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Govee makes some of the best affordable smart lights, but its enormous range can be overwhelming and confusing. Here’s how to choose the right fit for your home.

These mobile accessories will make your smartphone a better—and safer—road trip companion.

TikTok but without the algorithm? TikTok by Meta? A new law this week puts the platform on a death watch—and none of the potential outcomes look great.

For less than you’d spend on dinner out for two, you can snag this pair of excellent noise-canceling earbuds.

These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.

Nine Inch Nails, Pulp Fiction, “Regulate.” The last year before culture began to migrate online was not like any other.

All of them and none of them, really. Let us explain.

In a chaotic housing market that has shut many buyers out, fractional home ownership and investing trends are taking off.

While both Alphabet and Microsoft boasted strong quarterly earnings, only one tech giant showed that its generative AI bet is starting to pay off.

Nintendo's top-of-the-line handheld gaming console hardly ever goes on sale, making this small discount super appealing.

The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.

This week, we talk about the looming TikTok ban and what it means for the politicians and influencers who regularly post on the platform.

Conspiracies about outside forces funding and orchestrating the university protests at Columbia and NYU have taken hold online, primarily on X.

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

US senators have called for fresh scrutiny of crypto’s role in paying for child sexual abuse imagery online, a problem that they say has worsened.

Yale’s first deadbolt adapter magically unlocks your door when it senses you’re returning home.

Add extra security and privacy to your smart home gadgets, streaming boxes, and every device in your house by running a virtual private network on your router.

Want a robot vacuum that mops, but don’t want damp pads dragged on your carpet? The Dreame X30 Ultra is the pricey solution.

I regret to inform you that $800 is a decent price for Eufy’s midrange AI-enabled robot vacuum-mop.

Cleaning your coffee grinder is a bit of a chore, but doing so will greatly improve the taste of your daily cup. It’s also way easier than you’d think.

Spruce up that home, yard, and garage with deals on everything from power tools to lawn gear while you still can.

This week, we probe each other’s knowledge of common acronyms from the early internet, the mobile era, and the AI boom. So fire up your LLM, send an RCS, and tell your BBS pals the game is afoot.

President Joe Biden may have signed the TikTok ban bill into law, but his campaign is still active on the Chinese-owned app.

WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta’s social platforms promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend" apps. Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly.

Meet Thermonator. It blasts fire up to 30 feet and has Bluetooth.

Atlus promises its next game, out later this year, will be a culmination of all of its beloved RPGs.

The far-traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.

Good cold-brewed coffee tastes like magic. Learn how to make it right—no barista necessary.

TikTok says it plans to challenge the law that could ban it in the US in court. Experts think it's got a fighting chance.

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.