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A judge will determine whether computer scientist Craig Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin. The network's future may hang in the balance.

We spoke with a product manager at Meta to learn how the company plans to bring interoperability to Threads in the coming months. It faces both technical and cultural challenges.

Houston-based rBIO has invented a new process to churn out insulin at higher yields using custom-made bacteria.

Stanley says it uses some lead in its “industry-standard” manufacturing process, so we asked if other brands do the same.

Songs previously licensed from Universal Music Group artists are disappearing from TikTok. #SwiftTok may never be the same.

An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.

Some prominent right-wing commentators say the relationship between Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is a ploy to keep President Biden in power. Psyop experts think otherwise.

The ASCII Theater, a project from art collective MSCHF, takes movies and breaks them into text. It’s fun—and possibly a copyright violation.

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.

WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful.

A man charged with murdering his father and showing his decapitated head on YouTube spent years ranting about extremist conspiracies.

This week, we learn what it feels like to use Apple's new mixed reality headset, and we examine the various ways Apple envisions people interacting with each other while wearing the devices.

Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change students’ perceptions of the industry.

Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

In the lead up to India’s elections, researchers have discovered a deluge of divisive and hate-filled content.

A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he’s trying to make TikTok better. Is the company’s CEO for real—or just a really good politician?

For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022.

YouTuber ToastedShoes had his Pokémon mod of Palworld taken down. Now he’s back with a new mod with “legally distinct” creatures—for as long as it lasts.

Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning pickup owners can now reserve complimentary adapters—but the real win is access to one of the largest and most developed charging networks in the world.

Music from Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny, and numerous other artists has been pulled from TikTok following a licensing dispute with Universal Music Group.