An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware that can't be removed without making the device cease to work, researchers reported on Thursday.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent…

The new year is finally here, and with it comes the promise of a lot of new games. If you want to know what you should be looking forward to in the coming months, here are WIRED's picks for the most anticipated games of 2020. Note that we're sticking with things we're almost certain are…

This year, Mark Zuckerberg gave up his famous New Year’s resolutions—the ones that led him to learn Mandarin, travel the country like a presidential candidate, and slaughter a goat—in lieu of a prophecy for 2030. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg outlined “some of the things that I think will be important in the next decade.”…

At its core, CES is a festival of desire, whether that’s for an affordable 5G phone, an inkjet beauty wand, or a personal pod transporter that means you’ll never have to walk again. It can be anticlimactic if you're at home. You realize that none of the dazzling gear you saw will be available for…

The biggest, glitziest consumer products show in North America took place during the first week of January. Around 200,000 attendees—a mix of manufacturers, retailers, technology buyers, and regular tourists—flew in to Las Vegas to interact with robots, try a few virtual reality demos, or tuck into an Impossible Pork slider. Our photographer Amy Lombard walked…

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Welcome to the first of Replay in the new decade! It might be a new year, but we're up to our old tricks: namely, bringing you the latest videogame news. Quite a bit has happened since our last installment. Fret not, we'll catch you up. Let's get started.No, the Developers of Escape From Tarkov Will…

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across all of its platforms by default. The move would grant strong new protections to well over a billion users. It's also not happening anytime soon.What Zuckerberg didn't spell out at the time is just how…

For most of us, moments of inspiration come when we're daydreaming in the shower, or when an apple falls out of a tree and hits us on the head (or doesn't—it in fact fell near Newton). For Iain Kerr, CEO of the conservation group Ocean Alliance, inspiration comes when you're on a boat in the…

A nudist church in Virginia where the pastor delivers sermons in his birthday suit. A drive-in church in Florida where parishioners can attend services from the comfort of their cars. A 500-foot-long, “Biblically accurate” reconstruction of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky. These wild and woolly corners of American Christianity are the focal points of French photographer…