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It’s a great, easy-to-use hair tool for those who struggle to achieve beachy waves and corkscrew curls.

A Barbie phone, a transparent laptop, a bendable bracelet smartphone, and a whole load of AI. Here’s all the best new gear announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The elderly are particularly vulnerable to subscription scams and aggressive tech upselling. Here's how to get your family the services and devices that they need.

The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details, but the feature is not yet available for all ChatGPT accounts.

Metalenz’s biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.

As the smart ring race heats up, Samsung has revealed more about its coming health-based wearable, and how it will pimp Galaxy Watches.

You can see clearly now through the Project Crystal. But what is it for? And is a transparent phone next?

We’ve rounded up our favorites, including third-party devices like the Sonos Era and a voice-enabled Yamaha soundbar.

Whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of limbs and blankets, we've slept on all these pillows to find the right support for your noggin.

The compact and refined Xiaomi 14 is a very good Android phone, but it fails to stand out among other similarly priced handsets.

The Flitescooter is an easy-to-use eFoil meant to introduce newcomers to the niche sport. It’s fun to ride, but staying in control takes some practice.

High prices, a volatile hydrogen market, and the closure of fueling stations have bedeviled many of the California drivers who bought fuel-cell electric vehicles in hopes of going greener.

If you want a massage gun but don’t want to pay Theragun prices—or maybe you just want different features and attachments—then get one of these picks for soothing sore muscles.

Plus: Apple launches a Sports app for the iPhone, Sony is testing its PlayStation VR headset on PC games, and Hamilton has a fancy new watch to celebrate the arrival of Dune: Part Two.

On April 8, 2024, the biggest astronomical event of the year will happen in the sky over North America. A retired mathematician has created a web tool to help you find the ideal vantage point.

Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch.

Just like with AirDrop on Apple devices, you can use Quick Share on Android to send almost anything to your contacts close by, or even to your Windows computer.

The gaming industry has been dropping hit after hit, but we have a running list of titles we can’t wait to play.

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

This week, we talk about the recent job cuts across the tech industry, the increased challenges of landing a tech job, and how those shifts are affecting the workforce.