Honorable Mentions Photograph: Gap Gap Heavyweight French Terry Seamed Wide-Leg Sweatpants for $70: As I mentioned earlier, sometimes nontraditional pants are just a bit too out of my comfort zone, and I found these to be difficult to style. The heavy French terry fabric is nice and warm, and some …
Read More »What Are Exosomes and Why Are Skincare Experts Raising Red Flags? (2025)
By now, you’ve probably seen “exosomes” wafting across your For You page, maybe sandwiched between a promo code for snail mucin and someone rendering beef tallow. Scroll through SkinTok long enough and you’ll hit a flood of videos hyping exosome therapy, exosome serums, and exosome treatments promising the skin health …
Read More »Can’t Afford an Ebike? Borrow One for Free From a Lending Library
Madison, Wisconsin’s ebike library has been one of the most robust in America over the past few years. Known as the Community Pass Program, it offers free usage of the city’s Madison BCycle ebike-sharing program through the city’s libraries. Unlike CitiBike, Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare, or Chicago’s Divvy, all of …
Read More »12 Best Travel Adapters (2025), Tested and Reviewed
More Travel Adapters We’ve Tested Photograph: Simon Hill There are many travel adapters out there. These are a few others I tested and liked but that missed out on a place above for one reason or another. Epicka Universal Travel Adapter for $23: Our budget pick for many months, this …
Read More »Trump’s Administration Wants to Erase Queer History. An Unconventional Book Club Is Fighting Back
“Queer history, it’s always a history of resistance, because that’s what queerness is,” he adds. Whether it’s sexual or gender identity, being queer is non-normative. “Institutions, even well-meaning ones, even schools that try really hard, even great public schools, they’re invested in a version of history that’s from the top …
Read More »WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
With Elon Musk and other leaders of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) purportedly on their way out, WIRED spoke with a fired DOGE staffer about his experience, how the group communicates, who appears to be in charge—and what might be coming next. Earlier this week, Sahil Lavingia published …
Read More »Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results In Far Fewer Content Takedowns
Meta announced in January it would end some content moderation efforts, loosen its rules, and put more emphasis on supporting “free expression.” The shifts resulted in fewer posts being removed from Facebook and Instagram, the company disclosed Thursday in its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report. Meta said that its new …
Read More »The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’
As part of a sweeping reorganization of the State Department, the Trump administration is creating an Office of Remigration. Remigration is an immigration policy embraced by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens—with the goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries. The details of the …
Read More »Another Top Musk Lieutenant Appears to Be Leaving DOGE
One of Elon Musk’s top allies at the General Services Administration (GSA), Nicole Hollander, appears to be scaling back her work for the agency, according to sources and documents obtained by WIRED. Since January, Hollander, who is affiliated with Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been working on …
Read More »Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024
I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images of AI Overviews confidently saying that it’s still 2024 in Reddit posts …
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