Michael Calore

With Steve Jobs’ passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time.

The Mix Master Mike DJ headphones are exemplary of Skullcandy’s new direction -- they’re smartly designed, the sound is well-balanced and they have an appropriately eyebrow-raising $300 price tag.

Don’t pay $40 for a crappy tour T-shirt. Take home a real souvenir -- your own high-quality audio recording of the show.

Every person looks for different things in a pair of headphones or earbuds. We have recommendations for 20 types of individual.

Envelop at the Midway has 32 speakers situated around the room, and when you stand in the middle—or anywhere, really—sound fills the whole space.

This innovative brewer uses a vacuum pump to filter your coffee, resulting in a cleaner, less bitter cup.

The company’s annual tech conference kicks off Tuesday morning.

Our own store for branded merchandise, SHOP.WIRED, is now live. Go ahead, share the love.

This week, we wrap up all the news from Apple’s launch event: the iPhones’ USB-C port, iCloud+ inflation, and of course, the Double Tap control on Apple Watch.

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk with WIRED senior AI writer Khari Johnson about the mixed reality hardware Meta announced this week, its voice-controlled smart glasses, its weird new AI chatbots, and where the company sits in the great AI arms race. Show Notes Read Khari’s story about Meta’s many AI chatbots. Read Lauren’s story about the upcoming Meta Quest 3 headset and chatbot-enabled Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Recommendations Khari recommends the new movie The Creator. Lauren recommends th…

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk with WIRED senior writer Lily Hay Newman about the 23andMe hack, what it means for the people who were directly affected, and whether it’s a good idea to give companies access to your genetic material and history in the first place. Show Notes Read more from Lily about the 23andMe hack and some updates on how it has gotten even worse. Follow all of WIRED’s cybersecurity coverage. Recommendations Lily recommends Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea, specifically the…

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave joins us to talk about his hands-off experience with the Humane Ai Pin and the future phone alternatives. Show Notes Read Paresh’s story about his experience with the Humane Ai Pin. Recommendations Paresh recommends the show Kim’s Convenience on Netflix. Lauren recommends the biography of Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Mike recommends the new reissue of the Buddha Machine music box from FM3. Pare…

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about Beeper Mini, the app trying to make our text conversations easier. WIRED features editor Jason Kehe joins us to campaign against the trend of interoperability on our phones. As Jason sees it, these friction-free communication mechanisms are causing us to slip into bad habits, become more isolated, and feel less inclined to put down our phones and have a real experience. Show Notes Read Lauren’s story about the new Beeper app and the teenage coder who helped…

This week on Gadget Lab, we make the mistake of letting our producer, Boone Ashworth, grab a mic again. He joins Lauren and Michael to talk about the best gadgets, lifestyle changes, shows, and culinary curiosities of 2023. Show Notes Our talk with Casey Johnston from May 2023 can be found in episode number 598. Read more about ActivityPub and the coming federated social media landscape. Here’s our review of the new Valve Steam Deck OLED. See our list of our favorite electric kettles. Recommenda…

This week on Gadget Lab, we come to you straight from lovely Las Vegas, Nevada, where CES is in full swing. We huddled together in a Vegas hotel room to talk all about the big trends, crazy tech, and just plain weird stuff we saw this week Show Notes Follow CES on our liveblog and check out the many, many bizarre and wonderful things we saw at CES this year. Read Jeremy’s look at the Supernal flying car. Read Julian’s story about the Rabbit R1 AI personal assistant device. Check out wehead.com,…

WIRED photographer Alex Welsh captures the madness, glory, and techno-idealism of the consumer gadget extravaganza. +++lead-in-text The frenzied and intoxicating showcase for consumer technology known as CES took place this week in Las Vegas. Every January, the industry’s big shindig descends on this city in the Nevada desert, drawing tech manufacturers, retailers, distributors, members of the press, gadget fans, and regular old lookie-loos into the fray. The Las Vegas Convention Center, hotel e…

The newest Apple Watch models have to take another time-out. Apple must stop selling the current version of the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 by the end of the day on Thursday, according to a federal court ruling. At the end of 2023, Apple was barred from selling the two wearables by the US International Trade Commission because of a dispute over a patent for the technology Apple uses in the watches’ blood-oxygen sensor. Apple had appealed that ruling and was granted a temporary stay on the b…

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to chat about the Apple Vision Pro and whether it’s going to be the device that finally kicks off the face computer revolution. We also talk about the ways Apple is trying to make the headset disappear as part of the experience, both in the virtual space and in the physical realm. Show Notes Read Julian’s hands-on experience with the Apple Vision Pro. Read Lauren’s story about the Apple Vision Pro’s battery pack. Read Boone…

In just the first seven weeks of this year, Amazon, Google, Discord, Duolingo, Cisco, Instacart, and dozens of others all made deep staffing cuts. It all adds up to tens of thousands of jobs lost across the industry, and the cuts aren’t slowing down. It doesn’t help that interviewing for tech jobs is getting harder too, with employers asking for more and more work or rigorous testing before making a hire. This week, WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave joins us to talk about whether the layoffs will…

This week, we welcome WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave back to the show to talk about Gemini’s strange outputs. We also talk about some of the staffing pains Google has been going through recently, including layoffs and accusations of discrimination. Show Notes Read more about the “woke AI” controversy. Read Bloomberg’s story about Google’s layoffs on its trust and safety team. Read Paresh’s story about the Googler with a disability who alleges workplace discrimination at the company. Listen to o…