As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.https://www.wired.com/story/maye-musk-china-influencer-brands/
Vizio’s minimalist new budget bar cuts the frills, keeps the fun.https://www.wired.com/review/vizio-all-in-one-2025/
Multi-frame generation has real potential to improve the gaming experience on cheaper laptops, but Nvidia’s RTX 5090 laptop GPU isn’t the huge leap you’re waiting for.https://www.wired.com/story/nvidias-rtx-50-series-laptop-gpu/
Fall asleep anywhere with this excellent sleep mask and its built-in headphones.https://www.wired.com/review/manta-sound/
WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether trying to remove your data and information from generative AI tools could lessen your impact on the technology.https://www.wired.com/story/the-prompt-i-opted-out-of-ai-training/
The Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album goes deep on their “fascination with science.” WIRED Japan took Hikaru Utada to visit the Large Hadron Collider to learn more.https://www.wired.com/story/hikaru-utada-would-rather-play-cern-than-coachella/
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/
Our favorite VPN service is now integrated into our favorite web browser.https://www.wired.com/story/vivaldi-browser-proton-vpn-integration/
Save on the science-backed devices you’ve been eyeing with a 10% off Theragun discount code, and March 2025 offers at up to 30% off.https://www.wired.com/story/therabody-promo-code/
Sea lions, dolphins and birds are sick and dying because of a toxic algae bloom in Southern California—and animal care organizations are overwhelmed by the scalehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sea-lion-bites-surfer-amid-one-of-the-worst-outbreaks-of-domoic-acid-poisoning-that-california-wildlife-rescuers-can-remember-180986325/
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune's lights remained elusive for decadeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-neptunes-beautiful-auroras-captured-for-the-first-time-by-the-james-webb-space-telescope-180986321/
One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the countryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/south-koreas-worst-ever-wildfires-ravage-ancient-buddhist-temples-and-menace-historic-villages-180986324/
Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted to grasp and feed on vegetationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaur-with-two-massive-sloth-like-claws-is-on-another-level-of-weird-even-among-its-unusual-group-of-relatives-180986315/
By toying with perspective, this year’s best photos capture the sublime—and the uncannyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/larger-than-life-smithsonian-magazines-22nd-annual-photography-contest-180986233/
An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial sitehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3700-year-old-bronze-age-stone-circle-discovered-in-english-forest-180986318/
Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize? That, and so much more, is what you get with a Cracker Jackhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/salty-sweet-irresistible-history-baseballs-most-famous-snack-180986237/
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California deserthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/moving-story-of-bringing-baseball-back-to-manzanar-where-thousands-of-japanese-americans-were-incarcerated-during-world-war-II-180986312/
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be held accountable for frequenting brothelshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-daring-19th-century-reformers-who-sought-to-end-prostitution-by-offering-financial-and-emotional-support-to-urban-sex-workers-180986310/
The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s gravehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ancient-pyramid-found-in-the-judean-desert-may-have-been-a-ptolemaic-tax-takers-post-180986319/
The rare reversal of a Trump administration edict terminating a program to track mass child abductions in Ukraine follows a Washington Post report and concerns from U.S. lawmakers and Christian evangelicals.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/27/trump-ukraine-russia-child-abductions/