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From the Move to the Beam, we’ve tested nearly every speaker from the venerable brand. We like them all—but here are the best picks to fit your lifestyle.

We’ve spent time with most of the available apps for making music on iPad, and this loop station, DAW, and sampler combo is the best free (and paid) app around.

Le Wand's vibrator is an elegant reimagining of a sex-tech classic that can vibrate your jeans right off.

Scientists are forecasting 11 North Atlantic hurricanes this year, five of them being major. Here’s what’s turning the storms into increasingly dangerous behemoths.

This ultralight 14-inch laptop costs less than $1,000 and is a good option for students, if you can ignore the quirks.

This week we talk through everything there is to know about hybrids: how the different technologies work, how to keep one charged, and which cars best fit different lifestyles.

In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.

Some startups that launched buzzy generative AI products are now narrowing their offerings to try to make them more useful to business clients.

The company's decision to eliminate the team building its charging infrastructure comes at a delicate time for the EV industry. Other players are eager to pick up where Tesla left off.

Amid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.

Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.

The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.

This laptop packs an all-day battery for work, a smooth screen, and enough power to run your favorite games.

Move over MoonSwatch—in a collaboration with Kith, TAG is reissuing 10 pimped versions of its classic plastic sports watch. And, yes, they will be available online (if you're fast enough).

This sub-$1,000 laptop dishes out great power with Intel’s Core Ultra 7 chip at the expense of build quality and decent speakers.

When I rejoined the app and quickly got addicted, I realized it was exactly what I needed: not reality itself but the illusion of it.

Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.

Millions of people relied on the federal Affordable Connectivity Program to stay online and access work, health care, and school. Now that the program has expired, some fear being cut off.

If you’ve wanted to join the Google Pixel ecosystem, you’re in luck. Google’s A-Series phone is on sale alongside the Pixel Watch 2.