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Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

JORGE GARAY

The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe.

The Best Label Makers (2026): Brother, Niimbot, Dymo

ALEXIS BERGER

Experience the oddly satisfying joy of labeling bins, drawers, and more with the best Bluetooth and traditional label makers.

How to Escape Group Chat Hell

REECE ROGERS

Young adults are in more group chats than ever—sometimes more than 20 at a time. Here’s how to tame the chat madness.

Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

ANDREW WILLIAMS

Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All

SIMON HILL

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

PARESH DAVE, WIRED.COM

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

KATE PARK

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario

PARESH DAVE

After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online maps provider to flip the switch.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

CONNIE LOIZOS

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

ANNA HEIM

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

ERIC BERGER

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

KYLE ORLAND

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

CONNIE LOIZOS

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.

The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

KATE PARK

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.