A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.https://www.wired.com/story/google-advanced-protection-vulnerable-users-lockdown-android-16/
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services/
Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud.https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-on-device-ai-scam-texts/
Google teased all the new features coming to its mobile operating system ahead of next week’s I/O conference.https://www.wired.com/story/android-16-gemini-new-features/
General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.https://www.wired.com/story/gms-new-battery-tech-could-be-a-breakthrough-for-affordable-evs/
Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.https://www.wired.com/story/xinbi-guarantee-crypto-scam-hub/
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-automatic-cat-litter-boxes/
Sony’s unexpected 5.1 surround system provides rip-roaring fun in an old-school design.https://www.wired.com/review/sony-bravia-theater-system-6/
Square, the company that makes the ubiquitous point-of-sale pucks used in stores and restaurants is doubling down on mobile payments—and making a play for retail titans too.https://www.wired.com/story/square-handheld/
Apple’s mapping platform is no longer exclusively for Apple devices. A pared-down version runs in your browser; here’s how to use it.https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-apple-maps-on-the-web/
These chest straps and watches will help you keep your finger on your pulse—and many other heart-related metrics.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-heart-rate-monitors/
We spent the Pornhub Awards with some of the site’s biggest stars to talk censorship, making money, and the popularity of trans porn—all while the site is blocked in more than a third of US states.https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-awards/
The Galaxy S25 Edge begs the question: Do you want a thin phone or better battery life?https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-galaxy-s25-edge-price-features-release-date/
The largest holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have secured spots at a private event with the US president himself. WIRED tracked how they did it.https://www.wired.com/story/trumpcoin-dinner-ticket-bidding/
Everyone focuses on a destination’s nightlife, but perhaps we should be more concerned with what its early morning hours have to offerhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/to-truly-experience-these-five-cities-wake-before-sunrise-180986619/
At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocenehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trove-ice-age-fossils-buried-in-wyoming-cave-rewriting-understanding-prehistoric-animals-180986577/
Today, tegus are considered invasive creatures in Florida, but a new paper suggests they’ve lived in the southeastern United States at least once before—millions of years agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mysterious-fossil-found-in-museum-storage-turned-out-to-be-a-new-extinct-lizard-species-180986618/
Nearly 100 imaginative portraits, still lifes and other artworks by the renowned singer-songwriter are now on view at the Halcyon Gallery in Londonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-bob-dylan-isnt-writing-nobel-winning-lyrics-hes-creating-original-paintings-and-drawings-180986612/
Rather than passively filter-feeding, the birds use their heads, beaks and feet to generate motion in the water that funnels invertebrates into their mouthshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/feeding-flamingos-create-underwater-tornado-like-vortices-to-capture-their-prey-study-finds-180986614/
The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life under Jim Crowhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-history-of-the-complex-relationship-between-chinese-and-black-americans-in-the-mississippi-delta-180986615/