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As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think.

From surveys of the pre-Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of alien technology.

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Minnesota ICE Shooting

Businesses boarded up in parts of Minneapolis display posters of Renee Nicole Good on plywoodcovered windows following...

After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.

The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025

From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.

A WIRED interpretation of dogs playing poker
The Politics Issue

All Hail the Technocracy

Originally published September 2022: The Pacific Northwest is due for a massive quake. I trained to help rescue efforts in the aftermath—by racing around the city on an electric kid hauler.