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A few times a year, Sephora discounts nearly its entire stock, and that includes some of our favorite hair straighteners, blow dryers, and hot brushes. The caveat? You need to be a Sephora Beauty Insider, which is free to join, and the percentage off the sale price is based on …

Many of us on the WIRED Gear team have been working from home for years. We've got an expansive guide to the Best Work-From-Home Gear, but there's good news! Plenty of our recommendations are on sale right now. If your home office could use an upgrade, these tried-and-tested office chairs, …

“Everyone is so passionless about technology,” said Nothing cofounder Carl Pei when WIRED spoke to him about his upstart brand, known for its striking clear plastic designs, two years ago. “On hardware, it’s basically more and more of the same. Less and less differentiation, and consumers aren’t as excited anymore. …

Hey, did you see the ad for that Bluetooth-enabled shiatsu foot massager? How about the one for the organic mushroom supplement powder? They’re probably not even the most interesting things you can buy on TikTok or Instagram. Just as the apps have thrived on a steady stream of feel-good content, …

In an Edinburgh laboratory in the second half of 2023, four chemists armed with a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer took on the unregulated Wild West of the gin industry. A total of 16 samples of gin endured the spectrometer’s powerful magnetic field to create a “fingerprint”—in the form of …

Never in my life did I think I'd own a home, but I was fortunate enough to close on my first house last fall. Yet as I moved into my new space—after nearly a decade of renting in New York City—I was overwhelmed with anxiety. Anything and everything that went …

Apple and Google are reportedly in cahoots to integrate features from Google's Gemini generative AI service into iOS. Bloomberg broke the news, which was later corroborated by The New York Times. If the deal pans out, it will be a huge collaboration between two tech giants who have long duked …

Whether you're a student, a journalist, or a business professional, knowing how to do high-quality research and writing using trustworthy data and sources, without giving in to the temptation of AI or ChatGPT, is a skill worth developing. As I detail in my book Writing That Gets Noticed, locating credible …

There are a ton of tricks that smart displays can do. But not all of them are created equal or are worth doing on this style of advice. The basics are easy—just about anyone knows how handy it is to ask any smart speaker or smart display to tell you …

Like many people, I signed up for Mint because it was free. After all, that's what people who are good at money do—use things because they're free. And, by many standards, I am decent at managing money. I pay my mortgage monthly. I put aside money for vacations and savings, …