One of the most promising Chinese space startups, Space Pioneer, experienced a serious anomaly last weekend while testing the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket near the city of Gongyi. The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test …

As if Big Tech weren’t powerful enough already, recent decisions by the Supreme Court will give some of the most valuable companies in the world more latitude to undermine the government’s ability to rein them in, according to legal experts WIRED spoke to. “This has been a bad couple of …

Fourth of July might have you thinking about fireworks and making your family’s favorite summer recipes (mine is my grandmother's super-vinegary macaroni salad). But don't sleep on the excellent Fourth of July sales. We usually see mattresses go heavily on sale during President’s Day and Memorial Day, but now these …

Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose a pair of private companies to design and develop new spacesuits. These were to be new spacesuits that would allow astronauts to both perform spacewalks outside the International Space Station as well as …

Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned. AWS spokesperson Patrick Neighorn confirmed the company's investigation of Perplexity following a …

Even if you’ve never taken a puff from a vape, you know about Juul. At the company’s peak in 2018, its e-cigarette was one of the most recognizable consumer devices on the planet, and Juul Labs was valued at $38 billion. Just a few short years later, after being squeezed …

In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth from June 26 to an unspecified time in July. The announcement followed two days of long meetings to review the readiness of the spacecraft, developed by Boeing, to …

My Rumpl blankets have been a constant companion for the six years I’ve had them. The Rumpl Original Puffy came with me on a road trip across four states and 10 national parks, two Big Sur camping trips, and more car camping excursions than I can count, and it's been …

Sheets aren't cheap. Well, the good ones aren't. Having spent the past year testing bed sheets at prices ranging from $100 to $500 for our guide to the Best Bed Sheets, I can confirm that if you want sheets that will hold up over time and are made with better …

I bought a new-build home this year. It seemed like every property that I had looked at in my budget had a massive (and massively expensive) repair issue. Sometimes it was as simple as outdated electrical wiring or older pipes, but one seller was upfront that the entire property floods …