26 Jan No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn’t entirely clear why that layer forms.
26 Jan Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids This new prescription hearing aid has a special chip designed to improve hearing in noisy conditions.
26 Jan Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn’t trigger something like civil war.
25 Jan Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers (2026) Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.
25 Jan ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
25 Jan The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaged the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.
24 Jan This Mega Snowstorm Will Be a Test for the US Supply Chain Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usual—if their safeguards hold.
24 Jan ‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic Forum.
24 Jan Clearly Filtered Discount: Pitcher, Water Bottle, Under-Sink Clearly Filtered water pitchers, bottles, and under-sink filters are 10 to 19 percent off. I tested three filters to see how they performed.
23 Jan Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk weighed in on all of it at this week’s World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out the way he says they will.
