Here’s the Smart Lock for Every Door in Your Home
…In the months I tested this lock, I never had any battery issues or needed to replace the batteries, but there is a USB-C emergency port for charging if you need…
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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
…But that stupid dog had chosen a technologically interesting moment to do its thing. For the first time in history, a problem no longer needed to be serious to bring serious tools…
Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary
…As John Markoff describes it in his Brand biography, Whole Earth, when she came out of the operating room, Brand greeted her with a pillow he had recovered from her apartment. That…
Everything You Need for the Ultimate Staycation Pool Setup
Luckily, pool tech has come a long way in the past decade—gone are the hours spent scooping leaves and dead bugs out of the water with a long-handled net, laboring…
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
…No, no, it's not like the technical issues. It's the who the interactions are with— Zoë Schiffer: Right. Leah Feiger: Which is, I don't know, perhaps the Trump administration…
The Case for Finally Replacing Your Dusty Old Fan
…I've been covering fans at WIRED for almost two years, and I'm always on the lookout for the latest and most interesting fan technology. If you know of a cool…
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom—Until Trump Fires Her
…In broad strokes, our job is to make sure that everyone in the country is connected, for example, to high-speed broadband; to issue licenses for the airwaves like we do with…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
…the most bipartisan issue since beer.” The movement seems to envision a middle ground between rejecting technology wholesale—of truly Unabombering out—and rolling over and giving Big Tech everything it wants…
I Put the Best Pool-Cleaning Robots to the Test
…Robotic pool cleaners were a thing when I was growing up in the ’80s, but there was really only one technology available: pressure-side cleaners that attach to a pump on the…
Maine’s Senate Race Implodes, Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X, and the Trump Phone Arrives
…I was going to say customer service issues. Leah Feiger: It’s a lot of customer service issues, which brings me back to Twitter 1.0. But like you said, all of…