DDR4 Vs. DDR5 RAM: What’s The Difference?
Overclocking has improved as well, with Intel updating XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) to 3.0 for DDR5. Where XMP 2.0 supported just two profiles, the newest version boasts five. Three are set by the memory manufacturer, with two more for you to tweak and edit your own settings. Intel hosts...
12 Best Cat Water Fountains, WIRED Tested And Reviewed (2025)
As seen with the rise of automatic litter boxes, automatic feeders, pet tracking, and now the cat water fountain, technology has made it so that we can closely monitor our pets and ensure they’re being taken care of without having to do a lot of the manual labor. A...
Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness And Colors
Multiple Buying Options Available If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Balanced and striking picture. Top-notch OLED brightness. Fantastic black levels and reflection handling. Clear and nuanced shadow detail....
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace For Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X’s Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest any more money in its program. Now, it hopes that Facebook and Instagram users themselves will be the ones...
A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed To Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 pounds and had a diameter of more than 8...
Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
The second is whether we’re continuing to deal more and more people into the transformation. We’ve got over 100,000 farmers and ranchers that are now taking on climate-smart agricultural practices. Will that climate action, that distributed climate action, continue to expand? The last thing is how good are we...
Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed At 2024 DNC
A device capable of intercepting phone signals was likely deployed during the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, WIRED has learned, raising critical questions about who authorized its use and for what purpose. The device, known as a cell-site simulator, was identified by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),...
The Los Angeles Fires Will Put California’s New Insurance Rules To The Test
Lloyd and his wife later bought another home in Hidden Valley Lake, a town that has taken ambitious steps to reduce flammable vegetation, but their insurance premium is still more than $4,500 a year, more than triple what it was on their last home in Kansas. Lloyd is worried...
Demystifying The Department Of Government Efficiency
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED What do Dogecoin and the Department of Government Efficiency have in common? Elon Musk, of course. This new government committee led by...
The X-Ification Of Meta
“Meta has perennially been a home for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation,” claims Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information. “Now, Meta apparently has decided to open the floodgates completely.” Again, fact-checking isn’t perfect; Croviz says that NewsGuard...