In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force.

A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.

The economics of cheaper batteries—and why they're good news for the planet.

Countries around the world have responded to the covid-19 coronavirus with lockdowns, restrictions, and technology solutions that use artificial intelligence to combat the virus. As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, China is first to emerge from covid-19 imposed lockdowns thanks to cutting-edge technology, with autonomous vehicles and smart cities seeing an acceleration during this…

Researchers in Europe have developed electrode-sporting temporary tattoos that may one day be used to read brainwaves. Here's why they could be a game-changer.

On the far side of an office park in a suburb of Seattle, a supercomputer is teaching itself to beat the stock market. The holy grail of high finance doesn’t look like much: eight rows of servers enshrined in a black metal frame. But inside this austere enclosure, an incredible alchemy is taking place. Four hundred computers blink and hum as market data is digested at a rate of one quadrillion calculations per second, firing order requests to electronic traders in Chicago, 2,000 miles away.

Quantum-resistant or post-quantum cryptography is our best bet against attacks from upcoming quantum computers.

AI looks poised for use in all phases of making a movie, from analyzing viewers' reactions to creating digital humans: "Decades from now, an AI algorithm will make your movie from the text of the script."

Key to the breakthrough was an ingenious way of implanting photosensors into a dome-shaped artificial retina.

More than 1,000 scientists in the Asia-Pacific region are harnessing particle accelerators to look deep into the human brain

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.

Engineers in China have developed a fossil fuel-free jet propulsion prototype design that uses microwave air plasmas. If scientists can figure out a way to turn their design into a working engine, the technology could dramatically shrink the carbon footprint of the transportation industry.

Here's the WIRED guide to catch you up on everything you should know about robotics.

After trying to fly the biggest plane in the world, Stratolaunch embarks on a new project called Talon-A. They’re developing a reusable rocket able to reach hypersonic speeds, Space News reports. The rocket will be used as part of commercial transportation, but the company would also reach a deal with the US government and especially the US Army. With hypersonic speeds, the rocket Talon-A could be particularly useful and effective in the context of solving offensive as defensive scenarios.

A Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust.

Coronavirus is a huge crisis for the meat industry — while Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are surging.

Predictions of the future are often wildly inaccurate. For example, Back To The Future promised us hoverboards, while almost everyone who saw Blade Runner couldn’t wait to get their hands on a flying car. Unfortunately, neither are readily available to the general public yet, which is a crying shame.

Chef Christina Tosi, Roblox CEO David Baszucki and others predict what’s next for the way their industries work.

“We saw that business double overnight,” startup says of UK grocery deliveries.

Experts who assess global peril saw a pandemic coming, but they have worse worries for humanity