Memorial Day weekend is (almost) finally here, and the sales have rolled out across the board. Despite the economically rocky first half of 2025, with tariffs catapulting prices across the board, we’re pleasantly surprised by the number of deals floating around. You can even snag a handful of gadgets for less than $50. In fact,
Her skepticism is rooted in lived experience: In October 2000, a massive coal slurry spill from a mine site upstream poisoned the Coldwater Fork stream, which runs behind her house. People in Inez couldn’t drink water from the tap for months. “Those of us living downstream didn’t hear about it for a while, but the
It’s not your imagination, graduating seniors. The tech industry’s pullback from entry-level hiring has reached concerning levels. LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, warned in The New York Times last week that “bottom rung of the career ladder” is “breaking” as AI eliminates traditional stepping-stone positions. The numbers are eye-opening: hiring of new grads
Apple’s new HomePod will have a display, and it might arrive later this year. This is according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (via 9to5Mac), who claims that the device will launch “by the end of this year,” though he admits that the timing is uncertain. The new device will be a smart home speaker with an
Ah, the joys of a vacation. A little time to unwind and put your feet up. Or if you have kids, a chance to get moaned at in a new time zone. The nagging kicked off before my family left the airport on our last holiday and didn’t let up. “Dad, my internet isn’t working.”
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New technology doesn’t arrive fully formed, I remind myself as I strap on a pirate’s eye patch, then place a heavily modified bicycle helmet onto my head. It isn’t the most glamorous getup. But here, in a small office on an unassuming business park on the outskirts of Cambridge, England, it could be the foundations
Artificial intelligence has sent demand for electricity skyrocketing in the U.S. after years of virtually zero growth. That has sent Big Tech companies scrambling to secure generating capacity for their data centers. For many, that has meant turning to nuclear fission. The power source has been experiencing a resurgence in the last few years following
The Grok 3.5 launch is imminent, according to references to the model spotted in some lines of code. The latest version of Grok doesn’t have an official launch date, but that could be coming any day now since mention of Grok 3.5 has been showing up in xAI’s latest web build, according to TestingCatalog, which
Finding the best Memorial Day sales can be hard, but luckily we do this for a living. We’ve sifted through the piles of subpar deals to find the best actual discounts on products that the WIRED Reviews team has tested and would recommend to our friends. The deals below are the best we’ve found (so