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This week in WIRED Book Club, we recap the final chapters of The Yahoo Boys.

The soft, oddly intimate home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

This week in WIRED Book Club, we cover chapters 7-9 of The Yahoo Boys.

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán joined Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

A flip phone with 5G, USB-C, a headphone jack, and a removable battery? Say it ain’t so.

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Trump has remade the nation’s capitol in his own image. Ahead of the Fourth of July, WIRED guides you through the dizzying effects of DC’s makeover.

Planning a Fourth of July getaway? Use less gas—and cut your emissions—by easing up on the pedal.

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.