Lily Hay Newman 2021-04-21 13:00:00 www.wired.com “Basically I’m going to keep talking to you, but I’m going to disappear," longtime security researcher Katie Moussouris told me in a private Clubhouse room in February. “We'll still be talking, but I'll…
Gear Team 2021-04-20 14:51:25 www.wired.com The iPad Pro now runs on the same M1 processor as recent Macs. This gives the high-end tablets a considerable speed boost: The CPU is 50 percent faster than last year’s iPad Pro, with…
Julian Chokkattu 2021-04-20 15:05:00 www.wired.com Apple showed off a new iPad Pro alongside a flurry of other hardware and software announcements at its virtual event on Tuesday. The successor to the 2020 iPad Pro adds Apple's M1 chip—the same…
Jeremy White, Wired UK 2021-04-20 09:00:00 www.wired.com From there you can place furniture, shelving systems, decorations and change wall colors, then export your design in both 3D and 2D and send it to others for approval or ridicule. The…
Arielle Pardes 2021-04-19 19:30:00 www.wired.com On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company’s plan to enter the social audio space. “We think that audio is also going to be a first-class medium,” Zuckerberg told journalist Casey Newton in…
David Nield 2021-04-18 07:00:00 www.wired.com Your phone will need to be switched on and have an active connection to the outside world for these scheduled messages to be sent—you're delaying the sending of the text from your local device,…
Boone Ashworth 2021-04-15 09:00:00 www.wired.com Watch closely as the reservoir dries up, the oil spill spreads, and the rain forest disappears. Today, Google announced a new 3D time-lapse feature in its Google Earth platform. It allows users to navigate…
Scott Gilbertson 2021-04-15 09:00:00 www.wired.com This alone is well worth the upgrade from the previous version, but the updates don't stop there. The Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS) now uses a wider field of view to detect obstacles. This…
Matt Simon 2021-04-15 07:00:00 www.wired.com “I think the forest fire risk this year is going to be about as high as it can be,” Swain adds. “And that's pretty alarming considering what we've seen in the last couple of…
Adrienne So 2021-04-14 08:00:00 www.wired.com If you’re at all interested in bicycles, you probably know what a Brompton is. You’ve probably seen it, perched like a shiny, tiny egg in the window of many premium cycle stores. The Brompton…
Parker Hall 2021-04-14 07:00:00 www.wired.com Portable speakers like Sonos’ new Roam are most fun when the world is open for exploration. They bring your favorite music to an Airbnb in Yosemite, a beach in Hawaii, or—as I recently learned…
Parker Hall 2021-04-12 08:00:00 www.wired.com The colors also seemed accurate, especially in the TV's Calibrated mode, which is where I’d keep it in all viewing environments except for gaming. A lot of TVs don't always look ideal right out…
Matt Jancer 2021-04-11 07:00:00 www.wired.com There's a popular US Army study from the 1940s that says you lose most of your body heat through your head. Well, it's incorrect. But you still need to cover up your noggin if…
David Nield 2021-04-11 07:00:00 www.wired.com At the moment, the best way to log in to macOS without having to type out a password is to buy a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro with a Touch ID sensor above…
Matt Jancer 2021-04-09 09:00:00 www.wired.com But it kept happening. Over and over, the bike would go to full throttle, or I'd stop pedaling but the bike wouldn't stop accelerating. Other times, I'd be pedaling and suddenly get no power…
Adrienne So 2021-04-09 10:00:00 www.wired.com When assessing whether a jacket is eco-friendly, I took several factors into account. Preferably, the jacket's waterproofing materials are PFC-free; I've recommended Fjällraven's Keb Eco Shell in the past, but it's exceptionally pricey and…
Scott Gilbertson 2021-04-08 08:00:00 www.wired.com I've reviewed a lot of gadgets over the years, but few, if any, have been as astoundingly ingenious as the 9Barista. This is the only stovetop espresso maker I am aware of that actually…
Rhett Allain 2021-04-07 09:00:00 www.wired.com It's time for Godzilla vs. Kong—a classic battle between two impossibly giant creatures. I've only seen the trailer, and it looks like a fun movie. But movies aren't just for fun, they are also…
Scott Gilbertson 2021-04-06 08:00:00 www.wired.com Lenovo's new ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook has everything ThinkPad fans love—there's a great keyboard, a sturdy, no-nonsense design, and yes, the little red TrackPoint in the middle—but instead of Windows or Linux, it runs…
David Nield 2021-04-04 08:00:00 www.wired.com Software makers have become more and more open to the idea of public betas: trial runs of new apps and operating systems that anyone who wants to can get involved with. They get their…
Joe Ray 2021-03-31 08:00:00 www.wired.com I have a new box-shaped gadget in my kitchen that takes the food you put in it and turns it into something akin to soil. This is the Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50, a cubic-foot machine…
Meghan O'Gieblyn 2021-03-30 07:00:00 www.wired.com SUPPORT REQUEST : I’ve always taken pride in the fact that I’m a phenomenal parallel parker, but ever since getting a car with parking-assist, I’ve found myself opting to let the car take over. I…
David Nield 2021-03-28 07:00:00 www.wired.com Android has cycled through various AirDrop-style approaches of its own down the years, but the most recent one is called Nearby Share. It's an Android-to-Android file-sharing system, though it isn't available on all handsets.If…
Howard Lee 2021-03-28 08:00:00 www.wired.com Tusch and Münker developed a powerful new method for extracting tiny traces of tungsten from ancient rocks. Then they went looking for the rocks.First they analyzed Archean rocks collected in the Isua region in…
Scott Gilbertson 2021-03-26 07:00:00 www.wired.com The Galaxy Chromebook 2 is 2.71 pounds, which is marginally heavier than the original, but where you'll really notice the difference is the thickness. It's just more than half an inch to the previous…
Sara Harrison 2021-03-25 14:00:00 www.wired.com For 25 years, a mysterious killer has been on the loose across the American south, responsible for the deaths of over 100 eagles and thousands of other birds. The first victims were found in…
David Nield 2021-03-21 09:00:00 www.wired.com You've perhaps noticed a few bricks being removed from Apple's so-called walled garden—in other words, the apps and services that Apple runs are no longer available only on Apple hardware like iPhones, iPads, and…
Natalie Wolchover 2021-03-21 08:00:00 www.wired.com Alice and Bob, the stars of so many thought experiments, are cooking dinner when mishaps ensue. Alice accidentally drops a plate; the sound startles Bob, who burns himself on the stove and cries out.…
Matt Simon 2021-03-19 07:00:00 www.wired.com Peanut butter and jelly. Hall & Oates. Now there’s a duo that could literally and figuratively be even more powerful: solar panels and canals. What if instead of leaving canals open, letting the sun…
Parker Hall 2021-03-19 09:00:00 www.wired.com Enviolo hubs are also closed systems, so they don't need too much maintenance (or de-mucking). And because the chain doesn’t have to pop between rungs on a traditional shifting mechanism, the bike sports an…
Julian Chokkattu 2021-03-15 09:00:00 www.wired.com I don't consider myself a mobile gamer. Playing games on a glass slab has never been all that comfortable for long stretches. It was an activity for subway commutes in the Before Times, but…
Will Knight 2021-03-15 07:00:00 www.wired.com In 2012, artificial intelligence researchers engineered a big leap in computer vision thanks, in part, to an unusually large set of images—thousands of everyday objects, people, and scenes in photos that were scraped from…
Rhett Allain 2021-03-14 12:30:04 www.wired.com Illustration: Rhett AllainNotice that there is a nice linear relationship between the angular position of the wheel and the horizontal position? The slope of this line is 0.006 meters per degree. If you had…