Three behaviors that can undermine you—and how to counteract them.

These rechargeable and battery-powered toothbrushes take the guesswork out of oral hygiene.

Subscribers can now organize their conversations with the AI assistant into neat little folders.

Kristen DiMercurio went viral on TikTok when she revealed she was probably the voice of your Bluetooth speaker … and your headphones … and that gadget how-to video … and your insurer’s call center.

Georgina Quach / Financial Times: Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown  —  Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems  —  Britain’s biggest banks, technology and telecoms companies …

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders  —  The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8’s American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world’s largest miner  —  A business led by two of the president’s sons will invest in American Bitcoin, a new mining company controlled […]

It’s tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables involved. To predict the impacts of a warmer world on plant life, some researchers look at urban “heat islands,” where, because of the effects of urban structures, temperatures consistently run a few degrees higher than those of the […]

From the stylish Evercade to the old-school Sega Genesis Mini, these machines will have you bleeping, blooping, and blasting back to the good old days.

This pellet smoker took the fear out of making restaurant-quality meat.

Barbers have stubbornly stuck to the corded Peanut for decades. The new Li is the first argument for ditching the cord.

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023  —  More users are chasing high follower counts as the professional network expands its reach  —  Soon after lawyer Paul Verrico posted […]

Ernie Smith / Tedium: Apple’s current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups  —  Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video.

Bloomberg: Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump  —  Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world.  —  The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum …

If you tend to wake up sweating no matter the season, hop under these cooling sheets so that you can, you know, actually sleep.

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.

I’m filing my 2024 taxes with nine different documents across three states. I tested popular tax services to see which best helped me untangle my tax mess.

Bloomberg: A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity  —  inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural  —  Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else’s life.

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed  —  When Instacart acquired Lindon Gao’s self-checkout shopping startup, Caper AI, for $350 million in 2021, it marked a big win …

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Bernstein: AI could erode India’s $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost  —  AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed”  —  For decades, India’s economic promise …

As a college student in Serbia with a passion for math and physics, Ana Trišović found herself drawn to computer science and its practical, problem-solving approaches. It was then that she discovered MIT OpenCourseWare, part of MIT Open Learning, and decided to study a course on Data Analytics with Python in 2012 — something her school […]

Martha Stewart–endorsed Dinnerly is a budget meal kit that often feels homespun and extravagant. Now if they’d only lay off the broiler.

Relive the joys of the ’70s and ’80s with this 300-game, full-size home arcade machine.

Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal: Uber and DoorDash are pressing GOP lawmakers to include independent contractors who drive rideshare vehicles and deliver food in Trump’s no-tax-on-tips proposal  —  GOP proposal offers tax breaks to employees—but not independent contractors such as ride-share drivers

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities  —  Soon your burrito bowl could arrive via the sky.  Zipline’s drones make deliveries by lowering small coolers on 300-foot cables.

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: Kalshi sues Nevada’s gaming regulators to keep offering event contracts to bet on sports and politics, citing federal regulation by the US CFTC  —  Kalshi sued Nevada’s gaming regulators to keep offering so-called event contracts to bet on sports and politics, setting up a clash between state and federal regulators.

Every television deserves a row of speakers to call its own. These are our favorite soundbars.

Challengers, My Old Ass, and Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information  —  World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT.  Then traffic dropped 25%.

Bain: India’s e-commerce market grew 10%-12% YoY to ~$60B in GMV in 2024, versus historical rates of over 20%, with 270M+ people shopping online, second only to China  —  Executive summary  —  India has become a retail powerhouse over the last decade, ascending to the third largest retail market globally in 2024.

Ashwin Manikandan / Reuters: Bain and Flipkart report: quick commerce made up over two-thirds of India’s e-grocery orders in 2024, with GMV rising nearly five times to $6B-$7B from 2022  —  India’s quick commerce sector accounted for over two-thirds of all e-grocery orders last year, with its total market share growing …

Our favorite bike locks for every ride, including new locks designed to thwart angle grinders.

Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.

Now’s your chance to save on our favorite WIRED-tested home and tech gadgets.

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Filing: Intel says three board members will not stand for reelection at its 2025 annual meeting, shrinking the size of the board to 11 members  —  Three Intel (INTC.O) board members will not stand for reelection at its 2025 annual meeting, the chipmaker said in a regulatory filing on Thursday …

Bloomberg: Source: hackers broke into Oracle’s Cerner servers sometime after January 22 and stole patient data to extort US medical providers; the FBI is investigating  —  – The FBI is investigating the incident from earlier this year  — Hacker used stolen logins to access old servers, Oracle said

Reuters: Sources: Blackstone is evaluating a small minority investment in TikTok’s US operations, joining the front-running bid by ByteDance’s non-Chinese shareholders  —  Private equity firm Blackstone is evaluating making a small minority investment in TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to two people familiar with the matter.

While everyone contributes to a company’s culture, leaders have an outsized ability to influence it.

Especially if you’re remote.

And how suppliers can maintain crucial relationships when pursuing new channels.

Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks.

Keita Takahashi talks about his latest game, To a T, which lets you navigate teenage hardships while your hands are stuck in a T-pose.

If Elon Musk is America’s CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime  —  The FCA’s intention is to create new rules for a more stringent regulatory regime, its director of payments said.  —  What to know:

Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com says the US SEC won’t pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges  —  – Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company.  — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October …

Reuters: Court documents: India criticizes Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labeling an official website, used to notify tech firms of harmful content, as a “censorship portal”  —  India has criticised Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labelling as a “censorship portal” an official website …

When researchers asked people to work on a computer with their phones 1.5 metres away, the amount of time they spent on their phone went down – but they just scrolled social media on their laptop instead

You’re an aerospace engineer on a tight timeline to develop a component for a rocket engine. No sweat, you think — you know the concepts by heart, and the model looks appropriate in CAD. But you inspect the 3D-printed part that you’ve outsourced for manufacturing, and something is wrong. The impeller blade angle is off, […]

WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.