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Eating pets. Executing babies. Donald Trump's debate rhetoric felt deeply mired in dark corners of the internet.

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.

AirPods revolutionized the wireless earbuds category and are poised to do the same for over-the-counter hearing aids.

Now that AirPods Max have finally been upgraded to USB-C, just a few Apple items are holding on. Can you guess all three?

After Donald Trump’s incoherent performance at the presidential debate, in which he shouted about people eating household pets, his fans fixated on Kamala Harris’ earrings.

Exactly how climate change will impact lightning isn’t clear, but governments, public bodies, and the military are prepping for stormier weather.

This calorie-rich, nutrient-dense, and climate-resilient crop has the power to step in for more common staples that can’t handle global warming.

A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”

You’ve decided to upgrade to Apple’s new iPhone. Now the question is which model to buy. We break it down.

“It’s gonna sound wild,” he confesses, “but I’ve probably been on close to 200 dates in the last year and a half.”

The European Court of Justice has ordered Apple to pay billions in back taxes to Ireland, in a move that hands a victory to the European Commission against so-called “sweetheart deals” between the country and big tech companies.

The YC-backed startup NetworkOcean plans to sink GPUs into San Francisco Bay. Multiple California regulators WIRED spoke with hadn’t heard about the test—and raised concerns about its potential environmental impact.

A WIRED investigation reveals that one of two lawyers known to have worked for or with Lawfair, a firm working on a case that could affect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, has ties to accounts with long histories of posting white supremacist content.

Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate.

As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.

Hampered last month by bad weather, launch tower problems, and issues with its ride from SpaceX, the Polaris Dawn mission is at last on its way.

With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to combat infections.

James Earl Jones died Monday at the age of 93. But long before he did, he gave Lucasfilm permission to recreate his iconic Darth Vader voice for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone’s buying the hype.

The next generation of Apple’s car dashboard software is supposed to debut this year. But another Apple product event has come and gone without any CarPlay news.

All the new hardware was unveiled at a splashy media event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. The new iPhone was the star of the show.