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The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair
This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly.
2025’s Best Phones Were Also Its Wackiest
If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half. That’s a good thing.
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.
Big Balls Was Just the Beginning
Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back
Politics Is Fandom; Fascism Is Fanfic
Brain Gear Is the Hot New Wearable
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute
Best Housewarming Gifts for Any New Home
Make a house into a home with these gifts, whether your recipient is moving into their first house or a great new apartment.
The Best Gifts for Sleep
I've tested smart home gear and high-tech party gadgets at every holiday party I've hosted so far this year. Here’s how to automate your party so you can actually enjoy the holiday season.
From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.
AI of a Thousand Faces
All Hail the Technocracy
WIRED Takes You Back to School
The New Era of Work Travel
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
Originally published July 2021: From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future.
