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A slalom skier just achieved a remarkable result in the Alpine Ski World Cup—coming from last place to win. As mountains get warmer and conditions less predictable, expect more freak occurrences like this.

This baby monitor has a huge wheelhouse of tricks, and it looks great in your home. But all those cool features don’t come cheap.

From toasty-warm jackets to our favorite hiking backpack, you can fall in love with the outdoors all over again with these discounts.

Many factors—from the size of your bottle to the age of the filter—can contribute to the count being wildly inaccurate. But even bad math shows that we’re using fewer plastic bottles.

The popular anime streaming service is merging with Crunchyroll. When it does, not all purchased TVs and shows will make the jump.

From Griselda to The Brothers Sun, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.

From Orion and the Dark to Dune, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Even though it's the kind of sci-fi hardcore fans dream of, Apple TV+'s For All Mankind has struggled to find an audience. It shouldn't have to.

In what appears to mark a new era of Russian disinformation, state-run media, Kremlin-backed social accounts, and Telegram channels are hailing Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin as a massive victory.

Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing the creative spark?

Swifties, conspiracy theorists, and sports fans alike will be watching the Super Bowl this year just waiting to see what Taylor Swift does—even if she does nothing at all.

WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening signups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.

“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret.

The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.

A month after the mysterious Biden calls in New Hampshire, the FCC can now go after robocall scammers that use AI voice clones.

They may be tiny, but phytoplankton and aerosols power pivotal Earth systems. Scientists are about to learn a whole lot more about them at a critical time.

Merino is one of the best fabrics you can wear. We explain the different blends, what GSM means, and how to care for your clothes.

This week on Gadget Lab, we trace the first decade of Slack, and we examine how the chat app has altered both the workplace and our personal lives—for better or worse.

Google is bringing its ChatGPT-style chatbot Bard and some other key AI features under the banner Gemini. A new, more powerful version of the chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is subscription-only.

CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google’s new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to get things done without a search engine. It’s also a direct shot at ChatGPT.