“We’ve even seen models that give you the capability to convert some compartments from freezer to fridge and vice versa,” says Breann Chai, who oversees CR’s refrigerator testing. To help you find the best refrigerator for you, we organize our ratings for each subcategory by the width of the appliance. (After all, the best refrigerator…
Cyber Monday is almost over, but WIRED’s Reviews team is still scouring the web for the best deals on everything from Kindle devices to beauty products. I just came across this excellent sale on Vego’s kitchen composter, crowned Fastest Breakdown in our guide to the Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers. These kinds of machines…
The Jeep Recon boasts 650 hp and 620 lb.-ft. of torque. There is a front and a rear electric drive module (EDM), each rated at 250 kW. Jeep says that the SUV can race from zero to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds in Sport mode. In regular ol’ Auto mode, it will go to 60…
If you’re running out of storage space on your laptop or you need to back up your data and store that backlog of videos you’re going to edit one day (I am, I swear), an external hard drive can solve your problem. The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt-cheap to…
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first technologists hired as part of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is no longer working for the federal government, according to multiple sources. “Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,” a White House official tells WIRED. Coristine received full-time employment status at the GSA late last month, as…
Right to repair provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, which would secure funding for the US military in 2026, are likely to be struck from the final language of the bill despite enjoying broad bipartisan support, sources familiar with ongoing negotiations tell WIRED. They say that provisions in the act enabling servicemembers to repair…
You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job…
Imagine you’re walking your dog. It interacts with the world around you—sniffing some things, relieving itself on others. You walk down the Embarcadero in San Francisco on a bright sunny day, and you see the Ferry Building in the distance as you look out into the bay. Your dog turns to you, looks you in…
Main Theme In this episode of the Talking Cars podcast, we discuss the redesigned sixth-generation 2025 Toyota 4Runner. Even though the outgoing generation has been around since 2010, it won over fans until the end with its relative simplicity, off-road capabilities, and reliability. This updated, now larger 4Runner stays true to its roots as an…
“GPS is good in places, but we go to places like Monaco, Baku, Singapore, where all that infrastructure and buildings really make GPS drift,” says Dean Locke, director of broadcast media and digital for Formula 1. F1 cars are also much lighter than their Nascar counterparts, necessitating lower-weight sensors. Its broadcast teams struggled to put…