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Every winter, 80,000 people gather in the California desert for King of the Hammers, a popular racing series featuring high-speed relays and rock crawling with dirt bikes, stock VW Bugs, and million-dollar trophy trucks.
This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms
WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.
The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.
Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.
Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.
Our Favorite Amazon Streaming Stick Is Almost Half Off
The Best Earplugs for Concerts, Bedtime, and Anytime
The Best Android Phones, Tested and Reviewed
How Trump’s Plot to Grab Iran's Nuclear Fuel Would Actually Work
Experts say that an American ground operation targeting nuclear sites in Iran would be incredibly complicated, put troops’ lives at great risk—and might still fail.
In a place denied access to basic forensic technology—and where people disappear into Israeli detention—the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager.
The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
How American Camouflage Conquered the World
Things Fall Apart
23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century
The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025
Originally published December 2018: In 1988 a bomb downed a jet in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 in the first major attack on Americans. Robert Mueller, then the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, oversaw the case. For him, it was personal.
Where to Find the Energy to Save the World
Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town
