Meet Pixpay, a French startup that wants to replace cash when you’re handing out pocket money to your kids. Anybody who is older than 10 years old can create a…

What the failWith the Pixel 4 face unlock debacle, you really can say that Google's Android security team did not check itself before it wrecked itself. What we're thankful for here is the BBC journalist, who probably does not have narcolepsy, but instead pretended to be asleep with his review copy of a Pixel 4…

A rapid riseEver since AMD launched the Zen architecture just over three years ago, it has progressed at a relentless pace. At the time, Intel's $1,100 8-core i7-6900 seemed like it had all the cores you'd ever need. However, AMD moved the goalposts, unveiling the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800 at a much lower $499 price…

No, you're probably not going to buy someone a boxed mattress as a holiday present (unless you're really close to them). But Black Friday isn't just the best time to finish up your holiday shopping in one whirlwind weekend. It's also a great time to refresh your kitchen gear before your family descends or to…

Black Friday is always a great time to grab a new laptop on the cheap and this year is no exception. We've spent days leafing through the sales, comparing specs, and finding the best deals for every budget. Whether you want a powerful video-editing machine or something cheaper like a Chromebook, there's a PC deal…

Thanksgiving is a busy time of the year filled with travel, family, and (hopefully) fun. It's also when holiday deals season fully kicks off. To help minimize the amount of time you spend hunting for deals, we've rounded up the best smartphone and smartwatch sales around the internet. Below, you'll also find deals on ebook…

There are a lot of deep discounts during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but it's a particularly great shopping holiday if you're looking for a new TV. Not only are newer models seeing their first real discounts, but what's left of last year's stock gets big price cuts. And even if you're not after a…

The fall and winter holidays are a flurry of activity. At WIRED, we know that you have various pastries to bake, presents to wrap, or small children and pets to pose next to large, decorative shrubbery. That's why we did the hard work of holiday shopping for you. We spent the year testing and reviewing…

Working from a beachside shack on California's Monterey Bay, Nate Lindsey fired a stream of infrared laser pulses down a long fiber-optic cable extending onto the ocean floor. The miles-long cable had been there for a decade, transmitting data to and from scientific instruments on the seafloor, but Lindsey, a geoscientist at UC Berkeley, was…

On their own, the images kindle and spellbind. In the collective, however, they transform into something even more incandescent. There is Spike Lee, courtside at a Knicks basketball game, his hands placed at his hips as if to suggest a kind of self-satisfaction. And Prince in a pair of black sunglasses furiously sipping from a…