Page Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2026 9:32 AM ET

Wired News - Top Stories

How Teen 'After-Prom' Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager

3 hours ago

Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas Politics

13 hours ago

A MAGA County's Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters

2 hours ago

Salmonella Is Everywhere

4 hours ago

Bumble Tried to Change Dating, but the Dating Market Forced It to Change Instead

2 hours ago

A $110 Pool Robot Sounds Like a Steal-Until You See What It Leaves Behind

2 hours ago

Google's Pixel Watch 5 Pumps Up Its Fitness Smarts

20 hours ago

What's So Great About Digital Wall Calendars?

1 day ago

I Tested the Two Best 8-GB Laptops. Is Either Worth Buying?

1 day ago

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

17 hours ago

The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China

5 days ago

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don't Get What People Want

5 days ago

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

6 days ago

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

7 days ago

Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms

3 days ago

FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination

6 days ago

FEMA's 'Shadow Administrator' Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months

8 days ago

Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces

1 day ago

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

1 day ago

New York City Lawmakers Push to 'Ban the Scan' at MSG

5 days ago

Squeeze More Juice Out of Your Dead Batteries-Using Physics

1 day ago

What Is El Niño, and What Does It Mean for Weather, Water, and the Global Economy?

2 days ago

A One-Two Punch Has Atlantic Hurricane Season on the Ropes

3 days ago

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude's Invisible Watermarks

20 hours ago

The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About-and Waited for-Is Here

2 days ago

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

6 days ago

We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn't Spot It

1 day ago

There's a Very Simple Reason Why You Love the Slate Truck

1 day ago

Can the Upcoming Expanse Game Avoid Mass Effect's Biggest Mistake?

2 days ago

The Best USB Car Chargers, Road-Tested and Load-Tested

2 hours ago

Top Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off August 2026

2 hours ago

Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off August 2026

2 hours ago

Why Is It Absolute Hell to Buy a Movie Ticket Now?

22 hours ago

'Your Excel Skills Suck': The Power Users Turning Spreadsheets Into a Spectator Sport

1 day ago

Hot or Not Built the Internet We're Still Swiping Through

1 day ago

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton's Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

2 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words-and Barely Says Anything

6 days ago

ICE's DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX's Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows

13 days ago

The Cop Who Took On Flock

2 days ago

Inside WIRED's Brain Week

4 days ago

Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound-Not a Scalpel

6 days ago

The Most Dangerous Diagnosis in a Heat Wave

7 days ago

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

9 days ago

The Truth About Kids These Days

1 month ago

The Future of Home

2 months ago

Everyone Is Watching the World Cup. The World Cup Is Also Watching You

2 months ago

AI OR DIE TRYING

2 months ago

THE WAR MACHINE

4 months ago

Things Fall Apart

5 months ago

Life as a 21st-Century Trucker

4 days ago

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

12 days ago

How to Use AI to Talk to Whales-and Save Life on Earth

18 days ago

A Radical Way of Unleashing a Generation of Geniuses

25 days ago

The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Video Game Hit

1 month ago

This $500 Counterfeit Rolex Is So Convincing, Even Rolex Didn't Clock It

18 hours ago

Psychiatrist Answers Psychedelic Therapy Questions

1 day ago

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton's CEO Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

1 day ago

Backlash to Madison Square Garden's Biometric Surveillance Goes IRL

1 day ago

All the Ways the Dell XPS 13 Surpasses the MacBook Neo—and the Major One Where It Doesn't

1 day ago

This Tiny $100 Device Can Hack a Boeing 737

6 days ago

Green Day Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

6 days ago

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me, and It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There

6 days ago

Google's Pixel 11 Thinks It Can Take Better Photos Than You

7 days ago

Honor's Robot Phone Has a Gimbal-Powered Camera That Feels Genuinely Fresh

8 days ago