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Honorable MentionsOpen earbuds are becoming the hot trend in wireless audio, meaning there are plenty of good options that don’t make our top list. Here are some other pairs worth considering.Acefast Acefit Pro for $60-$125: Acefast’s Acefit Pro are more stylish than the cheaper Acefit Air above, most notably in their snazzy transparent case that shows battery life in slick LEDs when you open or close it. Otherwise, the sound quality isn’t notably better than the Air, and the buds themselves are bulkier, so they don’t fit my ears as well. These are still a solid pair of wrap-around open…
Apple exceeded expectations when it reported its quarterly earnings on Thursday, revealing that it made $143.8 billion in revenue for a 16% year-over-year increase. As analysts peppered CEO Tim Cook with softball questions during Apple’s earnings call, one analyst dared to ask the question that seemingly no one in Silicon Valley is willing to ask. “When I think about your AI initiatives, you know, it’s clear there are added costs associated with that… Many of your competitors have already integrated AI into their devices, and it’s just not clear yet what incremental monetization they’re seeing because of AI…,” started Morgan…
War, it is said, is a continuation of policy by other means. State-backed violence, too, can be a continuation of policy. Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has repeatedly urged ICE agents to escalate their tactics and increase arrests, and he broadcast to agents that they had “federal immunity.” Since that last remark in October 2025, ICE tactics have become far more violent. But historically speaking, host nations—and in this case we speak of California, Illinois, Oregon, Minnesota, and Maine, I guess—simply do not take well to long-term abusive behavior.If political ends of these tactics are…
Cadillac F1 is looking to rev up some homegrown fans thanks to an upcoming Super Bowl ad.Today, Cadillac F1, a joint venture between General Motors and TWG Motorsports, announced it will reveal its livery in an upcoming 30-second ad airing in the 4th quarter of Super Bowl LX. For those less familiar with the sport, livery reveals are a big deal in Formula 1, where teams can showcase their new cars, paint jobs, and sponsors under the updated F1 regulations. Cadillac F1 is the first American-registered team in ten years to join the F1 grid, so it wanted to make…
Apple had a great Q1, though iPhone sales were the real standout. The company reports that its signature device had its best quarter ever, thanks partially to a surge of sales in regions like China and India. “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records across every geographic segment,” said CEO Tim Cook during the company’s earnings call Thursday. Apple’s earnings report shows the company sold $85 billion worth of iPhones during its first quarter, up from $69 billion in the same period last year. During the call’s Q&A portion, Cook revealed that China had seen…
Even as active noise canceling and transparency modes in earbuds get sharper, a lot of people still want something that lets them truly hear the world around them. Whether that’s for cycling, working out, or just walking the dog, the Anker Soundcore Aeroclip are our favorite pick for most people, and they’re currently marked down to just $110 on Amazon, a $60 break from the usual price.Soundcore by AnkerAeroclipOne of the most important factors in a pair of open earbuds is fit, and the Anker use a “memory titanium” insert, rated for up to 20,000 bends, that should keep these…
Hims & Hers is returning to the Super Bowl this year with what it describes as a “hard-hitting and unconventional” message, airing another 60-second spot in the fourth quarter. This time, the telehealth company’s Super Bowl spot is arguing that America’s widening wealth gap has quietly become a health gap.“Rich people live longer,” the ad’s voiceover, delivered by Grammy and Academy Award-winning artist Common, states bluntly in its opening moments. Visually, the spot leans into surrealism to make its point: In one scene, surgeons pull back the skin on a seemingly affluent older person’s face, as if tightening it. In…
Ethos Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of software for selling life insurance, debuted on the Nasdaq on Thursday. As one of the year’s first major tech IPOs, the insurtech platform is being closely watched as a bellwether for the 2026 listing cycle. The company and its selling shareholders raised approximately $200 million in the offering, selling 10.5 million shares at $19 each under the ticker symbol “LIFE” — one of the more on-the-nose choices in recent memory. The name fits. Ethos runs a three-sided platform where consumers buy policies online in 10 minutes without medical exams. It says over 10,000…
Friday is the general release of the documentary Melania, a film about President Donald Trump’s third wife and first lady of the United States. A WIRED analysis shows that there are still plenty of seats available, unless you live near the AMC Classic Indian River 24 in Vero Beach, Florida. Or the AMC Independence Commons 20 in Independence, Missouri.Melania was produced by Amazon MGM Studios and directed by Brett Ratner, who is well known for both his Rush Hour series (another sequel of which is currently in production at Trump’s request) and for being accused of sexual misconduct by six…
Toyota is advertising in Super Bowl LX with “Superhero Belt,” a quietly emotional, generational ad that finds meaning in everyday moments (and the cars that carry them).Created by Saatchi & Saatchi and directed by Rodrigo Saavedra at Pulse Films, the ad opens in a scene from decades ago, with a young boy riding in his grandfather’s Toyota RAV4. When the child resists buckling up, his grandfather reframes the seatbelt as something far more exciting: a “superhero belt.”The film then jumps forward more than 30 years. The boy is now a grown man, driving his own 2026 RAV4—and this time, the…
Three of Elon Musk’s companies — SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla — are in play for a potential merger. While the talks appear to be in the early stage, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, it could eventually lead to at least one company folding into SpaceX. Two scenarios are being hashed out. In one, SpaceX and Tesla would merge, per Bloomberg, citing unnamed insiders. In another, SpaceX and aXI (which already owns Musk’s social media platform X) would combine. According to reporting by Reuters, a merger between SpaceX and xAI could take place ahead of a planned SpaceX IPO…
In today’s episode, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer are joined by Tim Marchman, WIRED’s director of science, politics, and security, to discuss the news of the week—including how far-right influencers spread misinformation in Minneapolis, and why TikTok’s US version is off to a rocky start. Plus, we dive into why some people are currently obsessed with the AI assistant Moltbot.Articles mentioned in this episode:You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer, and Tim Marchman on Bluesky at @timmarchman. Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com.How to ListenYou can always listen to this week’s podcast…
In our tech-powered world, technology marketers cannot afford to lose sight of client trust. And yet, they do. On this episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast, Ariel Kelman, president and CMO of Salesforce, reveals why customer success storytelling matters more than ever, how to ground AI in trusted first-party data, and the key strategies for balancing AI automation with human creativity. What you’ll learn: How to ground AI agents in customer data to drive measurable outcomes Why CMO leadership must pioneer AI adoption before mandating it across teams AI’s productivity paradox: Why it enables both more output alongside better work-life balance How…
Hustle culture may be the norm at tech companies in the AI era, but the work will stop tomorrow at publishing platform makers Medium. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine is giving its employees permission to take the day off to participate in tomorrow’s nationwide general strike protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Activists behind the general strike are calling for “no work, no school, and no shopping” amid a push to defund ICE, which has escalated raids in U.S. cities, killing several people including two U.S. citizens earlier this month in Minneapolis. In a Slack message shared today with…
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at the orthodox view that large language models (LLMs) will get us to artificial general intelligence (AGI), the threshold where computers match or exceed human smarts. Everyone, he declared in a recent interview, has been “LLM-pilled.”On January 21, San Francisco–based startup Logical Intelligence appointed LeCun to its board. Building on a theory conceived by LeCun two decades prior, the startup claims to have developed a different form of AI, better equipped to learn, reason, and self-correct.Logical…
On a Wednesday afternoon in early January, Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, was sitting in a sprawling suite on the 57th floor of the Aria hotel in Las Vegas. Dressed in a neat navy cardigan and clean white sneakers, he lounged on a sofa set against a dramatic vista of the neon city and the desert beyond, framed by floor-to-ceiling windows. Bier was in Vegas for the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show, one of the most influential annual tech conferences on Earth, where he was meeting with advertising clients and evangelizing the work he’s done to enhance user-experience on the…