There’s a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay, and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association. They’re not just names dropping off a list. Each potentially made…

Come on. Some of those carnival games are just plain silly. There’s one (check out the video) with a bowling pin and a ball suspended from a string above it. You’re supposed to swing the ball around and hit the pin from behind. Spoiler alert: It can’t be done. This is a sucker game. How…

Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. It's still good advice. The GoPro ranks high on our list, and would be our top pick for most people. But finally, we've found a few worthy competitors.To figure out which camera is the best, we tried them all. We dove with them,…

Summer is a hassle. I don't like being stuck inside during long, sunny afternoons when it's just too hot to run, and I don't like risking dehydration or heat stroke when I go camping. But once the temperature drops in the fall, those sunny afternoons are mine again—and now, so is the gear.REI is one…

Then there were 22. Last week, PayPal became the first to defect from the 28-member Libra Association, declining to participate in Facebook’s vision for global payments—a vision it helped seed. Now, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, eBay, and Mercado Pago have followed it out the door. The hurried exits come as the association prepares for its first…

Turkey restricted access to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp in at least three cities in the southern part of the country for about 48 hours earlier this week as it launched an attack on northern Syria, according to data collected by civil society group NetBlocks and reviewed by WIRED. Turkey moved against Kurdish forces in…

The Pixel 4 is set to be unveiled at an event on Tuesday. This much we know for sure. We know a bunch more, too, (as outlined in this rumor…

Samsung makes good, underrated smartwatches. It’s just been difficult to get much attention in a category so utterly dominated by a single player. Even still, the company has managed to…

This week California’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, published draft guidance for enforcing the state’s landmark privacy legislation. The draft text of the regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)…

It’s clear why Logitech bought Blue back in July 2018. The Southern Californian audio company (an acronym for “Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics,” incidentally) has become synonymous with USB microphones since…