There's a scant 68 days until Christmas is once again upon us, and 65 until Hanukkah begins. There are likely plenty of people left on your shopping list, including those few who are always impossible to buy for (looking at you, Dad) so we want to lend you a helping hand: If you find yourself…

In a major reversal for the franchise, Activision has announced that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will not include a loot-box system. Specifically, the company says that "all functional content that has an impact on game balance, such as base weapons and attachments, can be unlocked simply by playing the game."ARS TECHNICAThis story…

If experiments on the ground are cool, experiments in the sky are cooler. And so we can count ourselves extra icey this week, as we got to see to high-flying studies. First, we chatted with aviation company UAV Turbines, which is building mini, watermelon-sized jet engines. Pourquoi? Turns out 500- to 1,000-pound drones need power…

The Takeaway: As absolutely crazy as Giuliani's week has been, here's a somewhat staggering possibility: All of this is just prologue to what could be even more dramatic in the near future.Lady Gaga Doesn't Know What Fortnite IsWhat Happened: As a welcome palette cleanser, let's take a look at what Lady Gaga is up to…

Rokus are the most popular TV streaming boxes for good reason: They're super easy to use, and they offer a very wide array of streaming channels.Figuring out which one to buy, well, that's not so easy. There are nine different Roku streaming devices available now (not including TVs and soundbars), and you'll find a ton…

We're living in a golden age of mobile photography. Every smartphone keynote kicks off with companies like Apple, Google, and Samsung trying desperately to one-up each other in a never-ending photographic arms race. The winner here is you, and me, and everyone else who leaves the house every day with a killer little camera in…

In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren’t very good at understanding the written word. Sure, they had become decent at simulating that understanding in certain narrow domains, like automatic translation or sentiment analysis (for example, determining if a sentence sounds “mean or nice,”…

In the wake of WeWork’s failed IPO last month, schadenfreude fans had a lot to cheer from Adam Neumann’s fall from grace. The once high-flying CEO lost his job, his corporate jet, over a billion dollars of liquidity, and voting control over the company he founded a decade ago.It would be easy to write off…

If you were to rate all of the cool options for smoking food, propane smokers would be near the bottom. There are so many flashier alternatives to cook and infuse smoky flavor like a Big Green Egg, a Weber Summit or modified Weber kettle grill, an ace in the hole like the PK 360 Grill…

The first thing you should read about cybersecurity this week, if you somehow haven't already, is this in-depth look at Olympic Destroyer, the malware that plagued the Pyeongchang Olympics. An excerpt from WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg's upcoming book Sandworm, the feature from our November issue details how investigators figured out who was behind the…