Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

I’m David Gilbert, a reporter on WIRED’s Politics desk covering disinformation and online extremism. I’m filling in for Makena this week, and wanted to talk about reality. Not in the sense of whether ...

Like anyone working in a creative field, I need to come up with lots of ideas. A few years ago, I decided to create an “Idea File.” I ripped out magazine and newspaper clippings and kept them in a ...

A new book, “Automating Inequality,” catalogs the ways government technology for the poor often ends up being punitive rather than uplifting. In Los Angeles, an algorithm helps decide who–out of ...

Any companies worried about employee turnover can actually predict when workers will want to leave, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Companies like Wal-Mart, Credit Suisse, and Box have ...