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I've been watching The Dropout on Hulu. It's hard to watch at times, because the main character of the show, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, is such a horrible person. She lies to everyone about everything, but she's cute and the VCs like her, so they pump hundreds of million...

“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autoresponder: ‘I no longer work here! For questions, contact Caleb, Chief Joy Officer.’” — Homer, Odyssey - - - “Sisyphus thinks he c...

We are taking a break until September to accommodate vacations and back-to-school preparations while finalizing our rebranding efforts for a polished look.

From wired to wireless to ultralight, we've tested dozens of gaming mice to find the best for work, your next MMO, and everything in between.

WIRED’s air quality expert breaks down what we—and you—should consider when assessing one of these popular appliances.

For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?

Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the generations before them.

Long plagued by moderation issues, the platform recently released a series of updates aimed at improving the experience for kids. Experts worry they could have the opposite effect.

Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?

Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.

From laptops for any kind of coursework to scooters to get you to class on time, here's everything you need to crush this school year.

As Australia rolls out a ban on social media for kids under 16, tech companies face steep fines and teens face life without TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms. Will it work?

From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has long inspired frenzied discourse: Will it revolutionize the system or rot kids’ brains? It often does neither.

Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.

From Iowa to New York, Republican members of Congress have struggled to answer constituents’ tough questions about their party’s agenda, with several town hall meetings turning angry and going viral. Republican leaders have told lawmakers to stop holding them all together. R...

With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as well as using it to underwrite carbon credits.

With President Trump’s crackdown intensifying in Washington, D.C., he lashed out angrily at the media for describing him as a “dictator.” In this same rant, he did not reassure D.C. residents and exaggerated wildly about crime there, suggesting people sho...

These days, it feels like every business is leaning on AI, chatbots, or endless help articles. While those tools can help, they often leave customers frustrated and waiting for real answers. What actually makes a difference is human-centered service. Customers want to know someone is listening, taking ownership of their problem, and working to solve […]

SEASON 4 EPISODE 5: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: THE DISASTA IN ALASKA The Disasta in Alaska - starring the cheeseburger-eating surrender monkey. We have, to quote Churchill, suffered a defeat, without a war. Because we forget we don’t MEREL...

I would like to get on the record.

1. The only billionaire-proof social network will be based on RSS.
2. The shortest path to being billionaire-proof for Bluesky is well thought-out inbound and outbound RSS.

We're going to have some interop based on RSS not too far down the road. A network that will only require an RSS feed for entry. It's what we should've built in 2006 and didn't.