When Edward Warchocki speaks with you, he sounds like a regular guy. “Not super intelligent, but very emotional, very easy to make friends with,” says Bartosz Idzik, the person who created him. But when he doesn’t talk, it’s harder to forget what Warchocki really is: a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s wandering the city streets of…
Class A fire extinguishers target fires generated from wood, paper, and textiles. Class B fire extinguishers can extinguish fires fueled by oil, grease, and other flammable liquids or gases. Class C fire extinguishers work on fires involving live electrical equipment. ABC fire extinguishers work on all three types of fire and are the best for…
Everyone has dirty ears; the human ear is designed to produce earwax to protect itself from other junk getting in there, among other things. That means that the more you put your precious new AirPods Pro in your ear holes, the dirtier they are likely to get. So what’s the best way to clean out…
Update Dec, 22, 2025: Prompted by this investigation, Instacart has stopped offering technology that allowed grocery retailers to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries at the same time. Learn more about that change, as well as legislative and regulatory responses to our findings. This article is part of Consumer Reports’ Make the Price…
I love losing myself in a good book, and I’m not the only one. Finding great gifts for book lovers isn’t just about testing for the best e-reader (which we have!) or rounding up all the accessories worth adding to your Kindle (we’ve done that too), but rather it’s about setting up your favorite reader…
Compare the Top 8 Pizza Ovens Tips and FAQ Who We Are and How We Tested AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron WIRED reviewer Adrienne So has tested many pizza ovens and made more than a thousand pizzas over the past seven years. WIRED reviewer Matthew Korfhage is a longtime food writer who’s written about pizza on both coasts…
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being coordinated with the US government, are part of a broader push to give national leaders more control over a technology that…
When I was finally able to experiment with Auto Browse (for real this time), I took Google’s suggestions of digital chores as my starting point and picked online tasks that could be helpful in my own life. Whenever interacting with generative AI tools, a healthy sense of skepticism—and caution—is critical. Google even includes a disclaimer…
Zuckerberg repeatedly fell back on accusing Lanier of “mischaracterizing” his previous statements. When it came to emails, Zuckerberg typically objected based on how old the message was, or his lack of familiarity with the Meta employees involved. “I don’t think so, no,” he replied when directed to clarify if he knew Karina Newton, Instagram’s head…
Unlike electric dryers, which use electricity to produce the heat that dries clothes, gas dryers burn natural gas or propane to produce heat, and use electricity only to power the drum, fan, lights, and controls. Because they require less electrical power, they can be plugged into a 120-volt outlet, rather than the 240-volt outlet that…