10 Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2025, Tested & Reviewed
Stay hydrated in style and cut down on single-use plastic with our favorite bottles—now updated with information on lead.
We Hand-Picked the 61 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale
It’s the best time of year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and gear you’ll need for summer fun.
22 Best Memorial Day Mattress and Bedding Sales (2025)
The year’s best Memorial Day mattress and bedding sales on WIRED-tested products from Avocado, Helix, Brooklinen, Buffy, and more.
Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation
I’m feeling a strange sense of pressure as I set up my first bus route in City Bus Manager. I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it’s the city I actually live in. City Bus Manager uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to populate its maps, so I […]
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Review: Super Thin With a Catch
The wonders of a thin phone quickly disappear when you have to baby the battery life.
Meta’s antitrust defense wraps with one big claim: WhatsApp and Instagram couldn’t be better
For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta’s control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the sixth and final week of trial, Meta asked Judge James Boasberg to consider that actually, these apps might be as good as […]
Summer blockbuster season is here
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 84, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Mubi and Around The Horn and millennial tech, […]
The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem
There are too many planes in the sky. In 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supervised nearly 16.8 million flights in American airspace – half a million more than the year prior. To manage all of those airplanes, however, the FAA uses an air traffic control system designed in the early 1990s – when features […]
The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.
3D Is Back. This Time, You Can Ditch the Glasses
A new era of 3D display technology is upon us, moving far beyond anything we’ve seen in the past.