REI Labor Day Sale: 29 Best Outdoor Deals for 2019
For many newbies, the first outdoor gear store they set foot in will probably be an REI. One of WIRED's...
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Reddit Now Lets You Livestream. What Could Go Wrong?
On Friday, a series of cryptic posts began to appear on r/pan, a Reddit community that seemed to materialize out...
Form Swim Goggles Review: Fitness Tracking at the Pool
When my mother uses an elliptical machine, she covers the screen with a towel. She says she doesn’t want to...
Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About $5)
Airports have robot coffee now. But first, consider that moment—you’ve experienced this—where your multiply delayed flight finally lands, maybe at...
Best Gaming Mouse for 2019 (WIRED Tested, Wireless, Cheap)
Picking a gaming mouse is a very personal endeavor. Everyone's hands are different, everyone's preferences and needs are different, and...
Back-to-School Sales for 2019: Best Tech Deals We Could Find
The air is cooling, the days are getting shorter, and the school-goers among us are returning to their desks and...
Apple Puts the AR in ‘Art’ (and in ‘Transparent Sky-Being’)
Thanks to a hot desert air mass stalling over San Francisco, the sky was a fogless blue, which made the...
Adobe Fresco for iPad: Price, First Look, Release Date
Creating art on the iPad Pro is a joy. It got me to draw every day—something I hadn’t done since...
Gadget Lab Podcast: The Dirty Wars Inside Google
For years, Google has flourished in large part because of its famously open internal workings. Leadership encouraged active and vocal...
10 Best Laptops for 2019 (MacBook, Chromebook, Windows 10)
Buying any laptop is a big decision: You may end up using it for years before buying another, and there...
At Twitter, It Seems No One Can Hear the Screams
On Tuesday, Twitter hosted a small press event at its headquarters in San Francisco. It was a hot day, a...
Google Assistant Now Lets You Send Reminders to Other People
These days, any moderately skilled virtual assistant can serve your immediate needs—tell me the weather, play me a song—and anticipate...
Dell XPS 13 (2019) Review: A Great Compact Laptop
Dell's latest XPS 13 has achieved something near nirvana. It's not perfect, but it's about as close as a compact...
Nate Mitchell Exits Facebook, Taking Oculus Era With Him
Since virtual reality re-emerged in 2012, one word has arguably been synonymous with the futuristic technology: Oculus. That was the...
Apple ‘Service’ Alerts for DIY iPhone Battery Swaps Are a Blow Against Right to Repair
Last week, YouTuber Justin Ashford swapped the original battery in an iPhone XR with one he bought from an electronics...
Allbirds Steps Into Apparel with Sustainable Socks
When Allbirds set out to reinvent footwear in 2014, it couldn’t have anticipated that its shoes would become a staple...
Snap Bets Its Future on a Stylish New Pair of Spectacles
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. For Snap, the maker of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat,...
10 Best Wireless Earbuds WIRED Has Tried (True Wireless)
Wirefree (true wireless) earbuds are one of those ideas that sounds like a dream: Pop a tiny, little earbud into...
