Digging in the Dirt: 4 Home Composters Reviewed and Rated

Turn food scraps into compost for your garden with one of these indoor, odor-free devices.

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The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution

The app’s buzz may have quieted down, but its spirit still animates the social internet.

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Wear Your Lights as You Bike in the Nutcase Vio Helmet

Forgot your bike lights? This 360-degree illuminated helmet has you covered.

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7 Browser Extensions to Help Translate Different Languages

Whether you're learning a new language entirely or just need a quick translation, these aids and interactive video captions can boost your skills.

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The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol

For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived.

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A Wave of Startups Is Tackling Cow Burps and Other Climate Issues

The demand for tech to save the planet is driving a new boom in companies trying to cash in.

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As Covid Restrictions End, Offices Have a Sick-Pay Problem

Countries aren’t just lifting pandemic restrictions, they’re cutting resources—forcing workers to choose between working sick and losing pay.

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The First Drug-Releasing Contact Lens Is Here

The FDA has approved daily disposables that release anti-allergy medication. Experts hope lenses could one day help treat cataracts and glaucoma.

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Russians Need VPNs. The Kremlin Hates Them

VPNs are divided between trying to help Russians stay connected to the global web and steering clear of Putin’s messy politics.

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How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology

Awareness and a bit of habit hacking can keep you out of a technology tailspin.

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33 Awesome Outdoor Gear Deals From Winter Clearance Sales

The cold weather may be fading, but these deals on jackets and layers are white-hot.

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A Killer Parasite Is Wiping Out Hordes of Ants—in a Good Way

A microsporidian pathogen is annihilating tawny crazy ants, an invasive menace of the highest order.

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Body Parts Aren't Gendered. So Why Are Sex Toys?

It's way past time for sex toy manufacturers to realize that trans, gender-fluid, and nonbinary people also have sex.

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7 Great TV Deals to Intercept Before March Madness Ends

Upgrade your screen with the help of these steep discounts.

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The Bizarre Dyson Zone Pollution Mask Doubles as Headphones

After 6 years and 500 prototypes, will Dyson’s radical clean-air blowing ANC headphones change the way people live or look like a joke?

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Forcing WhatsApp and iMessage to Work Together Is Doomed to Fail

Europe’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between popular messaging apps. But experts warn encryption could be compromised.

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4 Women Photographers on the Hardest Photo They Ever Took

In honor of Women's History Month, we talked about the stories behind these artists' most challenging images—from the personal to the political.

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Spoil Your Cat With Our Favorite Gear

Between litter boxes, beds, scratchers, and trees, felines need a lot of stuff. Here’s what the cats of WIRED have tested and loved.

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For Refugees in Detention Camps, Smartphones Are a Lifeline

Smartphones can plot travel routes, contact loved ones, and collect evidence of abuse. As one refugee put it, “this sim card is our life.”

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Companies May Soon Have to Reveal a Hidden Risk: Carbon Emissions

Big businesses set splashy climate targets but don’t always reveal their data. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to change that—to protect investors.

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New York Taxi Drivers Hated Uber. Now They’re Going to Help It

After almost a decade of animosity and lawsuits, cabbies might help Uber weather a labor shortage—and take a bite out of the competition.

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The Danger of Russia’s Lies About Bioweapons in Ukraine

Ukraine’s research labs are vital to global health. Disinformation aimed at their work puts everyone in danger.

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Stop Tracking Your Loved Ones

Tracking apps hijack your psyche. Here's how to regain control.

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The 20 Best Mac Apps to Make Everyday Life Easier

MacOS may be the apple of your eye, but some of its stock apps are a little rotten. Take a bite of these third-party apps instead.

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The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

A seemingly endless supply chain crunch has fueled interest in tech that promises to track problems or predict where new ones might occur.

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The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?

Covid forced the world to develop some of the best epidemiological surveys ever done. Now they’re being cut back, even as the threat of the virus lingers.

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A Bold Idea to Stall the Climate Crisis—by Building Better Trees

Changing the genetic makeup of trees could supercharge their ability to suck up carbon dioxide. But are forests of frankentrees really a good idea?

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TikTok’s Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia’s War

Outside researchers can’t easily monitor how truth or lies circulate on the social media platform—raising concerns about its role in spreading misinformation.

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Apple TV+ Just Won Best Picture. Everything Is Different Now

Hollywood has been waiting for years to see if a streaming service could nab the Oscars’ highest honor. This year, they got a historic answer.

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How to Use Windows 11’s Built-In Video Editor

Clipchamp isn’t the most powerful app, but it’s already baked into your device—and it may be all you really need.

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The 10 Best Portable Grills You Can Buy

We barbecued for weeks to find the right charcoal and propane grills for road trips—or just for smaller homes.

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What Is Google One, and Should You Subscribe?

If you use the company's apps, it's worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down what you get and how much it costs.

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Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions.

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Video Games Offered My Son a Haven From Bullying

For lots of kids, the IRL world can be lonely. Lego Star Wars and Super Paper Mario helped my son focus and find a community.

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How to Unlock Your iPhone With Face ID—While Wearing a Mask

Better late than never.

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Why Is the Internet So Exhausting? Blame Your Crowdsourced Bosses

No, you’re not always “the product” on social media; sometimes you’re the raw material. Or the employee. Welcome to “sousveillance capitalism.”

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How Boa Constrictors Can Breathe Even as They Crush Their Prey

New research shows the snakes activate different sections of their rib cage, using their lungs as bellows to pull in air.

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A Global Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife

Barriers are going up rapidly as border projects and livestock farming increase, but they impede wildlife migrations and genetically isolate threatened species.

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The Best Drawing Apps for Every Kind of iPad Artist

Careful—your Apple Pencil might actually replace your real pencils.

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A History of Hup, the Jump Sound in Every Video Game

You can hear it in your head: the grunt your character makes when hopping a fence or leaping into battle. Its sonic roots trace all the way back to 1973.

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How to Set Healthy Boundaries Around What You Share Online

The pull between wanting to protect privacy and still engage with others meaningfully is real. Here's how to choose and stick to your guns.

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15 Best Deals on Bags, Binoculars, and Beauty Tech

This weekend, save on some of our favorite products to get yourself out of the house in style.

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How to Watch the 2022 Oscars

Whether you want to stream it live on Sunday or catch highlights afterward, here’s how to watch the 94th Academy Awards.

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The 8 Best Sunrise Alarms to Help You Rise and Shine

Does your mind race in bed at night and fail to come back online in the morning? Try an artificial sun simulator in your bedroom.

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So, You Want to Start a DAO

This week, we walk through what it takes to make your own Web3 decentralized autonomous organization. (Yes, there are tokens.)

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TikTok Must Not Fail Ukrainians

To protect frontline creators and preserve evidence, the platform needs to learn from the wartime failings of other social media companies.

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This Cheetah Robot Taught Itself How to Sprint in a Weird Way

Researchers got the machine to run nearly 13 feet per second. It ain't graceful, but this powerful technique is preparing robots for the chaos of the world.

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This Waffle Maker Upgrades Your Breakfast (and Every Other Meal)

This appliance is perfect for taking your waffles beyond breakfast.

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Labor Unions Face Historic Votes at Amazon

In long-awaited elections, workers in two US warehouses will decide whether they want union representation at the ecommerce company.

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Master Reveals the Finite Future of Social Thrillers

For Black people and others who are continually at a disadvantage, the genre has a major limitation: It can only imagine what is already painfully obvious.

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This Robot Vac Mops Your Floors—and Watches Your Feet

This massive, multimodal cleaning robot is the first vac that's made mopping my floor anything but a chore.

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Online 'Happiness' Classes Might Work Better Than You Think

Science of happiness courses are attracting thousands of students. But there’s still a lot to learn about whether these lessons stick.

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9 Great Deals on Our Favorite Tablets, TVs, and Monitors

You can never have enough screens in your life, right? Right?

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The Deadly Cyclone That Changed the Course of the Cold War

A 1970 storm that killed half a million people became a flashpoint for political upheaval in Pakistan—and ultimately brought America and Russia to the brink of war.

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Halo Is Another Carcass on the Heap of Bad Video Game Adaptations

The new Paramount+ series underestimates gamer audiences and falls into the “content-delivery” trap, losing the excitement of gameplay along the way.

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Putin and Biden Must Choose: How Does Russia Want to Lose?

As Russia's failures mount in its war against Ukraine, can Biden prevent an isolated Putin from doing the unthinkable?

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How to Navigate Online Mental Health Resources

Finding therapy and support can be confusing. Here are some tips on how to get help, from understanding insurance websites to keeping track of the bills.

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This Custom Drone Whooshes Closer to the Snowboarding Action

The organizers of a live snowboarding broadcast wanted to create a more immersive viewing experience. So they hacked together a flying rig just for the job.

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A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine

The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.

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California’s Plan to Electrify Uber and Lyft Doesn’t Add Up

A 2030 target for electric vehicles to dominate ride-hailing is a lofty goal. But it’s the drivers, not the companies, who may have to foot the bill.

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These Are the Top Features in MacOS Monterey

Universal Control is now available in the latest update. Here’s how to install the newest version of Apple’s desktop operating system to use it.

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NASA Bets on an Asteroid Killer, a Venusian Balloon, and More

The agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program provides seed funding for ideas that sound like sci-fi—but just might work.

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The Entirely Predictable Impact of Salary Transparency

Europe is about to decide whether to make everyone's salaries public, a move that could dramatically narrow the gender pay gap.

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Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?

It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.

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Why WhatsApp Survived Russia’s Social Media Purge

Russia has branded Meta an “extremist organization” and banned Facebook and Instagram. WhatsApp is a different story.

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Astronomers Tally the Growing Carbon Footprint of Space Science

Observatories require electricity and computing power to process data from deep space. Is there a way to make them run greener?

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When I Left My Home in Kyiv, 'Stardew Valley' Was a Lifeline

But in a Ukraine at war, it was also a source of gamer guilt.

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Looking for a Tablet? These Are Our Absolute Favorites

We’ve tested all the top slates, from Apple’s iPads to Android and Windows devices, and we’ve also rounded up our favorite accessories.

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Airbnb Cracked Down on Ukraine Listings. Donors Wish It Hadn’t

In an effort to limit scams, the platform has canceled bookings in the country with little or no explanation.

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Underwater Permafrost Is a Big, Gassy Wild Card for the Climate

You’ve probably heard of permafrost, the frozen carbon-rich land. But it’s also thawing under the sea, burping up planet-warming gases.

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The Enduring Danger of Russia’s Cluster Bombs in Ukraine

A brief history and the ramifications of cluster bombs, history’s most indiscriminate weapon.

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The 16 Best Wireless Headphones for Everyone

Even if you’re on a budget, these wireless headphones sound like a million bucks.

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Organic Mattresses We Actually Like to Sleep On

These nontoxic mattresses and toppers are easier on the environment and your health—and they’re incredibly comfortable.

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How to Tell If Your Spaghetti Is Done Using Just a Ruler

Keep throwing noodles against the wall if you want, but this tactic ensures the pasta's texture is just right every single time.

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How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Twitter

Lock down your account to tweet in peace or take the guardrails off to court controversy.

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Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain

While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring.

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Protect and Charge Your Apple Watch With Our Favorite Accessories

You finally caved and bought one. These are our favorite straps, screen protectors, chargers, and cases to go with your smartwatch.

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Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Too

Extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, is increasingly hammering ports, highways, and factories. It’s expected to get worse.

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A Developer Altered Open Source Software to Wipe Files in Russia

The author of a popular application pushed out an update containing malicious code in an effort to sabotage computers in the country.

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The Best iPhone SE Cases and Accessories

Apple's cheapest smartphone deserves some good protection.

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13 Best Deals on Fitness Trackers, Tablets, and Air Purifiers

This weekend’s discounts are great for warmer weather and DIY projects.

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Should You Carry Your Dog in a Backpack? Yes

This adorable and well-constructed backpack is a fun way to carry your smol pup around.

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I Made a DAO, for Laughs. Want to Join?

Plus: The tricky promise of Web3; Ben Franklin on daylight savings, and Ukraine's effect on antitrust arguments.

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The AI Placed You at the Crime Scene, but You Weren’t There

This week, we talk about the limitations of using facial recognition technology to identify suspected criminals.

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Silicon Valley's Sex Censorship Harms Everyone

The post-FOSTA internet often silences sex workers, queer users, and artists, furthering puritanical ideas about sexuality.

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The TikTok-Oracle Deal Would Set 2 Dangerous Precedents

The agreement may provoke a global data storage melee and more politically motivated intervention in the tech sector.

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Technics’ Flagship Headphones Give Sony a Run for the Money

The wireless, noise-canceling EAH-A800 boast a premium feel, great sound, and more battery than you'll likely ever need. But they're not perfect.

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Conti Leaks Reveal the Ransomware Group's Links to Russia

Members of the Conti ransomware group may act in Russia’s interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.

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Big Pharma's Ethical Dilemma: Should They Keep Selling to Russia?

Sanctions and boycotts following the invasion of Ukraine have curtailed the export of nearly every product—except medicines. That's up to drugmakers.

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Eufy's Video Doorbell Dual Keeps One Eye on Your Packages

This smart doorbell uses two cameras to help keep porch pirates at bay.

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Tony Hsieh’s Unrelenting Pursuit of Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Idea

The then CEO of Zappos took increasingly drastic measures to hit targets set by the ecommerce giant.

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Ukraine’s Digital Ministry Is a Formidable War Machine

A government department run by savvy tech “freaks” has become a surprise defense against Russia.

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Conti Leak: A Ransomware Gang's Chats Expose Its Crypto Plans

Leaked files from cybercrime group Conti show it started building a crypto payment platform, a social network—and even had plans for a casino.

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Coal Threatens a Comeback as the EU Pulls Away From Russian Oil

Europe's efforts to avoid Russian energy imports will likely trigger a short-term spike in coal, and environmentalists are concerned.

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iPod Modders Give Apple’s Abandoned Music Player New Life

By modifying old hardware with modern—and often more colorful—components, listeners create their dream iPods and kick their Spotify habits.

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The Nuclear Reactors of the Future Have a Russia Problem

Next-generation nuclear plants could be safer and more efficient, but first the US has to figure out how to fuel them up—without relying on Russia.

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How to Back Up Your Digital Life

Backups are boring, but they’ll save your bacon. Here’s how to make sure your data lives on, even when your PC doesn’t.

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The New iPad Air Is Speedy but Frustrating to Use

Apple’s fifth-generation tablet is more powerful than ever, but the software is still awkward.

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Why You (and the Planet) Really Need a Heat Pump

Using a furnace is so 1922. In 2022, humanity has to massively ramp up adoption of clean ways to heat buildings.

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Apple's New iPhone SE Could Have Been Great

The cheapest iPhone has the same processor as the most expensive iPhone. But it doesn't feel very special.

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