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King Charles sent a poignant good luck message to Canadian Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen who represents the Commonwealth on the historic lunar mission16:31, 02 Apr 2026Updated 16:32, 02 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesThe Artemis 2 flight is…

Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came to…

The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this week to become embroiled in a growing clash between geopolitics and global…

Luis von Ahn could have retired to a beach somewhere years ago. Best known as the CEO of the learning app Duolingo, von Ahn in the 2000s invented the captcha, those infuriating little online tests that force people to prove they’re not…

An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.In Wuhan, a city in central China…

Ronnie O'Sullivan has made history by scoring the highest break ever in a professional snooker match, recording a stunning 153 against Ryan Day at the World Open in ChinaKieran King Senior Sports Writer, Richard Cusack Sport Content Editor…

More than half of the nine developers who worked on the game have either obtained a US visa or tried and failed to do so. Most of them are from China, but the team also intentionally recruited talent from other countries in the hopes of…

The two men were reportedly looking to sell the ants for thousands in China, having bred them in Kenya, but were stopped by officials at the airport following a prolonged probeEdward Easton22:14, 18 Mar 2026View 4 ImagesWhat would you do if…

The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. On March 26, our panel of experts will help make sense of Big Tech's role in various military operations unfolding across the world—including the federal government's…

Should people be worried about chewing microplastics?No, we've never had one complaint about microplastics since I've been here. If you do enough research, there’s a lot to be learned on what's real and what's not real, what's toxic.…