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Physical Intelligence, a well-funded startup chasing breakthroughs in robotic intelligence, has developed a robot capable of doing various household chores remarkably well.

OpenAI just launched its newest artificial intelligence search experience for ChatGPT. Here’s how to get the AI search update, and WIRED’s initial impressions.

We're testing gadgets that keep showing up in our feeds. Here are the ones that deserve the hype—and would make awesome presents.

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take these headsets, keyboards, and mice and give them to your favorite PC gamer.

Whether you seek spooky chills, jump scares, or creeping dread, we have horror show recommendations to sate your thirst.

Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so, revealed a glimpse into China's R&D pipeline of intrusion techniques.

Toys, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics are suspected to be among the noncompliant products available to the Chinese shopping platform’s 90 million European users.

Tourists often visit sites marked by death, tragedy, and disaster out of macabre curiosity. What they typically find there is enlightenment, empathy, and a connection to history.

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul trying to tell us something about Meta?

Will AI actually change the world? Will work and socialization be constrained to the metaverse? Uncanny Valley provides an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley.

If you thought 2020 was bad, decisions from Big Tech and the US government have led to an internet that’s even worse off.

The state has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it's still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody's talking about. Even if Trump wins, it will remain a golden, global example.

We’ve asked every member of Congress whether they’ll accept the results as called by the Associated Press. Use our tool to see how your representatives answer.

A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro.

The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

If you think the United States is politically divided now, just wait for the AI culture wars.

From bulletproof glass, drones, and snipers to boulders blocking election offices, the US democratic system is bracing for violent attacks in 2024.

European ambitions to rein in the US tech giants depend on the outcome of the election—and the fate of antitrust firebrand Lina Khan.

The new 14- a16-inch laptops have some of the most powerful Apple silicon to date: the M4 Pro and M4 Max.

Make a house into a home with these gifts, whether they're moving into their first house or a great new apartment.