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Everything From Apple’s WWDC
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The iPhone is still undoubtedly Apple’s most important product. So why were some of the biggest announcements this week at the company’s annual de...
Making Surfing More Sustainable
02 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The great irony in the sport of surfing is that the process of making a surfboard puts a great deal of strain on the environment. The various chemical...
Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What’s a giant consumer electronics maker to do when it notices that younger customers are more interested in paying for experiences, rather than th...
YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Beauty product reviews on YouTube aren’t just about beauty products and internet capitalism. They’re a conduit for drama, loyalty politics, and “...
If You Build It, They Will I/O
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Developer conferences aren’t just a chance for tech companies to incentivize app makers and show off the latest tricks and tools in software. The ev...
The Making of Adam Savage
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You might know Adam Savage as the co-host of the television show MythBusters, as the editor of Tested.com, or as the host of countless web videos that...
Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your drop your phone and shatter the screen? Or when its battery starts to grow noticeably weaker? These common technological woes a...
What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Uber filed to go public this week. No big surprise there; everyone in the industry has been waiting months for the ride-hailing giant to hit the accel...
Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re confused about what exactly this hoped-for Targaryen Restoration is about, politically. And is Game of Thrones, like, good anymore? Laura Huds...
Reporting From Syria
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re joined by a special guest: freelance war correspondent Kenneth R. Rosen. Ken is working on a series of stories for WIRED about the ...
The Case for Male Birth Control
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hormonal male contraception is not a new idea––in fact, researchers have been working on solutions for men the pill was invented for women. But ea...
Game On at Google
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s Project Stream, first unveiled last October, gave gamers a taste of what it would be like to stream heavy games directly from the cloud –...
Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Should this exist?” is not typically a question that technologists ask themselves, Caterina Fake says. The Flickr cofounder-turned-investor says ...
How to Quit Your Tech Job
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Powell was the top communications executive at Google when she found herself Googling, in no uncertain search terms, how to quit her job at Go...
Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft just unveiled a brand new product, but it really doesn’t want to hype it. That’s according to Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft...
You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At its flagship phone event this week in San Francisco, Samsung announced not one but four different versions of the new Galaxy S10: A phone with a 6....
The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Product designer and internet native Chris Messina was lucky enough to snag the username @chris on Instagram back when Instagram was known as Burbn, a...
The App Smackdown
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Move fast and break app store rules: That very well may have been Facebook’s motto for awhile now, only, we’re just learning about it this week. A...
Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kids are particularly terrible for robots. At least, that’s what researchers in Japan discovered when they let a robot roam around a shopping center...
Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers
19 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Self-lacing sneakers have been the dream since Marty McFly first rocked Nike MAGs in 1989, but most attempts at turning shoe leather into smart sneake...
The Best of CES
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We came. We saw. We touched a lot of gadgets. This week was the annual CES, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics show, and WIRED’s team...
The Year in Tech, in One Word
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to sum up the year in tech in one word, what word would you choose? That’s what we at the Gadget Lab asked ourselves as we looked to some...
Apocalypse Now
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most people, at this point, believe that climate change is a real thing that will harm future generations of humans. And yet, a cognitive dissonance e...