The 9 Best TVs (and Helpful Buying Tips)
Saving up for a new screen? To help you navigate the dozens of seemingly identical TV models from Samsung, LG, Vizio, TCL, Sony, and other manufacturers, we’ve watched hundreds of…
The New Kim Kardashian Meme Lives on the Darkest Timeline
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Even the few people who don’t follow…
The Robot Ships Are Coming … Eventually
AI-driven tugboats and tenders are parking cargo ships, ferries that dock by themselves are moving cars and people across waterways, and soon small cargo ships will be hauling fertilizer and…
Quantum Computing Is Bigger Than Donald Trump
Just this week the Senate had a hearing, ostensibly about speech on internet platforms. But what the hearing was really about was our continuing inability to figure out what to…
WFH or Work at the Office—More Tech Employees Can Now Choose
Facebook, which gave employees $2,000 stipends to kit out their home offices earlier this year, has also fashioned itself into a hybrid company. It expects that half of its employees…
The Right to Repair Is Back on the Ballot
MC: Well, at that point in my life, I didn’t drink, but that would have been an appropriate payment that I did not think of. LG: OK. All right. We’re…
How Humanity Spent Its First 20 Years in Orbit Aboard the ISS
A few years before, Congress had designated the US portion of the ISS as the newest addition to the country’s national laboratories, which would be responsible for handling all non-NASA…
The 15 Best Horror Movies to Stream This Halloween
Suffice to say, this year’s Halloween is on ice. Costume parties are being postponed until 2021, and even the most adventurous kids might balk at putting a mask over the…
How to Escape a Sinking Ship (Like, Say, the Titanic)
Let’s say you traveled to London, England, in 1912, and bought a ticket on the RMS Titanic for its maiden voyage. But you’re a frugal time traveler, so you elect…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe successfully stores small sample of asteroid rocks in its belly
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully stored a small cache of rocks that it grabbed from the surface of an asteroid named Bennu last week, sealing the pebbles inside the vehicle’s…