What size should you get? Do you need a subwoofer? Here's everything you need to know when upgrading your TV's audio.

Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action.

Neuralink rival Synchron is connecting its brain-computer interface with consumer technologies to allow people with paralysis more functionality.

New US government rules for dog travel has led to more Fido-related confusion in the sky.

"I figured he was either dead or in prison by now," says the charging officer in Ryan Routh's 2002 arrest, who spoke with WIRED on Sunday.

Whether you're typing newsletters, marketing copy, or the next great novel, these tech tools and tips can help you spread the word.

This robot vacuum can hitch itself over ledges and detach the mop plate, but it can't empty the darn bin.

EVs can burn for days, firefighters have little or no training to deal with them, and conventional equipment isn't effective. But new technology is being developed that should make all the difference.

The newest Dyson wet-floor cleaner doesn't suck (or blow).

For decades, a black hole that has as much spin or charge as it can given it mass was considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

Want a stand-up paddleboard? How about a kayak? Get both with the Bote Lowrider Aero, the brand's latest hybrid paddleboard.

Plus: Meta's AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones.

This budget-friendly Bluetooth speaker stands tall against speakers twice its price.

Protracted flooding has engulfed the country's Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict and disease and is potentially leaving the region uninhabitable.

Cedric Dark is a gun-owning emergency physician, a father, and the cousin of a man who was shot to death. This is what he-and the science-say needs to change.

Plus: New evidence emerges about who may have helped 9/11 hijackers, UK police arrest a teen in connection with an attack on London's transit system, and Poland's spyware scandal enters a new phase.

The Wi-Fi 6E successor has arrived, and it promises to significantly boost the speed and stability of your wireless connections.

The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry.

The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.

It's as if television, media, and filmmaking are becoming manifest destiny in the wrong ways," says Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive. And there's nothing sadder."

Without the H2 chip, Apple's flagship headphones bizarrely can't do key things its basic buds now can.

US health officials say they don't know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu.

The federal indictment of two alleged members of the Terrorgram Collective, a far-right cell accused of inspiring lone wolf" attacks, reveals the US is now using a forgotten" legal strategy.

September will see the appearance of C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, that has traveled for tens of thousands of years through the solar system.

An election conspiracy group has announced plans to livestream footage from ballot drop boxes and recruit sheriffs to help. Local officials are concerned about potential voter intimidation.

There's such a thing as too much phone. Use these methods to silence notifications, eliminate distractions, and collar time-wasting apps.

This is a high price to pay for distraction-free productivity, but perennial notetakers will find it hard not to love the ReMarkable Paper Pro.

Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it.

This week, Reddit solved the long-running Celebrity Number Six mystery, but it almost got derailed thanks to accusations that the missing piece was made with AI.

Because, according to sources, they'd plead the Fifth, the witness list is missing key executives and staff with knowledge of the fatal Titanic expedition, raising questions about just how much can be learned from this investigation.

This electric kettle packs all the top-tier features at an affordable price.

The spirit brand has created a whisky bottle 80 percent lighter than a conventional one. Now it's sharing the knowledge for free so that others might follow.

The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what's officially known as OpenAI o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance.

A US judge has overturned a moratorium that stopped gambling companies from letting people bet on election results.

This smart lock uses infrared sensors to see me coming, recognize my face, and unlock the front door.

A new report attempts to calculate how much damage shipping our Amazon orders is doing to the planet and how badly the company is missing its own targets.

This week, we talk about the new iPhone 16 and its many AI tricks. Some of them are impressive, some of them are meh, all of them are very Apple.

Diamonds are increasingly commoditized-to the point that you can make them in your own home.

To compete against thousands of crypto meme coins flooding the market, creators are resorting to elaborate and sometimes dangerous stunts for attention.

If you plan to upgrade to one of Apple's new models, don't forget to cash in on your old one.

Billionaire Mark Cuban is done with his hit TV show, but he's still invested in fighting pharma's middlemen, being a dad, and needling Elon Musk.

The Vision Pro uses 3D avatars on calls and for streaming. These researchers used eye tracking to work out the passwords and PINs people typed with their avatars.

Until new luggage scanners come online at European airports, you're going to have to go back to taking liquids out of your bags.

Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials.

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple's Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble."

A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences.

WIRED unpacks last night's debate between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.

AirPods revolutionized the wireless earbuds category and are poised to do the same for over-the-counter hearing aids.