French company Idemias algorithms scan faces by the million. The companys facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and France. Idemia software checks the faces of some cruise ship passengers landing in the US against Customs and Border …

In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescopea dish in Australia that had been tracking pulsars, the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of once massive stars…

Space! The final frontier! Humankind has gone there a few times now, but nothing has seemed to capture the imaginationor, at least, the American imaginationlike the Apollo 11 mission. It happened 50 years ago this week. We celebrated here at WIRED Transpo by …

I appreciate a good cup of coffee, but I love a reliable and easy coffee machine. This past year, Ive taken shot after shot of caffeine from dozens of cold brew coffee makers, French presses, and cappuccino machinesall in the name of WIRED. I've even popped a…

Two years ago a novelist and as-yet-unproduced screenwriter named Nic Kelman went to work for Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes the popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Kelmans job, though he might not put it this way, was to write a…

Few things are surer to get applause at Comic-Con International than bringing the actor Patrick Stewart onto a stage. As both Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation (and movies) and Professor X from one of the X-Men movie timelines, Stewart…

Kenny Rogers famously wrote "you've got to know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." And although Rogers was most definitely not referring to investing in his famous tune, the applicability of his words to mone…

President Donald Trump said he could win the war in Afghanistan — a brutal conflict the US has been waging for nearly two decades — "in a week," but he doesn't want to kill roughly one third of the country's population. "If we wanted to fight a war in Afgh…

Comcast Cable executive Matt Strauss has had a front-row seat to the seismic shifts upending the pay-TV industry, as head of the 56-year-old company's Xfinity unit, which includes home video, internet, security, and phone services. The industry is poised f…

Two workers at the airstrip on St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, said they witnessed Jeffrey Epstein brazenly flying to his private island with young girls after he became a convicted pedophile and had to register as a sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein is p…