outage of control
Why the Global CrowdStrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard
The aviation industry is optimized within an inch of its life. A bad software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down computers running Microsoft Windows—and a cascade of airports with it.
Aarian Marshall
price is right
Prison Phone Call Fees Are Out of Control. The FCC Can Finally Rein Them In
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Breathe Easy—We Found the Best Air Purifiers
Keep wildfire smoke, smog, and allergens out. We tested standard and HEPA air purifier models to find the right one for your home.
Lisa Wood Shapiro and Gear Team
The Best Invisible Hearing Aids
These subtle WIRED-tested and audiologist-recommended devices help wearers keep their hearing loss to themselves.
Christopher Null
The Best Air Quality Monitors to Keep Your Indoor Air Healthy
These WIRED-tested indoor air quality monitors have been teaching us things about our air quality we can never unsee.
Lisa Wood Shapiro
The Best Kindles to Take Your Library Anywhere
Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up—and which one might be right for you.
Medea Giordano
Moog’s Labyrinth Is an Affordable Dual-Line Sequencer for Synth Nerds
This affordable desktop sequencer helps you create mazes with two lines of music.
Terrence O’Brien
The Bold Bose SoundLink Max Is Our New Favorite Outdoor Speaker
This thumpingly loud, sonically impressive, robustly muscular outdoor speaker is excellent, and all the better for concentrating on the job at hand.
Simon Lucas
The Hero Gauntlet Does Not Want to Be Your Hand—and That’s Great
Using 3D printing and tech found in ski and mountaineering gear, Open Bionics aims to make customizable precision-gripping prosthetic hands available to anyone.
Emily Tisshaw
Keychron Made One of the Cheapest, Best Ultra-Slim Keyboards
The manufacturer of mechanical keyboard fame is also flexing its muscle when it comes to flat, chiclet-style boards.
Eric Ravenscraft
Missed Out on Prime Day? These 155 Deals Are Still Going Strong
You can still snag many of the same Prime Day deals on security cameras, hair straighteners, and iPads—though these discounts are quickly disappearing.
Julian Chokkattu
There's Still Time to Shop The 313 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals
We've been watching, and these deals are going fast. From laptops and tablets to Airpods and Echo dots, grab the best Prime Day deals before it's too late.
Scott Gilbertson and Gear Team
There's Still Time to Shop the Best Prime Day TV Deals
Our favorite TV deals and home theater deals from Amazon’s big sales event. Find deals on TCL, Hisense, LG, Samsung, and more.
Ryan Waniata
It's Your Last Chance to Save on These 11 Outdoor Items We Love
Less than 12 hours left to snag the best deals on water bottles, bikes, action cameras, and camping gear before I turn off your phone and make you go outside!
Adrienne So
How to Shop With Virtual Credit Cards to Protect Your Privacy
Keep your real credit card details to yourself by using virtual card services from Privacy, Revolut, and possibly even your current bank.
David Nield
How to Use an eSIM for International Travel
Setting up the eSIM feature on your smartphone and buying a cheap data plan is a great way to stay connected while on vacation.
Reece Rogers
How to Turn Off Google Ads for Sensitive Topics
If you don’t want to see ads related to alcohol, pregnancy, or weight loss, you can block them. Google offers additional controls to adjust all the other ads you see too.
David Nield
How Early Do You Really Need to Get to the Airport? It Depends
Airlines say to show up two hours before your flight time. But the airport arrival time that’s best for your trip may be shorter—or longer. It all depends on your travel details.
Reece Rogers
Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End
Now that it’s possible to grow affordable gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, the race is on to save the value of the most precious stone.
Chris Hall
The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
This summer’s Games are going to look bigger and better and louder than ever, thanks to key innovations in the broadcast booth and in the cloud.
Boone Ashworth
The Sensations of Slime Are Serious Business
Slime and ASMR have a symbiotic relationship, and the twin phenomena are fueling a cottage industry of slime, slime content, slime products, and slime experiences.
Nicole Gull McElroy
Pay for New Stuff by Trading In Your Old Stuff Right at Checkout
One of Postmates’ founders is back with an ecommerce payment startup called Tiptop. The service lets you pay for online purchases by trading in something of value you no longer want.
Boone Ashworth
Decoding Nascar’s First All-Electric Prototype Race Car
Nascar just unveiled its experimental EV. But how can stock-car racing embrace an electric future without losing its gasoline-fueled fan base?
Bob Sorokanich
Tesla’s Cheaper Long-Range Model 3 Is Back
Plus: The Ford Capri returns as an EV, Samsung workers are on indefinite labor strike, and the market for anti-obesity drugs is messier than ever.
Boone Ashworth
Amazon Will Brick Its $2,350 Astro Robots Just 10 Months After Release
Business customers will get a refund, and the home version still exists. But … still.
Scharon Harding, Ars Technica
Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked in Paris
The long-awaited Galaxy Ring arrives alongside new folding smartphones, wireless earbuds, smartwatches, and a premium wearable that looks a lot like the Apple Watch Ultra.
Julian Chokkattu
The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.
WIRED Staff
Semaglutide for the People
This week, we learn how easy it is to buy cloned Ozempic on the internet, and we explore what the latest research is revealing about how GLP-1 drugs affect our bodies.
Michael Calore
The Future of Vaping After the Fall of Juul
This week, we talk to the hosts of the new podcast Backfired about how the e-cigarette industry got to where it is today and where it can go from here.
Michael Calore and Lauren Goode
Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?
This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.
Lauren Goode and Kate Knibbs
Prime Day
Prime Day Has Brought the Google Pixel 7A to an Incredibly Low Price
Louryn Strampe and Julian Chokkattu