11 May Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
11 May Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They’re Flying Over NYC One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.
11 May How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience.
10 May Best Live-Captioning Smart Glasses (2026), WIRED tested Can’t hear what they’re saying? Now you can turn on the subtitles for real-life conversations.
10 May Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more.
10 May The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026 The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw.
09 May Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026) This Mother’s Day, Megelin is slashing prices on its best-selling laser and LED devices.
09 May The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files The Defense Department has released a new trove of declassified documents about government UFO sightings.
09 May Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a sudden, unexpected wheel separation, thanks to the wrong grease and loose nuts.
08 May Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
