The Ultrahuman Home is a futuristic-looking home environment monitor that tracks air quality, light, sound, and temperature. All this data flows into the Ultrahuman app on your phone, offering potential insights into your environment and suggestions on how you could make it healthier. Sadly, this mostly amounts to reminders to crack a window open, because… Continue reading Ultrahuman Home Review: Overpriced and Underbaked
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Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Still The Best for iOS
The same mildly flat indent on the stem of each bud indicates the location of the touch/squeeze controls, and there are black spots where heart rate sensors, wear detection sensors, and microphone ports hide. As with previous models, silvery tips bless the end of each elephant trunk, where a beamforming mic aims at your lips… Continue reading Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Still The Best for iOS
Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Republican policy apparatus went immediately to work. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, and its spinoff, the Oversight Project, issued a call for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to designate “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism,” or TIVE, as a domestic terrorism threat category. The push comes as… Continue reading Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?
Lauren Goode: Another fun little anecdote, I recently did a story about vibe coding for WIRED and I embedded with an engineering team at Notion, and two of the leaders of the engineering team were both women, of the AI engineering team specifically. And I ended up pair programming with women throughout the day as… Continue reading Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?
Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings
During our conversation, Brown compared Praxis to Israel—minus a world war and a holocaust, of course. “There were these stateless people who were scattered,” he says, and they had “this idea of Judea and building a state and returning to the OG homeland.” (Srinivasan has been even more direct in the past, saying, “What I’m… Continue reading Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings
What Is Your Tent or Rain Jacket Made From? (2025): Dyneema, Silpoly, X-Pac
Spend any time at all researching outdoor gear, whether it’s a new tent or a new rain jacket, and you’ll quickly find yourself awash in a confusing array of jargon. Silnylon, polyurethane, X-Pac, cuben fiber, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)—what are these things? What none of them are is perfect. Each has its own weight,… Continue reading What Is Your Tent or Rain Jacket Made From? (2025): Dyneema, Silpoly, X-Pac
Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors
On Thursday, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to transfer ownership of TikTok’s US operation to a group of American investors, including Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. “I had a very good talk with president Xi. We talked about TikTok. He gave us the go-ahead,” Trump said during a White House press conference. He… Continue reading Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors
The 15 Best Tried and Tested Gifts for Bird Lovers (2025)
You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you’re automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat-style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough bread making, gardening, or bird watching. I can’t contradict this, since I’m a middle-aged person who got sorted into bird-watching. But I… Continue reading The 15 Best Tried and Tested Gifts for Bird Lovers (2025)
Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America
“Maybe 10 years ago, he was like, ‘I want Marco Rubio to be president,’” the same source says. Many players first started hearing of Ellison in the lead-up to the 2024 Republican presidential primary. At that point, after years of donating to both parties, Ellison was seen internally as doing Trump a small favor by… Continue reading Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America
For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco From Parking Tickets
He suspected this absurd-seeming pattern was due to limitations baked into the software used by parking control officers. Whatever its reason for existing, the pattern of sequential ticket IDs, paired with parking officers likely claiming batches of ticket numbers, meant Walz was able to track their routes by plotting each parking ticket on a map… Continue reading For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco From Parking Tickets