True Anomaly, a startup backed by US senator JD Vance's VC firm, plans to launch prototype…
Author: Mark Harris
A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal…
The Family That Mined the Pentagon’s Data for Profit
The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys…
Google vs. Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and Civil War General
To secure the land for its multibillion-dollar Downtown West development, the company has had to track…
How Google Geofence Warrants Helped Catch Capitol Rioters
A WIRED investigation has found 45 federal criminal cases that cite Google geolocation data to place…
Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones
The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly.
NASA’s Space Shuttle Rises From the Dead to Power New Vehicles
New documents show that Boeing wants to use Space Shuttle engines on a secret military project,…
An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future
EyeDetect is pitched as more efficient and accurate than a polygraph, but a WIRED investigation found…
SpaceX’s Next Launch Will Spark a Space Internet Showdown
An unusual SpaceX launch will carry several startups' satellites, some of which will jockey to provide…
If You Drive in Los Angeles, Palantir and LAPD Are Watching
Records show police agencies tap license-plate readers hundreds of thousands of times a year.