13 Best Google Assistant Speakers (2019): Nest, Sonos, JBL, and More

Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant are locked in a tug-of-war over who controls the smart speakers in your house. Right now, we prefer Google. Its Assistant answers questions more accurately and has a simpler setup. It connects to a growing number of smart home devices, too (view compatibility here). All of these devices have Google…

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10 Gifts for People Who Just Need Some Sleep

I've always had trouble sleeping. Between crippling anxiety and general insomnia, I take all the help I can get. And I'm not alone. Most of us are probably not getting enough sleep, and that can have a serious impact on our overall health.So, I traveled far and wide (on the web) and tested dozens of…

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A Very WIRED Guide to Candidates in the Democratic Debate

After several rounds that had the crowded, chaotic feel of early-season Bachelor episodes, the field for Thursday night’s debate is down to a somewhat more manageable seven candidates: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. (The rest of the hopefuls failed to meet polling and fundraising thresholds…

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‘Cats’ Is as Terrible as the Internet Guessed It Might Be

Cats, depending on who you ask, is either a beloved musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber or a reviled musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Originally staged on the West End in London in 1981—and later on Broadway in 1982, where it ran for a record-breaking 18 years—the premise is quite simple: It’s about cats. Cats played…

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Curve, the ‘over-the-top’ banking platform, launches “Curve Send” for P2P payments in 25 currencies

Curve, the so-called “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card and app, is launching new feature to make it possible…

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The unbrandening

Josh Gross is the managing partner at digital product studio Planetary and its child company, Regular, the low-cost, high quality studio for small businesses. Do you remember as a kid…

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Hulu is down

Less than one month after a major Hulu outage, Hulu is down again. We’ve been seeing reports on Twitter of Hulu streaming issues. It appears the issues have been ongoing…

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