This Speaker I Tried From Soundboks Can Handle a Real Party
…The earliest models I tested were essentially big PA speakers with car batteries inside them. They were unwieldy hunks of sound, but they did the job they were meant to do—play…
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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…After renting a cloud server from Tencent and buying a subscription to the Chinese large language model Kimi, Zhang could start chatting with his OpenClaw agent, or his “lobster,” as many Chinese…
I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend. Its Answers Were All Wrong
…The current top pick is the Apple MacBook Air (M5, 2026). Instead, ChatGPT kept insisting that WIRED’s top pick was actually an older model, the MacBook Air (M4, 2025). Similar to…
The Porsche Cayenne Electric Is a Phenomenal SUV, but Is That Enough?
…Those will be facelifts to the current Cayenne, but the electric model is all-new. It sits atop an updated version of the 800-volt Premium Platform Electric (PPE) used by the…
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Sony’s PS5 Price Hikes Prove This Console Generation Is Far From Over. Good.
…The new MSRPs went into effect on April 2, and there’s no sugarcoating that they mark significant increases. The “entry-level” digital edition PS5 console—the one without a disc drive…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…agency had accredited two AI models, one used by Maven and one by another (unidentified) intelligence agency. In January 2026, the second Trump administration announced its new military AI strategy focused on…
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
…Air permit modeling is based on the scenario of a power plant constantly running at full capacity. That’s rarely the reality for grid-connected power plants, as turbines go offline for…
Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
…new girlfriend, and I stole a picture. They were holding hands, and I thought it was cute. Last screenshot you took: An Instagram meme that says, “Your bank balance in 2026 is…
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
…Apart from a brief bout of panic when DeepSeek first appeared, open-source AI models have not vastly outperformed proprietary models. Still, none of the frontier labs—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google—has a…
I’ve Tested Gaming Laptops for Over a Decade. This Is What I Think You Should Buy
That couldn't be more different in 2026. Not only are gaming laptops solid alternatives to a gaming tower, they aren't much larger than their non-gaming laptop cousins. From budget…