The rescue operation to get Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela involved disguises, two boats through choppy seas and a flight, the man who says he ...

How a Jefferson physician's frustration sparked an invention that could transform how patients carry life-saving medication.

UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World ...

In a review written in 2013 of John Williamson’s “Stoner,” Tim Kreider snagged the attention of  The New Yorker readers with this title: “The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard of.” This year, ...

Germany, the land of tech pioneers, still relies on fax and paper for basic public services. Why is digital government stuck ...

Exams were not invented by any one person, but evolved over centuries from ancient civil service tests—especially China’s imperial examinations—to modern written and standardized assessments with ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...

How a physician's frustration sparked an invention licensed by a Boston-area medical device startup that could transform how patients carry life-saving medication.

Netflix on Dec. 5 announced an agreement to acquire Warner Bros.' film and television studios, HBO Max, and DC Studios for ...