Authority Figures: Movie Talk and the Rise of Review Culture
It’s a kind of FOMO, I suppose. The internet has conditioned us toward hot takes, so when it seems like...
Gear / Trends
Little Talk of Sustainability at Amazon’s Big Hardware Event
Amazon hasn’t divulged exact numbers for how many Echos, Fire TVs, Eeros, or Ring cameras it sells each year, but...
Amazon Won’t Stop Until Alexa’s Always With You
Alexa earbuds. Alexa glasses. An Alexa ring. Amazon announced them all today at its annual hardware showcase. What all the...
The PlantWave Device Lets Your Houseplants Play Music
In 2011, the artists Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson set up a jungle's worth of tropical plants in the Philadelphia...
Top 3 Semiautonomous Cars for the Non-Millionaire
2019 Tesla Model 3 Tesla has had its issues with Autopilot, most notably a wrongful-death lawsuit from the family of...
Zero’s Latest Electric Motorcycle Makes for a Zappy Commute
Michael oversees WIRED's consumer products coverage in print and on the web, and is one of the hosts of WIRED's...
How Apple Arcade Will Reshape Mobile Gaming
Apple has been complicit in all of this, taking a 30 percent cut of all in-app purchases. (Google does this...
The Biggest iPhone News Is the New Apple U1 Chip Inside It
This week, as they do every year around this time, Apple executives rotated through a few mostly predictable announcements. There...
The Biggest iPhone News Is the Apple U1 Chip Inside It
This week, as they do every year around this time, Apple executives rotated through a few mostly predictable announcements. There...
Touchless Gesture Controls on Phones? Think Bigger
Last week in New York City, Samsung formally announced its Galaxy Note10 smartphone. As is typical at these kinds of...
Digital Textbooks Are Forcing a Radical Shift in Higher Ed
For several decades, textbook publishers followed the same basic model: Pitch a hefty tome of knowledge to faculty for inclusion...
Intel Ice Lake Processors: Specs, Details, Release Date
Today we learned everything there is to know about the new Intel chip that will likely power the next laptop...
Google’s New Gesture Controls Aren’t Just for the Pixel
When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone in 2007, its most spellbinding feature—the one that set it apart from BlackBerrys...
To Compete With Mattress Startups, Tempur Sealy Plugs Into Data
For more than 130 years, Tempur Sealy has been in the business of sleep. In 1889, back when it was...
Could Feds Force Companies to Support Your Right to Repair?
Last Tuesday in Washington, DC, while Facebook executive David Marcus was being grilled by a Senate committee over the company’s...
Pinterest Wants You to Relax, Equifax’s $700M Fine, and More News
Pinterest wants to calm you down, Equifax gets hit with a record fine, and facial recognition is still struggling with...
Pinterest’s New Search Tool Puts Stress Relief in Your Feed
On the increasingly polarized internet, Pinterest often feels like the good place. The platform is a collation of personalized happiness—a...
Unicode’s Website Redesign Makes It Easier to Suggest New Emoji
If you wanted to send a tweet using Mayan hieroglyphics, or call upon the Phaistos disc symbols to craft the...
