The Best of WIRED

Flawless curves, milled aluminum, walled garden—yup, sounds like an Apple product!

After a month of Apple's Podcast Analytics tools being available to creators, everyone's hopes have been validated.

The Alexa voice platform and other deep learning projects have made Amazon an AI leader.

Large language models like AI chatbots seem to be everywhere. If you understand them better, you can use them better.

Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling…

In 2025, blockchain alternatives will offer more choice, open source innovation, and community-controlled options. They will carry the torch of the open internet.

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?

The company’s new facial-recognition service comes with limitations to prevent abuse, which sometimes lets competitors take the lead.

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.

The green-tech guru is backing an energy storage breakthrough that could power the future.

In a dramatic departure, Google is open sourcing software that sits at the heart of its online empire.

IoT is a security hellscape. One cryptography has a plan to make it a little bit less so.

MobileCoin aims to make cryptocurrency transactions quick and easy for everyone, while still preserving privacy and decentralization.

Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.

Everything you ever wanted to know about qbits, superpositioning, and spooky action at a distance.

A researcher explains quantum computing in terms anyone can understand.

Large data sets provide intriguing—and dismaying—insights into who we're drawn to and how much that matters for our romantic happiness.

At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens. Critics say it’s all a bad trip.

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Crypto dreamers want to free us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism—using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong?

Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.

It's comforting to believe that another advanced civilization would develop if humanity met its end. Not so fast.