Software & Apps

Best Christmas gifts for the 2025 holiday season
Choosing the best Christmas gifts for the ones you love is either an epic quest that you look forward to every year — or one you dread. Luckily, we spend our days testing all the latest gadgets and gear, and we know exactly what to recommend. For 2025, our Christmas wishlist is simple: It’s all…

You Probably Don’t Need to Drink Electrolyte Water Every Day
Wellness marketing is a little out of control, and electrolytes are as buzzy as it gets. Touted by influencers and podcasters as a miracle supplement that helps your body perform at its peak, electrolyte beverages are as numerous as they are readily available. But the dietitians and nutritionists I spoke with are less willing to…

Ai2’s MolmoAct model ‘thinks in 3D’ to challenge Nvidia and Google in robotics AI
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Physical AI, where robotics and foundation models come together, is fast becoming a growing space with companies like Nvidia, Google and Meta releasing research and experimenting in melding large…
Norton VPN review: A VPN that fails to meet Norton’s standards
One thing I need to make clear right from the start: this is a review of Norton VPN (formerly Norton Secure VPN, and briefly Norton Ultra VPN) as a standalone app, not of the VPN feature in the Norton 360 package. They’re similar, but Norton VPN has a few more features, including the ability to…

Made by Google 2025: We Found All the Biggest Pixel 10 Leaks and Rumors
The new Pixel 10 line will debut on Aug. 20 at the Made by Google event, and it almost feels like the phones have been revealed in detail thanks to a multitude of rumors and presumed leaks. Google itself isn’t hiding that the Pixel 10 is coming, posting multiple looks of the phone when promoting…

‘Alien: Earth’ review: Xenomorphs get upstaged in this sci-fi treat
The Alien films’ Xenomorphs are, in my mind, the greatest movie monsters ever created. It’s shocking, then, that they’re the least interesting part of FX’s Alien: Earth. That isn’t to say that the Xenomorphs in Alien: Earth are bores. Far from it! These seminal horror creatures get more than enough moments to shine in the…

Night Sweats, Be Gone! Here Are the Best WIRED-Tested Cooling Mattresses
Other Cooling Options There are a ton of mattresses and related on the market that claim to have cooling benefits. Here are a few others we tested and liked, but not as much as the options above. BedJet 3 for $387: WIRED reviewer Christopher Null liked this climate-control device a lot because it allowed him…

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy | TechCrunch
With over 400 million chronic patients, India is one of the world’s largest medicine markets. But while most e-pharmacies chase speed, affordability remains the real challenge. Truemeds took a different route: helping patients switch to lower-cost substitutes, a bet now paying off with new funding at about four times its previous valuation. The six-year-old startup…

Emmanuel Clase, Gilbert Arenas, and the rise of sports gambling: is betting culture overtaking pro athletes?
The explosive growth of sports betting is starting to clash with the world of professional sports, and not always in a good way. As the sports industry pulls in billions and becomes a regular part of how people watch games, more and more athletes are getting caught up in gambling-related trouble. Take Major League Baseball,…

Anthropic revenue tied to two customers as AI pricing war threatens margins
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic’s meteoric rise to a $5 billion revenue run rate conceals a precarious dependence on just two major customers that account for nearly a quarter of the artificial intelligence…