12 May Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?
12 May Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’ The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
12 May The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.
11 May Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They’re Flying Over NYC One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.
11 May Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
11 May How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience.
10 May The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026 The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw.
10 May Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more.
10 May Best Live-Captioning Smart Glasses (2026), WIRED tested Can’t hear what they’re saying? Now you can turn on the subtitles for real-life conversations.
09 May Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a sudden, unexpected wheel separation, thanks to the wrong grease and loose nuts.
