Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The projector offers inky blacks, high color accuracy and anti-rainbow tech, but costs a lot more than its rivals. After a widely hyped and successful Kickstarter campaign, Valerion's 4K VisionMaster Max laser projector has finally arrived. However, it's quite expensive and has some stiff competition from Anker's Nebula X1 and XGIMI's Horizon 20 Max. I was eager to see how it compared to those models and if it delivers on Valerion's promise of "pure cinema." It does offer better image quality, but the difference isn't quite enough to justify the big jump in price for most users. Valerion's VisionMaster Max delivers outstanding image quality thanks to its triple-laser system and dynamic iris.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The White House names AMD MI325X and NVIDIA H200, in particular. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks about the Vera Rubin AI platform during a question and answer session with reporters at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2026. President Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on "certain advanced computing chips," the White House has announced. As notes, the administration previously threatened much bigger and broader tariffs for chips. Trump even said that he was going to impose a 100 percent tariff on companies unless they invest on semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The Duo and Family plans are getting a $2 price hike. Spotify is raising the prices for its premium subscriptions by $1 to $2 across the board, starting this February. Those are similar figures to the company's last price hike in 2024. Subscribers across the US, Estonia and Latvia will soon receive an email, notifying them that they'll be paying a larger amount for their February bill. The streaming service said it's raising its prices occasionally to "reflect the value that Spotify delivers," "to continue offering the best possible experience" and to "benefit artists."

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The reMarkable 2 bundle includes a Marker stylus and folio case. E Ink tablets can provide the best of both worlds, giving you a similar tactile response to writing with pen and paper while also conveniently holding all of your digital files. For example, you can get the reMarkable 2 tablet with the Marker and Book Folio for $449, instead of the usual $568. The company also sells a newer stylus called Marker Plus that lets you erase by flipping it around just like a real pencil, but that will cost you an extra $50. If you've been eyeing a dedicated writing tablet for work, school or just jotting down notes without the distraction of endless apps, this bundle deal is an ideal opportunity to pick one up.

In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed in Illinois, he bought a new laptop and iPhone. He wanted to reduce the risk of having his personal devices confiscated, because he knew his work made him a prime target for surveillance. "I'm traveling under the assumption that I am being watched, right down to exactly where I am at any moment," Deibert says. Deibert directs the Citizen Lab, a research center he founded in 2001 to serve as "counterintelligence for civil society." Housed at the University of Toronto, it's one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The automaker sold driver data to insurance companies without permission. After reaching a proposed settlement last year, the FTC has banned General Motors from sharing specific consumer data with third parties, reported. The finalized order wraps up one of the more egregious cases of a corporation collecting its customers' data and then using it against them. Two years ago, the released a report detailing how GM's OnStar Smart Driver program collected and sold detailed geolocation and driving behavior data to third parties, including data brokers. Those brokers in turn sold the data to insurance providers, which jacked up the rates for some drivers based on the data.

Day-to-day variables can also affect results. Sleep, nutrition, hydration, recovery, and even equipment can influence how well someone performs on test day. "The thing about endurance sports is that what you put in is what you get out," says McQuality. In lab testing, his team found that carbon-plated running shoes slightly improve VO2-related performance by increasing efficiency, allowing runners to sustain higher workloads before fatigue sets in. Taken together, these factors help explain why VO2 max is best viewed as a context-dependent snapshot, not a fixed measure of physical fitness. It's most useful when tracked over time, under similar conditions, and alongside other markers of performance and health.

Months after major data leaks, the app where women leave Yelp-style reviews about men is relaunching with a new website. It's not back on iOS, but the Android app has new AI features. The embattled Tea app is back. Months after being removed from Apple's App Store in light of major data breaches, the app that allows women to share anonymous Yelp-style reviews of men is relaunching with a new website designed to help women "access dating guardrails without limitation," Tea's head of trust and safety Jessica Dees told WIRED. The app, which launched in 2023 and went viral last summer, getting to number 1 on the iOS App Store, lets users post photos of men while also pointing out red flags, such as if they are already partnered or registered sex offenders.

Join our livestream -- and pose a question to WIRED's panel of experts -- on China's dominance, influence, and how it is rewriting the future. Whether you realize it or not, you're already living in the Chinese century. From batteries to milk to electric vehicles, China is undoubtably doing it better--while the rest of us kick our feet up and watch. China is soaring ahead of the US in a space race called by Trump; China is putting up buildings in a day's time; China is light-years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to solar energy. Our upcoming China Issue will lay it all out: the robotics explosion, the energy revolution, the cultural takeover.

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. AI companies like Meta and OpenAI have been offering multimillion-dollar pay packages to top talent, hoping to lure the best researchers and engineers away from their competitors. But there's another dimension of the AI talent wars that has garnered far less attention: the massive shortage of electricians, plumbers, and heating and cooling technicians in the US who can build the physical data centers that power AI. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2024 and 2034, there will be a shortage of roughly 81,000 electricians on average each year in the US, measured in terms of unfilled jobs. The BLS projects the number of employed electricians to grow 9 percent over the next decade, "much faster than the average for all occupations."