Targets 'OGUser' Account Thieves

Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok have all taken action against the hacker community in recent days.

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A New Lens Technology Is Primed to Jump-Start Phone Cameras

The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That’s about to change.

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There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain

Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?

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10 Great TV and Soundbar Deals for the Super Bowl

Yeah, there's a big football game this weekend, but we're more excited about these OLED TV and soundbar deals.

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The Video Games We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2021

New consoles mean new titles. Time to strap in and get ready to play.

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Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain

First of all, you have to stop thinking and kind of become a robot.

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On the Capitalist Internet, Even Celebs Join the Gig Economy

Gimmicky message services like Cameo treat goodwill as a friendly contagion, something anyone can catch and spread. Just don’t let the money run out.

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Lo-Fi Music Streams Are All About the Euphoria of Less

On an internet built around excess, lo-fi hip-hop channels have created a community for minimalist escape.

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How Censorship Can Influence Artificial Intelligence

A study finds that algorithms learn to associate words with other words. “Democracy” can equal “stability”—or “chaos.”

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How to Make a Fitbit for an Elephant

The accelerometers give scientists information about whether animals are swimming, walking, running, or even sprinting up a hill.

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Inside the World of Young Black Sims Content Creators

In The Sims, you can ideally design a whole new life. These modders and designers found the game fell short of that promise, so they're picking up the slack.

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Biden Has to Walk a Fine Line When Fighting Disinformation

The president pledged to defend the truth, but how far can he go without impinging Americans’ rights or undermining his cause?

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AI and the List of Dirty, Naughty … and Otherwise Bad Words

It started as a way to restrict autocompletes on Shutterstock. Now it grooms search suggestions on Slack and influences Google's artificial intelligence research.

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The Sims Made Me Realize I'm Ready for More In Life

I'm ready for a partner and kids—and if you're a little more mindful while playing, you just might realize something about yourself, too.

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So, Jeff Bezos, You Really Want to Fix the Planet?

Amazon's founder is stepping down to focus on other projects, like the Bezos Earth Fund. Here's what he can do to help fix the mess humans have made of the world.

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8 Tips to Transform Your Sims 4 Gameplay

From secret aspirations to custom graveyards, YouTube creator and transgender artist Juno Birch spills the tea on Sims 4.

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Amazon's Greatest Gadget Hits: Highlights of the Bezos Era

Amazon has made a lot of helpful, but also bizarre, stuff during CEO Jeff Bezos’s reign. Here are some of our favorites.

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Why ‘Inside Job’ Zoombombs Are So Hard to Stop

Researchers have found that most calls to disrupt videoconferences originate with the participants, especially in high schools and colleges.

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Among Us Taps Into Our Obsession With Betrayal

The massively popular game gives players the freedom and autonomy to backstab one another—but also build connections.

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The Chrome Update Is Bad for Advertisers, but Good for Google

The world’s most popular browser is about to make it a lot harder for advertisers to track your online activity.

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The Line Between Digital Trade and Security Is Always Blurry

Internet regulators around the world conflate the two, which strains international relations.

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The Medium Doesn’t Live Up to Its Best Ideas

Bloober Team’s newest horror title is a bad deal at $50 but a great way to pass a weekend on Game Pass.

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3 Services to Help You Take Charge of Your Mental Health

We're all having a tough time right now, but these apps, podcasts, and websites can provide a lifeline.

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What Will it Take to Make Covid-19 Vaccines Variant-Proof?

As emerging mutations threaten the progress made against the pandemic, scientists and regulators are racing to figure out a process for updating shots.

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The Best Deals and Cases for Every Galaxy S21

We break down the differences between Samsung’s three Galaxy phones—and our favorite accessories and discounts.

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It’s Time for a National Pandemic Prediction Agency

A federal office that collects outbreak data, models epidemics, and spreads the word to the public could keep the next Covid from being another Covid.

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A Second SolarWinds Hack Deepens Third-Party Software Fears

It appears that not only Russia but also China targeted the company, a reminder of the many ways interconnectedness can go wrong.

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Bezos' Departure as CEO Shows Amazon Is a Cloud Company Now

Andy Jassy, who helped create Amazon Web Services in 2006 and has run it since, will take over as chief executive later this year.

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The Amazon Case Signals a Tougher Stance on Gig Economy Firms

The retail giant agrees to repay almost $62 million in tips to drivers for its Flex delivery service; the company used the money to meet its promised hourly wages.

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US Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints

A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated.

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How to Use Your Speedometer to Figure Out Where Your Car Is

You should never drive in a car with no windows. But in case you ever find yourself in one, you can use physics to get your bearings.

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The Audio Design Hacks That Made Mank Sound Like Citizen Kane

Ren Klyce had to experiment with a lot of new ideas to make David Fincher's movie sound old.

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The Race Is On to Stop Scalping Bots From Buying All the PS5s

The pandemic, and the resulting supply chain damage, has kicked retail bots into full gear.

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The No-Good Very Nasty Remastering of The Lord of the Rings

In correcting every imperfection and sharpening every blur of his epic fantasy trilogy, Peter Jackson has violated a fundamental law of nature.

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As Robots Fill the Workplace, They Must Learn to Get Along

Warehouses, factories, and hospitals are deploying more robots, often made by different companies. That can lead to communication problems.

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An Inclusive, Cyberpunk Future Is In the Cards

A humble card game, Android: Netrunner has the same roots as Cyberpunk 2077— but went in an entirely different direction.

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The New Moto G Series Really Phones It In

Motorola's new phones will meet the most minimal of expectations.

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Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—If You Have an Apple Watch

Recognizing you while your face is covered is still pretty tough for a computer.

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2034, Part II: Blackout in Washington, DC

“So much was happening and yet they had no news. Everything had been compromised.”

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Those Most Likely to Get Covid Are Last in Line for Vaccines

Distribution plans that favor people with time and internet access hurt Black and Latinx people disproportionately.

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The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The World in Cyberpunk 2077 Is Hollow—the Posters Prove It

Sex and violence sells, I guess.

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One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack - February 2021

This month's focus is on reporter Mohamad Mosaed, an outspoken critic of the Iranian government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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'Fake Famous' Review: A Fun Window Into Instagram Influencers

In Fake Famous, journalist Nick Bilton sets out to document how easy it is to manufacture celebrity online.

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Grado’s No-Frills Wireless Buds Have Seriously Good Sound

The GT220 have the excellent audio quality the company is known for, and they fit better than most of the competition.

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Biden Wants the Government to Run on EVs. It Won’t Be Easy

The president hopes electrifying the federal fleet will create jobs and encourage motorists to ditch gas-powered cars. But no automaker is ready yet.

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Two Paths for the Extremely Online Novel

Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This ask the same questions about the internet. Their answers sound nothing alike.

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Here’s the Right Way to Rescue a Soaking Wet Smartphone

Given the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid, you should know what to do when it happens (because it will).

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February’s Gonna Be a Big Month for Mars

On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.

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The Recession Exposes the US’ Failures on Worker Retraining

Unemployment is high, and many pre-pandemic jobs will not return. But the US spends a smaller share of its economy on training than most developed nations.

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The Best Smart Plugs to Help Modernize Your Home

An internet-connected plug can give any basic appliance a brain. Here are our favorites (and a few we don't like).

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Banning White Supremacy Isn’t Censorship, It’s Accountability

Claiming that deplatforming racists violates First Amendment rights shows a distorted understanding of how speech, race, and power work online.

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Power Up Anywhere With Our Favorite Portable Chargers

Keep your phone, tablet, laptop, or device running with these handheld power banks.

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How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.

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The Best Apps to Build Better Habits (and Stick to Them)

Don't let your resolutions flame out. These tech tools help keep you on track.

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Sweet Jesus, Can Someone Just Tell Me What to Cook Every Day?

Fed up with pandemic-fueled meal-prep anxiety, I asked the Gray Lady to send me a weekly email telling me precisely what to buy and cook. It was the right move.

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The Best VPNs to Protect Yourself Online

It won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but a virtual private network can help make you a less tempting target for hackers.

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Update Your iPhone and iPad Now If You Haven't Recently

Plus: A ransomware arrest, a dating site data leak, and more of the week's top security news.

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Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis

Archaeologists found the entrance to the unexplored burial shaft earlier this week.

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A Quarter of Known Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990

A global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015.

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In Praise of Positive Reinforcement for Your Pets

You want to reward good behaviors, not use tools to punish negative ones.

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Apple Fixes One of the iPhone's Most Pressing Security Risks

By hardening iMessage in iOS 14, the company has effectively cut off what had been an increasingly popular line of attack.

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The 14 Best Weekend Deals on Speakers, Video Games, and More

You'll find discounts this week on audio equipment, our favorite video calling device, TVs, and movies.

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What the Arab Spring Can Teach Us About GameStop

Ten years ago, democracy protestors used social media to organize against an oppressor. But ultimately, the powerful came out ahead.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Is a Lot Better Than You'd Expect

The animated half-hour series is full of in-jokes and obscure references that will challenge even the most hardcore Trekkie.

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Facebook and Apple Feud Over the Future of the Internet

It turns out Tim Cook blames Mark Zuckerberg for undermining democracy, too.

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Coffee Talk Has Become a Quiet Success in a Turbulent Year

It’s the one-year anniversary of players creating custom drinks and having conversations with vampires, werewolves, and more in this narrative-driven game.

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A Vaccine Enrollment Mess of Epidemic Proportions

Plus: The Healthcare.gov rescue, the year’s biggest game changer, and a wake-up call for Wall Street.

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GameStop Makes This a Good Time to Rewatch 'The Big Short'

It won’t help you understand the mess any better than you already do, but it could help you untangle the mania behind it.

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Your Covid Vaccine Questions, Answered

This week, we field listener queries about the vaccine’s rollout, how state and local governments are handling distribution, and when you’ll get your shot.

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A New Way to Restore Hand Mobility—With an Electrified Patch

In a clinical trial, wearing a small stimulator on their necks helped people with quadriplegia build back movement they had lost years ago.

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The Jabra Elite 85t Are Premium Earbuds Made To Last

The company's latest in-ears have a two-year water damage warranty, wireless charging, noise canceling, and a mighty cozy fit.

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How I Found the Right Therapist When My Life Was Collapsing

So many of us are struggling with mental health because of the pandemic. These tips can help.

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Why Kids Matter in the Quest to Stamp Out Covid-19

Testing a vaccine on children takes longer and comes with more challenges. But inoculating kids can protect an entire population.

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Lawmakers Take Aim at Insidious Digital ‘Dark Patterns’

A new California law prohibits efforts to trick consumers into handing over data or money. A bill in Washington state copies the language.

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This Encrypted Gun Registry Might Bridge a Partisan Divide

Researchers from Brown University have developed a system that could keep track of firearms while preserving privacy.

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Robinhood Restricts GameStop Trading—in a Bid to Save Itself

The online broker blocked users from trading several “meme stocks” on Thursday, as regulators take a close look at the WallStreetBets phenomenon.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Spoken. It Hasn’t Solved Much

The board’s first content moderation decisions show how impossible its task—and Facebook’s—really is.

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Miami’s Mayor Woos Techies. What Does He Need to Succeed?

If anywhere could use innovation, it’s Miami—one of the country’s most unequal, environmentally vulnerable cities.

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9 Adventurers Died Mysteriously. A New Theory Explains Why

More than 60 years after the incident, scientists say they have new evidence pointing to a peculiar kind of avalanche as the culprit.

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Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel

Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Sources” could be abused.

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The Trump Administration Left Biden With a Rocket Dilemma

Mike Pence promised to land on the moon in 2024, but that’s fallen out of reach. So what now?

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The Scott Pilgrim Game Is So Nice They Released It Twice

Though the game has a fraught history, it was a true indie darling. And now it’s back, having aged surprisingly well, actually.

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Online Harassment Toward Women Is Getting Even More Insidious

From coded memes to deepfake porn, abusive disinformation campaigns are sliding past moderation tools. Platforms, Congress, and employers need to help women fight back.

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The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Homelessness in the US

The pandemic is hitting unhoused people especially hard. But the efforts that sprang up to address it could change their fates for the better.

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The Next Target for a Facial Recognition Ban? New York

San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities have enacted moratoriums on government use of the tech. New York looks like a harder sell.

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How to Buy Used Gear on eBay—the Smart, Safe Way

Gracefully avoid sketchy situations and score a deal on the post-holiday gadget turnover.

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May I Borrow Your Covid Immunity?

Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.

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Impeachment and Deplatforming Aren't Enough to Move Forward

To achieve true unity, we must contend with the underlying cause of our division—decades of conspiratorial messages, and sophisticated networks to spread them.

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Why Instacart Is Laying Off Workers As Deliveries Soar

Big grocery chains relied on app-based delivery companies at the start of the pandemic. Now grocers’ priorities have shifted.

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How to Mix and Match Wireless Smart Speakers With Ease

Yes, you can use devices from different brands. And yes, location definitely matters.

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Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.

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Stop Calling Everyone a Tech Bro

Silicon Valley’s problem is not an excess of frat-house behavior. It’s much worse.

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These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer

During the pandemic, thousands of women have skipped scans and check-ups. So physicians tapped an algorithm to predict those at the highest risk.

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Cops Disrupt Emotet, the Internet's ‘Most Dangerous Malware’

A global operation has taken down the notorious botnet in a blow to cybercriminals worldwide.

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The Priority Apollo Gravel Bike Handles Both Roads and Mud

This light, versatile, and low-maintenance bicycle has reconciled me to the existence of gravel bikes.

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The Real Pleasure and Pain of Making Choices in Video Games

Life is chaos, but needing to control a fictional story can be stressful too.

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The Ethics of Vaccinating Teachers—and Keeping Schools Closed

Educators have lobbied to be prioritized for the Covid-19 vaccine, but they've also made the ethically questionable call to continue to wait to reopen.

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