Two phrases. The first: "It's no longer a question of 'if,' but a matter of 'when.'"That was the all-caps message that flashed across the giant screens at San Jose Convention Center yesterday before Mark Zuckerberg walked onstage to kick of Oculus Connect 6. Since Facebook acquired virtual-reality company Oculus in 2014, Zuckerberg has been the…

Beauty is sought. It wants for consideration—to be fawned over, talked about breathlessly, uploaded, debated and argued about, memed ad infinitum. There is, particularly with respect to our modern consumption habits online, an urge to enshrine the flicker, that momentary and unexpected gasp of genuine wonder. We want to hold it and live with it…

In three short years, the Defcon Voting Village has gone from a radical hacking project to a stalwart that surfaces voting machine security issues. This afternoon, its organizers released findings from this year's event—including urgent vulnerabilities from a decade ago that still plague voting machines currently in use.Voting Village participants have confirmed the persistence of…

Three years into the Trump administration, the US government still doesn’t know how to handle Donald Trump as president. That’s the simple conclusion from a dramatic morning in Washington, DC, that saw both the release of the nine-page complaint by an intelligence official whistle-blower and testimony about those allegations by a visibly uncomfortable Joseph Maguire,…

I test a lot of phones here at WIRED. Smartphones incrementally change each year, and they’ve become more of an essential utility and less of a source of the tech world’s greatest innovations. I often appreciate their new features, but few of those enhancements spark actual joy. The OnePlus 7T, however, has done just that.…

Good day, and welcome to a new installment of The Monitor, WIRED's pop culture news roundup. This week we have a lot of news about comic-book heroes (and antiheroes), ranging from Batman to Ghost Rider. Let's get going!Hulu Is No Longer Making a Ghost Rider SeriesThe streaming wars giveth, and the streaming wars taketh away.…

After escalating revelations about President Donald Trump's interactions with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, the whistle-blower complaint at the heart of them has finally been released. And while parts have been redacted, the nine-page document details not only what took place in a controversial July 25 conversation between the two heads of state, but how the…

They finally did it. After years—no, decades—of declaring their hopes and dreams with hardly any practical results, researchers in the quantum computing community have delivered on a promise. Or have they?Last week, news leaked that researchers at Google and other institutions had solved a problem on a quantum computer 1 billion times faster than a…

Every Sunday Suz Hinton sits down at her computer to write code. Unlike most programmers who work on open source projects on their own in their spare time, she programs as hundreds of people watch online.Hinton livestreams her screen as she types JavaScript code. But she doesn’t just write code: Hinton also verbally explains what…

Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring, are documenting facets of suburban existence that once went unnoticed.For years, citizens have used smartphones to monitor their neighborhoods, especially instances of police misconduct or…