Category: Technology

Wireless charging isn’t nearly as cool as it sounds. It’s not exactly wireless—a cord runs from an outlet to the charging pad—and it won’t charge [more…]

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are putting pressure on big tech firms to explain their motives for donating to President-elect Donald Trump’s [more…]

Hisense didn’t bring many TVs to CES 2025, but what did make the journey may well be a sign of the future of display technology. [more…]

When I visited my elderly mom in Germany recently, I realized it could be one of the last times I see her in the cozy [more…]

My fellow WIRED reviewers are some of the smartest people I know. Ask a Gear team member any question, whether it’s about zipper quality, knob [more…]

But that wasn’t obvious. They’d have to analyze a special set of functions, called Type I and Type II sums, for each version of their [more…]

Swimlane survey finds many businesses aren’t keeping on top of AI energy needs Nearly three quarters are aware of the dramatic energy demands needed to [more…]

TikTok can no longer be downloaded in the US The app will still let you access your data President Trump may reverse the ban decision [more…]

Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the [more…]

Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates. Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps [more…]

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is one of the best Android smartwatches you can buy right now, and the best Samsung watch (from a specs [more…]

“Even VPNs do not lead to circumvention” in India, Gosain told WIRED. In the early hours of the US ban, it was unclear exactly how [more…]

There’s a general sense of doom on the TikTok feeds these days, and no wonder: it looks like the video service may be banned in [more…]

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users. [more…]

TikTok has gone dark in the US now that the ban-or-divest law passed last year is taking effect. The app has been removed from both [more…]

The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap. The app suddenly cut off [more…]

For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned a major global social media platform, joining the ranks of authoritarian [more…]

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans — [more…]

TikTok itself apparently doesn’t like the idea of allowing its creators to bulk download their videos. You can download — in TXT or JSON format [more…]

TikTok is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban on the app is set to go into effect on January [more…]