Summer is winding down, which means it's time for the annual REI Labor Day Sale. This year’s event kicked off on August 23, and ends on Labor Day, September 2. Many items are up to 40 percent off, and REI Co-op members save up to 20 percent on any REI …

Big sale events like Amazon Prime Day are the best time of year to snag discounts on tech, especially essential gadgets like laptops. Well, there's good news. Many of our favorite laptops—and gaming laptops—are on sale. We've curated our selection to the absolute top eight Prime Day laptop deals so …

Big sale events like Amazon Prime Day are the best time of year to snag discounts on tech, especially essential gadgets like laptops. Well, there's good news. Many of our favorite laptops—and gaming laptops—are on sale. We've curated our selection to the absolute top eight Prime Day laptop deals so …

What celebrates Freedom so much as buying stuff? Never mind, don't answer that. But REI is having a Fourth of July sale, which means if you've just discovered that your backpack straps or camp chairs have rotted away, it's time to stock up on hiking and camping essentials without paying …

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way. It was good. On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born. The Word needed to be rewritten in HTML. Now there were two Words. It …

Film is like the indestructible black knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail: It's not dead yet. Digital photography is well into its third decade, yet film keeps hanging on, lying there shouting, “It's just a flesh wound!” I'd argue that film photography will never die. In the postapocalyptic future, …

The photography fanatics over at Moment are having what they call a warehouse sale right now. There are some good deals on camera gear, Moment's signature mobile lenses, bags, slings, organizers, and more. We've sifted through the deals to find the best prices on all the WIRED-tested gear on sale. …

The first thing to know about buying a digital camera in 2024 is that it's virtually impossible to buy a bad one. You probably have a great camera in your hand right now. For many people, a smartphone will be camera enough, but if you want a camera separate from …

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are there not many different versions of Android to choose from? Well, the good news is that there are a …

Photo bombing is dead. Adobe is adding an artificial-intelligence-powered Generative Remove feature to its Lightroom photo editor that makes it dead simple to zap out unwanted elements, like that annoying guy in the background. The new feature is in a public beta-testing phase, but it will work across the Lightroom …