Month: March 2022

You might not know that Amazon makes wireless earbuds. Well, it does! The second-gen Echo Buds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are some of our favorites. They sound great and work well with Alexa, and right now they’re only $ 50. They frequently dip to $ 85, but this is the lowest price we’ve ever tracked. Even […]

If you made choose me from the current crop of flagship Android smartphones, the new OnePlus 10 Pro would not be my first or second choice. It’s not my last either. At $ 899, it sits in an awkward spot of being pretty good for the money, but not quite as great as some of […]

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup wants to kick-start a molecular electronics revival In 2000, many hoped molecular electronics (using single molecules to create circuits and components) would leapfrog silicon-based circuitry to allow computer chips […]

You know, I can be a real dimwit sometimes. For too long, I’d dart around on short trips without bothering to slap a helmet on my head. It was a couple of close calls — both in the same evening — biking through New York City at dusk that caused me to wise up and […]

Harness the full potential of your browser with add-ons that can supercharge everything from web searches to email writing. For language learners who want to grow their vocabulary and develop confidence, browser extensions are an opportunity to casually practice while online. But before you download anything, here’s how to audit a browser extension to ensure […]

To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. “It’s a great concept. I think it’s long overdue for chip manufacturers to do something for us in biosciences, ”says Nils Walter, a chemist at the University of Michigan and co-founder of aLight Sciences, a company that is also developing single molecules as biosensors, […]

A sample of moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission will go under the hammer in New York next month. As part of a Bonhams auction of rare space-history-related artifacts, the lunar sample is expected to fetch around $ 1 million. And thanks to an unusual series of events, this will […]