- L’Oreal Professionnel AirLight Pro Review: Faster, Lighter, and Repairableby Boutayna Chokrane on December 22, 2024 at 1:32 pm
L'Oréal's first professional hair dryer combines infrared light, wind, and heat to drastically reduce your drying time.
- 9 Best French Presses (2024): Plastic, Glass, Stainless Steel, Travelby Tyler Shane on December 22, 2024 at 1:04 pm
The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
- How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chromeby David Nield on December 22, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Just because you use Chrome doesn’t mean you have to use Google. Learn how to invite Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or even ChatGPT into your omnibox.
- The Universe Is Teeming With Complex Organic Moleculesby Elise Cutts on December 22, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.
- Cloud Gaming on the PlayStation Portal Isn’t the Exciting Step Forward We’d Hoped forby Matt Kamen on December 22, 2024 at 11:00 am
A software update was supposed to free up the PS Portal from its reliance on the PS5 and add a world of streamable games to its appeal. In practice, it does nothing of the sort.
- The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Languageby Arik Kershenbaum on December 22, 2024 at 9:00 am
With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?
- 14 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks & Accessories (2024)by Medea Giordano, Nena Farrell on December 21, 2024 at 3:07 pm
Digital tools are not always superior. Here are some WIRED-tested agendas and notebooks to keep you on track.
- The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVsby Jeremy White on December 21, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars.
- Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposalby Paresh Dave on December 21, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.
- Best Running Shoes (2024): Asics, Hoka, Nike, On Runningby Kieran Alger, Gear Team on December 21, 2024 at 2:02 pm
We clocked thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal.
- The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVsby Jeremy White on December 21, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars.
- Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposalby Paresh Dave on December 21, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.
- OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skillsby Will Knight on December 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm
A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.
- I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shoppingby Lauren Goode on December 20, 2024 at 5:24 pm
Chatbots aren't very good at picking gifts, but that didn't stop me from burning the planet in a quest for the perfect baking equipment.
- Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulnessby Gary Marcus on December 20, 2024 at 9:00 am
The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer.
- Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualizedby Kate Knibbs on December 19, 2024 at 6:41 pm
WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.
- Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claimsby Joel Khalili on December 19, 2024 at 5:03 pm
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
- Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rushby Caroline Haskins on December 19, 2024 at 4:47 pm
Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.
- All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025by Michael Calore, Lauren Goode, Zoë Schiffer on December 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm
To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.
- Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personalityby Will Knight on December 18, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Botto is a 'decentralized AI artist' whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.