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NASA’s Newest Spinoff Tech Comes Back to Earth
While the space agency didn't actually develop Tang, its R&D includes everything from robot gloves to vertical farming—with commercial benefits back home.
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.
10 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself)
Treat the techie in your life to tomes revealing the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping big tech.
Thinking of Sending That Quick 'Love You' Text? Just Do It
Even one message can mean a lot to your family and friends.
Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ Runners Hack Their Treadmills
NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trick—until the company blocked their access.
Big Tech's Psychedelics Grift
There's no need for expensive clinics with woo accoutrements—real transformation means access for all.
15 Smart Gifts to Upgrade Your Beauty Routine
Give your loved ones the gift of feeling fabulous with these cosmetic tools and sets.
How to Use Tech to Capture Your Family History
Our elders have rich stories to share. There’s no better time than now to sit down and hit Record.
How to Get Great Tech Support—From Home
If you're in your home office for the long haul, you can still get the TLC you need for your IT. Here are some options.
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.
Hamlet 2000 Has Never Made More Sense
Michael Almereyda’s future-minded Shakespeare adaptation (with a WIRED cameo) is 20 years old. Now it feels like an eerie premonition.
Giving Gadgets As Gifts? Get Ready to Answer These Questions
Bestowing tech gifts means anticipating confusion about privacy and recurring fees. Here's how to ease the minds of loved ones this year.
A Sleek, High-Storage, Leak-Proof Product? In Trash, It's Possible
Recapping the biggest moments from Glad's 2020 Kitchen Keynote
This Smart Mirror Makes Following Makeup Tutorials Easy
The HiMirror Slide is a tablet-mirror hybrid that lets you play YouTube next to the mirror, but it can also analyze your skin and keep track of your skincare products.
Sci-Fi Has a Somber Lesson for This Crisis
Technology can save the world. But discord between humans persists, and it's the kind that kills.
The Coronavirus May Actually Reinforce US-China Economic Ties
Talk of shifting supply chains away from China has quieted as illness spreads in the West. Reduced demand meets rebounding supply.
We Can’t Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO
Who cares about my friends? I'm missing the news!
What if All Your Secrets Went Public?
A work of fiction about the aftermath of the worst data breach imaginable.
Your Kids Will Look at Internet Porn. Deal With It
It is inevitable. Peggy Orenstein explains how to cope with it.
How Much You Should Worry About Tech, From AI to Hacked Nukes
Technology is changing all our lives so profoundly, so quickly, that it can be scary. We asked experts to weigh in on how stressed we should be.
Free Speech, Tech Turmoil, and the New Censorship
Special Issue: How technology is upending everything we thought we knew about public discourse.
How We're Born. How We Live. How We Die—It's All Changing
Special Issue: Science and technology are extending, optimizing, and disrupting every stage of human life, from miracle babies to swipe-happy seniors.
How to Survive the Great Tech Panic of 2017
Every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. You just have to learn to stop worrying and love the future.