23 Dec 9 Best French Presses (2024): Plastic, Glass, Stainless Steel, Travel The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
23 Dec L’Oreal Professionnel AirLight Pro Review: Faster, Lighter, and Repairable L’Oréal’s first professional hair dryer combines infrared light, wind, and heat to drastically reduce your drying time.
23 Dec How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chrome 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.
22 Dec 14 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks & Accessories (2024) Digital tools are not always superior. Here are some WIRED-tested agendas and notebooks to keep you on track.
22 Dec Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal 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.
22 Dec The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs 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.
21 Dec 2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry From layoffs to the return of Gamergate, video games—and the people who make and play them—had a rough year.
21 Dec OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills 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.
21 Dec This Tropical Virus Is Spreading Out of the Amazon to the US and Europe Oropouche virus has posed little threat outside South America in the past, but land-use change, the climate crisis, and international travel all appear to be spreading this insect-borne disease to new places.
20 Dec GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House There is no requirement that the Speaker of the House be an elected member of Congress. After Elon Musk all but killed a bill to fund the government, lawmakers now propose to cut out the middleman.