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More and more keyboards and video game controllers employ Hall effect sensors, but what exactly is this technology? We break it down.

Apple claims its newest line of phones will let you play everything from Apple Arcade indies to AAA titles. It does, but don't expect a console-level experience.

“I try to prepare customers not to expect the same pet all over again. The new pet is not going to know who you are right off the bat.”

The United States will choose between two drastically different futures in the coming days. Here’s what you can expect from WIRED.

The weekend before the election, one Pennsylvania pastor told congregants that hosting Elon Musk weeks earlier was “phenomenal.” In Nevada, another dressed as a garbageman while urging his flock to vote Trump.

When you download a piece of pirated software, you might also be getting a piece of infostealer malware, and entering a highly complex hacking ecosystem that’s fueling some of the biggest breaches on the planet.

Over the past month, Elon Musk has put himself in position to take the credit for a Donald Trump win—or the blame for a loss.

Vast networks of true believers, convinced beyond all reason that the last election was stolen, have spent years preparing to undermine this one. At last, their time has arrived.

A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.

The tech, a waypoint between fully electric cars and gas-powered ones, has shown up in more and more US—and Chinese—vehicles. Can EREV tech get more drivers into electrics?

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

As the industry looks to AI and robotics for the next big thing, Our Erotic Journey’s James Guo just wants to build you the perfect vibrator.

The GameCube's controller remains a titan, which is why so many have “borrowed” from its design. But now things are afoot that signal Nintendo could be about to resurrect this gaming gem.

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.

New MacBooks are here. Having a hard time choosing which Apple laptop to buy? Let us help.

How much speed do you need? And what’s a MU-MIMO? We decipher the jargon and explain what to look for.

Tesla’s coming Model Y refresh may have been delayed to make it more Fido friendly, but it’s by no means the first car to be created with canines in mind.

Woman of the Hour, Will & Harper, and His Three Daughters are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.