How well a product works has always been a key to its success—or failure. There is no shortage of tech products that have, despite their buildup, eventually lost consumers because they failed to work as well as expected. There was Apple’s Newton, the Samsung Galaxy Fold more recently, and let’s not forget Juicero, a juicer…
This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Lucinda Charleston’s children reminded her that she wasn’t young anymore. But despite their worry, she assembled an emergency public health team to tackle the Navajo Nation’s first coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic hit Chilchinbeto, a small town in the northeast corner…
Now that we’re all spending so much time indoors, many of us are looking to upgrade our home spaces. Whether you’re tired of vacuuming, have discovered the joy of one-pot meals, or recently realized your thermostat isn’t exactly the smartest tool in the shed, many of the biggest tech companies are offering deals on some…
There are hundreds of Memorial Day sales out there, which can make shopping the first sale of the summer feel less like a handy way to save money and more like a chore. If you’re scrolling through stores trying to find the best discounts and deals, fear not. We’ve rounded them up below. If you’re…
Chances are you’re one of the 1.5 billion or so people using Gmail, but many of us just dive in and out of our inboxes without taking time to explore some of its extra features and functions—some of which are designed to make us safer and protect our privacy.Under the hood, Gmail has a number…
Over the years, Apple has made it prohibitively difficult to jailbreak iOS, which lets you install whatever software you want want on the normally locked-down devices. But on Saturday, the jailbreaking team Unc0ver released a tool that will jailbreak all versions of iOS from 11 to the 13.5. It’s been years since jailbreak has been…
Here’s our review and benchmarks of the Intel i7-10700K CPU, with a focus on the 10700K vs. AMD Ryzen 7 3900X, 3700X, and Intel i5-10600K. Tests for thermals, overclocking, production, & more.Sponsor: Get 10% off Squarespace purchases (https://geni.us/BqEpf)This is our third installation of Intel 10-series (“10th Gen,” by Intel standards) of CPUs, now focusing on…
There are multiple sales live over on the PlayStation Store, which means hundreds and hundreds of discounted PS4 games. Included is a special promotion that discounts every game to under $15, a more generic sale featuring hundreds of games and their DLC, the new Weekend Offer, and of course the new Deal of the Week.…
Hello and welcome to Replay, WIRED’s rundown of all of the week’s big videogame news. This week we’ve got updates from EA and G2A, and some details on that Doom Eternal anti-cheat software that pretty much no one liked. Let’s dive right in.Doom Eternal Gains, Then Quickly Loses, Anti-Cheat SoftwareIf there’s one thing PC gamers…
It’s been a year since Google debuted the Pixel 3A, its first affordable Pixel, and there still aren’t a lot of Android phones in its price range that can compete. The phone, which comes in two sizes, initially launched at $399 (and $479 for the XL model), but now with a successor rumored to be…
