communication
Is It OK to Listen to a Butt-Dial Message?
WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist explores the forgotten comfort of accidental surveillance.
What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?
Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions.
How to Use Tech to Say Thank You
From recordings to custom visuals, here are some future-forward ways to show you appreciate someone.
Body Language Pseudoscience Is Flourishing on YouTube
In celebrity interviews and homicide cases, video sleuths are searching for the truth—but what if the signals are all wrong?
How Wavelets Let Researchers Transform and Understand Data
Built upon the ubiquitous Fourier transform, these mathematical tools allow unprecedented analysis of continuous signals.
GPS III’s Long Journey Is Picking Up Speed
With the launch of a fifth new-generation satellite, the US finally has a constellation able to globally beam M-Code signals that are tough to spoof or jam.
4 Tips to Send (and Receive) Better Texts
Sure, hitting send is easy. But these tips can help make sure everyone's messages are coming across loud and clear.
Remote Weddings and Memorials Are Here to Stay. Be Prepared
Are you Zooming, streaming, or Skyping big life events? Here’s how to better prepare for tech glitches so you can get to the church on time.
Slack Now Lets You DM Anyone. So Long, Work-Life Balance
Now people you don’t work with can send you direct messages in Slack. It’s not necessarily an “email killer,” but it’s also not great for chats.
Move Over, Zoom—Voice Memos Are the Real Way to Stay in Touch
Video makes me anxious, and it doesn't help that everyone's doing it. But I have discovered a new way to connect—one that's both intimate and asynchronous.
Read the (Virtual) Room! How to Improve Your Digital Nunchi
We all can learn to be better, more empathetic communicators—especially now that we’re all behind screens instead of in-person.
Videoconferencing Needs to Climb Out of the Uncanny Valley
Many people will continue to WFH more, but remote communication tools are still lacking. Tech companies are racing to add more presence to our telepresence.
Games Like Fortnite Are Today's 'Third Places'
As the online game is proving with Travis Scott and Party Royale, digital places are every bit as legitimate as their analog counterparts.
NASA's Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab
A national quantum internet would enable ultra-secure data transmission. But first, we're going to need some space lasers.
Want to Ditch Zoom? Jitsi Offers an Open-Source Alternative
As we spend more time on videoconferences, concerns mount about trust. Emil Ivov says you shouldn't have to trust anyone.
Lights! Camera! Meeting! Videoconferencing Gets a Makeover
Companies like Zoom and Microsoft are trying to make the remote connections more real—and fun. Trouble is, humans are awkward.
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters
The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications.
I Tweeted Out My Phone Number—and Rediscovered Humanity
After I was digitally shamed on Twitter, I posted my phone number. What I got in return was the kindness of strangers.
This Gadget Communicates Human Emotions Through Touch
Thanks to some innovations at Bell Labs, you’ll soon be able to express your heart through your sleeve.
Basecamp 3 Will Change the Way You Think About Work—Again
On Tuesday, Basecamp founder and CEO Jason Fried launched Basecamp 3, the first major redesign since 2012.
Write the Perfect Email to Anyone With This Creepy Site
Crystal is definitely creepy, perhaps useful, and almost certainly a look at how we'll communicate in the future.
The One Feature a Great Smartwatch Needs
Apple could move from the edge of the white-hot messaging space to its very center, simply by selling the most accessible messaging device.
What Makes Texts Feel Like Real Communication? The Smiling Poo Emoji
In an increasingly cold world, all we need for a little warmth is a smiling pile of poo.
Readers Advice Needed for Capsule Antenna Fittings, Space Vodka and Helmut the Astronaut Ant
Dear readers, Just a heads up on the major puzzle that has begun to fit all avionics and communication systems into our test capsule TDS80. From the very beginning René and I decided to create and open architecture which allow for maximum flexibility on interior systems installation. It think the idea has proven itself to […]