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These wheeled carts made for schlepping groceries home from the supermarket are a city-dweller necessity. Rolser is proving they can even be sorta hip.

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

From hair tools and iPads to board games and bike bags, we have a pick for every type of mom and mom figure.

Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public hearings on the tax, which is intended to help offset the hundreds of millions spent managing stormwater and basement flooding.

Plus: Apple warns iPhone users about spyware attacks, CISA issues an emergency directive about a Microsoft breach, and a ransomware hacker tangles with an unimpressed HR manager named Beth.

It’s not as fuel efficient as we’d hope for a hybrid, and there’s an annoying lack of buttons inside—but the pluses outweigh the minuses for this fun luxury urban SUV.

Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and it has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.

Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis, 40 years in the making, could be their biggest save yet.

Civil War is a big and loud and visually arresting film, but its politics are confused and potentially radicalizing.

Taylor Swift has seemingly reached a deal with TikTok to get her music back on the platform, just in time for the release of The Tortured Poets Department.

The best gift idea for your dad is a nicer version of something he already owns. The second best is one of these things.

From dog beds to pup backpacks, we’ve had our furry best friends try it all. These gadgets lead the pack.

H5N1 has infected cattle across the US and jumped from a mammal to a human for the first time. Experts fear it may someday evolve to spread among humans.

After pressure from state lawmakers, Apple is making concessions on “parts pairing.” Right-to-repair advocates say it’s the bare minimum.

Election deniers are training others to challenge voter rolls and overwhelm election officials. And they’re using tech to do it.

Three 5.25-inch floppy disks help keep Muni running every morning. A tech upgrade could take until 2030.

The 2024 Watches and Wonders event featured a timepiece as thick as a 25-cent coin, one accurate for 45 millions years, and another with a carbon-sucking case.

Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky.