Flexible e-skins could be used to measure wearers’ blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen levels in real time, assisting with diagnoses and health care.

America’s most popular music streaming service is adding the ability to turn down the vocals and sing along.

Don’t worry if you skipped the Cyber Monday madness. Some of the company’s best gear is on sale right now.

Disgruntled former staff allege they were not given the severance packages they were promised. The mountain of litigation could cost Twitter millions.

Track your mileage, keep tabs on your heart rate, or map a ride from here to eternity with these handlebar-mounted cycling companions.

The product guru made Ledger’s new hardware wallet—a tiny vault for digital cash—flashy and fun. Plus, with this gadget you’ll never get FTX’d.

Concerns about artificial intelligence replacing long-haul drivers are not new, but the real story is more nuanced.

With gas prices soaring in Europe, I tried a new thermostat system that promises savings and lets you control temperature for individual rooms.

The UK's use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants' lives.

For everything from journaling to writing my wedding vows, the iconic Lamy 2000 has become my favorite literary accessory.

Audiology screening can be inaccessible for kids in low-resource areas. By utilizing off-the-shelf products, these scientists are trying to change that.

The UK grime rapper transformed #Merky into a music label, a book imprint, and advocacy campaigns—something that may be impossible in the new Twitter era.

A Swedish electric bike is helping Mozambique’s park rangers protect game and reducing the need for fossil fuel infrastructure in Africa’s remotest areas.

Fentanyl-related substances have a bad reputation, but they could also save lives. In the US, a legislative battle to expedite research is heating up.

Emergency responders rely on the platform to share and collect lifesaving information. Looser moderation puts that in peril.

Invasive species experts urge scientists and the media to avoid sensationalizing Jorō spiders—and wait for science to catch up.

The company learns from its past to create a compelling action camera.

Stray, Cult of the Lamb, and Tunic are totally over human main characters.

Gene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers agree to pony up.

In a fragmented online world, the professional social network is finding mass appeal.

The company’s staffing problems have been magnified in Germany, where it is unable to meet targets as more workers head for the exit.

The most unlikely of music formats is staging a return. Part novelty and part nostalgia, here’s how to dive in.

This weatherproof camera is mounted inside a bird feeder—but its AI identification system needs work.

A growing catalog of huge but dim “ultra-diffuse” galaxies is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.

This sleek-looking and smooth-typing Das Keyboard MacTigr works flawlessly with Apple computers.

Plus: Apple’s mixed-reality headset creeps toward actual reality, and a stronger type of Gorilla Glass is coming to phone screens.

Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year.

Typing or making calls with one hand? These cases, grips, and add-ons will make your life much easier.

The teeny subwoofer brings the bass to your existing smart soundbar.

Belugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on how they collectively adapt.

Messages show Twitter’s past leaders struggling with a tough moderation call with political overtones. Musk is now on the hook for such decisions himself.

Forget what you've heard—sexual lubricants are a nightstand essential.

A group of quality assurance workers in New York just won legal recognition of its union—a second milestone for organizing efforts within the gaming industry.

Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

If you think “bass” equals “excitement,” then this is for you. But the fact that this high-end French audio brand is no longer bonkers does not bode well.

The government regained control of streets and social networks, but citizens protesting zero-Covid policies proved smartphones can help fuel mass action.

'Gears of War' designer Cliff Bleszinski's new book is an intimate look into the life of a video game creator.

Spotify Wrapped memes, Twitter hashtags, YouTube’s best-of list. Do social media trends still have anything vital to say?

Despite ample reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency schemes, the notion of the eccentric genius accomplishing extraordinary things was irresistible.

When do writers want help finding inspiration? And when do they want full control? Computers could expose the true future of the medium.

The old port is dead to me. Connect your peripherals to all your devices with the more universal connector.

You, too, can be the cool vinyl nerd at your next shindig. Now go sit next to the guy with the guitar.

Medtech firm Earli is working on a way to make tumors announce themselves as they appear—and even provide directions to where they are in the body.

Elon Musk’s platform may be hell, but it’s also where huge amounts of reputational and social wealth are invested. All of that is in peril.

It’s a social media trend that survives year after year. And it thrives on your personal data.

Long software support doesn’t matter if your phone is frustrating to use.

This week on Gadget Lab, we chart the rise of services that let you pay for purchases in interest-free installments, and what they mean for the future of shopping.

It was Twitter's greatest strength and greatest weakness—and there's no hope for a fix.

The PayPal cofounder on why his “buy now, pay later” company Affirm is a healthier way to borrow, what caused the techlash, and Elon Musk’s Twitter.

As authorities hit citizens with more violence, the social network is proving key to documenting abuses. If it breaks, a human rights lifeline may disappear.