OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok—except all of the content is AI-generated. There’s a For You–style page powered by a recommendation algorithm. On the right side… Continue reading OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
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This Is Why You Should Try Ultralight Backpacking (2025)
I first encountered the ideas of ultralight backpacking in 1994, in an article in now-defunct (and much-missed) Backpacker magazine. It was titled “Less is More,” by Mark Jenkins. (I still have a PDF copy I scanned years ago.) Jenkins wrote about a long trip across Europe and Africa. By the end, he and his traveling… Continue reading This Is Why You Should Try Ultralight Backpacking (2025)
Factor Protein Plus Meals Review (2025): Filling, Not Fattening
The Protein Plus options are pretty broad, comprising about half of Factor’s menu items overall. The meals remain mostly stolidly middle American: garlic herb chicken, barbecue wings, a red pepper frittata for breakfast. Jamaican jerk salmon and a Thai yellow curry chicken were among the most peripatetic options I tried, but even these feel domesticated,… Continue reading Factor Protein Plus Meals Review (2025): Filling, Not Fattening
The Best Body Pillow, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
Compare Our Picks Photograph: Molly Higgins Others Tested Pillow Cube Side Cube for $66: This isn’t technically a body pillow, but it’s specifically designed for side sleepers (and I love it), so it’s included in this list. This cuboid pillow is designed for the side sleeper, and aims to help with headaches and back and… Continue reading The Best Body Pillow, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
Ultrahuman Home Review: Overpriced and Underbaked
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
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