4th of July Sales (2019): 25 Best Tech Deals This Weekend
Well, it's not Memorial Day, and it's not quite Amazon Prime Day (that's coming July 15), but that doesn't mean...
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Mapping Apps for Camping and Hiking: AllTrails, Gaia, Topo Maps+
Ah, the great outdoors. The flora, the fauna, the welcome mystery of the open trail stretched before you. You’ve left...
REI 4th of July Sale: 13 Summer Outdoors Deals for 2019
You can't set off fireworks inside. Don't try and prove me wrong. It's just physics. Whether you're camped out in...
Caroline Criado Perez Explains the ‘Gender Data Gap’
Caroline Criado Perez is a social activist and journalist who, in 2017, successfully campaigned for British banknotes to feature the...
How to Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone
A thrilling fireworks display can confuse the automated settings on your smartphone. The explosions are fast, dynamic, and bright, and...
Microsoft’s Ebook Apocalypse, Facebook Drug Ads, and More News
It turns out you don't actually own your ebooks; those "Hims" and "Hers" ads you always see are against the...
Why You Still Can’t Buy Fireworks on Amazon
It may be known as the “everything store,” but there are some things, in fact, that Amazon does not sell....
Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay Review: A Cam and Printer In One
Despite the naysayers, print film refuses to die. Kodak resurrected one of it's most popular films, Ektachrome, and Fujifilm has...
The Second Coming of the Robot Pet
Mita Yun didn’t get into robotics to save the world. The lunar rovers she built as a student at Carnegie...
From Cameras to Kayaks, All the Stuff We Loved This Month
The bidet has been loved and uncontroversially utilized by much of the world. So why hasn't it been widely adopted...
Microsoft’s Ebook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
Your iTunes movies, your Kindle books—they’re not really yours. You don’t own them. You’ve just bought a license that allows...
How the iPhone Helped Save the Planet
The more than 2 billion iPhones sold since Apple first launched it exactly 12 years ago have done a lot...
All ThinkGeek Items Are 75% Off, Google Speakers on Sale Now
Our favorite source of nerdy gifts, ThinkGeek.com, is shutting down its website on July 2. You'll still be able to...
Gadget Lab Podcast: Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, a conversation with Aza Raskin, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology at...
New Balance’s Latest Shoes Come With 3D-Printed Soles
If you currently own a pair of running shoes, the odds are that the midsole—the shock-absorbing layer in between the...
Steven Levy on Jony Ive’s Design Legacy
“I want to buy from somebody who’s fanatic, not indifferent. You know they’re going to put that amount of care...
Jony Ive’s Leaving Apple, Twitter’s Policing Politicians, and More News
Jony Ive—designer of the iPhone—is leaving Apple; Twitter is finally cracking down on politicians; and WIRED has a list of...
Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
The man who designed the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone—and even the Apple Store—is leaving Apple. Jony Ive announced in...
