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Headphone jacks are endangered, but they’re not gone. Here are our favorite smartphones that still let you plug and play....

You might assume all monitors under $200 are terrible, but after trying some out, I found a few that defy expectations....

From pins to mascots to Swatch watches, memorabilia from the Milano Cortina Games is showing up on sites like eBay and Vinted....

Plus: The cybersecurity community grapples with Epstein files revelations, the US State Department plans an online anti‑censorship “portal” for the world, and m...

By typing simple, text‑based commands into Windows PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft Store—all without the typical ads or clu...

From disappointments to scandals to Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ silver medal, figure skating brought some of the biggest surprises of the Milano Cortina Games...

How Red Light Therapy Works Red light therapy has come a long way since its early days. Rahman explained that red‑light wavelengths activate the mitochondria i...

Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug‑trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of...

The president signed an executive order implementing a 10 percent global tariff after calling the justices who struck down his signature trade policy a “disgrac...

Despite Friday’s SCOTUS ruling, many tariffs affecting the auto industry will remain. So will the other dynamics that have led to today’s historically high car...

Self-driving-vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain....

After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade....

This Samsung OLED comes loaded with features specifically for gamers....

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits...

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC to have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, however, it has only had acting directors, and the...

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Branch makes excellent office essentials, and our top picks are discounted....

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve‑outs could cost it a major military contract....

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 bill...

We used particle size analysis and real-world testing to find the best conical burr, flat burr, and blade grinders for every budget and style of coffee drinker....

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?...

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky...

These edibles made from functional fungi are not your childhood Flintstone vitamins....

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes....

If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing....

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and advocates over their legality....

House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its...

The Olympics often provide a moment of unity and celebration during times of geopolitical uncertainty. But blind nationalism didn’t win at the 2026 Winter Games...

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Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex of...

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user‑hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazo...

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl‑tainted pills, including those f...

Fallout, Neighbors, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters are just a few of the TV shows we’re swooning over for February....

On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal‑blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising....

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools dai...

These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water....

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs....

The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience....

“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees a...

The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too including a portable screen....

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the o...

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing....

Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates....

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Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider....

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targe...

The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday....

Bose's fabulous QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 noise‑canceling headphones are the best travel headphones and are $50 off....