Rants & Raves

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.

I sifted through the fine print and figured out how to score the best deal right now on all the major carriers.

Verizon introduced a new plan that costs $45 per month, revamped rewards programs, and more today.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.