Wired

Mother Earth Mother Board

The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

The Long Tail

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endanger Us All

WIRED's 2009 cover story "An Epidemic of Fear" analyzed how unjustified and unscientific thinking was fueling a growing anti-vaccine moment.

Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops

Technology turns an age-old concept into an exciting new strategy for encouraging better behavior.

Why Inventors Misjudge How We’ll Abuse Their Creations

When it comes to tech and innovation, there's a flip side to farsightedness and a sense of clairvoyance: the blind spots that, in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious.

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1

How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

Synthetic Biology Could Bring a Pox on Us All

New methods are making it easier than ever to produce life-saving vaccines—and life-taking viruses that humanity is not prepared to fight.

Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life

In the Midwest, Christian entrepreneurs are searching for relief from the corrosive grind of company-building—while some faith leaders preach the gospel of crushing it.

The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

Welcome to Video’s customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.

Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation

The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.

I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory

As the US boosts production of silicon chips, a WIRED journalist goes inside the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

Mounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn’t. Welcome to the post-hunger age.

The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here

Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

In a Heat Wave, Schizophrenia Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other Medical Condition

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry

Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.

Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.