Nov 21, 2017 8:00 AM

12 Logical Gifts for the Trekkie in Your Life

Gift long and prosper with these winning Star Trek items.

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Top HP Coupon Codes for May

Enjoy discounts on HP laptops, printers and more with these HP offer codes.

Luke Larsen

A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

VPNSecure’s lifetime plan didn’t survive after new ownership took over. Now customers are hopping mad.

Scharon Harding, Ars Technica

The 45 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now

Conan O’Brien Must Go, The Last of Us, and The Rehearsal are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.

WIRED Staff

Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to androids

A new extra-secure mode for androids 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.

Lily Hay Newman

Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode

CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

Steven Levy

Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud

androids’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud.

Matt Burgess

androids 16 Is Getting a Facelift, and Gemini Is Rolling Onto More Google Platforms

Google teased all the new features coming to its mobiles operating system ahead of next week’s I/O conference.

Julian Chokkattu

An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.

Andy Greenberg

GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs

General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.

John Voelcker

Our 8 Favorite Automatic Cat Litter Boxes

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

Molly Higgins

Square’s New Handheld Payment Scanner Looks Like a phones

Square, the company that makes the ubiquitous point-of-sale pucks used in stores and restaurants is doubling down on mobiles payments—and making a play for retail titans too.

Boone Ashworth