Streaming music giving you the blues? These record players will help you rock on to analog audio at home.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-turntables/
Donald Trump’s March 20 executive order aims to eliminate data silos. It could undermine privacy in the process.https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-trump-executive-order-information-silos-privacy/
If you love the backcountry, this tiny, tough, and relatively affordable satellite communicator can give you peace of mind.https://www.wired.com/review/hmd-offgrid-satellite-communicator/
We found the best protein powders that won't make your shake taste like drywall.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-protein-powders/
Stay well on the web with Opera Air, a browser that plays soothing ambient music and encourages you to take breaks.https://www.wired.com/story/opera-air-browser-puts-mindfulness-first/
Meta’s in-app chatbot add-on is rolling out in more countries. Here’s what you need to know, including how to get rid of it.https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-meta-ai-button-in-whatsapp-and-how-do-i-remove-it/
If you own a reMarkable tablet, this update just made your digital notebook a whole lot more useful.https://www.wired.com/story/remarkable-tablets-just-got-a-bunch-of-great-templates-for-productivity/
Baseball season just started, and everyone’s talking about these crazy new bats. Will they change the game?https://www.wired.com/story/torpedo-bats-and-the-physics-of-the-sweet-spot/
The US is barreling toward a recession for no good reason, and dragging the world—and a few thousand penguins on remote Antarctic islands—down with it.https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/
The hoodie is a work-from-home security blanket. But in the office, it’s a trap.https://www.wired.com/story/stop-wearing-a-hoodie-to-work/
Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held ideahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stone-tools-discovered-in-china-resemble-neanderthal-technology-used-in-europe-creating-a-middle-stone-age-mystery-180986355/
When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions across Americahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/inside-the-friendship-that-developed-between-two-famous-creators-of-childrens-media-from-vastly-different-backgrounds-in-the-1970s-180986357/
Take a look at these Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest pictures of this precious precipitationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/see-15-photos-that-will-remind-you-to-appreciate-the-rain-180986352/
Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string together these vocalizationshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-might-be-something-human-in-the-way-bonobos-communicate-their-calls-share-a-key-trait-with-our-language-study-suggests-180986370/
Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged inside a lump of clayhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorists-unearth-ancient-dagger-decorated-with-tiny-stars-crescent-moons-and-geometric-patterns-180986369/
Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at Philadelphia Zoohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-97-endangered-tortoise-becomes-oldest-first-time-mom-of-her-species-with-four-new-hatchlings-and-potentially-more-on-the-way-180986373/
The 15-song recording dates to the Liverpool band's failed audition for Decca Records in early 1962—months before it released its first hithttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-early-beatles-demo-tape-found-collecting-dust-in-vancouver-record-store-180986365/
The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, eliminating the risks of an extraction surgeryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-develop-worlds-smallest-pacemaker-and-it-could-be-revolutionary-for-newborn-babies-with-heart-defects-180986361/
Members of Just Stop Oil made headlines for their controversial demonstrations involving valuable artworks and artifacts. Now, they say they've achieved their initial goalhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-activists-say-they-will-stop-throwing-soup-and-halt-disruptive-protest-tactics-180986368/
Generation Z is putting its own spin on knafeh, a dish first designed to quash a caliph's hunger pangshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-tiktok-famous-dubai-chocolate-traces-its-origins-to-the-13th-century-middle-east-180986367/