The shift to electric vehicles is exciting, but it will leave us with thousands of tonnes of spent batteries. | Continue reading
NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trick—until the company blocked their access. | Continue reading
The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different? | Continue reading
Climate change is putting coffee production under pressure. Lab-grown coffee offers an alternative. | Continue reading
Pulling disaffected young men back from the brink is complicated, and it’s making academics question their whole approach to extremism | Continue reading
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered. | Continue reading
Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal. | Continue reading
The Meta dream envisages whole companies operating in a virtual world. Many made the switch years ago—with mixed results. | Continue reading
Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change we must move past doomsday scenarios. | Continue reading
More and more people are collecting vintage computers. And they’re getting more than they bargained for | Continue reading
Google claims the Pixel 6 is its first true flagship Pixel, taking on Samsung and Apple. Great price, great specs and great fun make it a compelling package | Continue reading
Concrete is responsible for more than four percent of all global CO2 emissions. In the race to find alternatives, some companies are using it to sequester CO2 instead | Continue reading
In May 2017 a runner pushed a woman in front of a London bus. Despite the city’s vast CCTV network – and the close attentions of internet sleuths – the case remains unsolved | Continue reading
Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us | Continue reading
Worldcoin wants to get one billion people into its new cryptocurrency by the end of 2022 – with a little help from iris-scanning Orbs | Continue reading
In the world of in-running sports betting, fractions of a second can equal big money | Continue reading
Two companies are convinced that the historical mining region of Cornwall holds a bounty of lithium, but first they need to get to it | Continue reading
Podcasts continue to operate outside the platform-dominated internet. Spotify’s ambitions are changing that, for better or worse | Continue reading
Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us | Continue reading
Workers quit in droves during the Great Resignation of 2021. But companies desperate for hires are finding their job adverts are still ignored | Continue reading
The Robert Oppenheimer line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define the father of the atomic bomb, but its meaning is more complex than many realise | Continue reading
Scotland’s government is trialling a groundbreaking four-day working week, but it’s powerless to make widespread change happen | Continue reading
By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer | Continue reading
Hundreds of young people are displaying strikingly similar tic-like behaviours. But is it Tourette’s, or something more mysterious? | Continue reading
The UK managed to get a data adequacy agreement with the EU. But its planned changes for GDPR could rip this apart | Continue reading
The Age Appropriate Design Code – now the Children’s Code – has caused huge global changes. Not that tech platforms want to admit it | Continue reading
The Efail vulnerability punches a hole in the encrypted PGP protocols. For the best secure messaging, you should turn to the Signal app | Continue reading
Around the world, workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – and bosses are still scrambling to figure out how to keep them | Continue reading
When a paedophile or rapist films their crime, professor Sue Black can track them down using nothing more than the veins, scars and other markings on their hands | Continue reading
Eighteen months of using front-facing cameras has distorted our self-image – and a new study reveals that the effects aren't going away easily | Continue reading
Heath Robinson's name has been used to describe absurdly complex, makeshift contraptions since the early 20th century. Despite this, the man behind the name is largely unknown. WIRED investigates | Continue reading
The digital yuan was born as China’s answer to Facebook's Libra. But it’s much more than that | Continue reading
Name discrimination is alive and well in 2021 – and I can’t help but wonder what impact it’s had on my life | Continue reading
Pinning down the true number of people suffering from long Covid is an important task. It’s also proving impossible | Continue reading
Every photo and every data point is a link to the old way of life in Afghanistan – and a reason for Taliban retribution | Continue reading
Yes, keeping your phone on charge overnight is bad news for its battery. And no, you don’t need to turn off your device to give the battery a break. Here’s why | Continue reading
For FIFA 22, EA Sports motion-captured a 90-minute contest between two Spanish sides. Its echoes will be felt by millions of gamers | Continue reading
If you close your eyes and picture an apple, how clear is that apple in your mind?Most people can visualise images in their head instantaneously - this known as the mind's eye.But in 2015, a scientific study shed new light on the relatively unheard-of phenomenon known as aphantas … | Continue reading
You can’t tow an electric car when it’s run out of charge, so what do you do? | Continue reading
Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business | Continue reading
More than ten million of us have downloaded it, despite the government saying vaccine passports aren’t a thing. What gives? | Continue reading
Almost as soon as we learn to talk, we learn to swear, says Emma Byrne, author of Swearing is Good for You | Continue reading
AlphaFold has provided the clearest picture yet of the human proteome. Now DeepMind is making its work available to the world | Continue reading
It’s not Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Wednesday. In fact, the very idea of a ‘best’ day to go into the office is misguided | Continue reading
Filmmakers love time travel. Thankfully we do too | Continue reading
NetBlocks has become a crucial source of truth in the era of internet shutdowns. But many are now questioning its methods | Continue reading
With the 12.9in iPad Pro already at the very edge of being manageable, the rumoured supersize iPad Pro Max makes no sense at all | Continue reading