Billed as the “world’s most portable pizza oven,” the Gozney Tread is an adventure-ready, ruggedized gas-powered beauty. It is the smallest of the hugely impressive Gozney range, and the second most affordable behind the original Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving selection of home pizza ovens that have transformed our ability to cook proper pizza—we’re talking… Continue reading Gozney Tread Pizza Oven Review: Gorgeous and Compact
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5 Best Rugs to Upgrade Any Room, Tested by WIRED (2025)
Finding the right rug size requires factoring in your room’s shape, size, and the layout of your furniture. According to West Elm, your living room rug should be large enough to fit at least the front legs of your sofa and main chairs. Leave at least a 1-foot gap between the rug and the walls.… Continue reading 5 Best Rugs to Upgrade Any Room, Tested by WIRED (2025)
Alarm App Demands You Watch Advertisement to Hit “Snooze” Button
When it comes to life in the age of global capitalism, there’s probably no better symbol for the worker’s burden than the dreaded alarm clock. Although the snooze button offers temporary escape, its betrayal is inevitable, leaving many a weary worker to spam that thing like there’s no tomorrow. That cruel button is the driving… Continue reading Alarm App Demands You Watch Advertisement to Hit “Snooze” Button
Hungryroot Meal Kit Review (2025): AI-Guided Menu
My colleague Molly Higgins, who is vegan, simultaneously tested out her own very different goals and preferences on Hungryroot. These involved no chicken at all. Ostensibly, when you sign up, a Hungryroot dinner will cost you $13 a serving, while lunch costs $12 and breakfast is a mere $4.50. But in practice, the number of… Continue reading Hungryroot Meal Kit Review (2025): AI-Guided Menu
After Uber’s App Cost Him His Job, a Disgruntled Driver Flew to San Francisco and Showed Up at Its Headquarters
When Karim Sawadogo pulled over next to a Denver Police car late on Halloween night of 2023, he issued them a challenge: “take me to jail.” A native of Burkina Faso, Sawadogo had been an Uber driver in the Denver area for nearly seven years, clocking over 20,000 rides. That gig came to a screeching… Continue reading After Uber’s App Cost Him His Job, a Disgruntled Driver Flew to San Francisco and Showed Up at Its Headquarters
Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech
Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is cheap to run, hardware agnostic, and can be applied to advanced driver assistance systems, robotaxis, and even robotics. The strategy, which Kendall laid… Continue reading Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech
Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time
Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being constant, might vary over time. Granted, those hints were still below the necessary threshold to claim discovery and hence fell under the rubric of… Continue reading Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time
Uber Drivers Say They’re Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It
For nearly ten years, Bernard Moses had been ferrying passengers around Chicagoland as an Uber driver. But after dropping off his umpteenth passenger one day in April 2024, Moses recalls that he swiped to find his next rider — only to discover he‘d been locked out of his Uber driver account. A message came up,… Continue reading Uber Drivers Say They’re Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It
Thunes Earns Silver Medal From EcoVadis For Sustainability Performance
EcoVadis places Thunes in the top 15% of companies globally, validating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitment and performance. SINGAPORE, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, announces its Silver Medal award from EcoVadis, a global leader in business sustainability assessments. Thunes has been placed in the top… Continue reading Thunes Earns Silver Medal From EcoVadis For Sustainability Performance
What Tesla can and can’t do in California with its new passenger transportation permit
Tesla received a permit Tuesday from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a transportation service in the state, the beginning of a long regulatory road that could eventually lead to the company getting the OK to operate a robotaxi service there. The permit, which Tesla applied for in November 2024, doesn’t cover autonomous vehicle… Continue reading What Tesla can and can’t do in California with its new passenger transportation permit