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These are the products, prototypes, and ideas that most distinctly signaled the future at this year’s consumer tech showcase.

The US financial regulator says its official @SECGov account was “compromised,” resulting in an “unauthorized” post about the status of Bitcoin ETFs.

Many of the Star Wars shows on Disney+ were often just overly long movies in disguise. Bringing The Mandalorian and Grogu to the big screen rights that.

Hyundai Motor Group’s air mobility offshoot has finally unveiled the S-A2, its passenger eVOTL aircraft. It’s not the only electric whirligig trying to soar at CES 2024.

The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute: a handheld device you use to issue voice commands to your bot army.

Get live, up-to-the-minute reports of all the products, trends, and weird stuff we're seeing at CES in Las Vegas.

Dreams of the future are on full display at tech's big show. Here are some more of the coolest gadgets we’ve seen.

Feeling lethargic and unmotivated after a holiday break from the office? You’re not alone. These tips can help.

The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a “free speech” video platform. The nature of the probe remains unknown.

From cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we’ve rounded up products that are made to last for decades.

The Wi-Fi 6E successor has arrived, and it promises to significantly boost the speed and stability of your wireless connections.

Crispr recently marked a major milestone in medicine. But it's not time for a victory lap—the race is just beginning.

Phishing emails and other scams might be getting an artificial intelligence upgrade, but so are digital lines of defense.

The delights of working, learning, and creating in-person will be rediscovered—but only for those with a well-designed workplace.

Medicines need to be safe for all, but also effective for the individual. Embracing our differences will lead to better health care for everyone.

Through sensors, actuators, and IoT devices, AI is going to be interacting with the physical plane on a massive scale. The question is, how does one build trust in its actions?

It’s easy to accuse algorithms of stifling creativity, but designers of every stripe should be embracing their multidisciplinary abilities.

Online trust will reach an all-time low thanks to unchecked disinformation, AI-generated content, and social platforms pulling up their data drawbridges.

In the race to scale up, the number of AIs being trained on poor-quality data sets has swelled—and it’s going to amplify all kinds of inequities.

AI chatbots can be friendly and responsive—even sexy. It’s time to take these fundamentally human behaviors more seriously.

Apple crushed Beeper Mini, an app that let Android users into Apple’s iMessage service. Beeper cofounder Eric Migicovsky says interoperability between Big Tech’s walled gardens is urgently needed.

Tech’s biggest show is just barely getting started. We’ve already gotten to go hands-on with some fun gadgets.