My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum
I could say it started when I turned 33—my Jesus year, the year I vowed to transcend anxiety and exhaustion...
Gear / Trends
AI Can Clone Your Favorite Podcast Host’s Voice
“You have to ask the company, ‘how is my AI voice going to be stored? Are you actually storing my...
Can Burning Man Pull Out of Its Climate Death Spiral?
It was desperation that led Michelle into a BDSM tent at Burning Man. Not a desperate need for a spanking....
Robotaxis Are Going to Sound Weird
Zoox has designed a whole suite of sounds for its vehicles. The resulting audio palette sounds like the synthy soundtrack...
Watches & Wonders 2023: Rolex Has an Emoji Watch
Having debuted the tech in a limited-edition watch last year, Oris is now applying it to what was already one of...
The Future Smartphone: More Folds, Less Phone, a Whole Lot of AI
The mighty smartphone is facing a reckoning—at least from a sales perspective. During the 2022 holiday season, smartphone shipments declined more...
Replace the Leather in Your Wallet With Seafood Waste
The team believes its chitosan formulation can be slotted right into currently available machinery for producing polyurethane or PVA (that...
Zillow Rate Your Neighbors? Designer Soren Iverson Reimagines Apps
Soren Iverson blames Spotify, if “blames” is the right word. Back in 2015, the music streaming company launched Wrapped, a year-end...
Dating Apps Crack Down on Romance Scammers
Michael Steinbach, the head of global fraud detection at Citi and the former executive assistant director of the FBI’s National...
I Started a Bike Bus, and You Can Too
Recruit a crew. One adult isn’t enough to have a safe bike bus, so another parent volunteered to serve as...
I Spent a Week Using Only TikTok for Search
Google is reportedly in “code red” mode, deploying resources and calling in its cofounders to address perceived threats to its extremely...
The Best Cars, Rides, and Auto Tech of CES 2023
Proof, if it were needed, of just how much of CES has become an auto show landed at the 2023...
The Best of CES 2023: Cars, PCs, Hearing Aids, and Wireless TVs
If you made the switch to an electric bike during the pandemic, then you want—nay, need and deserve—a bike that’s as safe and...
Here’s What You Can Expect at CES 2023
After going remote at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, CES returned to Las Vegas in 2022 for a hybrid...
Sure, Kids Can Develop iPhone Apps. But It’s Not Easy
Apple first released Swift Playgrounds as an iPad app in 2016, and a MacOS version followed in 2020. It's free...
Jessica Henwick Shot a Movie on a Phone. It Wasn’t Exactly Easy
“There's definitely a stigma in the industry. I wouldn't really say from the audience's perspective—a good film is a good...
No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
Congratulations: You’ve been chosen for a Yeti Hopper M20 Cooler. You’ve been chosen many, many times. It’s right there, in...
Everrati GT40 2023 First Drive: Fast, Furious
Any thoughts of fast-charging equalling practicality are erased, however, when you try to get into the thing. The “40” in...
